Well, if you want to go the "buying a win" route, there's no limit on how many paying accounts you can run, and macroing is condoned (as long as you're at the computer watching it), so you can set up and build up stockpiles of basic materials pretty quick. Also, there have been a couple of occasions where players have tried to sell in-game stuff for real money on their own. The devs don't seem to have a problem with that, but much (not all) of the player community looks down on it.

But Tale is a very different game. It's not like WoW where a level 10 character is always instadead against a level 50. There are elements of real skill, strategy, and social networking. If you know what you're doing, you can make a small amount of real time go very, very far.

Originally posted by ghostwalking

1. I think the idea of players passing petitions around for the implementation of new features and laws is great!

The idea of it is interesting, yes. Unfortunately, it totally relies on the lead developer's willingness to put in the work to implement things, and his attentions these days only come in occasional short spurts. While I was playing, we couldn't really expect a law ballot to happen more than once every couple of months, and only one law could possibly be passed in each ballot.

Originally posted by ghostwalking

As far as the reset goes, I can see both sides of this - though it looked like the client allows you to log into either Tale V or Tale IV so perhaps they've decided to allow previous versions to persist making this a non-issue?

That's the leftovers from an experiment to run two separate servers. The idea seemed to be that since the beginning of a telling brought in the most new players, having beginnings of tellings more often would be beneficial. Unfortunately, the second server never really achieved a big enough population to make it viable. It's still there as far as I know, but I would be surprised if even a dozen people still played on it regularly.

Originally posted by ghostwalking

I can see how you wouldn't want to give up a well established character that you've spent a lot of time on.

That's the interesting thing... when it comes down to it, the "social credit" you build is more important than anything tied to your avatar. Yes, it's a little painful watching all your work for the last year or two get flushed, but next telling you still have the social connections you made before, which have real beneficial (or detrimental) effects in the game.

Correct. The world is wiped, there's a short beta period to test new content, then the next telling begins from scratch. The only thing you get from past tellings is a title (mostly meaningless, except that you need to meet people with certain types of titles for one of the initiations).