sMartins wrote:I'll never stop
, it's an awesome game, it deserve to be played properly. (thx god ,at least we'll not see those ugly lines for a while)
You know, you don't need to stick to default to enjoy the game's immersion. If you've seen my thread (Wulf's Retreat), you'll notice that most of the time I'm playing without lines/visual stuff, without nightvision, etc...
You can toggle it all off and enjoy the immersive feeling, the wilderness, the pretty light effects, the red sunrises and purple twilights, the flickering of fire against the blue of the night...
You don't need to stick to default to enjoy all of that. And all the other interesting resources in custom clients are nice to have and useful, even for "not hardcore" reasons - like tile centering is great for treeplanting and decoration, being able to show grid and bounding boxes is essential to decorate places, place buildings and stuff, create beautiful environments and all that. I must say a lot of my work - and a lot of everyone's beautiful works and towns created within the game - wouldn't have been possible with just the default client's tools.
So it's not that bad.
It's about getting the best of both worlds. When I go outside or around dangerous areas, boating around, etc... Yes, I do like to have bounding boxes or lines show, etc... because if anyone tries to harm me, we'll at least have equal chances to survive since I will have the necessary information/resources to navigate better and all that.
But most of the time, when just building my stuff and enjoying my place, or taking a walk nearby, etc... Yes, I do play with a mostly "default" game visually... because I like it and printscreens are horrible with nightvision
So it's not really about default x custom clients but more about people's attitude towards those things; what they do with what they have available to them - and why
So don't draw your line so harshly
there's always a lot of good and bad in both sides of a coin. Smartest are the people that can see both (like Amanda and others have told you
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Also, to not derail, I have to share what was probably one of my most noobish moments ever:
Back in early W7 I shared the little place I was living in with a guy called "Yuyui" or something like that. Can't really remember now. I had started the game not long ago and was still learning a lot of things.
Yuyui, however, was an "experienced" player (or so he told me). He used to hang around with a ranger's cloak and to travel for days, telling me he was "ranging", looking for scents and all that. Alright.
One day, he was dead. He created a new character and came back home, saying he was so angry because some guy outsmarted him, and he would have his revenge. We played for a while before he set out again, after getting some gear and skills back, saying he was ready for his revenge (lol).
A few days passed and a linen noob (back when we started the game with linen clothes, lol) came by and started to check out my place.
I tried to talk to him and he wasn't responsive, and then I had the stupid idea of asking "Yuyui, is that you?". I thought the guy had died and spawned again, and this guy smartly replied "Yes, it's me" lol.
And I kept like asking questions "Oh no, you died again?" and he was like "oh yes, it was terrible" LOL
And I totally bought it! I mean, I did ask him about the sudden name change but since Yuyui completely changed his name on his first death, that wasn't so disturbing.
... lol
I brought him in and gave all the perms and all that...
The next morning my place was more empty than my head
A runestone was left "I'm not yuyui, SORRY" lol.
