TheTXLibra
Legacy Supporter 8
- Joined
- Mar 5, 2011
- Location
- Somewhere, TX
This is in no way a slight against the Heroes system or any of the staff. Heroes is a fantastic game and plugin, and the staff is phenomenal. This is just me bitching about PVP in general.
For those of you whom have known me for a couple of years now, and remember my old works, those were created back when donors could region off an area, set no-pvp, and set build permissions, and mob spawns. In short, you could create a little pocket where there were no distractions other than real life, to stop you from building great things, provided you were safely in your region.
Gwenmarie Island, Zeal (aka The Bazaar), Creeper Cathedral, Sanctum, the Moon Temple, the Arena Stairs, and all the other large-scale works I either created or assisted in creating, were created in a small pocket where I could neither be PVPd nor have others grief my work by building over it (unless they were on the building team, of course).
I'll be honest: out there, in the brutal world of ninjas and lasers and shit, I can't cut it. I'm not a PVPer. I never will be. I lack that asshole instinct that tells me "Hey, you know what would be really fun? Killing the shit out of some other player, looting their corpse, and then killing them when again when they come back to try and resume what they were doing."
It's just not me. I'm a builder. I do one thing well: I build pretty things.
Or at least I try to, but people far better at killing than I, pretty much put the kibosh on that on an hourly basis nowadays, and it makes me wonder, yet again, why I keep coming back for the punishment... it's because y'all are my friends (well, those of you who don't keep killing me, at least). Anyway, I'm going to try and make it work. Maybe today was just a bad day, but when game time is so precious and I'm having to spend half of it either running back from the graveyard or re-upping my inventory due to getting looted, it'll eventually become time to find some other map or game.
Either that, or I can just give up on Architecture and focus entirely on learning how to PVP people really well, and learn to take delight in ruining their work as well, but like I said, I lack that asshole instinct, and not sure I care to gain it. I'll give it awhile and see... I truly hate quitting. As much as I really love this server, my old friends, the staff, and our history together, it seems like every new round just means I'm less and less able to build anything worthwhile anymore, because of getting killed.
And before all the troll replies of "LTP or GTFO" or "STFU bitching" come back, I acknowledge that I'm just bitching about how much I suck so bad at one half of the game that I'm incapable of being able to do decently at the other half. And it's that other half, architecture, that means the world to me. So there, I saved you the trouble of having to post those kinds of replies. I'm just bitching, and no, I don't, apparently, know how to play the PVP aspect.
For those of you whom have known me for a couple of years now, and remember my old works, those were created back when donors could region off an area, set no-pvp, and set build permissions, and mob spawns. In short, you could create a little pocket where there were no distractions other than real life, to stop you from building great things, provided you were safely in your region.
Gwenmarie Island, Zeal (aka The Bazaar), Creeper Cathedral, Sanctum, the Moon Temple, the Arena Stairs, and all the other large-scale works I either created or assisted in creating, were created in a small pocket where I could neither be PVPd nor have others grief my work by building over it (unless they were on the building team, of course).
I'll be honest: out there, in the brutal world of ninjas and lasers and shit, I can't cut it. I'm not a PVPer. I never will be. I lack that asshole instinct that tells me "Hey, you know what would be really fun? Killing the shit out of some other player, looting their corpse, and then killing them when again when they come back to try and resume what they were doing."
It's just not me. I'm a builder. I do one thing well: I build pretty things.
Or at least I try to, but people far better at killing than I, pretty much put the kibosh on that on an hourly basis nowadays, and it makes me wonder, yet again, why I keep coming back for the punishment... it's because y'all are my friends (well, those of you who don't keep killing me, at least). Anyway, I'm going to try and make it work. Maybe today was just a bad day, but when game time is so precious and I'm having to spend half of it either running back from the graveyard or re-upping my inventory due to getting looted, it'll eventually become time to find some other map or game.
Either that, or I can just give up on Architecture and focus entirely on learning how to PVP people really well, and learn to take delight in ruining their work as well, but like I said, I lack that asshole instinct, and not sure I care to gain it. I'll give it awhile and see... I truly hate quitting. As much as I really love this server, my old friends, the staff, and our history together, it seems like every new round just means I'm less and less able to build anything worthwhile anymore, because of getting killed.
And before all the troll replies of "LTP or GTFO" or "STFU bitching" come back, I acknowledge that I'm just bitching about how much I suck so bad at one half of the game that I'm incapable of being able to do decently at the other half. And it's that other half, architecture, that means the world to me. So there, I saved you the trouble of having to post those kinds of replies. I'm just bitching, and no, I don't, apparently, know how to play the PVP aspect.
