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• Announcements

  This is for board maintenance and such. Don't post here if you don't have to.
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  E-mail confirmation seems to be working sporadically, if at all. Trying to figure out what's going on with that.

  In the meantime, in the interests of fairness, I've set the forum to allow unverified users to post and reply in pretty much all the categories that verified users can.

  If you've been waiting for a confirmation e-mail and didn't get one, chat me up and we'll work out how to verify that you're you.

  Until then, back under the hood I go.

• Other Games

  Games other than MU* ! Video games, table-top, TCG, etc.

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  @Devrex However folks want to handle it.

  My focus there was affffecting a non player controlled element of the setting, and I doubt players would want to have their PC swayed by +jobs. I could see them calling out some tasks as sort of requirements to meet, or advance socially or what have you, but since interaction with another live player is the best part off involving human players, I could easily see people skipping it.

• Tastes Less Game'y

  For discussions unrelated to MU. Anything else goes.
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  When you've got this project you really, really want to get off the ground, but are missing something...and it drops into your life. Or they do. You're on the same page, both getting excited, and throwing ideas at each other late into the night.

  EEeeeeeeee!

  (No, not a MU. One of my other interests that I've been toying with going more pro with for a long time)

• Adver-tis-ments

  Tell everyone about your New Games, Old Games and New Old Games. Hurrah!
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  @Warma-Sheen

  Oooh, Mage game! Wish I had time to do a MU. 😞

• Reviews and Debates

  Game reviews, creeper warnings, general peeves. Bring receipts.

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  @Misadventure huh. This seems interesting and useful though i could see your CEOs point, too

• Game Development

  For the discussion of development and betterment of MU*s at large.

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  Recently, a brilliant and generous person created a D6 plugin for Ares. This is something I've actually wanted for quite some time. I even started a project to build on myself but just didn't have the time to dedicate to it. So, this was a godsend for me as it has opened the door to do something I've wanted to do for a long time, open a Star Wars game using Ares.

  This project is very much 'in development' and I'm just starting to get things put together. I'm posting here fishing for anyone who might be interested in helping out in some way. I've got a good idea for a time period and theme but even those are fluid at the moment. Here's what I'm thinking.

  Time Period: Roughly 4,000 years BBY. I put it here because we can easily fudge things. We're not going to be restricted by canon, we're very much going to be our own thing. To that end, I'm fudging things a bit and will be having the Sith War and Mandalorian War be essentially back to back. The galaxy has been in a state of war for 20 years.

  Setting: The galaxy. We will likely have some hot spots like Coruscant, Corellia, and some other places, but I don't see the need to limit the game to one specific location.

  Factions: Republic, Jedi Order, Sith, and Fringe. I'm hoping to be pretty open with things.

  System: D6. It's a bit customized using some of D6 Space and some of the old WEG Star Wars system. Mostly we've combined the Mechanical and Technical skills into one and added Presence. I'm also in the process of simplifying how the Force works basing it more off of the D6 Space metaphysics system. It has full web integration including character generation, a dice roller for scenes, and dice rolling for jobs. It's really slick. I've also added the Traits plugin so people can record other things they may have(starships, equipment, companions, etc).

  What I'm looking for: Mostly people who want to contribute in some way to get the game up and running and, once we're open, keep it operating smoothly. Like I said, we're customizing the system a bit so feedback on how that feels will be nice. Getting opinions on the theme and setting will be very helpful. And, once we're open, appstaff and plot runners would be great.

  So, if you're interested feel free to drop me a message here. Or if you know anyone that's interested. I'm pretty excited but I'd very much like to have at least some sort of a staff base if I'm ever going to open it to the public.

• MU Code

  Making it happen. 01000011 01101111 01100100 01100101
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  @zombiegenesis I don't know too much about Transformers, (having seen only a couple of the movies and the Rescue Bots kids show) but I can speak generally about combat in FS3.

  The weapon/armor behavior is complicated (described in detail here), and is probably the hardest part of the system to balance.

  Skew it too much one way, and bullets bounce off bulletproof vests like Superman. Skew it too much the other way, and bullets tear through them like paper. With a wide variety of weapon types all having different penetrative capabilities (pistols, shotguns, knives, rifles, etc.) it is incredibly tedious to tune everything to generate a "fun" balance.

  The built-in BSG configuration does have two "classes" of weapons and armor built in - personal and vehicle. This works because:

  The weapons and armors of each class are balanced against each other. Cross-class combat (i.e., a rifleman versus a space fighter) is pretty uncommon thematically in BSG, so the quirks of the system can be hand-managed by the GMs.

  I think you could make the transformer robots work similar to the vehicles in the BSG setting, but having it also tuned for titans would probably be a bridge too far.

• MU Questions & Requests

  For general MU-related questions and How-To Requests.
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  @Hawksmoor

  Sorry, but I'm not going to be the best resource. You may want to reach out to Thenomain.

• How-Tos

  Tutorials and advice on how to get things done on your game.
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  I've blathered about this to Theno on Discord, but figured I'd catalog here.

  Soma — Today at 9:16 AM
  Okay, so! The LAMP route didn't matter and I was able to get my non-root user to work with it. After digging through some stack exchange posts, it looks like SQL no longer uses the my_bool function, it's just bool. I adjusted the reconnect function to just connect and it processed through which is interesting because usually connect can't be declared in scope. So, it processed through with warnings but didn't error out. However, it didn't create the game folder. I'm wondering if this has something to do with the size issue. I'm not sure if you're still in contact with Chime, but this might be some feedback for her about the directions in her distro -- at least some feedback on the directions for getting ChimeMUX working on a LAMP stack in Digital Ocean.

  Soma — Today at 10:03 AM
  All right, found mux-start but it says it can't open the script.conf file, which is pretty weird. Permissions are fine. For some reason the mux server got installed in the root directory, so I wonder if that has something to do with it. Maybe the mux-start command doesn't have root access.

  Edit: It got figured out. For posterity's sake, you have to run the command from ~/game:

  cd cd game bin/mux-start

  Thenomain explained that the reason for this was because Chime intended for there to be the option to run multiple instances of TMux from the same server.

• Mildly Constructive

  Something besides the equivalent of "NO YOU". That shouldn't be hard, right?
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  @Devrex yeah you can filter by game system and by time, so I have to set my desired times and do the systems I want one by one to make sure I'm not getting a hundred dnd games. No offense to people who love dnd but I'm now in my early 40s and I don't know how many more "_________ cleric" or "_______ rogue" I have left in me.

  I think 15-20 is fine. I rationalize this by saying "I would be willing to buy dinner for my GM" so I set the bar at how much I'd be willing to pay for dinner.

• Suggestions & Questions

  Ideas for improving the forum or questions about how things work.
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  @Tez

  Gmail does not work, you are right. We currently use SendGrid for our email. It was a little faster to set up than SendInBlue.

  The limits on both are such that you will want to ask people not to subscribe to topic updates by email if you have any kind of voulme at all. We blew through 300 emails by like 10am with just a few people subscribed.

  I think that's configurable in Node 2.0. Are you guys running that yet? I'd have to go dig back in the guts and see, but I think that you can turn off the ability for people to subscribe to e-mail updates. Realistically they can get pretty granular updates with the built-in watch system without having to get them in their e-mail, since that can be problematic apparently.

  Edit: Correction, apparently you can only disable digest e-mails. The issue has come up several times on the forum on how to globally disable the option, and the co-founder keeps marking it as resolved by referring back to a circular chain of asks for it.

  Seems weird but ok.

• Readers

  All things reading.
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  @reimesu said in Book suggestions:

  I just read "Uprooted" by Naomi Novik and it pretty much blew me away. It didn't go where I thought it would, which made it a lot better, and it was a wild ride.

  I know, I'm late to the party.

  Naomi Novik is an amazing storyteller! I've really enjoyed all her books, and if you haven't, check out her Temeraire series. So good 🙂

  Along those same lines, if you haven't already, you could try Madeline Miller. I just finished reading 'Circe' and every sentence feels like an artform. It was beautiful and engaging.

• TV & Movies
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  @Arkandel

  cat slap

• Creative
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  @golgoth

  I believe there are Changelings at City of Shadows.

  For more info: http://cityofshadowsmux.com/wiki/Changeling

• Code
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  I'm working on customizing Anomaly Jobs for a game I'm working on. I've always had issues with how +jobs works by default and I decided to knuckle down and Make It Do What I Want.

  A week later, I had this stack of stuff other people might find handy: https://github.com/MelpomeneMU/byzantine-opal/tree/main/auxilary functionality/%2Bjobs mods

  Iunno if anybody is still using that 10-20 year old tech but I got tired of waiting for something better to come along and I have realized that rewriting the sucker is more work than I want to do, so the next best thing is modding it.

• Play-by-Post

  A place to find Play-by-Post games
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  Rolegate. It is a good place for play by post

• A Shout in the Dark

  Looking for Someone? Look no further.
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  @ShelBeast

  I know that there were at least a few WoD games running in the not-too-distant past, but I don't know which ones are still up. There was the Obsidian Reverie Ares game which may-or-may-not still be running. City of Shadows still has a website but I don't know about the game itself. I thiiiiiink that Liberation is still going strong?

  There may be other, my brain is a melting puddle due to All the RL.