I think it’s dumb but even if you don’t.. “consortium”?!
Lute of the Consortium Princess?!
IF you gotta do it just replace the word Gypsy with Hobo IMO
No - Lute of the Consortium Bard. They accept all sorts of magic classes into their ranks; including bardic songs, because they're interested in everything that has magical properties, even those that do not inherently have magical powers or draw them from non-standard sources.
There's only so many groups of people involved with Qeynos, too - I picked the name "The Consortium" because they could be passed off as an offshoot of the Order of Three - they consort with anyone in their quest for knowledge, including vampires. The Concordance of Research makes a bit more sense coming from aggressive researchers in pursuit of lost knowledge or new scrolls made from old. There is now a better lore reason for research existing at the encampments where they reside.
Serious question:
How many Romani people on Earth do you think play EverQuest, if you had to give your best estimate?
I've met less than 5 who have said they are or know someone that plays that is, but I'm not checking papers to see who is and who isn't. We're not the Gestapo here. We've banned 2 people that have had a history of borderline rule violations of many types, including kill stealing, training, and other verbal harassment. The other 8 people got a timeout for 7 days, and of those, 4 reached out to me in private, some initially hostile, but we worked things out. Others, however, have not.
We generally give people enough rope to hang themselves. I'm surprised Ryan and Sean lasted 6 months before being permabanned. They were our first and only permamute, and that was only a handful of months ago.
Word salad, leftist mental diarrhea. You fuck with the integrity of the games base history.
Wasn't aware 'the game's integrity' had to deal with instances of text which include about 19 quest mentions, 6 items, and 3 NPCs.
I challenge you to play on PQ and tell me if it's fun or not to you, and if it resembles EverQuest enough for you to enjoy it - those 26 text strings withstanding, because you've already cited them as a source of discomfort for you.
I can’t believe Secrets allows such a game to be played where Elves can only be white, fucking racist. They even run around calling people dwarves, seriously people are going to use this and kill it, anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together could see it coming from a mile away, just like you can tell from a mile away secrets is a dude.
What the fuck are dark elves again? Also, if this 'kills it' because I removed 26 lines of text, I'll eat one of my shoes on livestream.
Listen here, Fire Giant. The Gypsies in EQ have fuck all to do with the Gypsies IRL. Pointing out the similarities is stereotypical in itself and shows fault in the accuser more than anyone else. Just as you pointed out that Fire Giant and Nerga, you have to ask yourself "Where does it stop?" Which it doesnt, because it very clearly sounds like if "Fire Giant" takes on any significant form on your server, then you'll all of a sudden rename them and any reference to them "Flaming Fagg.. err Tall Guy". Its like banning a Fork because someone killed six million people with it.
But its your server, you do as you please. By all means, have a safe space version of EverQuest so people like you can continuously alienate yourselves and then blame your social issues on "Bigots and Racists."
It stops at this reference because it's direct enough where it's not a coincidence. The stereotype ingame and the stereotype irl have near-identical overlap. The other examples have loose connotations to the words in question only by their descriptors. "Fire Giant" sounds like the word, and it's more about how it's used, not how it's said. The one argument for keeping 'gypsy' ingame was that it was a product of its time. I still agree, loosely, with that. There's self-identified gypsy people out there. The game can have them. But, if someone calls someone a 'fucking gypsy idiot' ingame, they should be shown the door.
I personally do not think we're alienating anyone from the project by changing a few text strings, and if that is really the straw that breaks the camel's back for someone playing PQ, then maybe this server isn't for them.
I'm personally moving on to releasing upcoming content, fixing bugs, patching exploits, and improving the user experience to make this the best it can be. Kunark's soon, and we'll have an early access event with Kunark-locked Iksars. That sounds more exciting than arguing the eugenics of a fictional character race on one of the only remaining MMO forums, personally.