Repost: Gateway and RSI bull... From: ryu70@aol.com (Ryu70) Date: Mon, 06 Mar 1995 05:21:56 +0000 It appears America Online messed up my post pretty bad and I have been the target of flak from friends on net etiquette. (grin) Here is the corrected post with 80 columns to make it easier on the eyes. You'd think I'd get this right after being on the net for over 5 years. :) If you are considering playing Duelmasters, Hyborian War, or any other games from Reality Simulations, Inc. (RSI), do take into consideration their very poor customer service. Their customer service is ranked/considered as one of the worst in the PBM industry. There are other problems, but you'll have to find out for yourself. The one good thing about RSI was that they had a few workers that actually cared about customers. *gasp!* Tex was one of em. The repost... >From: Tex@reality.com on Fri, Mar 3, 1995 10:57 AM >Okay, I'll actually read the article and quote... > >"Going to Gateway is voluntary. However, once a warrior elects to enter >the Gateway, they may not go back to Primus. Gateway warriors will have >their own tournaments, both mail-in and face to face. In roleplay, these >will be the only times when Gateway warriors will be in contact with >Alastari; Sheila opens the gates once each three months to exchange news >and messages with her guardians.... Gateway warriors will be allowed to >train the so-called `lost skills.'... Lost skills will not be made >regainable in Primus or below, but they can be learned in Gateway... >Warriors will be allowed to learn more skills (a higher skill maximum)... > >The Gateway arena will be opened up after the Halloween Tourney. All >eligible warriors will receive notice on their arena selection sheet in >their turn results prior to the opening." > >There's some other things in there, too, but hopefully that answered the >bulk of the questions. At this writing, it doesn't look like there will >be stat raises above 25. I'm looking forward to seeing who's going to >go with this first split off... >Kats ----- My bud, Alan Yip, the Master of Anime (grin) :) wrote: >>Seems like there is actually a reason to pull Eve out of retirement... >>The ability to get back 30 skills and actually get stat trains for a >>change. (She has 200+ regular fights and easily 100+ tourney fights >>and only has around 42 stat trains... sigh...)... I'm curious to see >>how easy the stat trains will be. Eve does have the requisite 25 will. ----- (soapbox is set up and ready to go) Just sounds kinda chincy. Typical Paul Brown stuff. You can now raise stats easily to 25 and get your skills back, but you can't go past 25. It's taken them over 12 years or so to do even this? You and I know how easy it would be to code this, or even to code it so that stats can go past 25. But RSI is just trying to get players to raise themselves into the next stagnation area while taking their real life money. If they don't adjust a simple case statement past the 25 stat maximum I'd say it's one of the biggest ripoffs ever. Sorry if I sound like a cynic, but they ripped all players off by having a ridiculous training program for these 12 years, and now they're after even more of your money by giving you the ability to get those stats/skills you should have had ages ago. Then they'll let you reach all your 25's/120 skills(or whatever they decide to let you max out at now...I doubt past 150 skills) and let you play like that for another 12 years, and then eventually they'll go for more money letting you raise above 25 in stats. Maybe my biggest disappointment is that in my 6 years of DM they never even bothered with any new programming. Hugh with Adventurers Guild implements many new things every year, and he's basically a one man PBM company. It would have been so easy to fix that poor training program in DM but RSI never bothered. (Master Lee gets off the soapbox) Mike Lee Referenced By Up