Gonna spend a nice quiet evening with the wife doing the dinner/movie thing. Sure is going to be a nice change having the place to ourselves.

Not exactly sure what we’re going to have for dinner or what we’re going to watch, but it should be nice in either case.

The pregnancy kind of distanced the two of us because of the bed rest and all. It was mostly my fault, but, hey, I feel it’s excuseable under the circumstances. I’m just glad we’re making the steps neccessary to patch up the small things that are wrong. I do want to emphasize that the problems are small. Miniscule. But, if ignored, could cause ploblems later and I’d rather avoid that scenario.

Ragnarok’s been going well. I’m gaining experience at a steady pace again, but gaining levels still takes long periods of time. I usually gain a level a day or every other day. Slow, but better than Everquest I’m told. Gravity has started making some bone-headed decisions concerning gameplay, though. Their recent announcement is this:

“From now on when a guild member’s charged of ill-mannered or hacking incident,we will punish all guildsmen of the person.Please behave.”

Now, I agree with their sentiment in principle. I mean, it just won’t do to have bots and hackers running amok, HOWEVER, how am I to prevent my guild leader from inviting them? If such an incident occurs, why should I have to bear the brunt of the punishment because of one person? How do we know that this bad apple didn’t just act nice just to get into a guild with the intent to have it banned for acting out?

What gets me is that Gravity encourages guildes and parties to improve the community. Then they pull something like this. With this new rule, the on;ly way to be safe is to only be in a guild with people you know in real life or just not be in a guild at all, which is counter to what Gravity wants. Or so they’ve lead on.

I’ve talked on the Ragnarok.cc forums about this and asked that they try and have this rule turned over, but I’m not sure how effective they can be. I do know that if many more of these rules come into being, Ragnarok won’t be worth playing and I WILL leave. Diablo II is still fun and I never did conquer all my Final Fantasy games.

Well, I’ve worked my blood preassure up enough for today. I think I’m going to go home. I’ll devote more time to what’s wrong with the Ragnarok world later.