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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 wanted to post a quick note that today will be my last day as an administrator on MSB. I am resigning and, as of July 1, 2022, I will no longer be an active administrator in the moderation of the site's boards or in the deciding of rules and policies.

  Your active staff will continue to be: derp, reimesu, Lotherio, and Runescryer.

  I will remain, however, as the person paying for the site and occasionally giving advice, like Arkandel. But that's all I'll be doing.

  This decision is mine alone and is based on personal matters.

  I look forward to finding the time to play with y'all in the future, but as of tomorrow I will enjoy my retirement.

• Other Games

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

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  @jomomomo yes

• Tastes Less Game'y

  For discussions unrelated to MU. Anything else goes.
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  Randomly surprised today. Fireworks are a hot button issue on Nextdoor. Every week someone posts complaining. Usually, I don't engage, but there has been a LOT and last night one went off at the same time as one of my fosters was having a hard time in the litter box. It made them and a sibling jump. The mess was bad enough I had to give this poor baby a bath.

  So I posted that the fireworks were hard on my poor fosters. Someone posted a flippant reply. I waited a few hours and replied that I understood people want to celebrate but that I still felt empathy for my poor babies and that I felt their comment was heartless.

  Thus the surprise!!!

  They APOLOGIZED and wished my kittens well.

  There is some small hope left guys.

• Adver-tis-ments

  Tell everyone about your New Games, Old Games and New Old Games. Hurrah!
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  Hey everyone!

  Just wanted to drop an update. Elseverse has officially been out of Alpha and in it’s Beta phase for nearly a month! Time flies.

  We learned a lot with our first timeline (Steampunk) and have learned even more with our second, current timeline (Apocalypse). We are about halfway through Apocalypse and going strong with plenty of Marvel and DC slots open and a poll is up to decide our next theme.

  This poll will end on 6/30 and the new theme will begin on August 1st, at which point Steampunk will completely phase out (for now!) and Apocalypse will transition into its Epilogue (Sandbox) phase.

  Feel free to drop in and check us out!

  Apocalypse Theme Page: https://elseverse.aresmush.com/wiki/earth-ap
  FAQ: https://elseverse.aresmush.com/wiki/faq

• Game Development

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

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  @masterreeve I would possibly be able to work on staff. Desc/builder possibly, grunt work possibly. I just know nothing about SR: Anarchy so let me start there, but wanted to drop some potential interest.

• 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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  @cheesegrater Huzzah! Thanks!

• How-Tos

  Tutorials and advice on how to get things done on your game.
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  From Bennet, the developer, on BeipMU's discord:

  Why is the store app stuck on build 312? Well here's why and how to fix it:
  https://github.com/BeipDev/BeipMU/blob/master/Documentation/store_update.md
  (This link is also on the main web page so more people can find it, spread the word!)

• Mildly Constructive

  Something besides the equivalent of "NO YOU". That shouldn't be hard, right?
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  @runescryer

  Okay. I’ll start writing. Let’s PM.

• Suggestions & Questions

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

  I don't believe any final decisions have been made. But it's not an idle topic either. There are still discussions happening on the subject. I expect that a final decision one way or another will be coming down the pipe in the near future.

• Readers

  All things reading.
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  @derp said in How do you discover books?:

  @reimesu said in How do you discover books?:

  @derp Luke? No. Leia was, but that's because she was adopted by royalty.

  Yyyyeah but their mom was a queen, and then went on to be a galactic senator.

  Right?

  Padme wasn't royalty, that was 'just' the title she got as an elected representative of her people. Her children, if Anakin hadn't gone uh a little off the rails, wouldn't have had inherited titles even if she had lived to raise them.

• TV & Movies
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  This is totally not me, fuck y'all.
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• Creative
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  @geeklure Right up there with gold paint!

• 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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  Sadness. I didn't know him well, but he was always a decent guy. I had lots of fun on TGG, and his combat code there was the most impressive MUCode system I've ever seen.