A few nights ago Sgt. Palameta approached me with the question, "What does Parley mean?". I found this amusing and asked him why he would ever ask me such a thing. He proceded to tell me of a champ spawn he had raided in which the opposing character kept saying, "Parley". Now this, I found the be extremely interesting and somewhat enticing. I explained it to him as he is of ignoble blood and unawares of the niceties of gentlemanly conduct. This did make me wonder, though, if everyone were fluent in the existence and definition of the term. For the blissfully ignorant, I pull this definition directly from wikipedia.

"Parley (/ˈpɑrli/) is a discussion or conference, especially one between enemies over terms of a truce or other matters."

In the pirates of the caribbean films it was introduced as part of a pirate code. This is purely fantastical, yet oddly appealing at the same time. We, Imitatores Draconum, have decided after much deliberation that we will be honoring the fantastical and historically accurate terms and the existence of Parley. What does this mean for you? Its simple. You are minding your business enjoying a champ spawn, and my minions come bidding you an untimely demise. You can then choose whatever decision that you would normally choose (78% percent of you die, 98% lose the spawn; seriously, we have calculated that) or you can invoke the right of Parley. Upon invoking this right we will escort you away from the champ slightly so that the details can be worked out and agreed upon without fear of threat or bodily harm.

We will hear your proposition. As to whether we will accept it or not is an entirely different matter. You may still die and lose your champ to us, but we are reasonable. We will not expect the same offer from a new player as an existing veteran. This will be taken into account. I*D operates as a hive mind and any offer can be made at anytime to any existing player. The terms if agreeable will be upheld by all existing members for the time agreed upon in our agreement. This does not just apply to pvp though. At anytime a citizen of evo may contact us to meet and discuss any business arrangement. Being red we will always be meeting you at fel brit and escorting you to our guild house. You will be entirely safe during the course of events. There is no word play there. We will not kill you. The terms that we agree upon will be kept private and are no ones business but yours and ours.

I will warn everyone though. Be specific in your requests. We will follow the agreement to the letter, but any items that are not addressed or agreed upon will not be taken into consideration later. If you ask us not to kill you for 2 days and we accept your trade, that doesn't mean we won't take your champ spawn from you. Be specific in what you want and/or expect. We are willing to work with you to a degree. What kind of payment is expected you might ask? It really depends on our mood at the time. In the past some players have not been required to pay us anything. Some players have exchange agreements with us. The sky is the limit here and you will never know until you ask us. All propositions will be seriously considered no matter how small.

Now for the exploiting crowd (you know who you are) you may be thinking that you can use the right to Parley with us as a means of avoiding hostility until you can escape. That is true. What we will do then is make it known to everyone of your dishonorable nature and proceed to kill you on sight every single time we encounter you. Your dishonesty will not only hurt you but anyone you are currently associated with. Friends, family, and guild members will not be exempt from this. You and everyone you know will be blacklisted from this system. Yourself as the transgressor will be permanently added to our kill on sight list but your associates will be able to remove themselves from such status by cutting all ties to you.

On a final note we at I*D love information. We like information to be accurate. Also, you yourself as a player, represent a quantifiable amount solely in your interaction with us. Keep this in mind when dealing with us. Any questions as to the operation of this system will be handled by me, Soulsunder or my comrade, Minos. We will respond to all intelligent requests and actually consider it rude not to. I wish all of you a pleasant evening and look forward to hearing from you soon.

†Soulsunder†

I applaud the effort and the fun this can bring to the roleplay aspect of "good vs evil"

Very Honorable of you guys. Just wondering what words would work, is it only Parley, or would Yield, or Surrender work as well?

Please no negative posts
 

FYI Parley is french for Parlé, which means speak, discussion!

Just adding onto your explanation, Haiti is in the carabians and they speak french there, also back in the day, the Carabians was on the trajectory of a lot of french merchant ships

Well some of my guys are fairly blood thirsty. I would recommend just sticking to Parley as they attack fast. Anything else might possibly be ignored.

Some players may be on a ignore list by members of my guild as well, but if you are of that lot you deserve to be there and are not honorable enough to do business with us in the first place. I will speak to all of my members to make sure no one is being set to ignore frivolously. I wish you all the best of luck.

Last Frakk, your constant mindless banter is inane and tiresome. The only person that seems to really know anything about speed hacks on this entire forum seems to be you. I would also care to point out that just because you have a $4000 dollar pc doesn't mean you understand how to use it. That price tag also tells us nothing. I can sell you pentium 4 pcs all day long for $4000. It still doesn't raise its worth over about $50. As for your bridged connection...heh...hehe....hahaha....HAHAHAHAHA! *gasping for air* ok ok sorry. I have regained my composure now. A bridged internet connection will perform best under a workload demanding a large download at high speed. What it doesn't allow for is a very high ping rate. Guess which is better for an online game? Let me put it to you like this. Party A has a bridged internet connection with a maximum connection speed of 60 mbps and a ping of 325. Party B has a 2 mbps dsl connection but due to his/her location a ping of 2. These numbers are not unrealistic for some lucky people. Guess which one is faster in an online game. I'll tell you since you obviously have no clue. Its Party B.

Oh and make your videos and report us all you want fool. At the end of the day you are a tiresome whining narcissistic child who has way over shot his own self worth. No one at I*D cares for anything you have to say as it is all so incredibly stupid we usually just ignore you out right. Also was this a post relating to rules or abusing players in any shape way form or fashion? This is a RP related post dedicated to players that choose to interact with our guild in such a fashion. Why would you come here trying to hi-jack this thread with your blatant stupidity. Start your own post and be your own man for a moment. You can keep thriving off of my scraps. You claim constantly that we are ruining the server, but the only person I have seen with anything negative and unproductive to add here is you.

†Soulsunder†

Your idea is not going to work at all.  Its too late, I dont have time to explain why.  Only I can say, if u dominate on free server with low population that is not good to server, at the end there will be 2 scenarios.  Most of the good pvp players will join in ID and there will be no PvP opponent agans u. There will be no pvp at all.
This is a good point, there is a vast gap between the new players PvP style and the advanced techniques used by the top PvPers. 
 
Many of the players that come from the hardcore PvP servers have a huge advantage.  They have practiced against some rough competition, use the macro software, automate scripts, use hotkeys etc and are very good. 
 
Our server does not have a lot of opposition for these type of players.
 

I would like to see the "good guys" make a group to oppose them and have fun with the good vs evil type of roleplay and not make this all so personal

Thanks I shall use Parley then. the most you'll get off me is maybe some freshly chopped wood or some ore that I'm giving so Savant anyway so it's his loss I


n my limited experience with I*D I have had nothing but respect from them. If you approach nicely they seem more then happy to help you. I'm not in I*D and I have no intention of joining I*D, But they have not disrespected me in anyway. Sure if they catch me in Fel I will probably be killed. Oh well. I ran behind a couple of them last night through Brit and they were a little faster then me but I expect that as I'm playing on a Parallels program running Windows 8, on a mac mini.  Even then I was able to keep up with them Fairly well.   Before someone starts yelling Computer spec's and connections with me, I worked over 10 years in Communications for the USAF dealing with Servers and Connections, I know the stuff I don't need a lesson.

It's funny how you set yourselves on a pedestal and condescend to everyone saying, ~"We might accept you surrender if you beg" when you run around in a group ganking solo champ spawners. 
Please keep all the comments on topic and no personal attacks

Thank you for this valuable input. You may interpret Soulsunder's post as suggesting begging, but you'd be better served looking at it as a bribe or a business proposition. Instead of just being raided, you have the option to offer something in exchange for the evil characters to pass you by.

If this isn't palatable to you,  nobody is stopping you from eating that 120 in effective communication, making some friends and defending yourself. Many people throw "ganking" around as an insult. All we hear is "I'm a lone wolf and reaping the consequences" or "I'm too greedy to work with others for a mutual interest". There are around a half dozen reds on a server with an average online population of 80+ and other than a few rounds of larger scale PvP, the only opposition mustered is some weak rhetoric about evil players acting evil.

Please keep all the comments on topic and no personal attacks

Why all these personal attacks?  This is a game. Are we kids or Adults here? Would everyone be ok if it was a team of blues vs a team of reds?  If the reds won would people yell exploit or consider it a loss to better skill?  I just don't understand this. *sigh*

Please keep all the comments on topic and no personal attacks
  Its a game, lighten up.   

I have already invoked three parleys. Seems to be working just fine.  As for people who dont wish to use the Parley system, Sorry in the future.  We are doing everything in our power to work with people.  Most of the time it is just rude bickering or even better my favorite ignorance.  The ship is sailing from the dock people.  Either hop on it or get left behind. 

Have a nice day.

Oh if only I had read this prior to yesterday haha.  I am purely a blue, don't pvp, don't pk and have no desire to.  I however fully understand and accept that when I step into Fel chances are high that I will get smoked by some nasty red player.  Oh wait I'm doing this work I should be on here complaining about speed hacks and such instead of saying hey it's FEL you go there knowing you can get killed just as easily as that dragon you were fighting.  Get over it.
The fact that I*D is willing to open options to keep from getting killed is some nice RP.  Keep it up guys, and just so you know Minos I will run like a scared little girl, ahh who am I kidding they have more guts than I do, each and every time I see one of you guys.  However there is no bad wishes now or ever if you guys get me =).  Just trains me to keep a more watchful eye out for those red names haha. 
 
See ya in Fel.