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Off topic => Discussion Board => Topic started by: Raz. on April 25, 2011, 10:06:27 am

Title: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Raz. on April 25, 2011, 10:06:27 am: ...of the rant thread |D

Here's a thread where you can discuss the game The Endless Forest.

Some of you may know it already and I'm aware that some have played it via the rant thread.

This is the game where you run around a forest as a deer with a human face, you can alter your appearance by using pelt spells, mask spells and antler spells. There's also no chatbox. And the whole game is free.

Here's a link to the official site: http://tale-of-tales.com/TheEndlessForest/ (http://tale-of-tales.com/TheEndlessForest/)

I'm an experienced TEF player, having played the game for just over 3 years. Though I've faded away from the game for several reasons and generally don't play anymore.

But I still have my deer bios on the Community Site collecting dust and are here if anyone wants to see who I played as: http://www.endlessforest.org/community/diaries/draak (http://www.endlessforest.org/community/diaries/draak) Scroll down a bit and they're there.

AND YES we know, the human faces are creepy |D
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Kyugima on April 25, 2011, 10:22:02 am: I think it gives them personality, the human faces.

Once I was playing, left my deer just laying somewhere, so I could go off and do something, and came back to two little fawn things laying deside my deer... I was like o.0 did she give birth while I was gone or something? So I got up and started moving around, just running and jumping like I always do, and they got up and followed... It kind of creeped me out at first, to have two little stalkers, but I got used to it XD
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Raz. on April 25, 2011, 10:37:44 am: Yeah, I don't mind them either. It's just that when I see TEF pop up in places you see people say stuff like "D: CREEPY HUMAN FACE"

Aww xDDD
|D I always found that fawns liked to follow my anti-social deer and my evilnotnicemean deer. I'd be like "D: Nooooo you don't know who you're dealing with D8"
Fawn mobs are usually amusing/adorable :D
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Avani on April 25, 2011, 10:52:37 am: I have tried this! :3
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: TealSkeletore on April 25, 2011, 12:39:17 pm: I played it on and off a bit for roughly.. I don't know, two years?

I really liked it, but the community kind of sucked. All the 'popular' people got heaps of attention for almost nothing at all, while others were virtually ignored. I know it sounds REALLY whiney but it's TRUE. And it's one of the biggest faults of TEF. It would be a great place if it weren't for some people there, or rather, their reactions and attitudes.

I had another problem where I kept making new characters but didn't really do anything with them as I barely got chances to play. I kept getting bored and making new ones. It started stressing me out so I kind of.. poofed from there xD I guess I kind of made the game lose its charm.

I didn't really have any good friends there, I mostly felt like just an annoying noob to people. I only had one close friend there who I met on IT a long time ago.

But I really really enjoyed it while I was there, I liked the game, I liked my characters, I guess I kind of just ruined it for myself and I felt a bit lonely I guess, since none of my other friends wanted to play a game without a chat box which is a awful shame and is a bit narrow-minded.
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Sarine on April 25, 2011, 12:51:13 pm: It's a good game, with good graphics but.. I don't know, it seems kind of dull to me, I mean what can you do there apart from running around? You can't chat, you can't RP, you can't do any quests, so what? xD

I played it and got bored of it after 2 days. xP I didn't like the community at all so that didn't keep me from leaving either. It is a good game and has great graphics, but yeah, it gets boring quickly.. for me at least. :B
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: TealSkeletore on April 25, 2011, 12:59:10 pm: ^you're supposed to RP with the actions.

I don't understand how some people don't pick that up ._.
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Sarine on April 25, 2011, 02:56:45 pm: There are not enough actions to RP.. Or whatever, I don't see how RPing with actions can be like RPing with a chatbox. You can't do a lot of things..
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Raz. on April 25, 2011, 03:11:36 pm: Quote from: Teal Skeletore on April 25, 2011, 12:39:17 pm
I really liked it, but the community kind of sucked. All the 'popular' people got heaps of attention for almost nothing at all, while others were virtually ignored. I know it sounds REALLY whiney but it's TRUE. And it's one of the biggest faults of TEF. It would be a great place if it weren't for some people there, or rather, their reactions and attitudes.
I completely agree.
The things that people explode over are stupid. The things that people make drama over are stupid.
This one time I saw User A get crabby at User B because they had a similar CSS layout on their deer bio. So User A goes and gets their little "mafia" and gangs up on User B :\. On a related note, I really hate how M and A enabled CSS on the Community Site, some people use it well, others abuse it and make your eyes bleed with MS Paint Pink and Yellow coloured bios. And then of course there's the drama that happens with what I mentioned above.

There's still the very rare decent user on that site, but most of the decent oldies have up and left/dissappeared. I can understand why, the community has changed so drastically. When I first started there were absolutely no scene emo deer-that-don't-even-look-like-deer. Pretty much our deer were just...us XD that game was so stress free back then.
Finding decent newbies in this game now is incredibly hard. Most of the users that are on there now make me want to kick something. Their heads are so high up their backsides due to their popularity that they think everything they do is right. Or their attitudes are appauling. It's community doesn't seem "nice" anymore :C

Another thing on that site is if you can't draw, you're pretty much screwed in the popularity area. It's sad ._.

I do like the uniqueness of the no chat, it forces you to get creative with the actions XD. Course you can kind of add 'chat' to the game by using msn. It's true that it's limited, but people seem to manage. I know on the Forum there's a kind of "dictionary" of action combos that people use to portray what they want/want to do, most users have a section on their bio that explains what action combo means what.
I think the problem is that most people are too used to having chatboxes in MMORPGs and let them do all the work for their characters.
TEF also isn't really supposed to have a "point" so to speak. The official site even says something along the lines of the game having no goals and such.

I miss crazy button mash parties |D and Peacocking sleeping players. I'd have so much fun ninjaing around casting the peacock set on unsuspecting sleeping deer >_> <_< >_>

It's so so easy to make characters in that game, if you keep looking through pictos and find a nice one you eventually turn it into a character |D. I started with one...and ended up with 6 official deer and two secret ones. I cherish my pile of Gen 1 pictos. I don't really like the Gen 2 ones, they look so...lacking.

(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l316/PhoenixGryphon/The%20Endless%20Forest/TEF_Draak_20080326_221956_353x26_00012copy.jpg)
^ Now those were the days. 26th March 2008.
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Kyugima on April 25, 2011, 03:28:43 pm: I thought my picto was pretty good, then one day I got on and there were like six or seven other deer that had the same... After that I kinda felt let down, and I want to change it >.> No clue how to though... Or if I even can.
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Raz. on April 25, 2011, 03:49:13 pm: Hmm...that might have been due to a glitch/server mess up. Sometimes 'nameless' deer can end up with your picto. Pictos can be really similar to others, but there's always a difference between pictos varying from something small to being completely different.

You can't edit your picto, however you can go to the picto registration page and make as many as you like XD you can even use the same email for each picto.
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Kyugima on April 25, 2011, 09:50:54 pm: Oh, that's good then XD
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Krystal on April 26, 2011, 12:43:56 am: I like this game, I really do, but I can't ever get anyone's attention D:

I can't have a pelt either, I don't know how to give one to myself without using other characters, witch I am NOT, I reapeat, N-O-T doing!
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Raz. on April 26, 2011, 02:58:01 am: D: aw. :\ yeah...I hate it when this happens.

Actually...there's nothing wrong with 'cloning' ie opening up two TEF windows and then casting on yourself. The only time when it's not ok to give youself pelts is if you hack into the game and give youself the god pelts and such.
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Maryritai on April 26, 2011, 03:46:19 am: I kinda want to Join TEF. I wanted To A Long Time Ago But I didn't Because I was an lazy Idiot.
But If I join, Being a Newbie, I just want to say that I would be very, very decent.
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Kyugima on April 26, 2011, 03:54:36 am: I tried opening up two windows, but my TEF keeps crashing... Stupid laptop...
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Raz. on April 26, 2011, 04:19:13 am: Darn, yeah that happens to me too :\ It seems that some people can do it while others can't.
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Kyugima on April 26, 2011, 04:21:42 am: Dang...
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Krystal on April 26, 2011, 10:21:02 am: ... I guess I MIGHT try...
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Raz. on April 27, 2011, 02:54:30 am: 8D yay.

I'm going to put this tiny rant here instead of the rant thread beause it is TEF related |D and I don't want to derail it again:
I'm not sure about other communities and such but just...when people cannot separate you from your characters actions. Eg, they think that YOU are that character instead of the character being a different thing.

And I wish I'd checked to see if M and A made the trees drop easter eggs again instead of pinecones. XD

I miss Abios, now there's too many users and they rarely do them anymore :C

(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l316/PhoenixGryphon/The%20Endless%20Forest/TEF_Draak_20080324_082320_329x392_00060copy.jpg)
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Kyugima on April 27, 2011, 03:48:06 am: DX I wanna disco!
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Raz. on April 27, 2011, 04:03:49 am: Here's another:

(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l316/PhoenixGryphon/The%20Endless%20Forest/HalloweenAbio-Disco-1.png)

And then there's the bubbles, which I also haven't seen for a long time D:

(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l316/PhoenixGryphon/The%20Endless%20Forest/TEF_Draak_20091102_195232_384x67_00.jpg)
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Kamaete on April 27, 2011, 05:00:18 am: I have TEF downloaded and I get on once in awhile, but. I don't know how to do anything. I can do the actions, but... can you zoom? I don't know how to change my pelt/antlers whatever and everyone seems content to leave me be. It's a cool idea but everyone seems standoffish. :C
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Kyugima on April 27, 2011, 05:02:44 am: To zoom use your mouse wheel. And it's the same for me, no one seems to willing to share pelts are antlers or anything.
XD We need to organise something, like meeting so we can cast spells on each other XD
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Maryritai on April 27, 2011, 06:36:11 am: Yeah, Like a Feral-Heart TEF Club Or Something.
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Kyugima on April 27, 2011, 08:19:44 am: XD That would be interesting, and helpful. Organise to go on at the same time and just cast spell's on each other, until you get the combination you want.
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Raz. on April 27, 2011, 08:32:29 am: Quote from: Kamaete on April 27, 2011, 05:00:18 am
I have TEF downloaded and I get on once in awhile, but. I don't know how to do anything. I can do the actions, but... can you zoom? I don't know how to change my pelt/antlers whatever and everyone seems content to leave me be. It's a cool idea but everyone seems standoffish. :C
It's all here: http://tale-of-tales.com/TheEndlessForest/magic.html (http://tale-of-tales.com/TheEndlessForest/magic.html)

And you can also zoom by holding the right mouse button down and moving the mouse around.

WELL there's a kind of FH TEF club on DA...one of the TEF people who play made it for us TEF players who have turned their TEF deer into lions/canines for FH.
It's here but kinda dead :C http://tef-feralhearts.deviantart.com/ (http://tef-feralhearts.deviantart.com/)
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: arcticwarrior on April 28, 2011, 09:41:50 pm: hey, ive been on TEF, for like fifteen min. i thought you start out as little fawn!!!!! i went on and started as a full-grown buck! and how do you change your looks??? im just a boring male...... i want cool designeee!!!!!!!!! howz???
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: weylin on April 29, 2011, 12:31:00 am: The humanoid faces ruined any chance of cuteness. It just creeps the hell out of me
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Raz. on April 29, 2011, 02:07:48 am: Quote from: weylin on April 29, 2011, 12:31:00 am
The humanoid faces ruined any chance of cuteness. It just creeps the hell out of me
Quote from: Draak
AND YES we know, the human faces are creepy |D
I think TEF is one of those things where you either like it or you dont D:

Quote from: Liyese on April 28, 2011, 09:41:50 pm
hey, ive been on TEF, for like fifteen min. i thought you start out as little fawn!!!!! i went on and started as a full-grown buck! and how do you change your looks??? im just a boring male...... i want cool designeee!!!!!!!!! howz???
Either you registered a picto a month ago and forgot, or you haven't logged in. Because no one starts straight off as a full grown deer.

Magic and how to do everything is explained on this site here: http://tale-of-tales.com/TheEndlessForest/ (http://tale-of-tales.com/TheEndlessForest/)
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: arcticwarrior on April 29, 2011, 07:50:22 pm: ah, i figured out how to become a baby deer! you check off this one box in options. it would be very nice if there was a chatbox. even a phrased or guarded chatbox would be okay!!! how do you change your pelt and stuff? a little fawn that kept following me(so cute! until i zoomed in. *gets the chills*) kept like giving me coats and stuff. but how do i transfer pelts and heads and stuff???
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: arcticwarrior on April 29, 2011, 07:51:32 pm: Quote from: Draak on April 27, 2011, 04:03:49 am
Here's another:

(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l316/PhoenixGryphon/The%20Endless%20Forest/HalloweenAbio-Disco-1.png)

And then there's the bubbles, which I also haven't seen for a long time D:

(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l316/PhoenixGryphon/The%20Endless%20Forest/TEF_Draak_20091102_195232_384x67_00.jpg)

ive never seen a party before!!!!! and what about the bubble the deer was in in that one pic?
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Raz. on April 30, 2011, 02:30:58 am: I think double posting is frowned upon here?

All you need to know is on the official site, everything is explained there.
You have to get other players to give you pelts/masks/antlers.

Party = http://tale-of-tales.com/TheEndlessForest/abiogenesis.html (http://tale-of-tales.com/TheEndlessForest/abiogenesis.html)

Bubbles are an extreme rarity, sometimes after Abios the Admins enable it so the deer can blow bubbles when they moo.
They can be teeny or huge :B
(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l316/PhoenixGryphon/The%20Endless%20Forest/TEF_Corvus_20091103_163738_327x-36_.jpg)

And we've established on the TEF forums that a chat box would destroy the game and I highly doubt that M and A (the Admins/makers of the game) would add one. They barely add stuff and pay attention to the game at all these days :C
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Kyugima on April 30, 2011, 10:44:07 am: Yes, double posting is frowned upon in FH, it can get your thread locked if it is done to much.

And the best way to play TEF Liyese, is to register, so your deer has a pictogram. It starts out as a fawn and grows into a adult.
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Krystal on June 21, 2011, 09:38:26 pm: (http://i52BannedImageSite/fbesys.jpg)
This is my deer for now. I am waiting for my other deer to catch up in the adult deer thing.
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: lilyfairy on October 11, 2011, 11:47:38 pm: Um....does TEF have a virus or something? My mom wont let me on because there might be a virus. :(
Title: Re: The Endless Forest Thread to save derailment
Post by: Raz. on October 12, 2011, 01:34:25 am: O_o no. Especially if you're downloading it from the ToT site.