Posts made by Arkandel

@mietze See, Reno's situation reminds me a bit of Vampire@HM - it was kinda like that. Very little staff intervention but a good cast of characters spread out across at least a couple of Covenants... and once people realized that yes, there was nothing governing their steps or hand-feeding them roleplay but there was also nothing in the way of doing with the sphere as they bloody well liked, they took over. The results were great.

I actually think Reno sits kinda on the edge of such a set of circumstances. It could just be that nothing continues to happen and people drift away... or we might collectively look around and realize some of us are pretty damn good roleplayers. I've had great scenes there in both Vampire and (in a PrP) Werewolf; there's no lack of talent.

But flagship players need to lead. I don't just mean 'ranks' here - fuck ranks. I mean lead, take charge, create roleplay for others and generate interest.

From my end I've got a social/political PrP scheduled for this Thursday on Vampire set at the Elysium. Grab a seat.

I'm not saying in any way there isn't valid criticism to be had here. On the contrary; Reno seems to have been created by, shall we say, cutting corners very liberally. It's clearly been rushed - when it opened we still didn't know basic things about the game ("which Covenant is the Prince from?"), the wiki was a mess, the grid was missing basic builds... it's like the game was launched trying to do the least work possible. Even today the IC information we have about the setting is, to be generous, quite scarce.

Those are valid things to complain about.

But complaining about +jobs being slow after we've been told they will be slow seems silly. In fact it can prove very counter-productive; I'd rather they take a long time than Wendigo being forced to hire bad people just to make the trains run on time.

@Lithium The problem with all this isn't that you are wrong. It's that you are neglecting to mention the fact staff has repeatedly said as much - they are having issues finding people to handle jobs, and are unable to meet the volume of +jobs.

In other words we haven't been promised anything else than what we're given. If you don't like it you can walk away - I don't mean that in a flippant fashion or as a flame but .... what do you expect them to do?

The cards are on the table. Stay or go.

@Kairmine Not that some prose isn't always nice to set the tone, but since you're advertising a game can we have more information about it in the post than its name?

This is from A Moment in Tyme circa... probably 1997ish. It only shows the White Tower people on at the time since I couldn't find a fuller one in my logs - I guess I wasn't spamming myself with the whole thing back then.

< 3519H 2809M 1094V ><0><85>100/100(s) (hu) (th)(doing) >
who -t
Players

Shalayne Aldiere
Khyran - INATGTGTW,FB!GAFSWC&DD
Jakob Malben [WardersDoItInBondage]
Cadwin {Seravin}
Eilin Feyth [Farmer|Pranky]
Vallara Rathian [Narsil][Mashiara]
{Aes Sedai Leader} Karlia is braving the onslaught.
Kaigenrei NotBondingUntilTheresATealAjah
Cohl
Elphaba - Hey pig...yeah, you..
{Warder Leader} Rinan De'Lin [Decepticon]
(RP) Touron is back for good
(RP) Jezz dae'Jaeyen seeks Toriko
Bretta Vanley (afk)
Joven I'm OOC. Lemme alone.
{Aes Sedai Leader} Lindria Del'vere [Aes Sedai][Red Ajah]
Jamis Halsyth
Valaur Brys Trensieni [Manshima]
(RP) Narsil Grimm [Vallara][Gaidin]
Kinmourn "InThisTogetherWeAreNow"
Svoran is OOCoocOOCooc
Sanyth [read my description]
Melkoloran [Elphaba] [Shady Milkman] (afk)

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@Auspice The truth? You can't handle the truth!

The pain in your chest wasn't random. That cat was hungry as the food dish was only half-full at the time; you just woke up too early.

@Auspice That was beautiful.

@Olsson Mags Bennett was, hands down, my favorite villain in the show, but that's because Margo Martindale is an amazing actress.

If you want to watch something...similar though, try Banshee. Again, the first couple of seasons are much better than the last.

@Auspice Yeah, I'm willing to cut a lot of slack for RL things.

I don't think there's a game out even in the planning stages that could get me back on a staff roster. I'm happily running plot for Reno but that's it.

@Olsson I loved the seasons up to the last one. The last... not as much. Thoughts?

Also I thought the first seasons' villains were better than the second half of the series.

@Auspice This thankfully didn't happen to me but to one of my neighbors years ago. She was walking down a street in the middle of nowhere and this car stops at the side of the road. The driver calmly goes to the back seat, takes his dog out, puts him down, gets back into the car and drives away... while the dog chases the car, excited at first because I guess it was a game, and then panicked when the realization hit that it was not until it was exhausted and just had to stop.

How you can do that to a creature who loves you utterly is beyond me. I don't have words for it. I get sometimes people must give pets up because they can't afford them or whatever and that sucks but it's understandable; doing it because they become an inconvenience, or to trade up makes me think thoughts I'd rather avoid.

I don't want to jinx it but one of humanity's moon-walking astronauts had to be air-lifted out of of the South Pole due to some sort of emergency. I will not write his name here. Come on, 2016, fuck off.

People are assholes.

@Lithium said in Shadows Over Reno:

I just want to get approved. There's been enough good about the game to make me want to play and greater than 72 hour turnaround on a fucking /note/ is getting to be bullshit. The note was set within a couple hours. This is stupid. I'm watching people who applied after me get approved before me, in my sphere.

Yeah, my Werewolf waited for 11 days in CGen and the last 3 were mostly comprised of going back and forth with stuff like "anything else missing?" "no, I'm good, except maybe a staff note for <X> as we discussed?" "Okay, read the note and tell me if it's okay?" "yep, it's okay, thanks", "anything else?" "nope!" when they could have just approved him and done the back and forth on minor details afterwards.

But they are very understaffed in general so expectations have to be managed.

@Cobaltasaurus Yep, I'll help with plot.

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

@Kanye-Qwest said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

It's ok for a character to plot and want to destroy another character politically, but yeah, I'd definitely not allow it for the sole purpose of screwing a player over. (Note, I was certain that was a pithy comment on Custodius and not an actual game plan)

Well, so much for the slutty-bunny I was putting together.

ANOTHER one?

@Sunny Yeah, creating a character for the purpose of manipulating people OOC to get an IC result sounds pretty bad. I assumed it was a joke though, not a suggestion.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/canadian-cops-well-punish-drunk-drivers-with-nickelback-165352360.html

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

@Sunny I am really, really conflicted about what to do re: Max. I hate the idea of being "tainted" by involvement with the character, but his current situation provides a perfect plot opportunity for me to push one of my girl's agendas. I'm not sure where it all evens out or whether it's worth taking the risk. Advice?

Equally as unsolicited as others' but I advise against further involvement. Even 100% reliable staff can only act after the fact, not before, so it depends on whether you think the player in question will eventually show how he got this bad reputation or if you believe he'll be able to restrain himself.

Should the former happen though you stand only to lose from any ongoing association and all anyone can do is limit your losses, which by definition are at their smallest right now.

@skew said in Pose Order Machine for TinyMUX:

So far, there have been no issues reported (though, admittedly, there are only a few people using it).

Culturally we're slow to adopt new commands but there are some large +events coming up (the Vampire and Werewolf intro scenes have 12 and 16 signups respectively). Making sure it's used for those, since they're staff-ran, could go some way into getting picked up by people in their everyday scenes.