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I agree with meta: the categories are there for the players. Their purpose is not to be a badge of honor for authors. That's petty nonsense. Anyway, "Lyna's Story" is regarded as one of the best DMODs, and no one ever called it an epic.
You're not going to believe me, but I'm not here to argue Malachi the Jerk is an epic in order to bolster my wounded pride. I'm just frustrated because I don't think this standard is being applied evenly, and I think it ought to be. If DMOD X is an epic and DMOD Y is longer than X, either Y should be an epic or X shouldn't be. Otherwise, what you've got is a prestige category and I don't see the point of that.
Skull, I still don't understand why you're trying to discount NPC conversations. That's solid content for a DMOD. It's hardly comparable to having 1000 teleporters or screenlocking every room in the game to inflate length. It feels like you're singling out Malachi the Jerk, since some existing epics would also be a hell of a lot shorter if you applied the exact same standard.
Map size might be a better argument. Malachi does have fewer screens than any epic I've come across. If pretty much everybody agrees that epics have to have a certain amount of screens, that is at least a standard that makes sense.
You're not going to believe me, but I'm not here to argue Malachi the Jerk is an epic in order to bolster my wounded pride. I'm just frustrated because I don't think this standard is being applied evenly, and I think it ought to be. If DMOD X is an epic and DMOD Y is longer than X, either Y should be an epic or X shouldn't be. Otherwise, what you've got is a prestige category and I don't see the point of that.
Skull, I still don't understand why you're trying to discount NPC conversations. That's solid content for a DMOD. It's hardly comparable to having 1000 teleporters or screenlocking every room in the game to inflate length. It feels like you're singling out Malachi the Jerk, since some existing epics would also be a hell of a lot shorter if you applied the exact same standard.
Map size might be a better argument. Malachi does have fewer screens than any epic I've come across. If pretty much everybody agrees that epics have to have a certain amount of screens, that is at least a standard that makes sense.
