@Mortui:

All I can say to that is you need to deal with it ICly, it's an IC action after all, even if you (incorrectly) believe it to be done with OOC malice. Call the person a thief, slander their name, get people to refuse them from quests if you really hate them that much, beat them up.

You're putting words in my mouth, I never said it was OOC malice. I feel like you're taking this rather personal.

I dealt with the problem in character for a time, I would weather the storm and wait for that character to die off. But I grew exhausted of dealing with the same problem from every new character made by the same players. That's when it suddenly dawned on me… The selfishness is not a character trait that was designed as part of the character... It's a flaw of the player's personality that was bleeding over into their characters. The players themselves we're just selfish.

I played support characters and rather strong ones that held parties together. I was tired of being bullied.

The second I made Wing Pelton... A PVP based character for the sole purpose of making sure people couldn't continue to bully me and call it "in character" I realized that I had lost sight that this was a Roleplaying server.

So say what you will, I tried to handle it in character. When that didn't work I handled it out of character.
I stopped playing.

~Phantom

@CitizenBane:

Splitting loot fairly is not: Everyone gets equal. That is splitting loot equally. Those who do more DESERVE more, that is fair! Now, abide by that if you will, but don't call it unfair. Unfair is when someone who contributes next to nothing gets the same as the one who emptied his inventory to pull the party through.

I don't understand what your post has to do with the overall, please try to keep on topic. This is about players becoming isolationists on YOUR server. And I am one of those players explaining why I adopted that mentality. You're one of the players that pushed me that way. Perhaps it's time to change your mentality or you'll loose more players.

~Phantom

Oh why hello there!

You know, I use to run server wide quests all the time. Made sure to include as many people as possible into my "quest trains" to the point were people would poke me occly to run one… And that never bothered me, I enjoyed doing it.

However what started bothering me was a trend I noticed of players making "bully" characters. They used the same tired excuse over and over again "I'm the frontliner, I deserve more." or just "I used up all my potions this is mine." and when you had a problem with it they would threaten to pvp you. I said fine... I won't take these characters along... So I barred the CHARACTERS from the quests. But the same people kept making the SAME mentality over and over again in ALL of their characters. They were "annoyed" that I wanted to split out the loot fairly. To roll for it. So what they started doing was just picking up stuff and walking off with it before I could even TYPE a reply and I type fast.

So you know what? I said fuck it.

I stopped caring and stopped playing with people. Locke and I made new characters Wing and Eva with the sole purpose to create a 2-man party that could do anything they wanted on the server.... And that? Was fun. Because we didn't NEED the assholes that kept ruining the fun we were having running quests trains. And the only people we let in? Were people that know it was about the ROLEPLAYING and had some occ courtesy.

~Phantom

Please keep in mind that some people just enjoy questing and the challenges that come with it. Its also a tool for people to get together and meet each other. Please don't make any changes that essentially punish players that enjoy questing.

Lol you know what would make people happy? Just more players. So go out, find your nerdy home boys/girls and introduce them to Arabel. If everyone managed to get 1 person to play you'd have a doubled player base with all fresh blood.

Then you can create plots with them, and not get too upset at the pro quester players. Life is good. Carrot.

-Phantom

Hey everyone,

Would those that are in The Bloody Rose Mercenary company please shoot me a tell? I need to know what your forum account name is.

Thank you!
~PA

I am a pistol master when I play… Very very fun... Shoot us a PM if you'd like to play with us, however we require that you have a mic.

~Angel

Genre: Rap

Sullee J:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0DqSF4vaPc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYsleb4LKKU

Flipsyde:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bQG8v8kTGs&ob=av2e

Jay Electronica:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5AFpQ96jjE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaFDcDePgvA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-WixcJ-R6E

Common:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C99iG4HoO1c

This is just some of the stuff I listen to, want more suggestions? Just shoot me a PM I'll shoot you a list.

~Angel

Congrats

Hello Arabel,

Some of you may remember me, and others may not. I played Acer Defino for around two years on this server, and then played Lori Krisoli for another year. I use to play on Arabel literally everyday, but I got offered to be an admin on a different server. I helped modeled some of our forums and some of the new server polices after Arabel.

I was hoping that the Arabel staff, could help our staff with a major problem were having. About two months ago we banned a guy named Jernak from our server for meta-gaming, transferring and griefing. We thought that this would be the last we saw of him, but two weeks later he was back on our server with a new screen name, IP address, and CD key. We confronted him and re-banned him from the server in the hopes that it would be the last we saw of him.

Then about two days later he started logging in with the same CD key and a different IP address, then log off only to result in our server crashing. Every couple of days he would repeat the same pattern, log in, log out, our server crashes. He kept sending threats that were now the target of a "Secret cult of hackers" for banning him, and that if we unban him then they'll stop. Obviously we didn't unban, we've banned almost 6 different CD keys from from him but we can't seem to get him off the server.

The most recent attack that we had was today, he logged on when no DM's were around and used a DM spell on one of our players:
http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/6541/griefer.jpg

Then he logged off and crashed our server again.

The staff and I have been looking on the net for help, but we couldn't find anything. So I thought that the Arabel Staff must have had to deal with hackers before. Can you help us out?

~Angel