@Coin said:
Guyz, I just want to 1) thank my wiki-person because she made a sexy, sexy sidebar code that I love to use; and 2) apologize to you guys because I am likely to abuse the fucking shit out of it.
That is all.
Why? Sidebars are awesome, so that you have consistency on the link-outs on every page. That's why I love the Vector collapsible sidebar extension.
@Usekh said:
@Bobotron
Cheers. I haven't been given much longer. The current treatment is an, expensive, last roll of the dice. But until the cathaport started messing up it was going well. So fingers crossed.
Like I said before, much good vibes your way regardless. Sometimes these things turn around unexpectedly and my hope is for that, for you.
@Huzuruth
III doesn't, really. It uses the same initiative order system that I and II do (which is more or less Agility-based descending D&D initiative).
@Thenomain said:
FF8 it is.
... Next time Squeenix has a sale, you slowpokes.
Hey, next time Squeenix has a sale you might get FF9 
@Usekh
I was thinking about you the other night Usekh. I'm glad to see you're still around and still trucking along. Much good vibes and luck, as always.
@Creepy said:
Its funny. I think this is the first place where I've listed the characters I've played and been able to reconnect with folks. We should've done this over at WORA too. Then again, maybe not. The vibe seems more chill here.
I agree about the chill vibe. probably because the most vitriolic haven't migrated to this place yet?
@Thenomain
As one of the resident FF nerds, everything there except for FFXIII and XIII-2 uses a turn-based ATB-variant combat, so all of those will be 'stand on side, smack enemies until dead' except XIII, which has its own variants. Strategy goes into what you do. Of note...
If you liked FFTA's Job System, FFIII is the progenitor to all Job Systems, though there's no mix-and-matching of powers. FFIII also has a 'meh' story. It was updated somewhat for the DS/iOS release (which is what I assume is this one)
FFIV has probably my favorite story in the series (even more than VI) and is one of the few games with 'set Jobs' for characters. If you like some political intrigue, good versus evil, a world-spanning conflict and don't mind a little grinding occasionally I'd recommend this one.
FFVII is what most people say is their favorite; the story was okay, but I found it hard to relate to the protagonist and I found the story confusing in parts.
VIII I never finished; again, I found the story confusing (and I got lost partway on Disc 3 and had NO idea where to go). FFVIII has the most unique of the magic systems, in that you draw magic from the world around you and from monsters, and 'stock' it as spell charges. It also has the most customization; it has no jobs really, and all customization is based on the weaponry and equipment, magic and attaching it to your stats, and Summons and their Junctions.
XIII is less 'line up' but you still deal with 'queued actions' via Action Points to do various things, so you queue up, execute and such. All combat does happen from the map though, IIRC. It's also pretty linear from my understanding.
No real clue about XIII-2, as I haven't watched my friends play it (or played it myself).
One of my best friends and his fiance came up for LARP and BESM for this weekend.
So we went out to lunch at a good, new restaurant (and I had a delicious shaved steak sammich with creole mustard, spicy pickles and carmellized onions).
What I didn't know til we got done with lunch and were talking was the ulterior motive my friend had for inviting us to lunch before BESM:
He asked me to be the best man at his wedding.
I was floored, and honored, and of course said yes. His fiance later told me, she and he were talking about it and I was their first and, in their opinion, best choice for the position. So even more flattered. I have until next December to work out the details on my end (like my speech, oh LORD). But it reaffirmed why the two of them are some of my best RL friends.
So, I have a general question for you guys.
How do you come up with inspiration for mapping on a MUSH? I mean, specifically, coming up with city layout for a modern city? Do you reference real cities and steal them? Do you combine aspects of real cities or do you spitball things?
I'd like to know the techniques and tricks you guys use beyond 'using a real map for the map'.
@Thenomain
Cool, Theno. You are a saint. I'll give Surreality's method a try with the SGP copy that I've downloaded to futz with.
@Pondscum
Do you know if this will work with the general SGP Places code (which is the only post-year 2000 version I can find out there)?
@Ganymede
You have access to your domain server in order to set a new DNS or assign new nameservers right?
If so, you should just need to set the DNS to that IP address in the A and @ records. Or if it has a nameserver, you can update the nameservers as well instead.
It can take up to 24 hours to propogate and point correctly, but usually takes about 3-4 when I mess with my domains.
@Cobaltasaurus said:
Okay, so some very very basic functions are listed. I think we I get more time I'm going to go through, and try to figure out how to link to specific comments. So you can click on the topic you want, and it'll scroll you down to that specific command. Rather than having to scroll through the entire thing.
But does anyone have any questions so far? @Bobotron is this good, or too basic? Next I'll talk about buckets, and maybe some configurations.
Nah, this is pretty good. It is simple, but sometimes simpler is better. Seeing it all in action makes it work much better in my head.
@BetterJudgment said:
@Bobotron said:
Also cheated and looked at possible rings for my partner and I (this July is the 14 year anniversary, I think it's sentimental mostly but I really want to do it, even if we can't legally get married here in Kentucky).
I think you will be able to soon, and that's something I didn't think five years ago.
My partner and I went to Iowa in March to get married back in 2011 after 22 years together. Our rings are simple titanium bands; mine only comes off if I'm putting on hand salve. Don't knock sentimentality, especially when it involves asserting your rights.
Wow, that's awesome. Congrats on the marriage and the time together; that's awesome. We haven't really discussed marriage too terrible much, but our friends (who've been together for 25 years) got married when Indiana had their legal for it. So we'll see. It'd be awesome to legally be married in our home state.
I got some awesome recognition at work. I like doing billing stuff (I work CS, and we get billing overflow calls). In lieu of a cash applications position coming open, they put me on the 'primary Financial Services team' in our CS department, because they know I like it and I'm good at it.
It's nice to be recognized for things I'm good at (even the little stuff like this) by my bosses.
Also cheated and looked at possible rings for my partner and I (this July is the 14 year anniversary, I think it's sentimental mostly but I really want to do it, even if we can't legally get married here in Kentucky)..
@Glitch
More or less. Like, I get the basics of it through the help file, I just keep looking at it and going 'ehhh?' on a couple things. In particular, though, yeah. shortcuts and little tricks that people have picked up for managing the jobs and doing customizing to it. I know it seems like a dumb question (and probably is, I'll chalk it up to braindead or dumbness of my part).
So I'm trying to dig through AnomalyJobs. Reading the documentation is like reading the techical manual for the industrial printers at my old job (and those were in badly-translated Chinese-to-English crazy). Anyone who has a sane set of AnomalyJobs tutorials or can write some (general topics including creating new buckets, assigning buckets, and easy AJ hacks) would be the bestest person in the world.
@Wizz
I found the third one to have some weak moments (I don't know how the hell Koontz came up with Jocko, really), but overall I felt it was a good closure to the first three.
I'm reading book 5 for the first time, and it... well, it makes me think God-Machine, with the events building Infrastructure and an earthly Angel-incubation facility. So it does the job alright, even if I found 4 (and so far 5) to be the weakest of the series.
(Also, related, I didn't know that those books came about because of a failed USA Network TV show that Koontz was working with, then walked away from, which became a TV-movie of the pilot episodes).
@Glitch
Was more of a general question, since a lot of the best how-tos are really niche knowledge that people might not think to post (plus I have something I'd probably put a request up for).