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The M’aol tentacle has withered but the effects are still active.  Unsure how to proceed, don’t want to get stung with bug abuse, please advise.

Now that the artifact is withered, it is tradeable! Will accept offers on the Tentacle!  Will accept offers for 48 hours before deciding how to proceed, but if you piut forward an aggressive offer I might just sell it sooner!

Let me know if you would like a part of Torn Halloween History!

Item is in Display Case if you are interested.  Send me a message if you are interested

• 14% steadfast.
• +10 travel items.
• +40 nerve.
• +25% CE.
• Drugs for chains and wars.
• Payouts for PA.
• And your average HOF faction perks.

• Lvl 15+.
• 10M+ BS. (We have some flexibility on BS requirement if you are active and training hard)
• Living in PI.
• Donator status.
• Active several times a day.

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Now that the artifact is withered, it is tradeable! Will accept offers on the Tentacle!  Will accept offers for 48 hours before deciding how to proceed, but if you piut forward an aggressive offer I might just sell it sooner!

Let me know if you would like a part of Torn Halloween History!

The M’aol tentacle has withered but the effects are still active.  Unsure how to proceed, don’t want to get stung with bug abuse, please advise.

I want to start this post by first saying a huge thank you to Chedburn, Bogie, and all the other developers and staff who keep this game running.  I know the balancing can be tricky and you will never please everyone, but I want to say thank you for all you do. I truly do enjoy playing this game.

Secondly I want to say a huge thank you to Proxima, for dedicating years of Halloween Events to grinding his treat total up to summon M'aol.  I can imagine how the event may have felt disappointing for you.  I really like your new basket though and hope to get one myself someday.

As most of you know I was a lucky recipient of one the OP Relics we are discussing here, so you can take everything I have to say with a grain of salt, but I hope you will at least hear me out.

This past Halloween Week was one of my favourite times I have had since joining Torn,  I was saying this in our faction chat well before I ever received said OP relic.  My Faction Occultus crushed a 50 K chain our first time trying, and riding the high off that we went into the M'aol summoning a few hours later. Our faction chat and activity was a buzz.  The summoning was at 8 am my time and I proceeded to spend the next 20 hours glued to my screen trying to figure out mechanics, share information with my faction and we all spent some time dreaming of how cool these relics were and what we would do if we got them.  We even discussed absurd OP combos like what if you received x AND y relic, how ridiculous, yet how fun. The speculation, the figuring out was all part of the fun and excitement for me.  In fact, I did not participate with any attacks until the M'aol fight as I had spent all my energy and treats getting our faction to the 50 K mark.  I was spending time grinding out treats to get the weapon and armour during the minion fights, while still enjoying the general discourse, mystery excitement and cheering on my faction mates as they globe-trotted defeating said minions.  

I did manage to attack M'aol a few times but not nearly as many as a lot of you did.  I know RNJesus highly favoured me that day and I am truly grateful to be able to use the item.  

Please keep this in mind as I present my thoughts on the situation we are in currently.

I understand and can appreciate that these items are OP and gamebreaking, we even discussed in our faction what methods they may use to balance this, and one of the ones I suggested was returning each summoning.  So I do not disagree with the solution on it's principle, I even find it leads well to the storytelling of it all.

The dilemma I have is that when we received these items we were told they would be permanent.   I have noticed some comments of people saying that "The changes were made early, no one has made any serious plans with these items".  This is not true, I made some fairly significant and irreversible changes in the hours after receiving the Relic, one of which was to level up after level holding for over a year.  These were changes I made under the assumption that the item was permanent.  Would I have made the same decision regardless, potentially, I don't know but I would have had more hesitation at the very least.  Also I was very excited to use this item to help my Faction with their first 100 K Chain next Halloween and slightly disappointed that it looks like I will not be able to use this item during that event depending on the next summoning.

Despite this I am not saying that we should not have balancing measures for these items, by all means let's figure out a way to do so.  I wish that the 5 Relic holders had been contacted prior to the announcement or notified of the poll, (I only found out after the poll had wrapped up).  I personally have some thoughts on what this could look like.  My favourite being,  Each Relic holder is gated from ever receiving another Relic, the potential for combos is too high.  But each relic has an initial time 3 months, 6 months a year.  After the initial period anytime the summoning happens the relic holders must achieve a certain number of hits on M'aol and his minions, if they do their relic recharges for 1 month, which they can activate anytime before the next summoning, each relic can only hold 1 recharge.  This gives the item some permanence while not a continuous year round benefit.  It also ensures there will be a group of people out there wanting to continually summon M'aol and his minions. 

Those are a few of my thoughts on the situation, hope we can continue the discussion with respect and understanding.  

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Hope you are doing well, take care of yourself and best of luck in the future!

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Item is in Display Case if you are interested.  Send me a message if you are interested

I threw out a rotten apple day 1 of Crimes 2.0 and got the merit.  I know not helpful now but it does point to being market dependent.

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