User:RedUp

= A little bit about me = Hello, I'm RedUp. I happen to be a programmer. I also tend to write guides and other wordy walls of text. I've spent a while on Scroll Wars, dating all the way back to 2006. I guess you can say I've seen it all.

If you hate me and wish to move on check out Claytonius3 or EVA-251.

= Mini rant on Guilds = Too much of one thing can be bad. This is the case with guilds. There is one in particular that controls a lot of the fanbase. The worse thing is, it's allies are other powerful groups filled with powerful people. That is one reason why I went into the business of splinter guilds. We don't need a huge guild of people controlling EVERYTHING. That would be a monopoly, and if you have studied history, that's what we DON'T want. I fear that one day, one guild would band together and be able to monopolize the world itself (in-game, of course). We need to stop the problem before it happens.

As you can see (below), quitting your guild and making a new one will greatly increase your size. Yes, that size.

GUILD -> BAD

NO GUILD -> GOOD

NEW SPLINTER GUILD -> EVEN BETTER

My suggestions:
 * 1) A limit on how many people you can have in one guild
 * 2) Rival(s) to said huge guild(s)

How to stop this:
 * 1) Quit the guild your in
 * 2) Make your own
 * 3) PROFIT!
 * 1) PROFIT!

Just another part of Scroll Wars that is out of whack. For more BAWWWWW and good points go here. RedUp 19:10, 21 November 2007 (MST)

= Mini rant on the world of SW = As you may know, the world is fairly large in Scroll Wars. Every area has the same shops, stores and the occasional temple. A few areas in the game hold special enemies or items, such as the Catacombs. They hold the famous Giant Spiders and the unique, Spidra Arcanna. As you may or may not know, these are the best monsters for XP in game at this moment. This causes everyone and their mothers to run around in the Catacombs, often killing every last Spider. What does this cause? A lack of good monsters, or so it may seem. When every last spider is killed, everyone (including myself sometimes) freaks out.

To get to the point (because I don't want this to be a long rant) make the other areas of the game have unique things to do. I hate when people crowd around the Spiders and the surrounding area. If you go and look, you will see every guild that is of some importance is based around the upper part of the map. Mern is the only place in the game world that's worth going to that's not crammed at the top of the map!

Solutions:
 * 1) Give other monsters better XP and drops. Demon Knights for instance are extremely hard to kill and only drop 40 coins! The XP from them is very low as well. Even the Green Dragon, the hardest monster in game, gives pathetic XP!
 * 2) Make other parts of the map worthwhile. I hate to see everyone crowding around a few squares while the whole bottom part of the map is empty!
 * 3) Switch some areas around or introduce new dungeons/places.
 * 4) GO SOMEWHERE ELSE OTHER THAN THE TOP TWO ROWS OF THE MAP!

Substitutes for Giant Spiders:
 * 1) Glourins
 * 2) Lesser Demons
 * 3) Dragon hatchlings

DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT RedUp 15:22, 23 November 2007 (MST)

= A short rant on XP = As you may or may not know, your character maxes out around level 15. This leaves you with a lot of extra experience points. I am level 57 at the moment and I currently have 75324 experience points. This is a massive amount, even though I'm positive someone out there has way more. Scroll Wars needs something that you can do with extra XP. It's fairly obvious that new skills are on the way but those only cost one hundred XP for each buy. Something extra to do with the experience would be nice, and would be something to look forward to.

Solutions:
 * 1) Have skills cost more XP! 250, 500, even 1,000 XP per skill would work by having the "better" skills be more expensive.
 * 2) Have shops with items that can only be gotten by trading in XP for them. Why the shop keep would want XP is anyone's guess though.
 * 3) MORE SKILLS PLEASE?

YAY RedUp 13:00, 27 November 2007 (MST)

= The current state of scrolls = Finally, Scroll Wars lives up to it's name. We finally have a few scrolls moving around the game. We have Lives, which is perfect for the goody two shoes healer type. We have riches, perfect for the greedy bastard among us. The newest scroll at this time, Shadows, is currently (in my opinion, of course) the best scroll around. Not only does it increase your magic damage by five, it makes destroying barriers easier (apparently).

This scroll can really have an impact on guilds if used correctly. The thing is, I don't think it will be used at all. Currently, the hippies over at HDaBG have the scroll and we know they won't use it for much. I guess we can only hope for the next seven scrolls, eh? But what could top something like Shadows?

My answer? The inevitable uber scroll we're going to get. You heard it here first, folks.

Yes, I used the word "uber", cry some more.

D= RedUp 20:11, 25 December 2007 (MST)

= SW boredom and the current state of things = So yes, I admit I am bored with the game in general even with the new updates. I believe they were a nice add, upgrading weapons was a genius move and it was executed pretty well. The class system was also pretty cool, allowing players to have only a certain amount of skills and whatnot. Good deal, right? I'm glad Scroll Wars is finally moving on up and toppling it's brother, Hell Rising. Let's all hope that turn is not for the worst though.

Anyways, I really wanted to update my feelings on the "community" of Scroll Wars. It's just that the sheer amount of stupidity coming over the broadcast crystal gives me a headache. That can be fixed, right? Sure it can, so I turn off the damned thing. I decide to take my time elsewhere to Overlord forums and see more stupidity. I just don't get it. I honestly thought you all were decent people, always having the "Internet is not serious business" attitude. I guess not; I guess SW is in fact serious fucking business.

I just don't know anymore. --RedUp 20:37, 17 February 2008 (MST)

= And I wait for something interesting to happen = .....Nope. RedUp 18:09, 11 April 2008 (MDT)

= And I wait for something interesting to happen = .....Nope. RedUp 18:09, 11 April 2008 (MDT)

= Why I dislike power gamers or An answer to Asar = So yesterday out of boredom, I logged into Scroll Wars to see what condition it was in. I was surprised to see that the game is still fairly active and hey, it has updates! "That's amazing!", I muttered to myself, "The updates actually make sense! Traders only suck a tiny bit now!" But all this is irrelevant, as this "post" is about a question Asar asked me.

"You seem to resent people using the BP/MP they get long enough to become max level. Why?", Asar stated over the crystal. "You need to back up your BAWWWW for anyone to care." First off, let me tell you that no one cares what I have to say anyways and I only write these pieces because I'm bored. Second, I bitch a lot and I tend to hate groups/people for absolutely no reason other than I don't like their username. Go figure, right?

So let me get to the question at hand. I don't dislike people for using their BP/MP, but I do dislike power gamers. According to Wikipedia, "A power gamer (sometimes "powergamer") can also be a player of role-playing games who focuses on making their characters as powerful as possible; see powergaming." Wikipedia doesn't lie, folks, and to those of you reading this - look at that definition. Does that honestly look like something good? Perhaps something you would want in Scroll Wars? Now I know I can't control people, or their playing habits but doesn't that make you feel sick?

These people are the ones constantly whacking NPCs. Now don't get me wrong, NPC killing is okay in moderation, but they don't actually do anything else. Some of them even drive certain creatures into extinction, ruining other people's experience. These are the people who flood the market with supposedly "rare" items (Spirit swords anyone?). These players act in a selfish, self serving way and screw over every other player to boost themselves higher. Now ask yourself, how is that good for the game? How is that good in any way other than the power gamer's way? Maybe some of these items and some of these higher positions (Such as level 99....) should be harder to get, right?

But only a certain kind of power gamer really, really gets under my skin. This is the arrogant power gamer. Now most veteran players will at least know one of these, seeing as how they spew their filth everywhere, including Overlord. They roam Scroll Wars with their superiority complexes and bad attitude. Some even think they deserve special things, just because they sat on their computer whacking virtual creatures! That's just great, eh?

"But RedUp, it's their character, they should be able to do whatever they want with it!" Fine, if you want to swing around a wooden sword instead of something with more killing power, go for it. If you want to wear nothing and run around slinging dung at everyone, fine. But we, the SW community, should look down upon power gaming and anyone even vaguely associated with it. Hell, why not have a turn limit? Why not just punish power gamers with a game mechanic?

To sum this up, it's the power gamers that I dislike, not the average player. Most of them don't contribute a damn thing to Scroll Wars and only seek to ruin the fun of others. They are just no good, but they are not going away any time soon. What we, the SW players need, is a cure for this problem. Please, think of the game.

Thank Asar for this piece, not me.

To Asar: Did this back up my "BAWWWWWWWW" enough? I hope so. RedUp 22:42, 11 July 2008 (UTC)