Posted30 June 2016
Last Updated On20 September 2018
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GM Tamuz announces: Befriend MORE people! Everyone now gets 50 slots in their BEFRIEND list. Premium subscribers will receive an 25 slots to that.
http://bit.ly/29768kq
Category: Game Design Discussions
Topic: General Discussion about Gemstone IV
Date: 06/29/2016 09:23 PM CDT
From: GS4-TAMUZ
Subj: Keep your friends close and your enemies at DEMEANOR COLD!
The number of BEFRIEND slots available has been increased!
Previously, everyone had 25 BEFRIEND slots and Premium subscribers had an extra 10 (for a total of 35). We’ve bumped that up considerably and now everyone can enjoy 50 BEFRIEND slots while our Premium Subscribers will have access to an additional 25 (for a total of 75).
Get out there and make some new friends as we gear up for summer festivities!
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Loot Czar
Date: 06/29/2016 09:30 PM CDT
From: MOURNE
Subj: Re: Keep your friends close and your enemies at DEMEANOR COLD!
My overstuffed lists thank you. o/
—
Cendadric says, “Hmm, a most impressive weapon of note. I’ll give you 110 silver coins for it.”
You think to yourself, “Do I detect… sarcasm? Surely not.”
Date: 06/30/2016 12:56 AM CDT
From: ELVENLASS
Subj: Re: Keep your friends close and your enemies at DEMEANOR COLD!
>>The number of BEFRIEND slots available has been increased!
An excellent and oft-wished for improvement, Tamuz!
Thanks so much!
AEL
Date: 06/30/2016 09:10 AM CDT
From: TRIPLEGAME226
Subj: Re: Keep your friends close and your enemies at DEMEANOR COLD!
>Get out there and make some new friends as we gear up for summer festivities!
Don’t tell me how to live my life!
~ Methais
Date: 06/30/2016 03:58 PM CDT
From: SIMU-LIIA
Subj: Re: Keep your friends close and your enemies at DEMEANOR COLD!
Or make everyone you meet COLD! We don’t judge. (We do, though. Misanthropes of the world UNITE!)
~Liia
APM, Gemstone IV
Date: 06/30/2016 06:27 PM CDT
From: PEREGRINEFALCON
Subj: Re: Keep your friends close and your enemies at DEMEANOR COLD!
>> We do, though. Misanthropes of the world UNITE!
And Dyslexics of the world UNTIE!
— Robert
A powerful whirlpool is suddenly overtaken by a windy vortex!
Date: 07/05/2016 07:58 AM CDT
From: RATHBONER
Subj: Re: Keep your friends close and your enemies at DEMEANOR COLD!
What about some love for DEMEANOR RESERVED? Its all very well having the ability to put 50 empaths at a different setting individually, but I’d rather have the ability to do it generically and not have to clog up BEFRIEND LIST with 49 logged off empaths if I use RESERVED.
Date: 07/05/2016 09:41 AM CDT
From: DALESHAN1
Subj: Re: Keep your friends close and your enemies at DEMEANOR COLD!
>>What about some love for DEMEANOR RESERVED? Its all very well having the ability to put 50 empaths at a different setting individually, but I’d rather have the ability to do it generically and not have to clog up BEFRIEND LIST with 49 logged off empaths if I use RESERVED.
Couldn’t you just use the DEMEANOR command to change it to RESERVED for all EMPATHS? I’m pretty sure that’s still an option.
Unless that wasn’t what you were looking for, in which case… my bad.
Date: 07/05/2016 10:01 AM CDT
From: PFLATS
Subj: Re: Keep your friends close and your enemies at DEMEANOR COLD!
I think he means the other way around, he wants to be RESERVED but not towards empaths.
You can do that with DEMEANOR, but only if you haven’t already set a race DEMEANOR, because race always overrides profession. So if you’re reserved towards humans but still want to let them heal you, BEFRIEND slots are the only way to do so.
Really, in my experience, playing with DEMEANOR RESERVED is frustrating in general, because it gives mechanical implications to not being an outgoing character. Walking through a hunting area and get hit with an ewave? Is the caster trying to make amends and pull you up before you get pasted? Nah, you’d rather lie grumpily on the ground.
I’ve said before I’d rather DEMEANOR be bifurcated into a mechanical setting and an RP setting, but that’s a conversation for another thread.
Date: 07/05/2016 10:12 AM CDT
From: GS4-TAMUZ
Subj: Re: Keep your friends close and your enemies at DEMEANOR COLD!
Could you be a bit more specific in what exactly it is you are asking for?
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Date: 07/07/2016 09:12 AM CDT
From: RATHBONER
Subj: Re: Keep your friends close and your enemies at DEMEANOR COLD!
>Could you be a bit more specific in what exactly it is you are asking for?
This sort of thing.
>I think he means the other way around, he wants to be RESERVED but not towards empaths.
>Really, in my experience, playing with DEMEANOR RESERVED is frustrating in general, because it gives mechanical implications to not being an outgoing character. Walking through a hunting area and get hit with an ewave? Is the caster trying to make amends and pull you up before you get pasted? Nah, you’d rather lie grumpily on the ground.
I don’t think there’s a good reason to have two demeanors with negative mechanical consequences. Anyone I actually want to accept the mechanical consequences of RESERVED from, is going to be at COLD and consequently there is nothing less positive than neutral available for general RP.
Empaths is the biggest deal, and if demeanor profession settings could be set to over ride other settings, that would remove most of the problems that cause me to set demeanors at friendly that really ought to be neutral just so I can use neutral when I want to be more reserved. For a bland character its not a problem, but for a character with character, having reserved essentially unusable leaves me too few options for differentiating generic behaviour.
Date: 07/07/2016 12:30 PM CDT
From: PFLATS
Subj: Re: Keep your friends close and your enemies at DEMEANOR COLD!
