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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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  I'm sorry the post stayed up so long, I was at school. Banned for obvious reasons.

• 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 affecting 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 of 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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  Meant to post this yesterday but spent the entire day watching the charity stream instead and forgot 😛

  https://gamersforgiving.org/

  One of my favourite charities is hosting a weekend-long charity stream. I'm personally watching/donating to the Hermitcraft stream

  https://tiltify.com/@hermitcraftgo/hermitcraft-2025
  https://www.twitch.tv/goodtimeswithscar

  But whichever way you watch, it's entertaining and for a really great cause, if you have the capacity to donate. Gamers Outreach focuses on providing entertainment to hospitalized kids via Go-Karts, which are portable gaming carts designed specially for hospitals.

• Adver-tis-ments

  Tell everyone about your New Games, Old Games and New Old Games. Hurrah!
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  CrystalMUSH is a game based on some of the works of Anne McCaffrey, originally launched in the 90's, and running with various levels of activity until the early 2010's. At that point, it dropped off the net, because I as the host was dealing with my wife's chronic health conditions, and didn't have the time or energy to deal with it.

  But, it's back. I relaunched the game a few weeks ago, and was absolutely shocked to have a surge of old players return. We've also had some new members arrive, but we'd love to have some more new members in our community.

  tl;dr Theme Info
  CrystalMUSH is set on a quarantined mining planet, host to a strange silicon symbiote that alters the people who live there, and makes them unable to stay away from the planet permanently. The 'crystal' mined on the planet is used for many different high tech devices, including starship drives, data crystals, and FTL communication. Players take on the role of members of the Heptite Guild, the company that controls the planet, with jobs ranging from technicians and doctors, up to the Crystal Singers who explore the planet looking for veins of crystal to mine.

  The game has heavily coded systems for finding, mining, and selling the crystal, with an ingame currency, but is still largely RP driven, with an active community of people joining together to create stories. Since the re-launch, we have already brought down a fresh class of recruits (including at least two brand new players, as well as alts of existing players who wanted to try something new), and had multiple days with 30+ characters logged in. We'd love to see some fresh players, so if you enjoy 80's and 90's space opera scifi, or just want to try out something new, we'd love to see you.

  There is a bit of dust, as we re-learn the game's coded systems ourselves, and fix up old / clunky / quirky systems to be a bit friendlier, but everyone is friendly and generally happy to answer questions or help out.

  Server crystalmush.kydance.net:6886
  Discord https://discord.gg/at25HtppSh

• Reviews and Debates

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

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  On the rare occasions I dare it..

  I want to give each character a chance to do something cool/different. Everyone deserves a moment in the spotlight, so to speak.

  I want to give the characters something that when it's over, they feel like like accomplished something.

  I want the characters to learn something - about the world, about a subject, about themselves, from the experience. Give the player a chance to grow their character in the way they envision.

• Game Development

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

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  @Clarion Good idea. I will implement this.

• MU Code

  Making it happen. 01000011 01101111 01100100 01100101
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  I am currently working on a completely from scratch refactoring, redesign, and streamlining of my popular Penn/Rhost Code.

  Warning, it's NOT ready to install yet.

  And, at the same time, I've fixed pretty much every issue with 3.x's Rhost compatibility, and am working on finalizing a new release of for 3.5 which should be the last major bit of work I do involving that older code. I've abandoned maintaining the Storyteller stuff for 3.5 because 4.0 is already blowing it out of the water.

  Here's my main goals for 4.0's version of the Codesuite:

  Rhost-only. Rhost, at the moment, has left Penn so far behind that I don't see any pros left to working with Penn. Sticking to just Rhost has lead to far simpler code, and being able to count on 32kb buffers instead of 8kb makes many things now possible. Account-based logins using Rhost's new login system. login to an account, select a character to play. Simple, streamlined, idiomatic coding style with fewer idiosyncracies. The code is much cleaner and more readable. I want to keep it that way. Easy to read, easy to maintain and modify. Less is more. Although the new code has trimmed out some extraneous features (like Divisions in factions), being simpler has enabled more flexibility in other ways. Minimal SQL involvement. Only roleplay logging and a few very similarly heavy topics require SQL. The BBS, Ticket Tracker, Storyteller data, etc, does not need SQL. Simple setup, largely unobtrusive installation that can get along with other code packages, if any. Full integration and accounting for some of Rhost's more peculiar and interesting features, like Reality Levels. Idiomatic handling of Rhost's security for new security model that covers collaborative building. Support for Storyteller games: Exalted 2e, Exalted 3e, Chronicles of Darkness 2e, World of Darkness 20th Anniversary, and perhaps some fan stuff. (Exalted vs WoD? Exalted x Chronicles of Darkness? Exalted Demake?). Maybe Scion 2e? (Highly experimental) MUD-style game SDK building on it. I want to see if Rhost can be used to make a spiritual successor to a Dragon Ball MUD I maintain and if I can generalize its features into a MUD SDK, I definitely will.
• MU Questions & Requests

  For general MU-related questions and How-To Requests.
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  What are your tips for generating artificial played-by's for your characters? What kind of tools are you using? And more importantly, has anyone figured out how to get it to listen to the eye colour you want???

  I've used Midjourney in the past but the cost is a barrier and it will generate more of an overall "vibe" while ignoring any individual details you include. Also everybody has these luscious supermodel faces with huge lips that is somewhat off-putting.

• 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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  The most publicly-visible online spaces for RPGs have gone downhill over the last decade, but it really started swirling down the drain as the COVID shutdowns kicked off. Forums like this used to be extremely active, with dozens of daily users and hundreds of monthly users. It was niche, sure, but people actually used it, actually cared. You could meet people and start games. Now, not so much. It’s slow. It’s really the same dozen or so people over and over again.

  You’ve driven your best people away because they weren’t in lockstep with gay race communism. Until around 2020, people were still willing to offer compromises like “free speech,” an agreement to set politics and to a degree personality clashes aside to play a good game online, either in the form of a MU*, a VC+VTT, “asynchronous” play-by-post, or what-not. But that was rejected, and at first it seemed like you needed to be hard left in order to play RPGs. But those people who left? The Corpse Kings, the Sandy Petersens, the Blaine Pardoes, the Alexander Macrisses? They went on and made cool shit without you.

  We’ve got our own milieu now, and we gatekeep troons and the like all the time. They show up, and then they get removed. It’s very satisfying not having to care if something is “problematic,” only concerning ourselves with if it’s cool, if it’s pertinent to the game, if this thing adds to it or detracts from it. Getting rid of the gaymosexuals and the harridans has done wonders for us.

  So like… how do you recover from this? How do you fix your shit so that you can be let back into polite society? Is it possible for you to reform, or are you stuck, mired in this ideology forever?

  EDIT: This was also posted on BrandMuDay, which is only slightly more alive than this board.

• Suggestions & Questions

  Ideas for improving the forum or questions about how things work.
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  Evennia has a game index here: http://games.evennia.com/ (though some are more MUDlike)

• 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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  I often want a pop up video style trivia and details for shows about everything. Learning is engaging.

• 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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  @Ghost said in Telnet Safety:

  NEVER give your address, phone, banking, fullname, general location, business information, etc over pages/chat in MU even if you trust the person because THE DANGER ISNT YOUR FRIEND, BUT THE SERVICE/PROTOCOL YOU ARE USING.

  Fixed that for you.

  You nerd.

• 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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  @Redbird I remember Barnabas. You were fun to RP with, for the short while we were in the same family (Lara).