@curious1 Like most any place it is going to be what you make it.
RP on grid is pretty regular, even for your SR 8 farmer. There is an XP incentive for even the nobliest of nobles to RP with you for at least a couple weeks. It's a good chance to make connections and get regular RP friends.
I suggest taking a look at the "Wanted Concepts" board and see what rosters are in demand if you're concerned about getting meaningful RP out the gate.
The capital H "Hi" with a period! "Hi."??? I just KNOW you're mad at me.
I crack myself up all the time but when you put me on the spot like this I can't think of anything 
I'll go with this incident report from Notion to ICly explain someone's ban from the game:
On stardate 452484.555 (like, four days ago), Cadet S'ra was given an assignment related to stabilizing our warp capable drive that we may maintain a max cruising speed for the duration of our flight.
For whatever reason, she went ahead and began conducted temperature testing in and around the impulse drive. Her methods, as reported by NCOs working in the area, were unorthodox and consisted of "a lot of crawling and laying on things" - as reported by Chief Petty Office Cromwell (Impulse Section I/C).
After Cadet S'ra had gone missing for 48 hours, I decided to ask Ursula (the ship's computer) for her location. Ursula reported Cadet S'ra was in the ventral impulse exhaust.
Security footage verified that, between shifts, Cadet S'ra had indeed snuck into ventral exhaust to "climb and lay on something". She apparently had not read the routine maintenance schedule I passed out to ALL CREW (it's only 50 pages long, people. honestly).
Long story short, we flush that exhaust pipe every 72 hours on a rotation.
The plus side is CPO Cromwell now knows what has been making that rattling and banging sound, and why impulse has smelt of a sulfurous odor.
There will be a memorial service for Cadet S'ra tomorrow at lunch (but it is no excuse to miss muster) where we will eject what's left of her bones into space.
@auspice said in RL things I love:
@lifebird said in RL things I love:
Me: A sodastream? wtf is this crap. Worst gift ever. It's the thought that counts /I guess/.
Me (later that day): 3 liters of sodastream should be enough for one day right? Haha. Jk. I'm making another one. God I really need to pee
(Fucking love my sodastream)
I've been wanting one of these for ages. I love carbonated drinks but I know soda is bad for me....but not cuz of the carbonation. And most of the flavored water shit is twice to three times as expensive!
I lurv it! And already been looking at how to pimp that ride, nahmean? Talking bout that 20 lbs food grade CO2 for 40 bucks at the local Air gas supplier and a little adapter to the sodastream 
Me: A sodastream? wtf is this crap. Worst gift ever. It's the thought that counts /I guess/. 
Me (later that day): 3 liters of sodastream should be enough for one day right? Haha. Jk. I'm making another one. God I really need to pee 
(Fucking love my sodastream)
@reversed said in MU Things I Love:
@lifebird said in MU Things I Love:
"...waggles brows" is never not a funny pose.
I use it as often as possible for my stoic, poker-faced, terminal-stage-four-Resting-Bitch-Face character because it never stops delighting me to picture someone having an expression like they want to stab someone but also doing this
@loakey said in Dead Celebrities 2020:
Your favorite rapper's favorite rapper MF DOOM.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
I have very long hair for first time ever from not getting it cut all year. Every so often it falls into my peripheral vision and scares the shit out of me.
George Clooney cuts his hair with a Flowbee and looks amazing always.
@Auspice I agree with you. Euphoria is a lot of fun. For me I can say that having a space exploration theme that is not tied to some existing franchise takes away a lot of the expectation and low key fear of getting canon wrong with other players waiting, crouched, to pounce on you with 'ackshually, tachyon is....!'
We're getting to create the details of the world as we go to a large extent (like systems of measurement and so forth) and I'm just happy to see what people will come up with as we go along.
I am active on three Ares games so clearly I like the format. I also like the so called "passive grid RP" and I can say that never on an Ares game have I gotten into a scene by going somewhere on grid or someone coming to me on grid.
I think it's not that you can't do grid RP on Ares, I think that it's other features are so strong and filled such a need that players gravitated toward them more.
But if there were design elements that could help promote grid RP more I would suggest:
Removing 'scenes' from 'where'. Currently 'where' has the grid listed under 'other' which gives secondary importance to it. Plus the 'scene' command already exists
Speaking of, I know you can do 'scenes/open' but that should really be the default, and a toggle needed if you (for some reason) want to see the private scenes you aren't in. Seeing all the private scenes going on when you're looking for RP can be demoralizing in two ways: 1. Of there're a billion private scenes and no open scenes, and 2. Seeing that 70% of those private scenes are 2 or more days since the last pose gives a false sense of the 'activity' of the game.
