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== Cantr is not a game for the masses ==
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(Just posted at FreeGames.com.au.) --[[User:Seko|Seko]] 10:40, 14 October 2006 (EDT)
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*playing Cantr since turn 809 (= spring of 2004)
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*[[Resources Department|RD]] member (Tailor) Feb 2006 ‒ June 2008 and again from July 2013 to April 2015
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*[[Public Relations Department]] member (Finnish translator) from Jan 2007 to April 2015 (It was originally Languages Department)
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*[[Programming Department|ProgD]] member from 2008 to Oct 2014
  
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Review: Since other people have mostly been concentrating on the mechanics, I shall concentrate on the social aspects here.
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I was responsible for the implementation of overhearing whispers and the concept of a [[stomach]] (ability to eat healing food even when you're not wounded and daily foods manually). As far as I can remember, I also suggested that boats should have wakes (in the past, you couldn't see which way they were moving or if they were moving at all). I also accidentally caused the first time all the dead came back to life (2008) but worked on repairing the damage afterwards. I also programmed the ability to add and report custom character descriptions and the thing where clothing is displayed in a logical head to toe order instead of in the order in which the categories were implemented.
  
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I would like to emphasize that most of the big players are intelligent people and the quality of roleplaying is high. If someone comes in sprouting chat speak ("sup d00ds? lol ne1 onlien?") they will be regarded as a lunatic and usually ignored or killed. All the interaction in game happens /strictly in character/, so you can easily get absorbed in your role and really be that person, not just a calculative player controlling a puppet.
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At the moment of writing (Nov 10, 2013) I've either suggested or designed at least the following clothing items: all aprons, all socks and anklets except for the silk stockings, leather belts, furry accessories (tails and ears), plain leather bracers (originally only decorated existed), all jade jewelry save for the pendant, crocheted items, all topaz jewelry except for the pinky ring, fine fur cloak and fur coats, silver scarab earrings, hair accessories, crown of lavender, flat cap, dress loafers, fur lined boots, leather biker jacket, straitjacket, blindfolds, fancy and embroidered cotton shirts, knickerbockers, cotton bloomers, hemp undershirt, long-sleeved cotton undershirt and most recent additions.
  
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Naturally every game has the bad eggs, the people who take the game too seriously and cancel their account or go whining on the forums if something unfortunate happens to their character. (I confess I've also been guilty of the latter at times.) But fortunately this sort of behaviour is rarely seen in game (exept for the obvious heart attacks when a player cancels their account). So if you get tired of the flame wars and bickering, just stop going to the forums for a while. But mostly we have a GREAT community, and although people sometimes lose their temper and storm out with slamming doors, they usually come back. - Since this is a very addictive game. The intensity of OOC reactions might actually prove how much this world means to us - it's more than a game, it's a second life - or a bunch of lives, depending on how you look at it.
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You might also remember me from drawing Cantr Comic for the webzine, once I also wrote a Cantrian horoscope for them and I've sometimes been drawing character portraits on request (contact me on the forums if you're interested in getting one).
  
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Personally I've been playing Cantr for about 3 years and as far as I can remember, the longest time I've gone without checking was 3 days. Or maybe a week. Sometimes I've lost a whole night's sleep to intense roleplaying. I've been late from class due to checking events on my lunch break. Many times I've been crying my eyes out over ingame events, and far more often laughed at the witty dialogues both in game and off at #Cantr. - Actually, if you feel ambivalent about joining, you should stop by at our irc channel (the link is found on the site). Hopefully someone will be awake.
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On the Wiki I've mainly been updating clothing-related articles, adding pictures and sometimes trying to work on the Finnish version.
  
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Be noted that newbies receive no special protection in game. If you spawn somewhere and break the local laws, you will most likely be punished swiftly, even more so if you act like a jackass.
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[[Category:Players|Seko]]
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There is no real gain in hitting a newbie, since people start with no resources. You kill a newspawn and all you get is a mauled corpse littering the beauty of your home town, an hour wasted in burying it, and some more in recovering from the tiredness. The skill boost is pretty much a joke (there's been lots of discussion concerning this) - So if your first character gets killed, that's not because you were easy prey, but most likely you came out as ignorant and distruptive and had to be eliminated before you would mess up the lives of those around you.
 
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An easy tip to survival is "read the notes". In most populated places, there is an established government and a set of laws expected to be followed. (Different thing if you choose to play someone who's illiterate or mentally challenged - in such a case be sure to express it through emoting so that people realize it's a feat of the /character/, not the player.) Also read the background information, at least the article named "Your first Cantr day" that's found in our Wiki.
 
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Much depends on how you act out. If you pick up everything you see and run then you can bet your sorry ass that people will be hostile. But if you show you're an intelligent person capable of playing characters with depth, not just extensions of your own personality, then we'll happily welcome you on board.
 
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Latest revision as of 08:49, 12 April 2015

I've been

  • playing Cantr since turn 809 (= spring of 2004)
  • RD member (Tailor) Feb 2006 ‒ June 2008 and again from July 2013 to April 2015
  • Public Relations Department member (Finnish translator) from Jan 2007 to April 2015 (It was originally Languages Department)
  • ProgD member from 2008 to Oct 2014

I was responsible for the implementation of overhearing whispers and the concept of a stomach (ability to eat healing food even when you're not wounded and daily foods manually). As far as I can remember, I also suggested that boats should have wakes (in the past, you couldn't see which way they were moving or if they were moving at all). I also accidentally caused the first time all the dead came back to life (2008) but worked on repairing the damage afterwards. I also programmed the ability to add and report custom character descriptions and the thing where clothing is displayed in a logical head to toe order instead of in the order in which the categories were implemented.

At the moment of writing (Nov 10, 2013) I've either suggested or designed at least the following clothing items: all aprons, all socks and anklets except for the silk stockings, leather belts, furry accessories (tails and ears), plain leather bracers (originally only decorated existed), all jade jewelry save for the pendant, crocheted items, all topaz jewelry except for the pinky ring, fine fur cloak and fur coats, silver scarab earrings, hair accessories, crown of lavender, flat cap, dress loafers, fur lined boots, leather biker jacket, straitjacket, blindfolds, fancy and embroidered cotton shirts, knickerbockers, cotton bloomers, hemp undershirt, long-sleeved cotton undershirt and most recent additions.

You might also remember me from drawing Cantr Comic for the webzine, once I also wrote a Cantrian horoscope for them and I've sometimes been drawing character portraits on request (contact me on the forums if you're interested in getting one).

On the Wiki I've mainly been updating clothing-related articles, adding pictures and sometimes trying to work on the Finnish version.

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