@Arkandel said in TS - Danger zone:
Let's go back to discussing forbidden topics.
How much do your TS habits change based on the MU*'s themes? That is, do you find your characters are more promiscuous on say, a Kushiel game than a World of Darkness one? Do you TS considerably more often? Is it easier (or harder) to find partners - and are they actually better at TS on average?
I had to think about this a second, because I think it is a factor but maybe not in precisely the straightforward way suggested. I don't think any theme is going to discourage TS if two players connect and want to do it (often through whatever weird signaling dances if they don't know each other previously). What I think it does encourage is the ability to present characters as openly promiscuous, and I think that may create more organic TS, ie situations where people simply fall into that RP naturally after whatever interactions vs. engaging in their usual quasi-OOC hunt for other people who are into it.
This is also one of those places where we're still pretty sexist, because while I've pointed out that in general I find women on MUs every bit as aggressive/stalkery/etc, we as a group are still fond of slut-shaming a concept, wiki or desc we find too overtly sexual and I think that tends to target female characters more.
This is why (referencing that Fairy Brothel discussion) I think people go so nuts for those kind of games and concepts, because they want to be able to play sexy without being judged. I think back to just how many people were drawn to playing prostitutes on Firan (which actually had rules the players had to be female, not that those didn't get broken occasionally), and that I often heard from those players that they enjoyed them as 'low stress' alts who they could do that stuff on without fear of being swept up in scandal and ruined (which was IC, yet also carried a certain brand of OOC morality and vindictiveness at times). That was clearly a major factor for those players. Or there's the crazy Western game I played for maybe a week and yet had basically 75% of the female population wanting to work for my character as a saloon girl, even people who'd apped entirely other concepts.
This is in contrast to some game themes that encourage people to keep their sexuality to themselves, ie comic games. So I think it's a factor in that sense, in terms of how comfortably and openly people engage in the topic.
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Been checking this place out and gotta say, the people I've played with so far have been friendly, engaging, and happy to engage in hijinks.
It does take some effort at times to remember 'AU dieselpunk 1930s' when RPing, but I'm sure I'll get to where it's easier.
Only real feedback at this stage is: website needs more details / default Ares imagery replaced, but I know @Mr-Johnson is learning Ares as he goes and it'll get there.
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More updates! @Thenomain has been dutiful in helping me fix formatting edge cases. It's also had a bit of a UI update too! Give it a whirl! (Mush-Formatter) If you run into any issues please drop them at The Github Repo? That would be super awesome.
Thanks!
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@Sarah said in Good MU with sense of progression:
Sorry guys, it was a hell of a month. I left from Sindome actually, mostly because as I said they discourage any and all ooc communication and so I was completely on my own for figuring out basic survival mechanics.
Anyways aside from a sense of progression?/i guess medieval? Lord and Ladies games where I can /do/ things, etc.
So most MUSHes are really designed for a tabletop RPG writ large feel, that's very character relationship driven with GMs often telling stories or maintaining plot, but they generally don't have the kinds of game mechanics you'd see on a Sindome or HellMOO or Armageddon that has a player versus environment feel, that could give you the kind of sensation of progression.
I'm adding some of that to my game over time for what you might be thinking of, but it's still really downplayed, because games that are MUD-MUSH type hybrids are deciding where their focus is on creating an environment that can act as RP prompts for players and let them develop things on their own, versus a collaborative storytelling experience where the focus is really on letting those players drive stories without an environment possibly getting in the way. I like to try to combine the two and want to keep adding in more environmental features on Arx, but they are still noticeably different styles of RP.
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@skew said in How to BeipMU: The best MU Client for Windows:
@Ninjakitten Just to be clear... the windows store version doesn't update on restart of the game. At least mine didn't. It was a day or three before the new version came.
It seems like Windows doesn't always check right away. If you know there's an update but it doesn't do it when you restart, you can force it!
Open the Microsoft Store App
Click the three dots in the upper right
Choose 'downloads and updates'
It should be there and let you click to make it do the update immediately!
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Me for the Pepsi peeps. I'll admit it was my first caffeinated drink ever that I stole while at a friend's home and never told my parents I drank. (Caffeine was a super nope in my family. )
Just to add to this, I love the idea but the time requirements are just not quite possible for me. On certain days I'd not be able to post at all in fact. But I love the idea in theory!
