@Apu It's sometimes weird 2016 got such a reputation. Lots of people die every year, celebrities included. I guess we might be running out of legends in general - I find it easier to care about Jack Nicholson or Kirk Douglas than Sly Stallone or something even though I grew up with the latter.
@Cupcake Spoilers? The latest episode aired on December 20, 2015!
@Arkandel: I will talk about Into the Badlands to your heart's content, sir.
MAKE IT SO.
Wtf happened at the end? How are they gonna bring the gang together!
@Pyrephox, @Apos, I don't know which games you jerks have you been playing but where I'm at if you're willing to set then people will adore you for it, not object to your choices of ambience. 
I've encountered a hell of a lot of silence following 'hey, anyone else wants to set?' than 'HELL NO you did not just pose it was raining!'.
@surreality March 19! In fact that's what caught my attention, I didn't know it existed until I saw the season 2 thing and looked into it.
How is no one talking about Into The Badlands?
It had its flaws but I loved it. Asian martial arts meets hyper-stylized post-apocalyptic American south.
@mietze said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
There are a handful of folks seemingly on any game that get a lot of enjoyment at disrupting others for their own amusement. I don't think it's about attention from other people in the usual sense, just satisfaction about getting to do it, or the sense that they have an audience (that they really don't want interaction from). I have seen it on Shadowrun/WoD/original theme/Battlestar/Fading Suns/you name it.
Yeah, that's totally a thing. My favorite was this guy who came into a scene at a bar I was at and the first thing he posed, before even waiting to see what we were up to, was describe how he was all bloodied up because a mob had jumped him outside and he needed help.
Like... dude. Ask first at least.
@Jaded I didn't like the first two episodes at least. I don't know why. But I've never read the books and didn't care for the movie, so it might be it's just not my thing.
@lordbelh said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
In real life socializing what you describe happens, too. And the natural inclination is for people to organically split up into smaller groups at their own tables (or even just corner of tables), and shadowy recesses, etc.
The equivalent in real life is that you go and sit at your table with your two friends, but another six people are standing in the middle of the room raising their voice so their volume is the same as the ones next to you.
If places were mandatory or there was a filter so you only saw what's happening on it then yes, that'd be true. I guess a spawned window might help.
But this isn't just me griping about a theoretical issue. You've been in those scenes and you've seen people go 'sorry, this is too big for me to handle' and leave, right?
@Roz said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
Honestly, I tend to be welcoming enough in public scenes 75% of the time that I don't feel bad if 15% of the time I need to hide in places when other folks enter. And if there's more than one new person about, they can clearly just RP with each other, so I don't feel bad about that, either.
How do you handle the spam though since not everyone is using a place? It's usually my problem... well, that and people reacting to everything anyone is saying, so I have 6 people trying to talk to my PC at once which gets pretty weird if I try to visualize it.
Re: votes, I would like them to not be shared across alts. Even if I can't vote for the same character on both alts or something like that to try and mitigate that potential affect.
I like Arx is liberal about it. Is circlejerking a thing? I'm pretty damn sure it is, and not just for votes but tasks, investigations, etc as well. Trying to stop this though will eventually damage legitimate players and probably the special ones will work around it... and I say that as someone who doesn't do alts, so I've no horses in that race.
@Arkandel I'd hope so. If they aren't getting real interaction, they don't have to validate the claims and I'd hope they wouldn't. But it's kind of up to them and on the honor system, and I think that it's better to lean towards generosity on this as I think it DOES feel welcoming. I hope.
Oh, I agree. Perhaps what you guys could do is suggest (since you can't enforce) what the etiquette should be.
For example, mention right in the command help file that there should be roleplay taking place between the claimer and the newbie, not just posing in the same room. Right now that's kinda of a gray area - people walk in, have conversations with their existing friends ignoring the newbie but since it's taking place in the same room (and not coincidentally 
) they toss the claim.
It might also be a good idea to give the XPs to the newbie whether they validate or not (else they're penalizing themselves by not validating it, which won't happen) but give no way for the claimer to know if it was validated or not so there can't be OOC pressure about it.
Please note I am not suggesting to alter the way coded XP gain work - whatever's going on on Arx works and messing with the formula is probably a bad idea - but it's one of the byproducts of the system.
Everyone has 10 votes so, although that sounds like plenty, it really isn't. I routinely start to run out by mid to late week (didn't I say the game works just fine?) for instance. But the way around the limitation is by exploiting @randomscenes since there's no limit on those; any time more than a couple of newbies are in a scene somewhere in public there's a shameless feeding frenzy on those fuckers since there's a payout whether you're out of votes or not.
I'm not sure if it actually produces roleplay for them. I mean people flock to the scene but does it actually generate tangible returns other than the short term for them? I can't tell.
@Kanye-Qwest said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
Or do what you would do in reality. If your conversation in a public place has turned into something that really needs to be continued in private...go somewhere private. Stand up and make your goodbyes and go chat about your secret plot to overthrow the shadow government.
It's not a good example though because the issue isn't really privacy - you could be talking about completely non-confidential matters - but spam.
Let's say you're sitting at a bench in a park somewhere iRL. Sure, now and then you can hear someone's kid yelling something or a couple will go by, but for the most part you can have an undisturbed conversation with someone else.
Now take the exact same thing in a 'park' room on a MUSH. You may sitting at a 'bench' place so your poses are limited to it, but everyone else who's not is posing globally. So you are still spammed for the exact same volume as if no one else was using the places code.
Now if you argued people should use places then yes, I'd quite agree, but it's not the default (and places don't exist in every room, of course).
I'm enjoying Tyranny. Playing as the bad guy in RPGs is always neat, and it's got a very heavy emphasis on plot, dialogue and choices.
@Misadventure said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
Make a duplicate of the room in a RP space.
Sheesh, geta room.
You own room.
But that's not how many scenes work. It's not always (or even usually) that I go out and think "hey, I need to meet Bob to talk about the thing" because then yes, we have the option of meeting somewhere private or cloning a room.
A very sizable portion of my RP comes from simply walking into a room with a couple of other people and clicking with them about something. It's usually quite unplanned; in some cases we've never met before.
So it starts to happen, the poses quickly move out of the generic bar RP and into a thing then a forth person comes in. Cool, let's bring them over and...oh, a fifth person. Hey there, at least it'll flow faster now and... oh, a seventh and eighth. And now the topic is completely neutral again, everyone is resetting. And one of the initial people has to drop out because they can't keep up with the sudden influx of OOC spam (one of my biggest peeves, folks joining a scene and starting to chat OOC right in the room). Crud.
And then it's over, this is now a generic bar scene again.
Jokes aside I feel sorry for people who are having a meaningful scene in a public room before we all barge in like a hungry barbarian horde to grind @randomscenes. One piece of cultural etiquette that's missing is potential newcomers asking for permission first, since bloating a 3-person roleplay into an 11-person monstrosity just isn't cool.
Which I was guilty of today as well so I felt bad when people who were there before me started excusing themselves.
In public scenes it's so easy to tell between those who're only farming votes and those who're also farming votes.
@Thenomain said in RL Anger:
Root canal.
Let me elaborate: Not the root canal, but the cost. Oh dear effing lord! The skill and the charge seem to be in line, but having to pay that much for anything I'm not planning on always makes me rar grr.
A few years ago I had just arrived in Canada and I was waiting for my permanent residency application to be processed, so in the mean time I didn't have insurance. I chose to pay something like $400 to get a few months of health insurance from a private company, and I bemoaned the cost thinking it was too fucking much.
Hah.
Two days later I chipped a tooth. It was a Thursday night when it happened, and on Friday all the local dentists were out on a seminar so if I wanted to get treated I'd have to pay a hefty premium, and so I decided to wait for Monday.
The weekend in between... I don't recall ever being in so much pain for that long, before or since. Holy shit.
Anyway on Monday I got to a dentist and... let's just say the health insurance costs weren't even 20% of the actual money I ended up saving once I saw the bill. Dentistry is insane, man.
@Three-Eyed-Crow said in Need a Job/Place to Live?:
This is not a horror story. He was not a murderer and was a nice enough person, which is why she never had the heart to kick him out.
Was he trying to find a job and make some money? I can at least understand it if someone just can't get any money to contribute and they're essentially dependent on others with no concrete options. But if they can get a job - even if it's not the best one - and help out with the bills that person they're dependent on is paying... then they're not nice enough, you know?
Many of us have been down on their luck before due to circumstances. There was an entire year in which I could legally not work, and I hated it. But you still need to contribute in whatever ways you can.