Things Coded in Firan
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@mietze Maybe Haven? I've definitely heard about weird stuff regarding attractiveness and menstrual cycles from there.
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Yeah, that sounds like what I have heard about Haven.
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I prefer my imagining that Firan's coders regularly got drunk, or something, and just... coded a bunch of shit. And then had to figure out how to fit it into the game.
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@mietze said in Things Coded in Firan:
I remember hearing here about some WoD sounding place that was coded even more than Firan and Arx. With like clothing that would go transparent if the PC was drenched in water and also some code about how attractive the female pc was based on their coded cycle and also somehow this was also affected by how much you codedly ate and how fast?
That's absolutely Haven, yeah. Different birth control methods also affect attractiveness, as do the number and social class of your sexual partners. And if you're drunk, everyone else gets a small attractiveness boost. There's also super involved hygiene code, where you have to regularly bathe and if you fall asleep with shoes on you get a debuff to attractiveness.
It's... a lot.
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@bored said in Things Coded in Firan:
There wasn't pee code. There was a pregnancy related ambience emit that talked about wanting to pee.
Other things people haven't seemingly mentioned:
- priests (and Ojitar) being able to buff stats
- The map in general, with its large coordinate grid system including a z axis for griffons.
- Other environmental features like a river current (that could fucking drown you pretty easily), and coded damage rooms in some areas
- Searching for hidden exits in rooms
- a crop/farming system, that was pretty underused
- a land income system based on noble ownership of actual grid squares on the above coordinate system
- the @Clan system, which is the closest thing to a discussed 'Domain system', and which handled large scale agricultural and industrial (such as it was) production for your clan's NPC population, including those in cities outside the main one. It also allowed for trading, and created a mini game where once a year or two we'd all go mad looking at spreadsheets and meeting in bars to trade dead birds for baskets, or occasionally go out and personally genocide the entire moose population of a grid square to manually fill food needs (hi)
- Speaking of that, hunting, which was basically the only place you had 'aggro' mobs in the game under normal circumstances
- Fishing, with poles or nets. My little Zin-rat commoner child made some sweet cash selling lobsters to a princess (lobster bisque was a favorite high-quality energy meal)
- messengers/mail delivery, including of objects, including objects that are technically creatures, like sending people a swarm of bees in the mail (same character)
There doesn't seem much mention of it but obviously there were also the big trademark things like crafting and combat. As a subset of this, staff could custom code magic equipment, and there were various magical weapons, divine trinkets, and so on floating around the playerbase. They could impart stat bonuses or do other things. Famously, there were also case-by-case coded powers for the demigod/Lanesh folks. These included everything from invisbility to summoning objects, spy code of different sorts, and combat powers that did damage or changed stats.
I thought there was something about having to go to the bathroom? Of course, I could be remembering incorrectly all together. It has been 17 years since I RPed there.
"Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here." - ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
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@TiredEwok Like I said, there was a pregnancy emit.
To clarify for the class, the game included random intermittent 'mood emits,' that were sort of like ambient weather messages you might see on other games but which were sent directly to a player. They were random and mostly pretty ridiculous (one of them was about thinking monkeys are funny), and were theoretically just RP prompts. As you can imagine, the total # was limited and it wasn't long before you saw them all and most people ignored them.
Some emits were sex specific; a bunch of the male ones were about being randomly horny, for instance. While codedly pregnant, characters got special versions of these related to their condition. Needing to go to the bathroom was one of these. There was also one for craving a food item, and it selected randomly among all consumables and animal products, so it was possible to end up craving deadly poison or things that weren't strictly edible.
But there was no actual way to go to the bathroom or otherwise respond to or stop the emit, and no penalty for not doing so (same with the cravings). It was probably confusing to some new players who might have assumed they did need to react to it (waiting for the 'I locked in a room with a goat needing to pee' story in 3...2...1...).
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@TiredEwok said in Things Coded in Firan:
I thought there was something about having to go to the bathroom? Of course, I could be remembering incorrectly all together. It has been 17 years since I RPed there.
Probably thinking of bathing. There was code that described your character smelling as an added line on their desc based on how recently you bathed. This meant every character coming off the roster also stunk, iirc.
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Also pooping and peeing on Firan not being coded was a common Firan meme.
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@SparklesTheClown said in Things Coded in Firan:
Also pooping and peeing on Firan not being coded was a common Firan meme.
Pooping wasn't a thing. I'm fairly certain that people didn't have anuses.
He/Him
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@Tinuviel said in Things Coded in Firan:
@SparklesTheClown said in Things Coded in Firan:
Also pooping and peeing on Firan not being coded was a common Firan meme.
Pooping wasn't a thing. I'm fairly certain that people didn't have anuses.
That'd explain why I never did anal on Firan.
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@SparklesTheClown said in Things Coded in Firan:
@Tinuviel said in Things Coded in Firan:
@SparklesTheClown said in Things Coded in Firan:
Also pooping and peeing on Firan not being coded was a common Firan meme.
Pooping wasn't a thing. I'm fairly certain that people didn't have anuses.
That'd explain why I never did anal on Firan.
I'm also fairly certain that was the reason they decided not to have anuses.
He/Him
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Coded fires. I remember it being one of my character's duties to check the barrels of sand were kept full for fighting them.
Water: Needed for agriculture. Had to collect that and cart it in, unless your land was irrigated.
Deeds: You could go to some legal building and search for all judgements passed on a character. Granting of land, appointments, punishments etc. Was a pretty nice function and looked like this: Taleo made the following judgment on Firan time: 09:21:32 AM on Sat Jan 10, in the year 25 A.U.: Lady Aldrissa, Lord Battus, Lady Nevra, Lord Quintallus, and their children of proper birth within the Ista Barun name are here by granted full rights and privileges of nobility within the Bear Clan. Their land outside the Chimeran District is transferred along with the Ista Barun name. Welcome House Ista Barun, of the Bears! The Ista Barun family will sign over the two plots of land each to the Ista Aldrik family and the Teranzik family.
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@Tinuviel said in Things Coded in Firan:
@SparklesTheClown said in Things Coded in Firan:
@Tinuviel said in Things Coded in Firan:
@SparklesTheClown said in Things Coded in Firan:
Also pooping and peeing on Firan not being coded was a common Firan meme.
Pooping wasn't a thing. I'm fairly certain that people didn't have anuses.
That'd explain why I never did anal on Firan.
I'm also fairly certain that was the reason they decided not to have anuses.
this has been dumb forever. There's lots about firan to criticize or mock legitimately but gamerunners wanting to handwave stuff they don't want to code or deal with RP about is perfectly reasonable.
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@Kanye-Qwest said in Things Coded in Firan:
@Tinuviel said in Things Coded in Firan:
@SparklesTheClown said in Things Coded in Firan:
@Tinuviel said in Things Coded in Firan:
@SparklesTheClown said in Things Coded in Firan:
Also pooping and peeing on Firan not being coded was a common Firan meme.
Pooping wasn't a thing. I'm fairly certain that people didn't have anuses.
That'd explain why I never did anal on Firan.
I'm also fairly certain that was the reason they decided not to have anuses.
this has been dumb forever. There's lots about firan to criticize or mock legitimately but gamerunners wanting to handwave stuff they don't want to code or deal with RP about is perfectly reasonable.
I don't think anyone actually wants anuses, it's just funny to comment on the lack of them.
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@TiredEwok said in Things Coded in Firan:
It has been 17 years since I RPed there.
Why? Why did you have to go and throw that out there? We were all getting along and now I feel attacked.... and old. Old and attacked.
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@Rowan said in Things Coded in Firan:
Deeds: You could go to some legal building and search for all judgements passed on a character. Granting of land, appointments, punishments etc. Was a pretty nice function and looked like this: Taleo made the following judgment on Firan time: 09:21:32 AM on Sat Jan 10, in the year 25 A.U.: Lady Aldrissa, Lord Battus, Lady Nevra, Lord Quintallus, and their children of proper birth within the Ista Barun name are here by granted full rights and privileges of nobility within the Bear Clan. Their land outside the Chimeran District is transferred along with the Ista Barun name. Welcome House Ista Barun, of the Bears! The Ista Barun family will sign over the two plots of land each to the Ista Aldrik family and the Teranzik family.
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@RightMeow said in Things Coded in Firan:
@TiredEwok said in Things Coded in Firan:
It has been 17 years since I RPed there.
Why? Why did you have to go and throw that out there? We were all getting along and now I feel attacked.... and old. Old and attacked.
Hey now! I don't feel young myself for having admitted that!
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@Kanye-Qwest said in Things Coded in Firan:
@Tinuviel said in Things Coded in Firan:
@SparklesTheClown said in Things Coded in Firan:
@Tinuviel said in Things Coded in Firan:
@SparklesTheClown said in Things Coded in Firan:
Also pooping and peeing on Firan not being coded was a common Firan meme.
Pooping wasn't a thing. I'm fairly certain that people didn't have anuses.
That'd explain why I never did anal on Firan.
I'm also fairly certain that was the reason they decided not to have anuses.
this has been dumb forever. There's lots about firan to criticize or mock legitimately but gamerunners wanting to handwave stuff they don't want to code or deal with RP about is perfectly reasonable.
There was a few people, apparently, that were using the ol' butthole to get around the eesha (that is to say breeding) code. Staff did one of their snap judgements and came up with the idea that the butt is purely decorative.
No, I don't know either.
