
My method for gauging the relative health of my server is checking on the town of Goldshire. This is a recent screen shot on Fenris during a weekday. For a few years Goldshire had been dead, devoid of life other than those six creepy Goldshire kids. I am so happy Fenris was made a new player server for a little while recently, it seems to have worked.
I logged into Zangarmarsh to do a comparison. I used Ironsally to go check out Goldshire. I tried to stay on the fringes and not attract attention as I didn’t want to try to explain why I couldn’t duel. It didn’t work. Ironsally was challenged, a conversation ensued. I’m pretty certain this was a fairly young player. Had I been thinking I would have made a screen shot of the conversation but since I didn’t I’ll have to rely on memory, it went something like this.
“Why not?”
“Inspect me, I wouldn’t be much of a challenge.”
“Why not?”
“Did you look at my gear?”
“Yeah.”
“Hmm, okay then, I’m doing a blog Ironman Challenge, I can’t duel.”
“You blog about wow?”
“Yup.”
“You’re old.”
“Yup.”
“That’s creepy, when I’m 30 I won’t be playing games.” (Where I decided they must be fairly young.)
“You know, when you’re 30 you’ll still pretty much be the same person and enjoy some of the same things.”
“No I won’t, I’ll be working and stuff. What’s the Ironman thing?”
I explained about how the Ironman Challenge worked.
“You could cheat.”
“It’s a personal challenge, I can’t cheat, I would know.”
“Huh.”
After than it just cycled back to why can’t I duel. And here I’ve been complaining that you can’t meet new people anymore.
I’m trying to remember what I thought about grownups when I was young. They were authority figures to me, therefore scary. I don’t remember thinking much about what it would actually be like to be one, other than I wouldn’t have to pick up if I didn’t want to. I know I didn’t realize that I was actually an old person, just not ripe yet. Look sonny, you’re an old person in-waiting and you don’t undergo some secret old-person-complete-personality-transplant on reaching 30, 40, or 50, you’re still you, just older and hopefully a little wiser.
On the topic of cheating, I have some advice although I know it’s one of those things you won’t “get” until you’re older. By the time you reach the advanced age of 30, (giggle) you’ll have done things you’re not proud of, the memories are in your head and you have to live with them. It doesn’t matter if no one else knows you’ve done them, you know.
You’ll realize that there must be some maximum load, or tipping point on how much of this stuff your brain can hold before it explodes. You will not cheat because YOU WOULD KNOW. At least I hope that’s how it works out for you. And hopefully, sooner rather than later.
I don’t know, is this a rant? Or is this just general WoW. I think it’s just general. I’m just trying to communicate from that dark netherworld of old age using a blog as my medium. Doonn’t cheeeeat … at least don’t take up valuable storage space cheating in a game. If you’re going to cheat and lie at least do it where it counts.
Anyway, I’m only 29. 😉