Why do you like efu?
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I play efu because it feels like I can be writing a book and semi living it! And it's something always that has caught my interest!
Where else could I play a charismatic jewish Wizard with a hardon for chess, wine, and women and the practical skills to build a castle and the personality of Mel Brooks?
I don't really like EfU, I just like to demonstrate how superior I am to everyone and my status as a DM allows that.
Quote from: GoblinSapper;212608Where else could I play a charismatic jewish Wizard with a hardon for chess, wine, and women and the practical skills to build a castle and the personality of Mel Brooks?
Kinky Kingdom.
Well besides coming here simply because I am addicted, it's really the best escape from reality I could ever hope for.
And oh. It's also refreshing to avoid the raging stupidity that curses so many other online gaming communities.
Just because I <3 all you trolls so much!
To witness Snoteye's acts of superiority.
God knows.
Quote from: Snoteye;212610I don't really like EfU, I just like to demonstrate how superior I am to everyone and my status as a DM allows that.
Kinky Kingdom.
Hang on let me google that.
It is Art.
*angsty* I got no where else to go.
Was playing on another RP heavy low-level server for about the last year. I had just started getting into some factions and whatnot. Got kinda "stuck" and went exploring then found EFU.
I stay here because of the depth... I like the fact that you can choose how or why you came to be on this isle. SO far my characters have been "brought by the cursed stone" this allows me IG to learn about different factions and politcs etc. Maybe later I'll have characters that were "born" here or are stargazers or whatever... this "frees" up the creation of your character instead of confining it to some "canon" world. (In PnP I made my own world, that way I could create as the PC's explored, using premade stuff and retrofitting if/when needed) This feeling of free from IMO allows us (here at EFU) to effect more changes to the world, cutting down forests, building dwarven strongholds, planting gardens in exotic locations, etc.
And really, Kudos go out to DM's for trying to keep things, in balance, and vibratant... there are times when Niven just goes on "walkabout" to marvel at the places on the isle.. and quickly drink invis potions and run quickly back to relative safety... I begin to feel like familiar places on "safe" and have to remind myself that there are still dangers in the "safe" places of the wilds... that's a pretty cool game (FOR FREE!!!!!)
It's a massive collaborative writing project set inside a fantasy video game. How cool is that?
The server is extremely dynamic. The playerbase is creative, and the environment provides immersion that's very hard to match.
I played on other servers for a long time, but none of them have satisfied my nerdy wants & needs as well as EfU:A has.
It's no wonder EfU:A breeds great roleplayers, outstanding concepts, and well-deserved elitists.
EfU:A forever.
I'm a great fan of stories and efu basically gives you a blank slate and all the things you need to make epic plots. Combines the best aspects of games without the grind and lack of background.
Because it's a good balance of great storytelling, a good community, and heavily customised and actively developed gameplay. The setting allows even more concepts than the Underdark due to the Portal and shipwrecks, and PCs can be powerful enough to be heroic or notorious without it feeling like "Oh look, here comes another legendary presence". The multiple scripted systems we have here make the campaign and other NWN worlds seem rather lacking in depth in comparison. The size of the world is also well thought out. I've got horribly lost on, and walked out of, other servers just trying to find PCs because the main town areas had too much sprawl.
Finally, even when there's not much going on IC, the community's fun.
The Dm's here dont treat EFU as a contest in how fast they can kill off players, well not often anyway
Why not?
Just wait until Holland and his master plan come to light as he makes millions on the EfU trilogy books that our rpm wrote.
Because it's fun as hell to struggle on a server that doesn't make you super powerful and one bad day cna kill you.
Also, good RP, good villian and good guy PCs.
A very frustrating (at times) server, but I think, that's what makes it fun. Surviving and doing well on such a server is a LOT more enjoyable than just getting tons of magic and being 40th level in a week.
Kudos!!
SB
The challenge is nice, and the fact that it's basically impossible for one character to learn all the secret lore the server has to offer.
You get to meet all kinds of interesting people.
Quote from: Howland;212622It is Art.
Because halflings can't just run around in an Evards Tentacle Field giggling maniacally any more.
It's a living, breathing quilt made out of the stories of hundreds of players all combined in real time.
Quote from: 12 Hatch;212764It's a living
Took a few days to think about why efu is like crack to me. So many reasons, but I think the one thing that brings me back time and time again is the ever possible stories to be told.
Watching the story of this one characters 'life' unfold in front of me, watching how others react to the character and how he / she reacts to them. It amazes me.
This is better than any book or movie I could read of watch, as the land around them evolves and changes, the faces the ideas all change on almost a daily or alright weekly basis.
Great players and the prospect of permadeath keep things exciting here.
Along with...
- A non-inflated economy (from what I can see)
- Balance between the classes (levels 1-10 will do that)
- Healthy factionalism
- Very welcoming for new players, given the abundance of low level veterans (thanks to permadeath)
- A big incentive for people to work together (again, prospect of permadeath)
... It just feels like the right way to mix classic DND with a NWN PW.
disco_spoon
I love you <3
Because FDing for shield potions is a viable excuse.
But really, because EFU is like, always changing, and there are no real restrictions to your concepts, imagination is your only limit. Boundaries are there to be pushed, and efu is buldozering them.
For the Machine.
EFU is like a shot of heroine.
And i don't fancy going cold turkey just yet.