Post by Poe [DEATH] on Sept 28, 2018 0:01:49 GMT
ya know.
For almost three years now, I've had this game on my phone. And for very nearly two years I've been - or at least I like to think I've been - a pretty big part of this community. From my activity here, to my contributions made to the Discord, and what little I've helped with the Wikia, I think it's safe to say I have quite the presence in the world of Ishtaria, even if most people hear my name and think "ain't that that weirdo with a near obsessive attraction to girls with leafs growin out they head, who sold his body to a tree god and his soul to a psychopath that likes grapes?" But whatever.
And on that note, this is what I'm mostly known for. My obsession with, and collection of, Mandragora. For a little over two years, I have been obsessed with these units. My addiction to petal-heads is just about the only what's kept me coming back in the year since I've stopped playing. And I always thought that... so long as they keep making them, yeah, sure, I'll keep coming back. So long as there's a reason to stay, there's no reason to leave.
That's what I thought.
But, it's been a few months now, since the initial release of Summer Salix. And while I still hold fast to the notion that 8-Star Units are perfectly justifiable and anyone who disagrees should be shot so that the blight that is there life can finally cease staining the world with it's pathetic existence, one of the points I myself brought up to argue against so that I could make myself look like the largest ass on the planet keeps coming back to the forefront of my mind whenever I think of Ishtaria. 8-Star Salix, still to this day, is not tradeable.
Oh, sure. She and Meru have been in special packs every day since their release and so it isn't impossible for me, or anyone else, to get her. But that comes with the problem of knowing that the only way to get her is to spend money. And while Ishtaria pretty famously showers you with crowns and there is absolutely no reason for me to feel the need to actually whale for her, that would require me to put in the effort to farm crowns for, Mother Tree knows how long, until the rates finally decide to let me grab her.
Which won't happen. Because 'free crowns' have lower rates than 'real crowns'. If you didn't actually know that... well hey now ya now.
So, no. Unless I want to spend a year farming enough crowns to actually be able to pull her - and end up getting Meru instead and man wouldn't that be fukn tragic - there is no way that I'll ever have her.
Which really kinda brings me to the point I'm trying to make here.
You might be wondering why I decided to open with me detailing my life story when it seems like all I'm doing now is griping about garbage I can't change in a game I don't actually play, but sit down there's more to this.
Last week, I was pinged on Discord, in a channel I hadn't gone in for months on end, with a single picture. A unit preview. Many of you probably know what unit it was.
Yes, it was Karya. The third best of all Mandragora girls. I was sent her preview, the messenger under the well informed notion that it would be something that interested me and yet...
and yet the more i thought about it the more i began to realize how little i actually care.
Because, think about it. Without Summer Salix, the collection will never be complete. Even if I obtain every Mandragora to release from now to the end of this world, I will never truly have them all. For as long as Salix remains untradeable, which is forever, I will never have her. And so what point is there in actually putting in the effort to get Karya when, in the long run, it won't matter. Someone will pass me in numbers, and I will never again be able to call myself... "Number 1".
Yes, someone will pass me. Some one. One person.
soporslimepie
If there was ever any one person that I could recognize as a worthy successor to the title of Number 1, to the title of King of the Weeds, to the title of... Mandragora King...
Someone whose obsession is enough to rival even my own.
And so I thought... maybe it is time.
The King is growing old on his throne. His Kingdom continues to expand while he withers away. Life goes on without him, leaving him ever further behind. No longer is there a warmth on the throne. It has grown... cold, so very cold.
............... '-'
And Then I Thought.
MAN YOU CAN HAVE MY FUKN THRONE WHEN YOU TEAR IT FROM MY COLD, DEAD, PETALS YOU SHRUBLORD.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
still don't have salix, mind and i'm now out of potions and will never replenish my stock so the next one is actually the end.
Collection Update Coming Whenever I Feel Like Getting Her To Max Loyalty, i.e. never
For almost three years now, I've had this game on my phone. And for very nearly two years I've been - or at least I like to think I've been - a pretty big part of this community. From my activity here, to my contributions made to the Discord, and what little I've helped with the Wikia, I think it's safe to say I have quite the presence in the world of Ishtaria, even if most people hear my name and think "ain't that that weirdo with a near obsessive attraction to girls with leafs growin out they head, who sold his body to a tree god and his soul to a psychopath that likes grapes?" But whatever.
And on that note, this is what I'm mostly known for. My obsession with, and collection of, Mandragora. For a little over two years, I have been obsessed with these units. My addiction to petal-heads is just about the only what's kept me coming back in the year since I've stopped playing. And I always thought that... so long as they keep making them, yeah, sure, I'll keep coming back. So long as there's a reason to stay, there's no reason to leave.
That's what I thought.
But, it's been a few months now, since the initial release of Summer Salix. And while I still hold fast to the notion that 8-Star Units are perfectly justifiable and anyone who disagrees should be shot so that the blight that is there life can finally cease staining the world with it's pathetic existence, one of the points I myself brought up to argue against so that I could make myself look like the largest ass on the planet keeps coming back to the forefront of my mind whenever I think of Ishtaria. 8-Star Salix, still to this day, is not tradeable.
Oh, sure. She and Meru have been in special packs every day since their release and so it isn't impossible for me, or anyone else, to get her. But that comes with the problem of knowing that the only way to get her is to spend money. And while Ishtaria pretty famously showers you with crowns and there is absolutely no reason for me to feel the need to actually whale for her, that would require me to put in the effort to farm crowns for, Mother Tree knows how long, until the rates finally decide to let me grab her.
Which won't happen. Because 'free crowns' have lower rates than 'real crowns'. If you didn't actually know that... well hey now ya now.
So, no. Unless I want to spend a year farming enough crowns to actually be able to pull her - and end up getting Meru instead and man wouldn't that be fukn tragic - there is no way that I'll ever have her.
Which really kinda brings me to the point I'm trying to make here.
You might be wondering why I decided to open with me detailing my life story when it seems like all I'm doing now is griping about garbage I can't change in a game I don't actually play, but sit down there's more to this.
Last week, I was pinged on Discord, in a channel I hadn't gone in for months on end, with a single picture. A unit preview. Many of you probably know what unit it was.
Yes, it was Karya. The third best of all Mandragora girls. I was sent her preview, the messenger under the well informed notion that it would be something that interested me and yet...
and yet the more i thought about it the more i began to realize how little i actually care.
Because, think about it. Without Summer Salix, the collection will never be complete. Even if I obtain every Mandragora to release from now to the end of this world, I will never truly have them all. For as long as Salix remains untradeable, which is forever, I will never have her. And so what point is there in actually putting in the effort to get Karya when, in the long run, it won't matter. Someone will pass me in numbers, and I will never again be able to call myself... "Number 1".
Yes, someone will pass me. Some one. One person.
soporslimepie
If there was ever any one person that I could recognize as a worthy successor to the title of Number 1, to the title of King of the Weeds, to the title of... Mandragora King...
Someone whose obsession is enough to rival even my own.
And so I thought... maybe it is time.
The King is growing old on his throne. His Kingdom continues to expand while he withers away. Life goes on without him, leaving him ever further behind. No longer is there a warmth on the throne. It has grown... cold, so very cold.
............... '-'
And Then I Thought.
MAN YOU CAN HAVE MY FUKN THRONE WHEN YOU TEAR IT FROM MY COLD, DEAD, PETALS YOU SHRUBLORD.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
still don't have salix, mind and i'm now out of potions and will never replenish my stock so the next one is actually the end.
Collection Update Coming Whenever I Feel Like Getting Her To Max Loyalty, i.e. never