[CF List] Too stupid...

[Andrew D. Bagdanov]

Kimmo Hoikka writes:
 > > You might also be lucky enough to find some generous soul who will
 > > give you an appropriate artifact when you're starting out, or create a
 > > party with you so you can gain some levels where you're lacking.  If
 > > someone does this for you, remember it when you replay those quests
 > > and start getting duplicate artifacts so that you can help the next
 > > guy.
 > 
 > Damn you to encourage people to play like that. This kind of
 > behavior has lead to that all good artifacts have been downsized
 > and made useless (like white dragon scale mail) because people keep
 > giving them to newbies. If you get gift artifacts you never learn
 > to get them yorself and never learn to play the game.  I encourage
 > people not to accept any gift artifacts, since they make the people
 > lazy on learning the real tricks and methods required to play the
 > game. I myself have played over 10 chars from beginning to level
 > 110 in various servers and never too any gift artifacts because its
 > lame. money is ok to give and also items that can be found from
 > scorn but anything greater of that really spoils the game.
 > 

Dude, it's just a game.  Try to remember that before you start damning
people for trying to give advice.

 > For the game it is better to show the quest through where you can
 > obtain the artifact than to give it as a gift. I am really
 > disappointed to see people wearing tons of stuff and when you ask
 > them which quest item is that and that artifact, they just dont
 > know, someone gave it to them...
 > 

You're probably right...  Although I don't think having artifacts as a
newbie upsets the game balance too much, it does devalue the worth of
artifacts in general.  Note that in my original post I never suggested
artifacts should be a substitute for _real_ experience.  In retrospect
I think the most valuable thing I ever got from more experienced
players was the experience of tagging along with them on quests to see
how they handled certain situations, and what tricks they used that I
had never thought of.  Without that the fact that I was given a
Belzebub's Sword as a newbie didn't make a whit of difference.

-Andy