Shattered Kingdoms

Good to hear I got the impression I wanted.

You have received enlightenment from the gods!

Wonder if I can get PAR on an aged death character.

Maybe I'll try.

When I played before, PAR was based on class, I think it was a great idea to strip it from classes and make it a more open title. However there is something I have noticed recently, and I am wondering if anyone else has.

Disclaimer: I am not saying ANYTHING against those listed below. These are simply the people that are online today when I checked.



Now correct me if I am wrong, but all the above are either lighties or grey aura people who lean towards the light side. I could be wrong, but it seems to me that almost all of the current paragons are like that. I don't get full round the clock playtime, but I can't think of any evil character that is PAR. Do we have any?

That being said, I am not accusing PARs of not cross-aura rewarding. A PAR does not get nearly the same RP opportunities cross aura, as they do within their aura. That's nothing against either side, but how often can dark aura characters interact with light aura characters? Sure it can happen, but not as often. Again, these are just my observations, and they might have no truth to them.

How would people feel about limiting the number of PARs per aura? Or have a requirement for at least 3 PARs per aura every month? This would assure some separation within the aura sphere of the game, and hopefully more opportunity to be rewarded.

Not entirely sure she still has it, but Naixin was PAR for a while and she's dark aura. I really agree though. I love the idea of ensuring that both sides of the coin have equal opportunity for enlights. A limit or minimum requirement based on aura would be a good idea. The opportunity for dark aura/light aura RP is a lot more limited than in aura RP opportunities, especially in many situations where character concept/faction requires kill or die style interactions.

There are a couple of darkie PARs, but the vast majority is not currently. The situation could very well be reversed with only a few lighties having PAR in the future and the same problem occurring.

I like the new system much better than the previous one, considering you can't really become a PAR with one enlightenment just because you happened to say, play the only active necro in the game. It seems fair. But then it is not quite, at least not when you consider the rewarding opportunities between factions/auras.

Maybe a few restrictions could apply that would balance things out a bit. Several slots reserved for each aura sounds quite nice.

If I remember right, there are 9 PAR titles given out? If so, I would suggest 2, 2, 2 and the rest up for grabs(lightie, grabie, darkie respectively). Even if there are more PAR titles leave it at 2,2,2.

Most, if not all of those player characters (or paragons) have been around for a long time.

There was a recent rash of deletions of dark PARs. There used to be 13 PARs, one per class. Now there are 12, the highest ranking I believe.

Almost all of those characters have been around for a considerable length of time and do in fact have PAR mostly for that reason.

I have given out 4 enlightenments thus far since receiving PAR. 1 Light, 2 Grey, 1 Dark.

Also, Naixin is a dark-auraed PAR. Eilsys is grey but on the darkie side of life. Gork is also PAR and a grey-auraed.

Of those listed, I am certain Sithara, Aelraen, Filliokwe, Wortsenawl, Gork, and I, at the very least, will reward any aura based on RP. Each of us interact with all auras and thus will do so.

I am not accusing any paragons of 'abuse' by not rewarding outside their aura. What I said was that there is limited interaction outside your auras. Can you honestly say you RP equally with evil characters than you do good ones? Could a lightie ever truly get involved and understand a necromancer's full concept? Or could a necromancer ever truly understand the depth of a paladin's character? Personally, I don't think so. I am sure all PARs are well RPed characters and I am not saying they are undeserving. I am just suggesting that a more aura rounded system might be more suiting.



While I am sure this is true, I do not understand what that has to do with the topic at hand. All paragons have to have a fair number of rewards, and maintain a certain amount of hours each month. I think it is safe to say that any paragon has been around for a long time.

I think the recent Par shift to light side has to do with the current RP which a number of lighties are working to stop and I assume are getting rewards. Also a large number of these lighties are Old chars that are at least into an age tick so are likely to have more rewards than other people.