Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning
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I play an OC in a rather confined role. My advice if you do go the route of creating an OC: make sure that you talk to those in the @org that you intend on joining at length. Make sure they're going to stick around, make sure that they're going to be available for play, make sure they're going to keep you involved. It's one thing to regularly remind people that you're willing to get involved, it's another for the olive branch to actually be extended. Mind, that doesn't mean that I'm unhappy with Arx. So far I'm loving the game. I just recognize that very specific choice for an OCs role, devoid of established family, and generally devoid of much beyond his little tower has limited my own options. It forces you to be far more proactive in your pursuit of role play, which is ultimately only half the battle while being everything one can do for the most part.
Staff on Arx has previously been pretty vocal that they don't wish to hold new players of a @roster character too closely to what a previous incarnation had going on. There's some liberty available for players to do what they wish with a character, within reason(I imagine). Like, if you decide your style doesn't mesh with Jim, then there's not a problem with your character becoming distant from Jim. I suspect that it's sweeping changes they want to avoid. The devout clergyman of the past 40 years suddenly deciding he wants to become a courtesan, or something. This segment is considerably shorter only because I have not played a @roster character yet, so I have less insight there.
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@Faceless said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
Staff on Arx has previously been pretty vocal that they don't wish to hold new players of a @roster character too closely to what a previous incarnation had going on. There's some liberty available for players to do what they wish with a character, within reason(I imagine). Like, if you decide your style doesn't mesh with Jim, then there's not a problem with your character becoming distant from Jim. I suspect that it's sweeping changes they want to avoid. The devout clergyman of the past 40 years suddenly deciding he wants to become a courtesan, or something. This segment is considerably shorter only because I have not played a @roster character yet, so I have less insight there.
Well, that would be playing off-sheet at that point.
Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
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@Ominous thank you for that astute observation.
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We are trying to get around to different players and offer them hooks and NPC interaction and GMing. We've had a bit of a flood of new players, though, and I know for me personally I am not even close to being familiar with all of them. I have a feeling I might know which @org you are talking about, but if not, mind telling me which it is? I don't want anyone floundering lonely, and maybe there's something we can do!
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I know exactly why I'm in the situation that I'm in. My above comments were not a complaint, merely an observation. As I said I've been enjoying myself on Arx, it's been a delightful change of pace for me from my normal genre(s). I recognize that it's a matter of remaining patient and essentially waiting my/our turn and that's okay. While I'm okay with waiting in the wings I know that not every new player to a game is okay with that. They want to jump into the action with both feet and hit the ground at a sprint.
So, again, don't take my observations as complaint or even a negative mark on the game. Arx is a good game, solid staff, and friendly players. My words should be taken purely as advice and not a warning.
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Uh huh uh huh not what I asked, chum!
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@Kanye-Qwest shaddup.
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@Thenomain said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
@Tehom said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
@WTFE said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
@Meg said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
They have an easy application
They want an email for application. That's an instant "nope!" here. On two grounds:
- I don't know them from a hole in the ground. I'm not going to hand them my email.
- If(f) they think this somehow "secures" things they're too stupid to staff.
I don't know (or care) if #2 is true or not. #1 is sufficient grounds for turning and walking away.
I am honestly confused how anyone could ever imagine that an email would be anything more than a convenience for automating the application process so that a GM doesn't have to be on hand.
Because there have been several times in the past where people have taken those email addresses and abused the trust of the people who've asked for them. We here, esp. us dinos like WTFE and myself, have been over this and we can't come up with a considerately valid reason why having the email in the first place has more benefits than risks.
My first post to WORA was the story of how staff at SerenityMU* shared the email address I gave during registration with a player who tried to convince me to rejoin the game. A few years later, I got a LinkedIn invitation from Brice, the whiny little bitch who co-owned the game with his "Rape Plot of the Week" wife Brooke, at that same email address.
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@BetterJudgment said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
A few years later, I got a LinkedIn invitation from Brice, the whiny little bitch who co-owned the game with his "Rape Plot of the Week" wife Brooke, at that same email address.
LinkedIn really does cover EVERY vocation, doesn't it?
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@Catsmeow said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
@BetterJudgment said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
A few years later, I got a LinkedIn invitation from Brice, the whiny little bitch who co-owned the game with his "Rape Plot of the Week" wife Brooke, at that same email address.
LinkedIn really does cover EVERY vocation, doesn't it?
<chucklesnort>
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Did Arx just crash for anyone else?
"If you stand for nothing Burr, what will you fall for?"
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Yep.
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LOL, and back!
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I'm guessing we had a runaway process that needed killing before the restart could complete.
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@Kanye-Qwest Was that process DawnAmbition.bat? >_>
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Well it's not the funny reply but no, I think Apostate tried to create a channel that already existed.
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Double post, since we had our very own troll guest(s) last night. Awwww, it's like a MU milestone.
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Whenever a troll logs in, a MU gets it's wings.
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The big question is have you have Jill for a Guest yet?
That is when you know you have truly succeeded as a game. -
Log, or it didn't happen!
"If you stand for nothing Burr, what will you fall for?"
-- Hamilton: An American Musical
