Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning

[Pyrephox]

@kitteh Honestly, that happens a lot in Arx lore. There's a lot of written lore in room descs and backgrounds and various files that implies or outright states things which are later stated to be entirely incorrect by staff in channels. It's my hope that as things reach final release, all of the relevant lore (especially the stuff that should be informing character actions) will finally get collected somewhere, and the room descs, files, and backgrounds will be given a good going over to develop some level of agreement.

[tangent]

@mietze I have actually seen this phenomenon in real life. One of my students will do a thing where, in times where the class is sort of in flux, will move his head directly in front of mine and the person I am speaking with in the room. It is the weirdest thing. You'd think it would be an accident or something, but it happens three or four times a week. It's not like he's looking at me trying to gauge my response. It's just him purposely trying to get in the way of two people who are communicating where he is not one of the participants.

[tangent]

@tangent said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

@mietze I have actually seen this phenomenon in real life. One of my students will do a thing where, in times where the class is sort of in flux, will move his head directly in front of mine and the person I am speaking with in the room. It is the weirdest thing. You'd think it would be an accident or something, but it happens three or four times a week. It's not like he's looking at me trying to gauge my response. It's just him purposely trying to get in the way of two people who are communicating where he is not one of the participants.

I meant this in response to the idea that people just drop in on scenes and sort of ruin them for their own fun, but maybe not for the same attention we might expect.

[Maira]

@icanbeyourmuse I feel your pain. I hate imposing, or forcing myself into RP, it makes me uncomfortable and certain that I'm intruding. Even with people that I am friends with somewhat outside of that particular game, I still am super careful.

The issue is, that can come across as stand offish, or like you don't actually want to be included. Or worse, passive aggressive. And even knowing all that, it's still a struggle to invite yourself in! Totally.

[3543thrh67]

@Maira Totally this! I try to be friendly OOc (on channels, in OOC talks, etc) to stave off the stand offish thing. My friends generally know how I am so when I show up at a scene where they are they yank me into it. Then I try engaging new people to the scene by waving or smiling at them so they don't feel forced to join in but to at least let them know they can.

[Ominous]

@Apos I can't see not setting, really. It's been ingrained since the first day I started playing MUSHes. Generally, I keep it to the basics - time of day, weather conditions (usually restating whatever the server weather code has), how crowded the area is, and the current states of the characters involved in the scene.

A good set should give a recent arrival enough of a summary to quickly visualize what everyone else is hopefully visualizing, and a couple of poses after it should give enough material for the new arrivals to respond to.

[Thenomain]

@Ominous

Here I am going to extensively agree with you:

I believe that the first group in the space gets the set. They pass it along to the next incoming group, and so on and so forth. This doesn't mean that an incoming group or person can't say, "Can we have it raining instead?" (To which most people will almost certainly say, "It wasn't earlier, but sure, it could be now!" Try to say yes before saying no.)

I also agree 110% that it's rude to enter a scene and not wait for a simple update. In my circles, we wait for a round of poses (assuming only 3 or so people to wait for), but the next poser tends to fill in. Pages are also quite a good way to send a basic situation report to incoming people.

It all starts with the people who were first in the play-space. They made the first effort, so I sincerely believe that anyone who arrives after should respect their initial set.

[tek]

@Cupcake said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

Since they're officially on the roster, here's the info on House Riven:

Countess Mia Riven

Count Thesarin Riven

Lord Nigel Riven

Dame Esoka Greenblood

Dame Irisa Wainryte

Huge, HUGE shout out to @saosmash for writing these and working with me to come up with the premise of House Riven!

Awwww, yeah. Thank you for making this! I'm playing Nigel and loving it.

[Misadventure]

Code me a +set-note. That if present people will see under the Desc. Have its basic form be a guide. "Action scene in progress? Altered description/situation? Set-IC-time different from +time? Set-IC-weather different from +weather? "

Give it an 4 hour timer and an easy +clear.

Sort of like +lastpose, but requires responsibility. And code. And more responsibility.

[Sunny]

@Misadventure

Many things you have suggested in this thread are things that are already in the game.

[Cupcake]

@tek: My pleasure, though I can't take all the credit, @saosmash did the hero's portion of work.

Now we just need Mia, Thesarin, and Esoka...

[Misadventure]

@Sunny Okay.

Like what?

[Deviante]

@Misadventure There is a room mood code that you can add during RP that involves action or an event that is going on. When you actually set an event on the calendar, it allows you to set a room description that everyone will see when they step into the room for the scene and every time you look at the room you will see that desc again. You can customize it to any color you want, too.

If you type 'time' without +time, you will see the IC time like "It's an Autumn day, in the morning.
Today's date: 11/20/1005 AR. Current time: 7:04

[tek]

@Cupcake said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

@tek: My pleasure, though I can't take all the credit, @saosmash did the hero's portion of work.

Now we just need Mia, Thesarin, and Esoka...

We may have rangled everyone but Mia!

[Cupcake]

Reposting this here, especially for those who might need some persuading but want to give Arx a go:

I'm earnestly looking for people to take on the husband and wife team of Thesarin and Mia Riven, Count and Countess of Twainfort. Aside from the personal badassery listed on their sheets, they come with:

• An awesome liege lord (c'est moi!)

• A county with basic outline of recent history and product export already in place but also easily expanded

• Vassal PCs already in play! Your household is waiting for you!

• Samantha already has jobs (translation: rp hooks!) to hand out to her vassals as soon as they're out of the gate!

• Quite possibly some of the easiest get started play you can hope to have, so by all means, check them out!

Mia: http://play.arxgame.org/character/sheet/9971/
Thesarin: http://play.arxgame.org/character/sheet/10387/

[Arkandel]

Kudos to Tehom, a feature request I put in was implemented within an hour... that's pretty responsive.

The issue in particular was that I had a private +event in (which don't show up on +events for anyone except those invited) but someone else put a big political +event later on (with possible ties to the metaplot) an hour before mine. Although "there's too many things to do!" is a really nice problem to have, it still sucks for players to have to choose which one to attend one day and have none the next.

[3543thrh67]

@Arkandel What feature?

[Arkandel]

@icanbeyourmuse It now warns you if you try it. If there's an +event already at 18:00, even if it's private and you're not invited, and you try to set an +event at 17:00 it'll let you know.

[3543thrh67]

@Arkandel Oooh. That is cool

[Sparks]

@Arkandel said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

@icanbeyourmuse It now warns you if you try it. If there's an +event already at 18:00, even if it's private and you're not invited, and you try to set an +event at 17:00 it'll let you know.

Oh, that's nice! Tonight's event was the second time that's happened to me.