Any; Though DM approval is required for Prestige Classes in order to keep them Prestigious!
Tricks & Traps
Medium
Level Range
1-20 Though progressing past level 12 becomes very hard.
Magic Level
Low
Schedule
Always running. 24/7
Number Servers
1
Alignments
Any
Experience Rewards
Low
Races
All standard, dozens of subraces including Lycantropes and Genasi (Though you must apply to play special races in order to keep them special!)
PVP
Full PvP
ApplicationReqs
None. Roleplaying is a necessity.
Vault Type
Server
Death
You will be moved to the Fugue Plane and your body will remain in the 'real' world. A companion can use a Raise Dead or Resurrect spell on your corpse to revive you. Your corpse can also be taken to an NPC cleric, who will charge a nominal fee for resurrection. Raise Dead and Resurrection spells will cause the deceased to suffer the loss of one level of experience. True Resurrection, while costly, affords no experience loss. In the Fugue Plane, one also has the option to respawn, but the XP penalty is very heavy. For every 3 levels of experience, you will lose 1 full level. This system leans towards 'true death' while allowing for the option of respawning for those who absolutely want it. It also allows those of low levels to 'get started' in the world a little easier.
Your gear and gold will drop into a bag next to your corpse on death.
Arabel is a persistent world server based on Arabel, a city in the Forgotten Realms. Arabel is part of a small country called Cormyr. The server is primarily a role playing environment. It includes HCR and a custom crafting system. It includes the chance to join city factions; from working for a Noble House, to joining the city guards or Purple Dragons, or even playing an infamous Red Wizard of Thay.
This is an OPTIONAL override which you can use to choose the Luck domain for clerics whose deities support it (Tymora, Basheeba, Oghma, Mask, Abbathor, Haela Brightaxe, Vergadain, Erevan Ilesere, Brandobaris.)
Posted by Varian at 2012-08-26 14:19:20 Voted 2.00 on 08/26/12
I played here years ago and although I enjoyed RPing with a few lovely people, the rest of the population - especially the DMs - ruined it for me. Decided to give it a go again in the hopes that some of more intolerable folk had left but seems not. If you stroke a DM's ego, you'll be well in here, but if you actually have a mind of your own and want to RP something of your own creation, don't bother. The players, as a rule, aren't much better because they've learned to obey the Almighty DMs lest ye be banned. Even if they do disagree with the DMs, they keep it to themselves.
Complete waste of time. There are far friendlier and enjoyable worlds out there.
Posted by Yardsale at 2010-09-05 19:02:06 Voted 2.00 on 09/05/10
I am indeed a jackass. But the server is not as bad as you say despite the favoritism, it's worth at least 2 / 10.
Posted by Raticide at 2010-09-05 18:55:13 Voted 1.00 on 09/05/10
Won't say much, because I fear it wouldn't be coherent since I'm pissed for just being banned for I don't even know what reason (They are that courteous that they wouldn't take 5 minutes to explain).
Module is decent, problems I had were with the *bleep*ING, with capitals, DM team [Some are nice, don't get me wrong, but the few bad apples makes it for the lot].
IE: I get a Dwarf group going, get told that this doesn't interest the DM team, mainly because of the history of the server with the Iron Anvil(Some other group). Thus no matter how hard I try, I get 0 support, I don't know if it's because I've never made friend with Yardsale, Moloch or any other of those jackasses(I can say it now that I'm banned), never donated $ or if it's because I just suck and I'm a bad player... Though, two months after I give up, some DM decides to make up a Dwarf lord and form a group with the very same bases, motives and goals I had, yet he gets an insane amount of support from the very damned beginning.
Exemples like mine are many, some players have had very good time there I know, others like me might have found their experience very frustrating. It's really all I have to warn new players, be wary of the favoritism.
Posted by Fargle at 2010-07-30 05:00:37 Voted 9.75 on 07/30/10
Also: "dms dont care about oother playrz blah"
If they didn't care, they wouldn't spend half of their waking lives DMing a Persistent World, and helping the 100 or so regulars enjoy their days.
Posted by Adelor at 2010-07-30 04:59:03 Voted 10.00 on 07/30/10
I started on this server with the intention of spending my playtime on another server, and just using this one to get used to RP in the NWN engine due to the large number of bad comments I had found here on NWVault. I just didn't want to risk investing time in a character if there was a chance of some of these things being true. Turned out I needn't have worried.
After playing there for a short while, I initially decided to give it a week, then a month... then, well, that was now over three years ago. I never did end up so much as trying the server I'd originally decided I wanted to play on based on the research I'd done.
What I'm saying is simply this - don't worry about the DMs there, I have had a fair few interactions with them (some in game, some more socially on IRC and forums) and they've never been anything less than completely civil with me (not to mention usually very patient!). I'd advise that you take the anger-filled messages of a few people who can't play there any more with a grain of salt too. You might not like it there, and that's fine, but it's certainly worth giving a week or two of your time to, and who knows? You might just fall in love with the place like I did.
Posted by Fargle at 2010-07-30 04:58:44 Voted 9.75 on 07/30/10
Great job, DMs, on the best RP PW server I have ever played on. Its level of intrigue, particularly, keeps me coming back.
Also, most of the people complaining about DM favoritism (whine whine some people get all the good stuff whine) are banned players just venting. If you really want to know whether their views are true, come see for yourself.
Posted by Djanga at 2010-07-30 04:21:04 Voted 9.00 on 07/30/10
Great RP and a strong community. Good DM interactions and fun scripted quests. This is a server for those looking to RP in a rich environment.
Posted by Mystic_79 at 2010-07-29 21:43:27 Voted 10.00 on 07/29/10
I have been playing on CoA for a good while now and it is the best server I have seen.
Not only is the roleplay better then most, the DM team are willing to take the time to speak about concerns and or help new players find their feet.
The community as a whole is approachable and willing to help the new guy out.
I would recommend anyone looking for a server to play on to come and join us over on CoA.
Posted by FreshDuke at 2010-07-29 21:39:07 Voted 9.00 on 07/29/10
IMHO, about the best PW Story server out there. Dynamic and open-ended, with the ability for player actions to drive the server in new directions.
Of course, I'm a DM there so I'm biased. ;)
Posted by Notsoslimshady at 2010-07-29 20:38:41 Voted 9.00 on 07/29/10
Been playing here a few years now, never had any problems with the DMs or any other players. The rules are fairly clear and alterations to game mechanics are to maintain balance and further a sense of immersion. A multitude of quests and friendly players helps to keep this community alive. I have personally not experienced having a character looted after death but I know this is something that the DM team look out for and if sufficient proof is given then such accusations are looked into. The server suits many play styles with politicians, adventurers and creaters of intrigue being encouraged in equal measure.
Posted by Michael Bay at 2010-07-29 03:42:35 Voted 1.00 on 07/29/10
I can safely say this is the best server I've ever been on.
It doesn't waste its time with petty things like character development, it's straight into the action. The hack n'slash, the player vs. player content!
Who needs a comprehensive storyline, or a logical sequence of events? This is high magic, high fantasy! You don't need no goddamn storyline, you have EXPLOSIONS!
Even the most important parts of the film-- I mean, server, are decided with explosions! A glorious chorus of boom!
Why, you have a significant chance of a DM booming you on face value. They'll boom you right off the server if you express a view differing from their own, too!
The server boasts a great compliment of RPers. For that, it has my kudos. As for the rest, I found the DMs to be collectively overbearing - wanting to steer the direction of people's RP, be it by favoritism, loot, or just persecuting a PC until he goes along with the grain, or gets perm-dead. If you don't fall into the grain by then, they start targeting your PCs. if you still don't fall into the grain, the contingent of DMs with the most power will find some reason to ban you, even if they have to fabricate a lie to do so, and give you no recourse to avoid it.
Adventure and intrigue are paramount, character development is non-existent, as the expected norm is to build your PC up to level 6-9 max, RP your butt off for a couple months, and then go down with a blaze of glory. It doesn't take much gloaming of their forum to realize what the DMs and a large constituent consider "awesome" is to die a glorious hero's permdeath after a 2-4 months of play. If you have a short attention span for a character, go for it. If you tend to linger on your main PC for more than 6 months, you'll be labeled "stale". In my perspective, it plays out more like a PW Action server than a PW Story server. The only persistent evolving "story" is the Arabel setting itself, which at this point in the server's life is so far removed from the canon source material for Arabel it's barely even recognizable as such.
The DMs are anything but impartial. They will pull some of the most outlandish "rocks fall, everyone dies" maneuvers to make a storyline go their way, or to stack the odds in favor of a faction they want to win. The masses run around with the standard +1 weapons and such that can be found on their "low magic" server, while the favored factions get +2 loot or higher practically from the faction's inception.
It's a shame that the caliber of RPers spends their time on a server that's so gerrymandered by the DMs. The couple of DMs I actually -did- like, and who vested any interest in my PCs, actually have quit the server themselves.
Posted by Yoritomo at 2009-10-07 20:08:09 Voted 1.75 on 10/07/09
Server is complete and utter garbage, with a shiny wrapper. DMs constantly bash their playerbase for not being "Adventurous" or not behaving in manners they feel appropriate, (IE: Excessively cowardly) yet have little to no XP gain available and a brutal respawn penalty (nearly half of total gained XP, which means respawning will cause level loss). The one plot I did get to witness was a "civil war" where the players played roles for a long period of time, but at the end of it all, the situation was resolved by a DM hopping on one of their favored "God" NPCs and winning the war near singlehandedly, ignoring all player effort on both sides, while giving token acknowledgement to the "winners" for their efforts in deciding the victor. IE, deciding which uber NPC they would log on to decimate the playerbase with.
Finally caught wind of "DM Tokens" which provide XP Multiplier/bonuses (on top of the typical DM loot/Supply/Quest boosts) and realized just how bad the favoritism was.
Recently decided to give the server another shot. Ran a quest with a party of 5-6 people, started it with 400ish XP but wound up dying once, so was down to 200ish XP, and after an hour plus of "questing" watched the group leader turn in the quest for 23 XP. Pretty much logged off in disgust at that point.
Its very telling that one of the best XP gains on the entire server that isnt' DM related is to chase chickens.
It's truly for either the DMs favored sons, or the truly masochistic.
I understand your frustration Shaugg, I have played a guard myself for a while and I know how long it can be to wait for a trial that never takes place. This is something that can be fixed though, with more players being judges. Things might have changed since my absence, I've been banned as well in fact, but it was 'deserved'.
However I will say that all of those that either votes 10 and 1 are being quite inconsiderate... The servers has its pros and cons.
But I'll limit myself to talk about the DMs you consider being all immatures. Personnaly, I've had a good time and relation with most of them during my play, except on few occasions, such as when my character got assassinated.
If you actually take the time to familiarise yourself with the rule, it's quite explicit that it's a PVP server. But it's also very explicitly said that you must earn the right to kill an other player, through a good story which culminates to the point where one PC should die. My character was however, assassinated for absolutly no reason. The murderer whom I had never met ingame once, nor ever heard his name or anything about him never had any trouble neither thereafter when I wondered what this assassination was for?
Well, long story short. Got my character killed without any RP involved. If I had assassinated a criminal in my Guard duty, with the authority, the moral and legal right, I would have had a bucket full of complaints from DMs and maybe I would have been brought in for heavy OOC questionning and arguing concerning PVP. So I'm just saying, DMs might be two-faces some times. Their buddies, getting special favor or something, but that happens on every server, it was just pretty obvious on CoA during my time...
Otherwise, good server.
Posted by Shaugg at 2009-06-18 13:36:09 Voted 1.00 on 11/16/08
My PC played a minor role in a serious crime. Another player involved sent mix of IC and OOC tells encouraging me to play with him. Since it is an RP server I decided I might as well go RP along and assume that it won�t end up a deadly PvP situation because of the OOC set up. His PC was a Bluff build and I sold my PC out. I show up and we go to the jail and my PC get locked up. (mechanically he wasn�t locked up but I went along with it and later walked my PC back to jail to get locked up.)) I thought it was a bit lame because of the OOC luring tactics. One DM says my PC must go on trial but it won�t be the end of my PC. I think great, and play along. It is a pain to set up the trial. I send messages to DMs and guard, and judge players to figure out what I am suppose to do. It takes RL 3 weeks for a trial. To make a long story short, they sentence my PC to death. Fine, I then send DMs a message asking how my PC is suppose to survive. I suggest escape attempts, making deals, I write IC letters to his allies ect. DMs are pretty unresponsive but finally tell me they will play it out. They make a deal (my pc being a rogue), the DM filled a room with traps and let the guard PC that arrested my PC attack my pc. If my PC escapes he gets to go free. They take many of my PCs gear and the encounter begins. My pc goes stealth but the guard sees him and attacks, my pc attacks back then runs over some traps and around a corner and hides. The guard comes around, steps on a few traps and I sneak attack him. He falls. I then went into his pockets to retrieve my stuff. It wasn�t there. I switch my pc to full damage and the DM sends me a tell DON�T. I wasn�t going to kill him unless he got back up. I then started to leave and the DM comes as a possessed guard and casts hammer of god over and over until my PC is dead. I protest in tells, the DM tells me that I wasn�t really allowed to escape and the DM team had decided my PC was going to die. All in all, it seemed the DM team was not really interested in fostering an RP situation, they seemed more interested .. well I don�t know.. killing my PC. I complained to them, I sent the chat log via forum messages to most of the players I knew or were involved. The DMs eventually banned my account. There was a lot of hypocrisy on the part of the DMs in this situation. That said, many of people on this board complain about the DMs and it is true that they can be pretty immature.
But I and many others in this review section give the players of CoA too much credit for being good. All my negative encounters with DMs started when a player did something lame.. like another situation. A velsharoon cleric offered free healing. In an effort to engage in RP my PC expressed interest. The �healer� asks my PC if he wants to learn more about Velsharoon, I say sure and she leads my PC out to a rural area with another PC that was 7 levels higher and do some ritual and kill my PC� Where is the good RP, where is the so called earning of a right to PvP. No, on City of Egobel, many players seem to have short vision centered on their own enjoyment. There are some good RPers with good attitudes but compared to the immaturity of the DM and many other players, the server finally revealed it self to be poor.
Posted by Koririn at 2009-02-20 02:59:26 Voted 10.00 on 02/20/09
Filler post with the vote.
Posted by Koririn at 2009-02-20 02:58:44 Voted 10.00 on 02/20/09
GnomesGalore, your comment on the static nature of Arabel leads me to believe you haven't really logged into the server in a fair while, at least not in the last seven months.
I've been playing CoA for the last five years now, I can honestly say its been ever improving towards the end. A great server with a rich history and great playerbase. I'd advice anyone to reserve an afternoon for when you log in, because once you get playing, you'll want to stay.
My experience playing was negative. DMs were condescending, confrontational, sarcastic, and outright insulting. While there are some very talented players present, they can be hard-pressed to find. The world was not dynamic, and instead has maintained the same appearances and quests it held many years ago. If it wasn't for its static nature, and terrible attitudes of the DM staff, this server would be among the best.
Although I have played several successful characters on this server, I can only conjure up negative feelings when retrospecting on my experiences here. I would highly recommend seeking another server.
Posted by Hinotori at 2009-02-02 22:54:55 Voted 9.00 on 02/02/09
It's the most professionally handled RP-enforced persistent world I've been on in NWN. The roleplay on the server is top notch and so far unrivaled in my experience. I've burned the midnight oil many a night here.
That said, there ARE cliques in the game, though not any more than you'd expect anywhere in a community that's been around a long time. The DMs are exceptionally talented but somewhat aloof. I think my biggest frustration is the condescending manner in which they sometimes address players before berating them for not approaching them more often.
I encourage new players to do some research first. Google "City of Arabel" to find the website and forums. Read up on some of the history and lore. Get a handle on what the expectations are. Read the stickies. A character's lifetime can provide many hours of enjoyment, so the one or two hours it'll take you to prepare are well worth it.
Posted by colinpoh at 2009-01-17 06:46:45 Voted 9.00 on 01/17/09
I've been playing here since 2004! But I gave it a 9 anyway because like all things in the world, nothing's perfect.
The biggest mistake one can make on this server (and in real life for that matter) is having expectations. If you jump in to the server expecting a spotlight to shine on your character, thinking you're a damn good RPer, devise a plot in which you expect everything to unfold like clockwork, then expect a truck of rewards to be handed out, while building an 'uber' high level character; then prepare to be disappointed, big time.
Ideally, just focus on what's important, having fun, MAKING fun, and appreciating the mystery of not knowing what to expect tomorrow, next week, or next month.
Once you wrap your head around that, you'll realize that this server is great. There are players and DMs from all over the world, making this a true 24/7 server, and being so is a melting pot for different cultural tolerances and ideals. This is a community server, where you provide just as much entertainment to others, not a server where it's solely the DMs job to make quests and the players to jump on them, win, and get phat lewt and reach 'uber' levels.
So, if you're MATURE, humble, positive, open minded, have tons of patience, and willing to learn (yes, even YOU aren't all knowing), and want to contribute; then this server is for you.
I honestly fancy this to any mainstream pay-per-month MMOs which lack what RPGs are supposed to be; IMMERSIVE.
Posted by ArchAngel_G at 2009-01-09 18:52:03 Voted 10.00 on 01/09/09
Honestly, the best RP server I could find. It's got the most people, it's got the most DMs, it ensures that certain character types aren't over played (ex. good aligned drow, people from super strange places, certain PrCs) but are given a fair chance to prove you can play them. It is an ever changing server. This does not mean it's for everyone. CoA has it's own cannon. I don't know what more I can say.
Posted by ForteEXE at 2009-01-08 13:58:42 Voted 10.00 on 01/08/09
it can be a hard server to play on, there will always be clicques no matter where you go..but all that aside if you give the server a chance regardless of its flaws there are players who defy the norm and will role play with new ones and even a few who will go out of their way to be helpful, it is a matter of finding them
however that said..when coming into a new community it might be wise to not make a villian who wants to take advantage of anyone and everyone, make a average normal person and use that character to get to know the server, then after you learn how the RP goes then you can make your evil character (there is a difference between a evil person and a jerk in a RP rich enviornment that is and can flourish)
i am not a person who is easily included in the popular cliques and i sometimes get the feeling some of the dm's may not be that fond of me..but the bottom line they have guided a server with flaws that i enjoy playing on..and i have been doing it now for a long time since what is refered to as v 2 coa..and my character in v4 is the one who i started with v3 with, i would not still be going there is i were not having fun
and who knows.....maybe my character will run into your in the game and draw a picture of your character (which equals a real drawing posted on the city of arabel forum) i have been adding real sketches since v4 city of arabel started (and i figured out how to get my drawings on the internet..oh..and please i apreciate no negative critsism of my drawings..my spelling is however fair game)
Posted by Males Jars at 2009-01-02 20:40:48 Voted 1.00 on 01/02/09
And ya just it isn't bad charecter wise until you hit those people who were spoiled by DMs and they think they are higher then the DM's and can cuss you out OOC cause you piss their charecter off I RPed with another person who Males hated and after our RP's we shared a laugh and cracked jokes OOC and another problem is the Militia and Dragons Metagame out the ass so even a slight crime is known about and you get busted the moment you log on even if they had no description of you
Posted by Males Jars at 2009-01-02 20:29:41 Voted 1.00 on 01/02/09
Okay well i had a bard on CoA named Males Jars he was well liked in the server by the players he was doing really well he was rich he was selling books and had a regular audience for his stories. Well there was a Group on there that was a family called the Swifts. They were a group of about 8 people and they were all played by different people. I got into a RP with them and one thing led to another and they were enemies IC so then we Rped for a while and they got even worse off and they put one of Males friends in jail for being a halforc so he rped with it and was visiting him in jailand was talking of how he was a good friend of many half orcs and so one of the DM's took control of the jail guard and started jumping on Males about how his father was killed by orcs and how he would kill Males for being an ally to the Half orcs (WTF his dad was killed by orcs yet just a few days the DM's took control of the guard and wa talking to Males about his father being killed by goblins) so i thought that was sorta unfair then the guard attacked Males while he was leaving and then i was hit by a snow storm and i lost power, I logged back on and was banned...I contacted the DM's and they required proof that i had a was hit by a snow storm and i got it cause it was all over the news so it took them AN ENTIRE MONTH to "meet" on it and agree that i should be unbanned...I finally was and got on and RPed i was in jail the entire time and then Males met the swifts again and they went at it again and after they left i OOCly told them hey thanks for the Rp i had fun and they said ya *bleep* you i wish you would've stayed banned and i was like WOAH WTH. So i dropped it and i was living with a friend at the time and he said he wanted to play so i set up his own account and installed it on his computer with my other CD key and made a charecter that was Males paladin cousin and in his description i put "His brother is Males Jars and he came here looking for him after he saw the bounty posters set up by "The swift Family" posted all over Cormyr." and they said this was OOC info put in his life and that I shouldn't play the brother of my own charecter and i said its my friend not me and they said no remake him. And at this point he had already found Males and Males helped him out and gave him some gold and what not and got him suited up. Now the DM's made my friend remake him with a new name and he can't know Males yet so we made a deal he would drop item everything and pick them up with the new charecter and they would give back all the xp he was losing. So we did and the moment we picked up the armor a DM pulled us to the DM area and yelled at us saying we were cheating and we were like YOU JUST SAID WE COULD and he denied it then he came out and said i brought the argument IC with the Swifts OOC and cussed them out and he sent me the screenies and i pointed out they were horribly photoshopped and that the swifts had cussed me out and he told me I was on thin Ice after being recently unbanned and how he had not wanted me unbanned. So i was like okay fine take the items and we will level up this char and get him all his items and what not so he said no and banned my friends account and my account and our CD keys and when i asked about it on the forums and in email i got back nasty messages saying *bleep* you and stay out of our server and come to find out the DM who banned me both times was a close friend to the players of the Swifts and he had been giving them free items and XP and crap and now i have heard he got fired soon after the incident and everything but i refuse to go back if they allow people like that into their DMs then it ain't worth another risk. I really liked the server and the people and i found alot of people left after they heard of me being banned and that they were some of the players who had high importance charecters so they pretty much had to rebuild so ya i don't really like it. I liked some of the DM's like Harry McScary and a few others but it just wasn't worth the OOC pain to keep a charecter.
Posted by Shaugg at 2008-11-16 07:11:05 Voted 1.00 on 11/16/08
Clique DMs lie as a group. They can say two opposites in one sentence than collectively all agree to its soundness. The DMs don't care about the players. The DMs think that they are always right.
The players are generally good but there are many servers with good players and better DMing. Another server would likely be better.
The City of Arabel server is still going strong and moving into 2009 with the transition to v4.0. The DM team is making substantial changes to the module to alter the political dynamic of the server to engender a greater variety of player and DM plots and interactions and breath a veritable gust of fresh air throughout the entire server. Both new and old players remain welcome as always, come and have a look at our forums for more information - coa.ender.com. There is a great amount of exciting roleplaying going which can be enjoyed by anyone.
It has been some time since I visited this site. I wish to start off by indicating that my earlier post was made to be informative, not spiteful. I gave this PW many months, and many participants discussed with me various issues about it. As a fellow DM, with over 30 years experience (yes, since before 78'), I learned to listen to both the contented and the discontented. The undertone repeatedly presented was this discontentment of people not being in DMs' good graces, not being in said cliques'. I put a good amount of effort to examine this and determined their claims were valid.
There are, indeed, cliques'. Do not be defensive about this, as such things are very common. After all, it is far more entertaining to DM people you know and like than it is a bunch of strangers who may very well not be there tomorrow, or persons of conflicting personalities. However, when cliques' are combined with a failure on the part of the DMing staff (or at least particular DMs) to listen and/or trust the player base, then it becomes a contentious and essentially fearful affair. Players were unwilling to discuss such things openly, for fear of repercussions. I am letting you know this, and your response to me is open hostility.
As to my comments regarding DMing. Indeed they could very well be perceived as insults, and I must admit my presentation on that particular point likely initiated your rather hostile responses. Suffice it to say, as i indicated above, i have plenty of DMing and roleplaying experience. What i encountered in CoA was 'average' DMing for NWN PWs, of which i participated in and experienced plenty.
One particular point i wish to address is that of these claims regarding "not being able to know" what items a PC had prior. This i find to be disingenuous, as I'm sure you backup your vault, like most any responsible PW would do, thus you would have a copy of my, or any other, character prior to any crash. Also, there are scripts (from communities i participated in) stored in NWVault that exist to keep track of such things, should the 'lazyman' claim be your continued argument.
Other issues to address are the comments about 'my' particular role-playing actions. Spiteful, to say the least. The responses presented give sufficient evidence on the failure of said 'dm(s)' to look beyond the superficial fronts (or maybe it was simply falsely presented as a means to 'hurt some poor little ego' or 'discredit the infidel').
Of the "oh my" character you argue, yes he played a merchant, however he was also involved in a business with another PC and was working with that particular PC 'and' other DMs on building up a merchant guild, to defend against threats presented by other PCs. This same PC was also involved in other activities, thus making him a character with a comical front, but far more 3-dimensional than you purport.
As to this Lurue PC, she was, quite frankly... a side character that i played to provide entertainment for others. Ironically, many new and old players complimented my efforts to make the game more 3-dimensional, as I had the pc distribute flyers and make an earnest effort to actually 'convert' people, something the vast majority of clerics in CoA completely failed to even try. Indeed, most clerics didn't even indicate what 'god' they followed... which, as you know, is ludicrous.
Regardless, i played other PCs in CoA, which I'm sure you're conveniently 'not' bringing up... mainly because you would be hard pressed to claim 2-dimensionality.
All in all, your responses to my initial post merely stands as evidence that there are things your DM staff should address, one of which would be that of listening to your player base.
And last, i did not post a rating. I felt it inappropriate to do so. I presented a critique, and that is all i presented. Personal attacks aside, i did enjoy the time i played in CoA. It is a free server, hosted for free, with DMs Dming for free. Compared to paying to play on an MMORPG, CoA is a far better choice. I presented my critique for comparison to other purported RP NWN1 servers, not to pay-to-play MMORPGs that have not an inkling of roleplay.
Respectfully,
Roy
Posted by Noahbody at 2008-03-26 08:06:01 Voted 3.00 on 03/26/08
Spent about an hour in this mod.
People very unfriendly and extremely unhelpful.
The RP experience on the quest we ran was disappointing to say the least. My wife finally suggesting we just drop the server and stop wasting our time with the people on this one.
Which we did :).
The comment "Its not for everyone" is so true. I have been on alot of servers over the years and this is one of the most unfriendly.
Posted by stdbuk at 2008-03-23 13:16:19 Voted 10.00 on 03/23/08
I love it for what it is:
It is a well set up world for GROUP ROLEPLAYING. With that in mind I digress as to why I don't play much anymore....
I'm a SOLO-ARTIST. I hope anyone who plays on this server is there for the category, otherwise, bitterness may ensue.
Stuff I love:
1. Death Script: with an option to go out like a true hero, or run back in naked, awesome!
2. Guard System: "Yessir! someone killed the little girl's doggie! In the seedy area of town!" LOL
3. Player guards: like having guards show up when you bring hostile rats from the surface isn't cool enough! Players dog on you too!
4. Ranger Tracking: It's like radar or something better!
5. Paladin Det Evil: My Gods! I love this! I want the scripts for tracking and detect evil if possible please!
6. Quests: The XP trickles, but you do get rewarded for creative/interactive quests.
7. Lootable Corpses: I got killed in the goblin lands and a higher lvl scavenged my stuff(plate) to be stronger. Hey! that's how it should be. I delt with little crying...sniff!
8. Newbie Quests: Thank you, newbies can nail down 2 levels and be chuckled at by the old timers with fond memories.
9. Temples: Being a paladin of Lathander and finding a temple with a bed was a nice touch. Added something very cool.
10. Inspiration: Arabel, Arelith and Amia are the triple A's of awesome concepts (Lands of Turmish fits in somewhere too), each on well done and unique. When I do up my PW I honesty, really would like to pirate some of your great ideas.
What I didn't like:
1. SOLO stuff: probably be a whole different server though... so that's not definite.
2. Many of the things above that I love, others seem to hate. I enjoy being punished for being a filthy player who doesn't play nice with others. In fact I demand it otherwise, this would be just another Monte Hall candy-assed setup. When I get levels here I know I earned them, there was no gimme.
3. Your web link here goes to a Zombie search, be warned...
4. A better description of what you're getting into. I had to remake a few char's to get it right with skills, race and such. Maybe in outline form.
Overall: One of the best, it's innovative, packed with goodies for quests and characters alike, and tough as it should be. It is the best of what it is. I may die a bunch trying to be Mr. Cool Solo, and even get upset, but I respect this server.
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