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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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  @ZombieGenesis Same. There's something very relaxing about the game while also having good puzzles and exploration. In the last few years I've really taken a shine to "lower stress" games like the Lego games or games with a "story" difficulty. I probably needed more relaxing games after being the "Soulsborne" gamer that I am.

  Importing your WizardingWorld stuff was neat. Turns out I'm a Gryffindor. Huzzah

• Tastes Less Game'y

  For discussions unrelated to MU. Anything else goes.
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  @Ghost said in 2023: Dead Celebs pt 2, Electric Boogaloo.:

  @Misadventure Yeah, Zavala(sp?). Wonderful voice actor.

  T_T

  It is terrible to in any way reduce a person down to so little, but that little thing was lots of enjoyable time (and in a vague way part of my worklife).

• Adver-tis-ments

  Tell everyone about your New Games, Old Games and New Old Games. Hurrah!
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  Game Update: Opening Events starting on Saturday, March 18 2023.

  6ix Remains is set to move forward into official Alpha plot launch with a trio of Opening Events this coming Saturday. In the past month the survivors have been busy securing their community-building and finding supplies to sustain themselves through the crisis. The opening events are now set to allow them to explore beyond the safety of their haven, and attempt to find out what is happening in the rest of the city. What they find may well shake their views of the new reality that they think they know.

  Will things improve for the survivors? Or will things get worse before they get better? Come join us and find out!

• Reviews and Debates

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

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  It's not an accusation if it's conjecture. Spoken like a true weasel. You all deserve each other.

• Game Development

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

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  TLDR; is there an action and sheet tracking code available for modification out there, like Arx or various RPIs have?

  I am interested in a coded mechanism for players to describe their actions to be collected periodically (like weekly), track used resources and applied against a recorded object the actions are meant to influence.

  So it could be the worlds slowest conflict, adding buffs to allies, debuffs to opposition , tracking against resistance and counter measures etc etc.

  It could be building a structure or an organization.

  It could be social influences and public events affecting individual, group, organization or cultural reputations and values.

  It might be used to affect markets for a mercantile exploration trader game (Firefly, pirates, frontiersy stuff etc).

  It could be used for research, experimentation, investigation.

  I know some RPI type places probably have very involved code for similar, and like Arx where its a mix of some of the things I listed.

  Ideally this would be able to use recorded sheets for PCs, NPCs, businesses, organizations, structures under player and NPC control etc.

• 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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  @Jynxbox said in Searching for Star Wars RPI:

  That and their Star Wars universe has kaiju that are eating planets.

  unicron

• How-Tos

  Tutorials and advice on how to get things done on your game.
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  @faraday You are 100% right about HTTPS connections via the web portal. HTTPS uses TLS to encrypt that traffic, so it's better altogether than using a MU client from a work device (or arguably ANY form of connecting to a MU using Telnet). The IT Professional in me would say always use TLS/HTTP instead of telnet when available.

• Mildly Constructive

  Something besides the equivalent of "NO YOU". That shouldn't be hard, right?
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  @Hella Thanks very much. It's good to have a listing, even if it is not as extensive.

• 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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  I've just heard word from Melkir's wife that his ashes will be on board the Enterprise flight, alongside luminaries like Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan and DeForest Kelley. He would have loved nothing more.

  https://www.celestis.com/launch-schedule/enterprise-flight/#mission-act-now