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Vultures
23rd November 2020, 02:01 AM
This is irrelevant but I've been thinking a bit about the nazgul ring cz and how it fell short and just mostly got tossed to the side.
It started off with a lot of potential. Nazgul Rings were handed out to users to empower them. Each ring had a different power and most, if not all, gave at least a little bit of OP health. Eventually, they mostly got hoarded by a couple of users to make them massively op with about unlimited power.
Anyway, here's what I would have done.
First off, I would have given more rings to good users through a source that was not a known evil henchman. Why? Because Nazgul Rings are supposed to make the bearer bend to the One Ring's Owner's will thus making them do their evil deeds. This could have created A LOT of chaos. Good users being taken over by evil against their will is kinda perfect. It's also low down and dirty but ultimately it could have fueled cz. Once it was determined that the user did not actually carry out the evil acts, they would have given up the rings. This could have made the ring bearers relevant as they could have been immune to this effect just for cz purposes.
Second, I would have made it so the rings would have been impossible to stack. One account can only get powers from one ring. This would have encouraged the dracs to keep the rings spread out through their members rather than a couple users hoarding them. It would have kept the rings true to their purpose. In LOTR, each nazgul held only ONE ring. They weren't trying to hoard each other's rings because that wouldn't make sense. The rings being spread out across the users would have kept things equal and the rings could have been used to their full potential if cz had been going by my first idea as well.
Third, I think I would have given the rings another effect that would have acted more like a curse. It could have done something to the the accounts that only the user would see, like make their screens appear to be a bit darker, as though the user is living in a kind of darkened haze, after all, they are being controlled by the ring and under Pythas' influence. This curse could have stuck with the accounts that the rings were on until the One Ring was destroyed, even if the account lost the ring.
Anyway, none of this matters because The One Ring has been destroyed along with Pythas. I just enjoy thinking about how cz could be done different to add some more interesting things to it or to make it more chaotic using the lore around everything in it.
If you want to read more about the rings and some of the lore behind them, check out Wiki:Nazgul_Rings !
It started off with a lot of potential. Nazgul Rings were handed out to users to empower them. Each ring had a different power and most, if not all, gave at least a little bit of OP health. Eventually, they mostly got hoarded by a couple of users to make them massively op with about unlimited power.
Anyway, here's what I would have done.
First off, I would have given more rings to good users through a source that was not a known evil henchman. Why? Because Nazgul Rings are supposed to make the bearer bend to the One Ring's Owner's will thus making them do their evil deeds. This could have created A LOT of chaos. Good users being taken over by evil against their will is kinda perfect. It's also low down and dirty but ultimately it could have fueled cz. Once it was determined that the user did not actually carry out the evil acts, they would have given up the rings. This could have made the ring bearers relevant as they could have been immune to this effect just for cz purposes.
Second, I would have made it so the rings would have been impossible to stack. One account can only get powers from one ring. This would have encouraged the dracs to keep the rings spread out through their members rather than a couple users hoarding them. It would have kept the rings true to their purpose. In LOTR, each nazgul held only ONE ring. They weren't trying to hoard each other's rings because that wouldn't make sense. The rings being spread out across the users would have kept things equal and the rings could have been used to their full potential if cz had been going by my first idea as well.
Third, I think I would have given the rings another effect that would have acted more like a curse. It could have done something to the the accounts that only the user would see, like make their screens appear to be a bit darker, as though the user is living in a kind of darkened haze, after all, they are being controlled by the ring and under Pythas' influence. This curse could have stuck with the accounts that the rings were on until the One Ring was destroyed, even if the account lost the ring.
Anyway, none of this matters because The One Ring has been destroyed along with Pythas. I just enjoy thinking about how cz could be done different to add some more interesting things to it or to make it more chaotic using the lore around everything in it.
If you want to read more about the rings and some of the lore behind them, check out Wiki:Nazgul_Rings !
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Hydra
23rd November 2020, 10:46 AM
You can't compare the situation in OldCP to LOTR, for several reasons:
- While each ring in LOTR gives a Nazgul more or less the same strength, the power of each ring can be VASTLY different in OldCP. Not all rings were created equal, especially when you compare rings like Indur and Malekai.
- Even the strongest Nazgul Ring isn't powerful enough to take on a buffed "good" person, who can be easily re-buffed in a week's time, so it'd make more sense for 1 person to stack up multiple rings in order to stand a chance against 1 "good" person, which even that is mostly impossible, because you can't find a fight where there aren't at least 6 "good" people, a good 2-3 of those being OP.
And, perhaps the biggest difference between LOTR and OldCP:
- In LOTR, Nazgul rings aren't miracilously nerfed to the point where they're basically useless on their own, when the "good side" starts complaining about how they can't 1 hit kill evil people now.
- While each ring in LOTR gives a Nazgul more or less the same strength, the power of each ring can be VASTLY different in OldCP. Not all rings were created equal, especially when you compare rings like Indur and Malekai.
- Even the strongest Nazgul Ring isn't powerful enough to take on a buffed "good" person, who can be easily re-buffed in a week's time, so it'd make more sense for 1 person to stack up multiple rings in order to stand a chance against 1 "good" person, which even that is mostly impossible, because you can't find a fight where there aren't at least 6 "good" people, a good 2-3 of those being OP.
And, perhaps the biggest difference between LOTR and OldCP:
- In LOTR, Nazgul rings aren't miracilously nerfed to the point where they're basically useless on their own, when the "good side" starts complaining about how they can't 1 hit kill evil people now.