@sparks said in System dealbreakers:
@thenomain said in System dealbreakers:
@arkandel said in System dealbreakers:
CGen shouldn't be a trap.
Except for Traveller. It's actually kind of fun knowing that you could die in chargen. But it's a short series of rolls so it's no big deal.
Traveller chargen is best chargen for that reason.
This is why I want my randroll CG.
Death! Chaos!
YOU TOO COULD BE A WASTE MANAGEMENT PRINCESS.
@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:
@Auspice said in General Video Game Thread:
@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:
@Auspice Yanno, I'm not so convinced the next Elder Scrolls game is going to be a megahit like Skyrim was. Elder Scrolls has a following, but none of the games exploded the way that Skyrim did. Popular? Yes. MEGApopular? Skyrim was.
Will Elder Scrolls' next major release do as well without fighting dragons and Viking badasses? I guess we're gonna find out one way or another.
Don't you dare hurt me this early in the week.
I won't hurt you...
Won't hurt you...
No more.
nng! nng! n-nnn-nng!
Also, frisbee golf sucks.
y u so mean
I was gonna ask if anyone else is having issues. I've reset my password a few times and keep getting the 'password failed' prompt. I only had Morrowind on Xbox.
@thenomain said in How much Code is too much Code?:
@tat said in How much Code is too much Code?:
@faraday said in How much Code is too much Code?:
very little code is invisible. (Help being one example that is... but, well, it's not like you're going to do away with your help system even if nobody happens to be using it very often. I hope :))
No, but you might move it off game. I'd actually be super interested in how many people do help/detail on Ares to get the full file, for example, vs following the web link.
She and I had a lively debate about this kind of recently. I am too tooled to looking for the help on the game, and would resent not even having a link, or even having a link pushing me out of the client.
She told me I was being silly.
I bet she has it in game for players like me. I mean, it’s not perfect but at least it’s easier to browse than whatever train wreck style Arx has going on.
I've gone back and forth with Faraday myself on her attempts to push more things onto the web portal. I struggle really, really hard with adapting to it. I am so very used to doing everything in-game. I'm adapting to some things and not others (when it takes multiple pages / page-loads to do what I can do in a single edit box on a wikimedia/wikidot page, I'm probably going to be cranky, for example).
That said, I look forward to what the combat management page will become. It's not what I want it to be yet, but I'm sure it'll get there in the future.
This is a little 'RL Things I Love' and a little vidya games:
https://kotaku.com/skyrim-grandma-will-be-an-npc-in-the-elder-scrolls-vi-1833678841
@faraday said in The Death Of Telnet: Is It Time To Face The Music?:
@sunny Uh, I didn't say that? Was there anywhere in my response where I put my foot down and was like: "ZOMG DON'T TALK ABOUT THIS!"? Seriously, why the snark? I gave my opinion about why I don't think it's an issue. That doesn't stop anybody else from discussing it or worrying about it.
She even used a data point of reference. Storium. It got a lot of attention at first (and is honestly why a shift to slower RP / web-based scares me for the future of MU*), looked really cool as a concept... I tried Storium and watched as every game I tried to join died because people would disappear and the games would just... die because you needed those people to continue and days, weeks would pass and... I never got to finish a single game. Hell, of the one I tried to start, one person even finished their character.
But it's a good example as to why we're unlikely to see a huge flood of people. I mean, it's possible, but very unlikely. Especially with the incredibly high bars we have set in other ways.
@cupcake said in The trappings of posing:
@auspice said in The trappings of posing:
People who obsessively use %t/[space(5)] are a large part of why I refuse to log.
I won't name names, but y'all know who you are. And you need to stop.
I agree, though for somewhat different reasons. I do log a lot of the time, and that indent in people's poses means I have to go through the log myself and fix all the indents before I add the log to any wiki. Which in turn, makes me less inclined to log.
It's yet another reason why I 
Faraday and her scene system. It ignores those indentations when it logs the scene. There's no need to go back and edit them out. So the tab-obsessives can tab away and I never need worry about having to clean up after them.
This is turning into a very happy thread. This pleases me immensely!
I wish you luck. The last time I worked 3rd shift on EST, I ended up playing MUDs for the lack of RP. ![😕](http://musoapbox.net/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f615.png?v=4vfms5ns7sl ":\")
It's a really, really hard timezone to be an overnighter in. I feel your pain.
In general, Wizards Unite is a better game than I expected (Pokémon Go with a HP skin did not appeal to me at all originally), but this energy thing is a huge problem.
There's no passive energy regen. You can only get more by buying it or visiting Inns. But not all locations are Inns. Some are fortresses or greenhouses. And those don't give energy.
My work has a bunch of locations around it....not one is an inn.
My apartment has nothing nearby.
And I live in an urban area. I feel bad for people who live in more remote areas. I can't/don't play while driving and I work second shift (meaning my ability to just go somewhere and hang out is v limited).
There's just no point to me playing. As intriguing as the game is.
@icanbeyourmuse
I do my best to avoid the "you found nothing" on follow ups. The only time this happens is in scene with rolls. Someone fails a spot check? They're not gonna see anything.
People who have been in scenes I've run can attest that I try to give everyone something to find. If four people pass the spot roll, they each get something different to see, even if it's only marginally different. This way it's not always the first person in pose order getting the spotlight.
Same goes for follow up. I know people won't spot everything in the scene itself. I've been on both sides and I've been through enough school to know. It's the blind men and the elephant conundrum. What I see vs what you see isn't always the same. I have the complete puzzle, you don't. I err on the side of giving too much information because what I think is a glaring neon sign might be subtle to the players.
I've outright told people "Let me know good times for you guys to talk to <important character for plot>." And a week later I had to go hey, remember that guy? In the plot? The one that I brought up in the other plot scene last night? You guys haven't given me any times you're free to do a scene to talk to him.
"Oh yeah we forgot about him."
How much more can I do, really?
And sometimes doing things in a specific way can do the trick.
Yes, you might have tried reinstalling the app on your Android. But I can tell you for a fact that sometimes, going into the settings, clearing the cache, app data, uninstalling, shutting the whole thing off, turning it back on, then installing the app again... will do the trick. vs just holding the icon down, deleting, then installing again.
And yes, it may feel like it's just a runaround to be told to do it that way, but you're the one who wants it to 'just work.'
@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:
I NEED HELP/Advice.
I recently bought 2 Nintendo Switch game vouchers for $100 hoping to buy 2 copies of Ultimate Alliance 3 and gift one my SO for her to have on her switch. Warning: Read the FAQs first; you can't share these 2-for-100 game vouchers as a gift or between family accounts.
So I got Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, but have one game voucher left. I'm considering Zelda Breath of the Wild or Super Smash.
Anyone have good suggestions? 2 player would be nice so long as it's a good couple's game.
Here is what I own/have access to currently:
- Marvel Ultimate 3
- Battle Chasers
- Diablo 3
- Octopath Traveler
- Mariokart 8
- Pokemon Evee (Fuck you. Dont judge)
I mean. If you want multi-player, get Smash.
But my recommendation would be Zelda.
I include clothing in my poses. Usually my first pose. And usually it's only about a sentence worth.
That's not worth my time to deal with a descer. And if you're fussing over spaaaaaaam, people would be even more spammed to look at my entire desc if I'm going "BY THE WAY GUIZ MY DESC IS VITAL YOU NEED TO LOOK AT IT" ... when I could just toss out a single sentence / half-sentence in a pose.
And yes, that includes everyone seeing it again, because we're talking a volume scale. One line vs. the (considering my average desc length) 8-10 and considering I RP on average with only about 4 people max except on rare occasions. So even if I begin with just 1 person and 3 others join, the spam quotient is ultimately less if I pose 1 sentence of desc per vs forcing each and every person to view my entire desc.
And let's be honest, expecting people view your desc every time you RP with them is absolutely attention-demanding behavior.
Unfortunately it's not the person you're talking to: it's their boss' boss (or higher up the line). There's this whole thing in most customer service fields of providing a "standard level of service."
They don't give a flying shit that you are capable. They want to provide the exact same "quality" of service to every single fucking person.
So I have to treat the little ol' granny the exact same way I treat the IT professional who just needs it to work so he can get back to his job.
It makes no fucking sense, but hey! They make millions of dollars a year, so SURELY they know better than I do!
Trust me. I argue with upper management at every goddamn fucking job I have about this bullshit. The easiest thing to do, for both you and whatever slave monkey you talk to is to just get it over with as quickly as possible. They're not doing it to fuck with you, inconvenience you, etc... they're doing it so their call/email/ticket/etc. doesn't get pulled on a QA review and they find themselves 'talked to' for screwing up QA performance.
I've sat through plenty of those meetings.
"But the customer was happy with the call. They gave me a good review, I fixed the issue."
"Yes, but you didn't follow the appropriate processes. We're supposed to follow the workflows and treat every customer the exact same so that we deliver a quality product the same way every time. That's why you failed the call."
So you do get people like me who just decide fuck it, I'll do things my way and just deal with getting yelled at on a regular basis and yell back.
You also get people who will go by the book just so they get perfect QA reports (esp. if they work for companies like Verizon where your yearly bonus is reliant on getting those perfect scores).
