@Jennkryst Okay, thanks.
Then it sounds like a question that can't be easily answered in a vacuum... to address it we'd know what the XP income for the game would be projected to be. If it's high then this change wouldn't matter (if I can buy all/most of the things what do I care about a discount?), but if it's low it becomes way more relevant.
What's the mindset behind the suggested change, @tragedyjones ?
@tragedyjones Riots in the streets. Doxxing.
What are Skill Groups?
@Apos Well, IIRC I was looking to buy basic gear. The helpfile includes commands to acquire it based on recipes, but it doesn't tell you what those recipes are. After asking around I went to the market (which the helpfile doesn't tell you but it's where the vendor is) and you can actually use those commands... but even intermediate swords cost orders of magnitude more than my nobleman had total - for starting equipment maybe you guys could adjust both the cost and quality to be lower. That way PC craftsmen actually make a difference and you can have an actual economy if you want one.
Automating PC-made equipment getting sold would be great, too. Yes, it can be a source of RP but some players don't necessarily want a scene every time they buy an item (and it's a fire-sure way to make craftsmen burn out if 90% of their scene requests involve selling pants and shirts - roleplaying being in retail isn't necessarily a blast 
).
A combat primer with examples would have gone a long way, too, maybe explaining a bit about the system and its mechanics.
@Cupcake said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
I really wish the helpfiles were more intuitive. Most of the helpfiles list the command and each switch, but doesn't really break down what each switch does.
When I played I had a hell of a time learning how to do basic things from the help files alone, but since it was in beta there was only so much I let it be an issue. For example gear was a huge thing for me - it was really not clear at all how you got it in the first place, including starting equipment, then figuring out how big a difference item tiers made in your effectiveness was also pretty vague... which was before I realised my nobleman was broke (and had to get a big loan ).
Stuff like that should be up front and centre since it's so fundamental, but until the game is officially open I don't know if it can be fairly criticised for it.
@Insomnia I think that's a bit different though. It wasn't an organised boycott to send a message that killed Shomi, it's that it was simply not competitive enough to survive; Netflix had way more stuff with a cleaner interface and at a very similar price.
@Sunny said in ISO OTT Players:
To be entirely honest, I'm not looking to answer a bunch of questions or explain my plans and whatnot.
Fair enough. If you want to let us know what the platform you'll be doing it over is (a generic MU*, Google Doc, Skype) it might make a difference to some people.
@Jennkryst How about Mr. Johnson? Corporate stooges, mission brokers... essentially quest-givers. With the risk that if a run goes wrong it could be traced back to them.
@TNP Given how closely Rogers is micromanaging and delaying it (which I assume is what the other providers are doing since competition would otherwise drive them to do so anyway) I'm kinda curious too.
Last year I didn't have that issue since there was a popular, cheap NBA streaming service I was subscribed to which disappeared overnight at some point. Now I'd have to look for decent streams per game, which is too much work. I just want to sit with a few slices of pizza and watch a game, not fuck around with links that work until they don't.
@Misadventure said in What would you want in a Shadowrun game?:
The idea of someone overturning the status quo by being hungrier is a thing in most cyberpunk games. So it sounds like SR would have no problem coming up with lots of ways to engage a player without doing official Runs?
That's absolutely true, but what are some of those ways?
Let's brainstorm about them. What other sustainable sources of RP can characters tap into when they're not on runs?
@Insomnia I spoke to them through rogers.ca (their 'chat with us' function) and on Facebook Messenger. The latter at least mentioned Dec 1 being a significant date... the rep on the former said nothing, just flat-out refused individual channels were gonna be a thing.
So as of 2016 Canadian TV companies are supposed to allow their subscribers to choose individual TV channels instead of just packs of them. That'd be lovely for me since I don't really care about TV other than news, but I want to watch NBA games so I need TSN 1-4 and Sportnet. A couple of them are offered through the mandatory basic bundle everyone gets, but the rest are only available through larger 'premium' bundles filled with sports I don't watch, like hockey, golf, etc.
I reached out to Rogers (my provider, not that Bell is that much better) and they offer no such thing. You can only still get only 'theme packs', natch, which comes down to $25 a month. In fact I reached out to them on Facebook and through their own web site and got two different answers - one rep said there'd be 'more information' after Dec 1, and the other than it flat-out won't happen and I needed to pick a bundle if I wanted those channels.
A quick search reveals this: "Since March 1, 2016, cable and satellite companies must offer channels EITHER individually OR in packages of up to 10 channels. As of December 1, 2016, channels will be offered BOTH individually AND in packages of up to 10 channels." So basically they are just trying to buy time until then, hoping people subscribe to packages without realising and then being too lazy (or still unaware) to switch.
Nice.
@Ganymede said in Dystopia MUX:
@Three-Eyed-Crow said in Dystopia MUX:
My concern with that stuff is always less about what I'm obligated to do (attractions are fleeting and can be RP'd around/downplayed) than what the other player will take it as license do. I've been on the receiving end of 'This flirtation we agreed to' became 'YOU ARE MY ONE TWU WUV NO YOU CAN'T SAY YOU'RE NOT IT IS DESTINY'. And that was with a player I thought I was on the same page with, not just some rando.
This is my concern as well.
Having been on stage and through improv, I'm aware that "romantically interested" doesn't really mean shit-all. But if the other party doesn't understand that "romantically interested" may be just a passing fancy or future tension, I really can't work with them.
It's still dangerous if instead of 'romantically interested' it's 'arranged marriage' (let alone 'marriage'). Obviously there's still a world of leeway there if people want to play it out without having to involve romance or sex, from white marriages of convenience to actual household warfare, but it's still potentially a recipe for disaster.
@Jennkryst said in What would you want in a Shadowrun game?:
Was being semi-facetious. I know that plots wont happen all the time... but! Bar-p is stupid. a@Jennkryst said in What would you want in a Shadowrun game?:
Was being semi-facetious. I know that plots wont happen all the time... but! Bar-p is stupid.
Of course, and (almost?) no one in their right mind will argue that point with you. It's just that when bar RP is an issue it's not so much that people want to do it all the time, it's that there's nothing else available to do, you know?
It's really common on almost every MU*. There are way more players sitting around with nothing to do than someone willing to run things for them. It's why spheres with politics (Vampire) tend to do better than those which are action-based (Werewolf); you can always go bicker with your rival PCs or plot their demise with your buddies but negotiating with or punching evil spirits requires someone to set it up. And that's a limited resource.
@BetterJudgment said in Dystopia MUX:
I was interested, but when I saw a character on the roster whose bio stated he has a romantic attraction to another PC, that turned me off. I don't want to play romance, and I especially don't want to play it with a stranger just because we picked particular characters off a roster.
It's the 'stranger' part that's the problem. Romantic/sexual IC attachments to random people is a no-no-hell-no.
@Jennkryst said in What would you want in a Shadowrun game?:
- How often would you want to go on runs vs have social scenes?
ALL RUNS ALL THE TIME.
Who's going to run all these, er, runs?
@Karmageddon said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
As an aside, I'm also not a fan of +task. It stresses me out, and I feel as though I have to do X, whatever X may be, Y many times if I don't want my character to fall behind or be ineffectual. It also makes me feel that I am not pulling my weight in my organization because I am not adding tangible-in-numbers value.
I can definitely see where you're coming from. But something to keep in mind is that, on the other hand, it limits those people who want every plot to be about them, and they have to steal the spotlight and do all of the things; by giving them a finite amount of background actions they can take per week it opens up some useful tasks for other players, too, not just those who get to play 24/7 or have meticulously crunched the numbers on their +sheets to be great at everything.
A secondary but important effect of this is it makes forming alliances and groups actually necessarily instead of just being social conveniences. If you want to keep up with competing factions or save the world or...whatever you are forced to find others to compliment your IC skills, or just so they can focus on one thing while you do another. Whereas for example a triple-Master on Mage@TR all that stuff was really pretty optional; they could have researched, investigated or scried all the things you could possibly throw at them, forever.
@tragedyjones I think the main challenge these days would be giving people things to RP about while not on a run.
Proving once again I don't know my audience, I really liked Pitch. And that's despite the fact I'm not fond and don't watch baseball (being European and all).
@Insomnia Hahah. Trust Germans to be meticulous about the things that matter.
@Cupcake As my dog habitually loses her shit and barks at all priests hopefully you'll get better results from yours.