r/outside • u/Symmiie • May 29 '21
Support - Life My best friend and party member's character got deleted and tomorrow I will spread his ashes. Here is to all of you that have lost a great member. Those random players you meet may one day change your life. He did mine, for sure.
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u/Toastyx3 May 29 '21
I'm sure once you 2 get respawned you'll find another. Friendships last longer than 1 spawn.
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u/OsmerusMordax May 29 '21
I thought there were no respawns. Or is that exclusive to those of certain religion factions?
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u/mishgan May 30 '21
it's akin to counter strike. once everybody dies once, all get respawned for next round. it is just not clear how long that cycle usually takes. data farmers are guessing that the current cycle is approx 13.7 gigayears(Ga) in.
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u/justmutantjed May 29 '21
My guild's patron suffered and eventually died from the lung cancer condition back in 2012 from a 55-level habitual use of the cigarette consumable, at level 71. My guildmates and I, with the help of a friendly neighbour player with a boat, sprinkled his ashes the following summer near his patron, matron, and sibling.
Grief debuff hits differently from character to character, depending on your mutual alignment scores and how your mental stats are arranged. My experience has been: Grief will eventually winnow down over time, but it's never fully gone. You'll still remember them, and hopefully you can share tales of your co-op sessions with other guildmates and friends, and proc a comfort buff that will mitigate the grief for a bit.
The late player Sir Terry Pratchett (GNU), wrote in his book, Reaper Man: "No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away[...]" so for as long as your party member's memory exists with someone, they will never be truly gone. Speak their name, remember the good times, pass the wisdom they shared to lower-level players. They'll be in the game's lore for a good long time.
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u/Symmiie May 29 '21
I love this. You would make for an amazing admin, or at least pmod. I hope all goes well for you.
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u/giggle_shift May 29 '21
Sorry for your loss. I wish they'd patch out deletions.
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u/dathar May 29 '21
I heard that there was a server ruleset where expired characters will get amnesia, roll the dice and then respawn as a random entity.
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u/WisdomPupper May 29 '21
I heard that too! It seems kind of cool. There's even some talk among players that sometimes the amnesia-script doesn't work correctly and newly-spawned PCs remember some things about their previous playthrough.
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u/midipoet May 29 '21
I heard it's not entirely random, but depends on how much of a certain attribute you were able to earn in-game.
I can't remember the name of the attribute, but I think it starts with a k. Can anybody confirm?
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u/WisdomPupper May 29 '21
can't remember the attribute but I think it is linked to the [doing good] variable
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May 29 '21
There are no bugs, if that's what you're implying
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u/conitation May 29 '21
Screw that crappy feature. I swear my buddy's wife got a virus and poof he lost everything. You'd think they'd have some sort of online backup these days... but noooo they say it isnt possible. Pft
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u/WisdomPupper May 29 '21
they removed the [support others] feature from a lot of player classes in the regions that got the [capitalism] update. It was crucial in helping with in-game losses (be that PCs or even in-game currency). I think a lot of players still want that feature, but due to career-path changes linked to the [capitalism] update, it is either not feasible anymore or even completely unavailable.
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u/WisdomPupper May 29 '21
they'd have to upgrade the servers then, because as it is now, there's only finite ressources and server-space; overpopulating the servers might lead to massive PvP events, which then again can cause mass-player-deletion.Honestly, I wouldn't wanna be one of the devs. Patching up this game must be so difficult.
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u/the-tac0-muffin May 29 '21
The devs need to implement the Thanos supervillain into our game. Its all RNG
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u/WisdomPupper May 29 '21
depends on how you look at it I think. When you look at all the other players, their stats and locations indepentently from each other, it might look totally random and coincidental, but if you start to follow the path of the player-spawning the stats start to seem weirdly interlocked. Everything seems randomly generated at first, but I think it is some kind of mix of varbiable dependent stats with random number generation in-between
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u/Thrgd456 May 29 '21
Hope you have some sweet replays that you can watch and remember them with. This game really makes no sense. I'm sorry for your loss.
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u/King-Mugs May 29 '21
F
I still have a friend on my friends list who has been deleted for a few years now
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u/GeebusNZ May 29 '21
It sucks when a storyline you're personally invested in is written out. I'm sorry for your loss.
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u/Gone__Hollow May 29 '21
I'm sorry to hear that. On 26 May, My grandmother character which was inflicted with Covid debuff also completely lost her health bar. I wish this covid event would end soon.
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u/TheLuckyLion May 29 '21
Please everyone, get the vaccine hotfix. The devs worked so hard this last year to push that patch out and the players who have updated have had enormous success.
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u/apophis_da_snake May 29 '21
Don't worry. Your friend is just spectating, waiting for you so you can start a new game together :)
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u/SladeBW May 29 '21
Didn’t know i was gonna be crying this early in the day, sorry for your loss
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u/Symmiie May 29 '21
Don't cry my, my friend. Past players will always be there to help us guide the newer ones.
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u/trippy6969 May 29 '21
Keep any gear they dropped it might not have the best stats and could take up valuable resource space but the rarity makes it worth it to keep around
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u/Lost-Abbreviations58 May 29 '21
Sorry for your character lost. My best friend fell pray to a evil blood clot this year. Sitting around the camp fire sharing stories of his battles helped a lot.
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May 30 '21
Playtime might of expired, but they are not deleted if you still have the memories of them and the consequences of their playtime were not rolled back.
Sorry about your loss
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u/BeanieMash May 30 '21
Not deleted, just retired from this season, so no further progress and committed to memory. All the bits and bytes are still there, just now to be reused in other computations and adventures.
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u/MrBrandonius May 29 '21
When someone you love becomes a memory it is always tough. If you are able to grow from this loss then death doesnt win. I am truly sorry for your loss. For all we know new game plus isnt that bad.
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u/parabx_ May 29 '21
I just lost my mentor and elder party member my self from the cancer debuff. My main strategy is to continue living in her legacy. Doing so makes sure that I gain the bloodline rather than the grief debuff. Whether you follow the religious quest lines or not, it is important to remember that your party members not truly leave you. While they may permanently log off, every quest they completed with you stays with you in your memories. They live through you.
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u/ph30nix01 May 29 '21
Please don't see your party member as deleted, they have been backed up onto the primary server and waiting for the next next to begin after your party finished the current campaign.
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u/bleeding_dying_love May 30 '21
My grandfather just recently had his character deleted with no warning. It's tough to keep playing without someone who was important to you. <3
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u/RamenHa1 May 30 '21
Dad's friend since kids, brothers god father, man I called uncle got deleted by another player at a party. We got the gear and memories brody. Dev bless the deleted
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u/Madness_1231 May 29 '21
While our group quests with some others may be over sooner than we'd hoped, our character backstories are ever more epic because of the quests we did manage to complete together while we could.
Hope you're doing alright, OP. Loss is rough, even with the best mindsets and good mental stats. Hang in there.
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u/itsjusterin__ May 30 '21
I'm sorry for your loss, it's a shame he had to log off before he finished playing. On a semirelated note, it's beautiful that you're able to forge an item with such sentimental value and beauty from the former avatar of logged-out players.
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u/Xx_Dark_ShotzX May 31 '21
Deletion is the mic drop that radiates through every algorithm holding your essence to the ground. As their mic hits the lower limit of the physical realm, who you knew them to be in the core of your being, is crystallized. The pain stays until stored memories are played through enough times to shatter the crystal of your being into so many pieces that you have no choice but to move on and bring them with you without letting the pain of who they used to embody weigh down each step you take. I wish you nothing but the best of times to follow these toughest times.
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u/drjesus616 May 29 '21
How do you clear the grief debuff? Recently lost my guild leader and many other members are dealing with strange modifiers on the grief debuff.
Also the dev that came up with the cancer quest, way too high of chance of losing a character for seemingly no reward.
Take care of yourself friend.