I thought it would be neat to see which HC characters existed, since there was no way to /who them.
If it's some kind of terrible, community-destroying, oh-so-sociopathic issue, it could be made to drop people who haven't killed anything for exp in a long time or something. I doubt anyone other than you could possibly care, though. It's just a list of people using an obscure feature that'll probably be forgotten in a few months, squirreled away on the third page of an obscure thread on a forum that hardly any of the players actually read.
I think it's neat too, don't get me wrong, I'm trying to offer ways to improve things not screw it all up. The fact that I'm the only one who cares about stuff like this is not very good. I care because I see ideas like this as the basis of something really epic in the future, it's something that could be built upon, only in SoD land does my enthusiasm get shoved back in my face. Everyones so quick to criticise me but I'm not the one with the lack of imagination and just sees something like this as a flash in the pan gimmick that everyone will have forgotten in a month.
As I said in previous posts, this SoD barely even resembles EQ anymore, but you can use that to your advantage. Your SoD team obviously has something good about it because not only do you have someone who can come up with ideas like this, but you can make it become a reality too. All that while working with ancient convoluted code too. I just think you should run with ideas like that. Look at DayZ, some boring old military shooter that's been out since 2009 (I actually love it but still...) and all of a sudden, someone comes up with a little simple zombiez mod and it totally captures peoples imagination, a month later it has almost a million new players.
I like the list a lot because I am constantly rooting for HC people to die please do not take this personally, all HC people. I think it's a neat addition and good for them!
See even that thought could be turned in to something. Make another new mode, HC assassins? PVP enabled between the two types only. Perhaps with some kind of weakness. But whatever. Thinking about this games potential is so bittersweet, it has so much potential yet the players hate everyone and everything.
Or you could suggest the list be sorted by date they hit 65, by the number of aa's, by some other variation, or give the user the ability to decide what to sort by, rather than suggesting killing them all off for a seemingly arbitrary reason.
I did not suggest killing them all off, or even killing one of them off, I suggested ailments or degeneration. And it was not arbitrary, I gave you the reason for it. Also given that it was about 10am and I still hadn't been to bed yet I even said that someone else should think of a solution, which you did. Just a shame you had to do in your usual bitchy way.
See in grown ups happy land where people are nice to each other, it works like this. I highlight a problem nobody else has thought of yet, give an overly elaborate, wacky, sometimes sleep deprived yet creative solution, but welcome a better solution from someone else. Someone else gives a better solution, and job done! It even sometimes inspires some new discussion about something related. Everyone is happy. Problem solved, thanks to me highlighting it and someone else thinking up the solution. Good ole community working together.
Heres how it works in SoD, land of the grumpy teenager. I highlight a problem nobody else has thought of yet, give an overly elaborate, wacky, sometimes sleep deprived, yet creative solution, but welcome a better solution from someone else. Three people say STFU R TARD!!!!1! pope john tarutao stamps his authoritah in my face, and one person offers the solution but puts me down in the process.
The first way works well. The second way, when someone has a thought about something and contemplates posting about it, thinks of all the pitch fork wavers and thinks fuck it and goes to bed and has forgotten it in the morning.