Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning
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I do wish I could chat with people beyond Grayson, but yeh... the Public channel is hella spammy on Arx. Or was before I just gave up and turned it off. There's no way in hell I could even hope to keep up with it.
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This game is a huge change for me in terms of setup but it's fun so far and the staff has all been super friendly. I'm having fun!
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@Roz Yeah, I'll give them another chance after they get out of beta (alpha? not sure
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I'm sure people could correct me on my use of terms, but here's how I'm defining them for my own purposes:
Alpha: Putting in core systems and testing them and seeing base functionality. No GMing pretty much at all or story movement, so it's effectively a sandbox, with just some light seeding of story elements as a prologue. I was not expecting us to be this busy at this point in the game, and I absolutely do not blame anyone if they are like, 'I can't find things to do or feel it's difficult to get involved or code is too hard to use and offputting'. Those are all extremely fair criticisms and a lot of those things just aren't ones I'm focusing on right now, since there's too many core aspects I'm working on that I think would help long term sustainability. Also a fair criticism to say I should expedite things to help people have easier access now when they are hyped, but I see it as a trade off. It is very reasonable for a lot of people to not be interested in the game in this state, which is where we are right now.
Beta: When it's no longer a sandbox, and we're actively GMing and moving the story forward, and see how a lot of the macro systems work in progress. I view it as entirely possible I could have made a catastrophic mistake or two that will make revamps necessary as I see how things come together, which is why I'd prefer to call it a beta in the full knowledge I might have to wildly tweak systems, and this is where we hope to really put in most of the systems that would help players create their own story long term. Dynamic rooms, storytelling support for PRPs, and similar systems.
Release: Probably will aim for when the first major chapter of the opening story is done, to coincide with me being satisfied that no major system will need to be completely overturned or there will be a need for mass retcons and things like that. Where I picture a reasonably consistent continuity and if I dropped dead of a heart attack the game wouldn't immediately lapse into stasis even if the metaplot stalled.
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I also really appreciate that the original theme is aggressively non-sexist (apart from that one jerk Great House) because so often in fantasy themes people are like BUT IT HAS TO HAVE SEXISM BECAUSE HISTORICAL ACCURACY as if all medieval-ish themes have to somehow reflect specifically those aspects of our own medieval era. Because elves are totally conceivable, but lack of sexism is way too unbelievable. It's nice to have one place where it's just like, nope we just don't have that as part of our fantasy world.
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I've only RPed a couple of times since I apped due to general busy, but I'm also having fun here and apparently trying to drag all my friends after me by their hair, so.
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So everyone's super nice here except for this one guy Leo who's just a REAL FUCKING ASSHOLE. I don't know what crawled up his butt, JEEZ.
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@Roz Are you Leo?
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@lordbelh My character's definitely an asshole, but no. This is a very SERIOUS and SINCERE complaint about Leo's TERRIBLE PLAYER.
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This is why I stay off public com. It's way too spammy.
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I keep Pub off, too.
Grayson chan has been nothing but Awesome.
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I love pub. I am one of the ones contributing to spam though rather than helping, so there's that.
Everyone has been really fun here??
They have an easy application, staff are almost always available and full of energy to help, and even creating your own PC and its house isn't hard at all as long as you put in some effort into reading theme and figuring out what will work and what will not.
For what it's worth to people.
#FreeFarfalla
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@Roz said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
@lordbelh My character's definitely an asshole, but no. This is a very SERIOUS and SINCERE complaint about Leo's TERRIBLE PLAYER.
This is one of those variations of Poe's Law where, without smileys, I can't tell if it's a serious complaint or not. The all caps kind of says not but it's not definitive.
If it is serious, details.
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@Roz said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
This is a very SERIOUS and SINCERE complaint about Leo's TERRIBLE PLAYER.
I played Leo on Fallcoast briefly. I do not play Leo on Arx.
That is all.
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@Roz and Leo's player have decided they're best friends/deadly nemeses. Roz is teasing. Or trying to lure Leo's player out into the open because there are a hundred crossbows trained on this thread.
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... aimed at his knee.
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!! But he will have to retire to the Iron Guard if you shoot up his knees.
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I don't know who plays what character but I've been enjoying this game so much. And the pub channel rocks, spammy or not. The bromance between Leo and Valkieri is enough to just sit back and watch if I have nothing else going on.
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I have retired the character Gareth, so any future Gareths are not me. Just an FYI.
He/Him
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I'll miss you Gareth the 2nd.
