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Healing Black Death

Discussion in 'Release 10 Feedback' started by Sindariya, Sep 24, 2014.

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  1. Sindariya

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    It would be nice if we get an option different from death to heal the black death and I wonder how did I get it. I blame Lord British.
     
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    Heh, so playing solo has an advantage! No plague to get from random run by of infected players.
     
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    No, in solo it could still be judiciously utilized; the difference being that you need to do an NPC quest to get rid of it...
     
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    I died from it last night. I think I got it from bumping into the Tour Guide, lol.
     
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    I love the idea of a plague!

    But putting a plague into a world that 1) is crashing all the time and 2) is like a complete surprise to people trying to test the game (surprise it's the plague!) is both amazingly funny and difficult to understand.

    The game kept crashing on me whenever I clicked on "things" so I would literally be like "I'm going to ask this guard if he knows anything about the plague" and then the game would freeze. As I reported in the R10 bug section, the plague would then stay on my account even after I deleted my character!

    It almost had me believing that someone had infected the devs server with Malware and this was not code they had written themselves. :)
     
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident
     
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    Ha!

    Ya know what's really funny for me is that about 20 years ago when I was playing Gemstone III, there were all these players that were min/maxing the heck out of the game by using "Giant Men" as their class so they could be super strong and have magic. It was really annoying. So I suggested to the developers that they create a "Giant Man Virus" that would encourage players to stop being Giant Men, since 60% of the population appeared to be Giant Men despite all the other options. The community went crazy and called me a racist (against Giant Men) and everything else under the sun. I made a convincing argument.

    I'm sure they would really enjoy "the plague". :)

    I think this is very cool.
     
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    I am NOT happy about the (swine) poison effect. I complied with it, and participated in a duel, to be rid of it. The effect came back within minutes, and it becomes more annoying as time goes on.

    Why, you ask (even if you didn't)? It annoys me because I am not in New Britannia for only that aspect, and I have better reasons for that duel aspect, arena aspect, or fighting other adventurer aspect, whatever you want to call it, than just to get an effect off of me, or please some one else, or please a Dev.

    I'd like to do an interview in New Britannia, for one thing, which has been agreed on, without that effect on me. I'd like to go exploring without it. Could we please get rid of that poison effect that amuses someone, somewhere for some reason? Thanks in advance.
     
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    I can only second it. Turn of this. If I imagine that I would die from it like in Dev+ I would have quit this release already.
     
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    I feel like I"m out of the loop, I still don't know why the plague is happening or how to get rid of it.

    My game is crashing again. I now have a skull in my backpack called "black death".
     
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    Somewhere Devs are laughing at us.
     
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    When I realized I had the plague I just found a tall building and jumped off it. Twice.
     
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    That Dev would be OneAndOnly... :O
     
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    Which is really funny and scary...as I remember saying in-game one time proclaiming that OneAndOnly was diseased and told the other players to stay away from him because he carried "the infection". :eek:
     
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    Excellent, we have located patient zero. Now we must quarantine, isolate, and disinfect.
     
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    not to mention kill and autopsy to identify the virus\bacteria :p
     
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    I'll send 3,000 troops in to make sure the infection doesn't spread.
     
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    problem with this sort of thing being in the game is that we are supposed to be playing ourselves, which means we know about the spread of infection, how to prevent transmission, even how to cure disease. Soap and water, sanitation, shouldn't be hard to mock up some particle masks using coal, gloves and gowns, isolation etc. These are all things which we (the soul if you like) already know about so the idea that the PCs would be powerless to a plague which is spread by touch is silly. YES I know Ebola is a problem still but partially that's because people don't believe it exists and because the west refuses to put in the necessary resources. That sort of outbreak would be impossible in a developed country (Flu yes, Ebola no)
     
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    Is this the annoying smokey particle effect that keeps appearing on my avatar with no indication as to what it is, what it does, or how I got it?
     
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