Member Questions

Wolves do communicate between themselves, and so it's more realistic to have them "talking" in comparison to them befriending an apex predator such as a bear or an eagle who would not even give them a second before attacking them or moving on. If anything, it would make more sense for characters of not the same species to not be able to communicate between each other and if that's the case, boom, all this bear allying with a pack is fixed. Can't happen, they can't communicate. 

However, on the matter of the staff's hypotheticals, every time these kinds of discussions happen it's always the same song and dance. This is just one instance of many during my year here on the site. Members have repeatedly said they don't feel heard and it goes often ignored or told: "that's not our intention" or "we will discuss this amongst ourselves" and come up with a solution that barely listens to our concerns on the matter and mostly sides with staff. 

I also completely agree with this: If Ursus rolled up with two big war bears played by actual players... then what's the beef? No one can kill your character without your permission, regardless of the circumstances. So where's the damage?

Well, keep in mind the vocal minority is in this thread. The majority of the site has yet to weigh in.

Our last policy change (PPC), we went with the majority that weighed in.  Our breeding season change, we again went with the majority. Anyone who feels we didn't, feel free to count up the view points in both threads and tally the polls!

An unenforced view point is not the same as ignored, and I see a lot of players saying they are unheard because their opinion wasn't enforced. We hear every complaint that is lodged against us. We hear all viewpoints- at the end of the day, we can't enforce every view point there is. According to our stats tracker, there's about 80 unique players on this site at the moment! That's a lot of view points to take into account.

For example: You don't want wolves and bears to be friends. You feel it is unrealistic. If we made this a policy, wouldn't the players of Benry or Jaylen feel unheard? Sometimes, the collective and their enjoyment of the game has to be taken into account versus a single player's opinions.  

There have been several policies that have been put into the game, that I did not agree with as a CM! But they were the majority, and the majority's enjoyment of the game is more important than just mine.

My opinion and experience as a player is that players are fine with unfair advantages until those unfair advantages impact them. Then they're not. For that reason as a player it seems easier to separate WF and wolves when it comes to conflict. Even if I would love it if Astara had an attack bear. :)