Eldritch - A World of Darkness MUX

[Arkandel]

@Coin Well, to be fair, neither does your face.

[HelloRaptor]

@Thenomain said:

I'm awaiting the hot debate whether or not "human" is a minor template.

If you mean template as in the general design/outline used to format something in a specific way, then technically every race would be a template.

In terms of RPGs a template generally refers to taking a base set of stats and then adding to/altering it based on a template, in which case 'human' is the base other templates are applied to.

Unless you're making some kind of existentialist joke, in which case .

[Thenomain]

@HelloRaptor said:

@Thenomain said:

I'm awaiting the hot debate whether or not "human" is a minor template.

If you mean template as in the general design/outline used to format something in a specific way, then technically every race would be a template.

In terms of RPGs a template generally refers to taking a base set of stats and then adding to/altering it based on a template, in which case 'human' is the base other templates are applied to.

Unless you're making some kind of existentialist joke, in which case .

I said minor template, dork.

And yes, I was also making some kind of existentialist joke, both about "races" in WoD and about nerds being nerds.

[Coin]

@Thenomain, your face is a nerd.

[tragedyjones]

In nWoD terms, template applies to your supernatural type - there is a Demon Template, a Werewolf Template, a Vampire Template, etc.

So no, humans/ghouls/wolfblooded/stigmatics etc are not, by game terms, a template.

However, I can confirm @Coin's face is.

[Eerie]

@tragedyjones said:

However, I can confirm @Coin's face is.

We're going to be sphere-capping @Coin's face apps at 1, because many highly obvious reasons.

[Wizz]

There goes my entire concept, screw this game. Sounds like a staff playground to me.

[HelloRaptor]

She means one per person, you'll be fine.

You just can't play two, because.... waiiit. I think we're on to something here.

Hmm.

Hmmmm.

Hmmmmmmmm.

Nope, nevermind, seems legit.

[Thenomain]

Who the hell carries around a double-headed coin before they become a villain?

What? A lawyer?

Oh, carry on, then.

[Ganymede]

@Thenomain

Hey. Fuck you.

You wish you were as cool as us.

[Thenomain]

I am trying something new.

I am going to have the 'staff' command list staffers who are connected, but dark.

I don't want to be disappointed. The purpose of this is to discourage staffers from being dark for very long (i.e., their entire staffing careers), and to see if players can be asked to be responsible toward them.

This may be a short-lived experiment, but it's one that I would like to see if fits with the game's staff philosophy, and if that philosophy will survive new staff that may be needed if popularity rises.

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[Thenomain]

Perhaps. This is a pretty heavy experiment right now, and if planning or execution fail then it's insanely easy to turn this all back off. At the moment, it's not possible to see the connection or idle time of dark staff, and it's possible to list 'there are xx dark staff on right now'.

I believe it's important for staff to be able to remove themselves from the general who list (yes, there's a @power for that), and not be visible in deeper scenes.

We'll see.

[Three-Eyed Crow]

Spoiler: People are gonna be dicks.

[Thenomain]

@Three-Eyed-Crow said:

Spoiler: People are gonna be dicks.

I don't know about you, but I'm tired of being afraid to try things because of what people might do. I see no harm for trying, and it fits (or at least doesn't break) our staff philosophy of letting adults be adults.

I'm not assuming it's going to be a rousing success, but I do know that being an optimist once in a while allows me to learn quite a lot on how to implement something on similar lines in the future, or even in the now.

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[Sundown]

I feel that this is a good experiment to try and develop a more understanding player culture. It's kinda good to see dark staffers connected, that way you know there's people working on the game. But it also keeps dark staffers accountable, because they know people can see it.

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[Thenomain]

@RDC said:

I think it's more a passive-aggressive way to tell staff you don't like their behavior.

Then staff should stop passive-aggressively pissing on the game by spending 99% of their online time dark.

Joking aside (mostly), I would be happy to find a more solid way to say, "This behavior is okay, in some circumstances and not others" without being a dick when someone crosses the line, especially when the line is not black-and-white, which we Mu*ers seem to worship beyond reason.

I've thought of a few ways to make this clearer, myself. For instance: On-Duty, Off-Duty, and Too Busy For Anything But What I'm Doing Right Now. I don't see that it has to be passive-aggressive, and I don't see that a useful tool needs to be taken away.

Experiment away, it doesn't really affect me much

It may surprise you, but your points of validity and consequence are making me think about this far more than your throw-away statements.

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