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I always thought limiting people to one character was a little silly. With people playing more characters it means people will be able to fill more dungeons with actual people, and experience different rolls.

I'll take the healer. I've had my own ideas about a healer for some time now anyway. I'll also be adding in some basic, monster-like mercs if no one minds. Very cheap, somewhat weak and don't increase like a normal character, but can be effective in certain situations. Anyway, if any of the DMs disagree with this then just let me know and I'll back off. Glad I came up with something. Lately it's seemed like I've contributed so little to the guild that I was beginning to feel bad razz

Any mercenary idea looks fine, just make sure it can't die too easily unless it's powerful enough to keep itself alive. For me, I'm still debating about what mercenary role I'll take. xD Debates, debates. Debating between mage, or maybe summoner or pet person? I don't know. XD I'll make something someday. XD

Second characters owned by non-DMs (not mercs, but second characters used by people) will be going away (or at least out of use in minigames, dungeons, anything of importantance unless invited) after we get more people, correct? Though I do admit it's important now, I feel it may get hectic and chaotic in the future when we have more people due to the possiblity that person may be busy, holding up two dungeons when another person could have taken that spot in one of the two dungeons. Also, due to the unknowningness of the other newbies knowing that both character X and character Z is owned by the same person. In my opinion, I have thought about multi-character allowing and my stomach got a bit queasy, but I guess what we have to do is what we have to do. (Though we did get THREE new people over the last weekend! Big round of applause to the whole guild for the new members and returning member!)

Monster-like mercs, actually, sound pretty interesting Vincent. Odd, though...what would you do if you hired a goblin to spy in dragon cave? Would you have overly-fried goblin for dinner that night? xD

Oh, and I apologize for my absence during some of this week, finals have been keeping me busy in college. But, finally, Winter Break is upon me for three whole weeks!!!

Hmm....and a random idea that Random Mistakes gave me. We could make a merc for each organization and have them recruitable? It would, of course, cost less to hire if a person in the group was in that organization, but it would still be possible to hire that person. This is just an odd, random idea which I am not even sure if I like or not. xd I, actually, now kinda don't like this idea for the organization recruits because of the possiblity of lack of personality due to trying to make that person act like they're in that organization and not a normal, regular person. xd

Hm, I'm actually more partial to Firu's idea, where each DM has certain Mercs that cover the four basic classes and then they can be hired for that DM's dungeons. It just makes it a whole lot easier. And again, only one merc per dungeon, and for mule accounts, I'm going to say why not just have them use the same users and just different characters? It cuts down on the traffic and makes it so that players can't abuse the multi-accounts to have thirty mules or some such nonsense. Anyway, that's my take on it. But as to Perrian's question about monster stats for mercs, I meant make generic, monster-like mercenaries with stats like those presented in the Monster forum. That's what I meant. Like this:

Bandit Defender [24]
Attack: 1
Defense: 2
Combat: 5
Magic: 0
Life: 40 [8]
Equip: 4
Abilities: Defender, Regeneration
Actions: Guard, Shield Bash
Spells: N/A
Items: Tower Shield

Or:

Bandit Striker [24]
Attack: 4
Defense: 0
Combat: 5
Magic: 0
Life: 25 [5]
Equip: 0
Abilities: Fury x2
Actions: Smash, Stunning Blow
Spells: N/A
Items: N/A

Of course this is just rough designs and I'll hammer them out later, but that's what I was getting at. So anyway, I'm going to be developing these and my mercs. I'll run them all by you Perrian to check myself, but that should be good for a rough idea. If no one objects I think I'll take the lead on this, so unless Perrian objects please run questions about the mercs and mule accounts through me via PM. Thanks for all the input ladies and gents!

Dont mean the change the subject but Rad's been waiting for a while for someone to approve his character.

As for secondary characters I feel they should be controlled by one account so people cant cheat and use their multiple accounts to vote more than once on stuff.

Also I feel mercenaries should stay static with stats simply so they stay affordable and in reach for the lower level members.

Ok, but I do think the mercs should be able to keep some of the items (depending upon the payment method, etc). I do now see how the static merc does make more sense, though it may be a bit of annoyance if a person is trying to get a merc for a high level quest (Example: Homecoming) and there are only level 4 (24 CP) mercs.

Hrmmm... Speaking of mercenaries.

I was thinking of setting up a minigame soon to give everyone active something to do. And I was wondering:

If I hold an event, can little ol' Bellamin still participate?

For a simple story-telling; non dungeon, non continuous minigame, event... What could I offer as rewards?

And

Whaddya think of me opening it about a week from now?