@grayson said in A Regency MU (Conceptual):

@runescryer You need an excuse?!

I did specify 'thin'

@testament It might be easier to pop onto the game and see about paging someone there. They don't really hang around these parts often. Or maybe checking out the Ares forums?

@clarion Client-side word wrap. That looks promising. Might fiddle around w/ that.

@highfalutin said in Bloopers:

Tried to transfer a 'standing table' in to the auto-purging garbage/junk room and instead transferred a player with 'Stan' in their name

Kaif would be proud.

@phase-face

Whereas you ask some good specific questions about design, I would like to be a little more generic and add that the main thing for any hobby project is to get to something playable before your determination runs out or your hard drive crashes.

In a hobby/free-time-driven game development process, 99.99% of good ideas never lead to a game people can actually play. People in this thread have good specific advice - you should heed those you like. But I'd suggest not covering all bases immediately - planning is fine but you need to eventually do something, create something you can show off. A sort of save-point you can continue from should the unforeseen happen and you have to take a break from your project.

Keep your grand plans in mind but strip most of them away for your first version - you will often find even 'must-have' features are not so must-have once you realize other things are not yet in place. The 'perpetual beta' is a tried and true concept for a reason; not assuming (indeed knowing) that your first few versions will be incomplete and imperfect can be quite liberating and allow you to get something out sooner.

@ominous This is indeed a part of the system and something I imagine being used.

Ships are customizable. Class I is fighter, class V is super dreadnaught/star destroyer/etc. Class II is good hauler/explorer, Class III is good start for housing hangers to hold ships. There are mechanics for hangers (like one hanger can hold 2 ships of lesser class, or 16 of class-2; class 3 can hold a hanger of 16 fighters).

I literally put an asterisk on the discord development discussion chan behind one ship to say it can include hangers of lesser ships so players can do away missions. Class III and above would jump to a system and do exactly what you're describing, send off Class II and I smaller ships to go do the deals in the system at hand due to travel times on larger ships.

ETA: Its modules, so many modules by class to include weapons and defense and other systems. A crew can have a ship that uses modules on hanger(s).

@insomniac7809

Yeah, awesome setting, but terrible system for a MU*.

Well, this thread turned weirdly masturbatory quicker than I thought it would.

This is a bit out of place, but I'm working on a relative's computer remotely that rebooted for the last big Windows update (20H2 I think?) and can't seem to pick up an IPv4 address from the router, but IPv6 works. I wonder if whatever's going on here is actually what's happened with @Brunocerous 's situation.

@Kanye-Qwest said in Things Coded in Firan:

@Tinuviel said in Things Coded in Firan:

@SparklesTheClown said in Things Coded in Firan:

@Tinuviel said in Things Coded in Firan:

@SparklesTheClown said in Things Coded in Firan:

Also pooping and peeing on Firan not being coded was a common Firan meme.

Pooping wasn't a thing. I'm fairly certain that people didn't have anuses.

That'd explain why I never did anal on Firan.

I'm also fairly certain that was the reason they decided not to have anuses.

this has been dumb forever. There's lots about firan to criticize or mock legitimately but gamerunners wanting to handwave stuff they don't want to code or deal with RP about is perfectly reasonable.

There was a few people, apparently, that were using the ol' butthole to get around the eesha (that is to say breeding) code. Staff did one of their snap judgements and came up with the idea that the butt is purely decorative.

No, I don't know either.

I use Foundry with D&D Beyond. It means my players don't have to pay anything to play and I have control over the VTT. Foundry is fantastic and the support from the developers is also fantastic. We use the Firefox/Chrome extension that lets you roll from your D&D Beyond sheet into Foundry. You can also import D&D Beyond characters into Foundry and roll there directly. Tons of customizations to be made. It's worth the money and Roll20 is not.

@Jeshin said in Emotional bleed:

Integrity of the story, not individual integrity. The shared suspension of disbelief. Obviously people have feelings and one of the reasons there's such a culture of don't do it finger wagging (I think) is because of the final question.

Mmm. I would not describe it as 'integrity' but there's a thing.

For shared suspension of disbelief, we need all the players to understand the game-world consistently with one another. We also tend to like a consistent emotional tone to the game. We call the mix 'theme', right? Pop fiction IPs work great because lots of people will already know what the game's universe is like, and also things like where the overall comedy/action/angst/coziness levels can be expected to lie.

What the hobby doesn't seem to have done is find a consistent way to communicate the OOC version of this. 'Community theme'? A "we're a serious bunch trying to tell a grim and complex story, and this tale holds priority" makes a very different MU from "We're goofing off and if we make a great story that's awesome but everybody having a good time is priority." Plus a lot of points in between, plus, "Core players having a good time telling their cool and complex story is priority, we'll fuck up that story to cater to their feelings, but not yours."

What your game is like in this community-thing regard probably makes a huge difference as to what bleed even is, as well as how to handle it.

@theznar said in Is this a really dumb theme?:

Is the Savage Skies a tt game?

Savage Skies is an Ares game (https://savageskies.aresmush.com/). It stopped being active sometime around September-ish.

I thought for supers there were already Fate rules set up for /superhero/ games? There have been Fate Mu*'s in the past. Would that make something like this more /doable/?

@ThoughtBubble I have heard plenty of people say his has happened to them. It seems so common that I actually made an explicit rule against it -- "you don't have to play with anyone you don't want to play with, but don't try to convince other people not to play with them" or something like hat.

You have observed something important and quite relevant -- many, many MUers have the brain cooties. Some types of brain cooties get along well with other types of brain cooties but conflict harshly with still other types, and most of them make people idiosyncratically abrasive and idiosyncratically sensitive, so communities with high levels of endemic brain cooties get weird even without anybody being an actual asshole.

@Kanye-Qwest yeah, that's why it isn't advertised. They're in process

@Wretched said in Is this hobby on it's last legs?:

@Tinuviel Dices

Deese.

I will say that every time I have interacted with DarkSouls, they have been perfectly pleasant and polite. They seem to work through jobs efficiently and are enthusiastic about running scenes and stories.

They do have a habit of making statements on the game discord that I would say are somewhat ill-judged in tone, and I know those have irritated people (myself included) but nothing that I would describe as VASpider worthy.

Of course, there might be problematic behaviour that I am entirely missing, but I just thought I would give my personal experience.

@Tinuviel said in Euphoria - Feedback:

@Auspice said in Euphoria - Feedback:

I'm not sure what the special sauce is to get people to generate their own RP vs only engaging when there's staff-run plots happening. It works on some games and not others.

Often, and this isn't necessarily relevant for Euphoria, it's because staff-run plots 'count' whereas other RP doesn't. Anything that isn't run by staff is social RP, and that doesn't count towards... whatever it is people keep score of.

That is, simply put, dumb. Not your take on it. People who behave this way.

Because many staff pick up stuff from the flow of social rp to run with. Because players are sometimes handed plot by staff that will impact the world / metaplot (I have had this on multiple occasions over the years and it has been advertised as 'this event pertains to metaplot' and people still don't show up').

It's just this....need....to have a Staffer at the helm. Like people need to perform for them. And I think it burns out staffers and hurts games.

But this isn't euphoria feedback and it's me feeling frustrated because I enjoy euphoria. I want to be able to jump back in once I'm over my current burnout but I'm afraid to run prps if no one is gonna care just because I'm not staff.