ATITD Wiki: Users/Shadus

Contact Info

If you need to get ahold of me you can do so at shadus@shadus.org

Retired

I retired a few days ago. My email is in my /info. I figure why stay and pay to be publically abused and be ignored by the devs when I can pay to be only ignored by the devs in another game.

So I chose to speak with my money, in hopes of game improvement. Unlike so many I didn't just let myself zombie and expire, I quit so I could tell the devs what was wrong.

If you'd like to see some interesting churn statistics, look at the tale1 wiki at: http://wiki.atitd.net/tale1/Census and for tale2 at Census.

Jan 27, 2004 the tale1 wiki lists the citizens at 1383.
Sep 1, 2004 the tale1 wiki lists the citizens at 1191.

Sep 26, 2004 the tale2 wiki lists the citizens at 2089.
Jan 06, 2004 the tale2 wiki lists the citizens at 1582.

Over 7 months tale1 lost 192 people. An average of 27.42 per month.
Over 4 months tale2 lost 502 people. An average of 125.5 per month.

Tale2 still has the zombied 6mo preorders to lose, of which in UN alone I know of at least 7... and UN is a low population region.

I've watched more guildmembers leave ATITD over the last 4 months than I saw leave any other MMO game I played in the course of a year in my guilds.

I personally think there are several issues which Teppy needs to address:

Compounds, Alot of people detest them... to the point of quitting. Yes i've heard this cited as a reason by a fair number of people who left.
PR, The GM and the DEVs aren't always the most... uh polite. Even when no one has said anything unpolite to them other than just disagreeing with them... it looks bad, and hey its the reason i'm gone largely.
Game Speed, the vast majority of people who I've talked to who quit cited this, especially the tale1 people. *way* *to* *slow*. This telling feels like it is trudging through mud speed wise. If tale1 was slower i'd be mystified to find out how.
Research/Skill costs, they specifically exclude a good 30-50% of the population from participating. Those that live in karnak / Sinai blow through them like water. The rest of us who aren't in the most populated regions in the game struggle along with 3-4 people trying to complete them. Some burn out, some give up, some quit.
Game Neglect, The research costs seem to be "time buyers" for programming projects Teppy is working on, and that makes it all the more flusterating... but even worse yet is it feels largely like teppy neglects the game while he works on one of his babies.

Don't get me wrong by looking at this list, this is a game I love deeply and feel it has more potential than just about any game I've ever played. Teppy is a visionary and the new systems are really beautiful this telling (blacksmithing, fireworks, adv glass- even though I dont personally care for 2 of the 3, it doesn't make them any less visionary.) However, teppy is NOT a PR person. He is NOT a project manager. A third programmer is needed to implement laws in a timely manor, implement basic game design in a timely manor, keep techs coming in a timely manor... while teppy does the visionary programming gig.

Anywho, that's all she wrote.

Guilds

Elder in SUNRAY.
Elder in [Nubian Vineyards]?.
Elder in [Shallow End of the Nile]?.

Goals

Oracle of Seven? Is there any other goal worth having?

Working hard on research presently. Conctact me in game if you are interested in helping!

Personal

Started in Tale1, saw beta was running, switched to beta, played till end, bought six months :P See ya in game.

Test Information

Prentice of Conflict

School Status Current Test Focused On
Architecture Student Obelisk (Passed), Towers (WIP- 3.34%)
Art Initiate Beetles (WIP)
Body Student Acrobat (Passed), Cicada (WIP), Darkest Night (WIP)
Conflict Prentice Telepathy R2 (WIP- HBR2.1), Rake (Passed), Zhadu (WIP- HBR2.0)
Leadership Initiate Mentor [WIP- 6], Demi-Pharaoh (WIP), Hegemon (WIP)
Thought Initiate Tomb (WIP- Paints)
Worship Student Vigil (Passed), Pilgrim (WIP- Finding Group)

School	Status	Current Test Focused On
Architecture	Student	Obelisk (Passed), Towers (WIP- 3.34%)
Art	Initiate	Beetles (WIP)
Body	Student	Acrobat (Passed), Cicada (WIP), Darkest Night (WIP)
Conflict	Prentice	Telepathy R2 (WIP- HBR2.1), Rake (Passed), Zhadu (WIP- HBR2.0)
Leadership	Initiate	Mentor [WIP- 6], Demi-Pharaoh (WIP), Hegemon (WIP)
Thought	Initiate	Tomb (WIP- Paints)
Worship	Student	Vigil (Passed), Pilgrim (WIP- Finding Group)

School Status Focus
Architecture Student Towers Towers Obelisk
Art Initiate Beetles Beetles
Body Student Cicada Acro Cicada DN
Conflict Prentice Zhadu Telepathy Rake Zhadu
Leadership Initiate Hegemon Mentor DP Hegemon
Thought Initiate Tomb Tomb
Worship Student Pilgrim Vigil Marriage Pilgrim

School	Status	Focus
Architecture	Student	Towers	Towers	Obelisk
Art	Initiate	Beetles	Beetles
Body	Student	Cicada	Acro	Cicada	DN
Conflict	Prentice	Zhadu	Telepathy	Rake	Zhadu
Leadership	Initiate	Hegemon	Mentor	DP	Hegemon
Thought	Initiate	Tomb	Tomb
Worship	Student	Pilgrim	Vigil	Marriage	Pilgrim

Memories

The little things I don't want to forget for whatever reason...

Memories Strange and wonderful thing's I've seen
Hapi Monument The Hapi monument incident
Demi-Pharaoh Demi-Pharaoh information
Limestone Blocks UN Limestone Layout
Beetles Beetles!
Fumeology Tok'n da bowl.

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