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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 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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  @Ghost I hope it's good. Mel Brook's humor is such that I think a lot of his old stuff couldn't be made today.

• Adver-tis-ments

  Tell everyone about your New Games, Old Games and New Old Games. Hurrah!
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  A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away...

  The Emperor is dead! The Second Death star is destroyed, Coruscant has been freed, and the Rebellion is triumphant. Leia Organa is now General of the NEW REPUBLIC on Chandrila, and is preparing their Army to liberate worlds such as Kashyyyk and Mandalore. Her brother Luke Skywalker has returned to the ancient home of the JEDI ORDER on Tython, and is gathering students to plumb the secrets of the planet and rebuild the Jedi after their long exile.

  Without its leader, the Empire is crumbling--but new threats rise in its place. The GRYSK HEGEMONY has its hooks in the remnants of the Empire, and is trying to move on the fledgling Republic before it can become a true threat. They have also caused a civil war in the CHISS ASCENDANCY, home of Mitth'raw'nuruodo or Thrawn. The former Grand Admiral has returned from his exile in Wild Space to face down his old foe, and is gathering allies among the Jedi and New Republic while actively defecting from the Empire in favor of loyalty to his own species.

  Along the Outer Rim, there are whispers of a growing threat that both the Republic and the Empire are ignoring. Ships on far-flung trade routes send distress calls and are never heard from again. Outposts on the edge of the galaxy have gone missing, as if entire space stations were never there. Whole planets have disappeared before the eyes of credible witnesses. Resentment is building amongst people all too often forgotten by galactic politics, even as the Force tries to spur those of its users still alive to action to defend the galaxy from an ancient threat....

  Star Wars: Restoration is an AresMUSH game that uses the Fate Core system. Set two years after the events of Return of the Jedi, during the final fall of the Empire and the rise of the New Republic, the PCs are new heroes for a new set of stories about hope, rebuilding, and coming together in dark times.

  Our setting follows the Canon timeline up until the Battle of Endor, but brings in elements of Legends worldbuilding. PCs might be members of the New Republic, or Independent types based out of Nar Shaddaa. We have no limits on Force users. We welcome player input, especially on new species and Force powers, and encourage players to run their own plots.

  We're currently in Beta, which means there's still some playtesting to be done and coding to finish up. Our overarching staff-run story is running strong, but still has plenty of room for new players to get involved and be core parts of the story. There's also lots of scope for personal stories and smaller scale plots. Now's the time to come join us at swrestorationmush.com port 4201! You can also find our game Discord at https://discord.gg/GhgKxachGe

• 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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  This is something we discuss and aim for at my company, and maybe it offers something for online RP. And for online forums. Each builds on the previous. It can be found online.

  Four levels of psychological safety

  Belonging - feel part of the group, welcome

  Learner Safety - able to admit not knowing, or making mistakes

  Contributor Safety - to use their talents and interests to add in to the whole, suggest new things

  Challanger Safety - able to critique or question why something is done the way it is

• 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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  @Juniper That's kind of the best resolution to that kind of petty stomping out. "Ok. Bye." sounds of fun being had without them.

• 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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  @Tapewyrm I used to, as well. I was in Amon Thranduil mostly, as Aranellome and Hellaia. God, that was a long time ago.

  Edited to add, I'm RL friends with player of Orosul still, too, though he doesn't MU anymore. And I still have contact with Gilgurth-player as well, not sure if he MUs anymore.