A lot of this is represented in how Status is written up in the NWoD 1e core blue book. You buy it as Status (Thing), and it gives examples of dots representing clout in a way that I feel gets glossed over. I think it's a good starting point to work from.
@seamus
Cool. As long as you're accounting for that, you'll go far. It seems to have always been the problem of most Pokemon MU*s back in the day of their prevalence. My advice would be work some Pokemon Go aspects to it, like teams (both an enemy Rocket team or something, as wel as something along the lines of the Go protag teams).
On the note of Pokemon, I think it would have a draw. There used to be a couple of Pokemon MU*s that hit some snags with the whole 'go catch new Pokemon' thing. They tried to do it with traits-and-roll system, and PokePuppets, things ran by staff... so you ultimately had to have staff around and dedicated to catch more than your starter pokemon (this was, at least, offset by being able to start with other Pokemon than Charmander, Squirtle and Bulbasaur).
@lithium
The 'things to do outside the tiny robot fighting' is the thing. Like, there's socialing and clubs and stuff, but no 'oh noez the world is ending!' type things. Pokemon I think has the same issue, too, but you can always have 'I go hunting for a specific Pokemon' type situations.
Apropos of this type of discussion, I've wondered if there is interest in a bit of a more non-serious game, like Pokemon has the 'game within a game'. More along the lines of Gundam Build Fighters or Angelic Layer or Warhammer and stuff, where you play people who play these games, go to tournaments, etc. If you've watched Cardfight Vanguard, and how they have the regular 'seasonal tournaments' in their anime, something along those lines minus the Crazy Alternate Planet Thing. Gundam Build Fighters-esque 'build battle mecha models and fight them using cool technology' is more of what spawned the idea while on a brainfart for HotB stuff.
NEW BUG REPORT.
I am not getting any new post notifications for any threads I'm watching.
Published by WEG, it uses a success-based d6 pool system based on the D6 system.
Glad that I picked up on digitalocean. Current host for the wiki has flaked out and, somehow, when they did an upgrade , somehow broke PHP dependencies for mediawiki it looks like.
Wiki is in the process of transitioning (yay backups), but writing process is going slow.
Chargen is more or less done, I just have to rejigger a couple of things from the changeover from the WoD LARP version to the custom system for HotB.
Pre-built lists of powers are... well... they are what they are. I haven't completed them.
I'm really thinking about just finishing up the rest of the files for history and everything, finish up the XP system (I just need to figure out how to paginate the thing), and then go, and not worry about the auto-combat, and just have a +check system in place, and let people free form their powers based on the levels.
I'm going. It just... is what it is. Ugh.
@surreality
Did you ever get the shorturl working on digitalocean? I've tried all variants of it I can find/generate, both .htaccess and altering the conf file.
@surreality
Oh yeah. Tutorials are my life right now, which is cool. And I am still considering the interwiki, and will let you know when I'm ready to dive into that. Right now I'm going from 'Yeah, I know enough to run and maintain PennMUSH' to 'Okay, I know enough to maintain everything I need to run a game and use the excess space for other projects'.
And now to figure out how to change the URL style to remove index.php/ from the thing...
Nah, it's fun. I like learning and this is making doing a number of things a fair bit easier for me in general. Thank you for the input.
I wouldn't call this 'fun'. 
I was able to get things going after removing everything, then dumping everything back into a different directory. I get to the manual setup. YAY.
Now, I get the following error:
<snipped error>
As an amateur at this, I have no fucking clue what to do. I already created testwiki during the DB portion of the tutorial I posted, wikiadmin is the user that I specified in the grant permissions section.
ETA: I got it, I'm a fucking moron. I changed everything in the permissions step... EXCEPT THE DAMN DATABASE NAME. (Sorry, I'm home sick from work and using this time to work on stuff and distract myself from the inability to sleep from feeling like I got my ass beat).
Well, fudge.
So I got all this working for plain HTML hosting on the virtual hosts (I have a couple of subdomains functioning, like bjzbackup.custom-gaming.net) as tests of stuff. So now I'm trying something a bit more detailed, to put a MediaWiki install up on it.
I followed the instructions on installing MediaWiki on CentOS7 on Digital Ocean here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-mediawiki-on-centos-7.
I set up the MariaDB and everything from the tutorial without issue.
Everything was extracted to the virtual host directory.
I made it so that my test HTML file wasn't readable.
When I do so, I get the 'default Apache server' message instead of the wiki setup.
When I try to go to the /mw-config/index.php I get a Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /mw-config/index.php on this server.
error.
I am not sure where to step out from here.
Building a Tzimisce, and designing someone who was supposed to move on from mortal concepts of beauty and sexuality and deviancy and going 'Wait, Path of Cathari... and perfection of form in a sensual manner'. And that's how I got my new LARP Tzimisce.
Intredasting... I will look into it and possibly pick your brain! 
@jaded
I tend to find movies that don't get super hype tend to be really good in general.
@surreality
Also, thank you for offering. Interwiki isn't specifically what I'm looking for, I guess I wasn't 100% clear. I meant different instances of mediawiki on virtual hosts, which I found a good tutorial on. Thank you though!
ETA Unless Interwiki does this easier than just having multiple instances? Then I'm interested in hearing what it does.
