WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?

[StoneKilla911]

I dont know if I have the right really have any input on this but im gonna give it a shot.

This is stupid. I've played most of my experience on Rockhome. I'm new to actually reading posts, before I had fun playing on worlds that interacted with each other. I didnt need to read forums to find out what was going. There was a awesome player interaction. I never felt I needed to check forums to find out what the hell is going on with all these portals being shut down. I dont get it. This is truly sad that the world of Rockhome has become.

I've been playing on Hala, and have seen how dedicated there players are. Things sound as if there is no unity between Avlis and COPAP. What I like about Hala and Rockhome is that it wasnt Avlis. Avlis to me seems like it only cares about Avlis and thats it. I have heard from players on Hala about this whole thing about drow not being allowed in Avlis. This is BULL CRAP AND BIAS. If one RPs by covering his skin with armor and wears a hood he is an excellent RPer.

Why do these new servers get brought in while the old ones are being pushed aside. To me this is crap. Everything is all peachy when servers seem like they are involved and doing there job. I dont know what the hell is going on but there is a change come like someone said above. Some will like it, some may hate it. But I just hope we all remember that Avlis and COPAP would not be here if it wasnt for the players who are dedicated day in and day out to give life to these worlds. And yes I do feel newbies get shafted a lot referring to a comment about lack of being involved

I feel that if Avlis is shutting down all these portals to all the old COPAP worlds that Avlis is not fulfilling its end of the bargain. I suggest that there be some other server that links just the COPAP worlds together or either just link them together to keep Avlis on its toes. I for one think that Avlis needs something to compete with in insuring the enjoyment of portaling to other servers.

Like I said I'm new to this but I have fallen in love with some of these servers. I dont mean to come in here and justify my own feelings but I just want you guys to know that I'll be here for a long time and hope you guys will enjoy my RPing. There are other servers loaded with actual people that care about the status of what had happen as of late.

Here is something that may help with some player interaction with eachother. Evil will always battle Good and vise versa. Sometimes Good verse Good, and Sometimes Evil verse Evil. So lets keep it interesting and be fair to everyone and explore possibilities. I'm not sure how much or many DM's spend time on these servers or what they do. I just think you cant always rely on the DM's to make the stories for us. If players want, I feel they should story tell their own future. Make up something that happens. Walk in the tavern and spread some rumors, post a bulletin. Get peoplse attention. Post a good message, post a bad one. Be a good guy, be a bad guy. If people criticise your message make sure its just all within the legal limits thats all. These servers are for the players.
You know sometimes people do certain things just to liven things up. No offense to anyone but for my self, im not into just sitting at a camp site and chatting, falling in love, or clogging up the talk line with boring stuff. I need excitement. I left avlis to get away from that personally. Maybe I have A.D.D. or something as of late, but man, I need some action. Something. And im not just talking about hack/slashing. I mean actual ROLL PLAYING. Whip out them old ADnD books again and start actually making some stuff interesting. Those old Adventures are waiting to be used and played with.

Like I said guys, I dont know too much about this stuff but I hope maybe someone who can make a difference fixes the flaws that is occurring. By next year we will be giving the best RP game ever created in NWN2. Please lets see if we can make Avlis and COPAP the greatest experience fore everyone to play on.

I hope what I have said can help our situation. I look forward to RPing with you guys and hope my experience is enjoyable as well to you.

[Arkonswrath]

quoted from my reply to this post on the Avlis Forums

I'll chime in here as the Head DM of Hala.

I was originally against the current portal closing. Reason being, I felt that it alienated the worlds too much.

However!!! Things are being done to bring CoPaP more into the true Planescape setting. In True Planescape fashion, you are not going to go through a door, hop on a little yellow circle and magically appear on a new plane with no negatives and no consequences.

Avlis is on the Prime Material Plane. Hala (Ysgard) is in the outer planes. In order to go from one to the other, one of two things needs to happen... A) You die. B) You pass through the Astral Plane. Since there is currently no astral plane server, the link has been cut. Other links are forming to make up for the loss of the currents.

Illithia (SP) Once it is completed will relink the Prime Material Worlds together.

Outlands, and hopefully other to come worlds in the future, will server as the primary hub that will link the various outer/inner plane worlds to the Prime Worlds.

Inner/Outer plane worlds as well as Prime Worlds who are interested will have the ability to portal to and from Hala via the Infinate Staircase we are currently working on.

As you can see, there will be no shortage of ways to get to other worlds as they come into the Confederation. We are just making things in a more realistic manner to the way Planescape was written. It's just taking some time getting the needed code written, areas built, and agreements between the worlds established. Once that is done, those links will start appearing enforce.

CoPaP does have it's issues.. but so does every family, and that's what I look at us as. We are a family of Servers working to make a fun place for the players to play. Families have spats, but they work them out. So do we for the most part.

So all in all, let's all just do what we came here and joined CoPaP to do. Have fun, and stop worrying about why this happened to that. CoPaP is moving forward, and a lot has progressed just in the Time i've been a part of various Teams in CoPaP. I've seen a lot of issues get squared away. I've seen WLs come and go. But the constant is always there. CoPaP keeps on progressing. Keep the faith and we'll keep making CoPaP a fun place to play