@Arkandel said in Empire State Heroes Mush:
It's a section of this forum you need to opt-in for. The rules are different there, and flames or personal attacks are acceptable (within certain limits).
Sounds fun! How do I opt in? I want to hear all the gossip!
@Arkandel said in Empire State Heroes Mush:
You are much better off not finding out. But you will.
Honestly, I don't play MU* anymore. I want to, I enjoy them, but every time I do I end up making something then getting bored with it and moving on a few months later. Reading about other people experiencing the game is about as much effort as I can put into it right now.
It just seems like you always put in ten times more effort than you get any reward out of it.
Playing MUSHes feels like being trapped in a WB T.V. series where everything is dramatic but then resets back to normal at the end of the episode and no progress is ever made. It wears you down.
@Tempest said in Empire State Heroes Mush:
Link? What is the Hogpit?
My territory.
That's not a helpful answer.
@onigiri said in Empire State Heroes Mush:
There's an entire terrifying Hogpit thread about him.
Link? What is the Hogpit?
@Auspice said in Empire State Heroes Mush:
most of my female chars on MUs rarely ever get hit on. Superhero games are the exception. It's like the instant they hit the grid: pursuit begins.
To be fair, you are playing a woman in a fandom targeting horny, teenage boys, based on the most sexualized art possible without becoming softcore porn.
Playing a woman on a super-hero game is a lot like going to a club hosting an incel convention.
You can't really claim to be shocked when someone creeps on you.
You knew what you were getting into when you walked in the door.
All the warning signs are there, ignore them at your own risk.
Now, you can make the argument that the fandom shouldn't be this way but until you figure out a way to solve puberty, it probably always will be.
I have no idea what is required for hosting a MU* but I was watching this video about Linux when the instructor mentioned that if you didn't feel comfortable dual-booting Linux you can log into Microsoft's new Azure service and create a cloud server version of Linux to play around with for free.
I was just going to throw it out there in case the people with the know-how might want to use it as a development platform for new games without needing to put any money up-front to build it.
@Wolfs said in Empire State Heroes Mush:
you may think staff owes you a detailed explanation as to why they might turn down something you want in your background or want to have access to, but the truth is they don't.
100% correct, and also 100% the wrong attitude if you want to keep your game thriving.
"Fuck the players, I'm the boss and my word is law." isn't any way to run a business and make no mistake, any form of MMO is a business.
You are trying to convince your players to invest time and effort into making the product (the game experience) for your other users to share.
They are a vital cog in the machine of your game.
Don't break the cogs.
Your players are both the consumer of your product and the workers making it.
They even work for free! It's a wonderful deal for you!
Don't piss them off.
I know it's really annoying to have to stop your day and slowly explain to them what is happening and why, but it's important.
The moment your player base starts to feel that staff is working against them and not with them, your game starts to die.
Yeah, the games where they are invisible to anyone without wraith-vision (or whatever it's called.)
I've heard so many stories of wraith players just oocly creeping on people because they couldn't be seen.
Shadowrun.
My mage was kind of an idiot. All arcane knowledge, not much common sense.
The cyber-ninja in the party was not much better.
You pointed us at things you wanted dead.
We were not invited to the strategy meetings with the smart people.
...
After almost dying to a nest of vampires ICLY we needed to figure out a way to kill them so the 4 players of the smart people got together ICly and planned out the next attack with the GM int he middle of my apartment's living room floor.
My bestie (who played the Ninja) and I sat at the apartment's kitchen island drinking whiskey shots trying to 1-up each other while playing "101 uses for a dead hooker" ICly. (Real drinks)
About 20 minutes in, we get bored and come up with a plan. We pass the GM a note explaining that while they have their meeting, we ICLY go to the store and buy a tarp and some fake vampire fangs. We put some camo makeup on the ninja's face, turn the tarp into a shredded looking hood and cape, then put the fangs in and spread catsup around his mouth then enact our plan.
The GM makes the rest of the party make checks. Unfortunately, they all pass the combat checks but no one passes the check to realize what is happening so the GM tells them that they see what must be an elder vampire fly up to the balcony window facing out over the bay and bang on the glass while snarling at them in the middle of the bright sunlight.
They all immediately grab their guns and start shooting and this is where the oopsie happens...
You see, normally our cyber-ninja was so freaking fast he could have used his reaction and agility to get out of the line of fire but what we didn't take into account was the fact that I was levitating him so he didn't get to go on his reaction... he could only be moved on my reaction.
What followed was 4 seconds of him trying hilariously to dodge a wall of machine-gun fire while held in place mid-air, blowing off one of his arms and taking him to the brink of death. By the time it was my turn to go and I could release the spell, he was pretty much a bloody stump missing one arm and a foot.
The new cyber-arm and replacement cyber leg came out of our cut of the bank.
Fortunately, we had a great doc wagon package or he would have been soooo dead.
Shadowrun.
Trapped on the 23rd floor of a mega-corp tower.
Hacker screwed up and set off the alarms.
Mag-locked doors sealed off every exit.
We fought off the first wave of local security.
Heavily wounded, just trying to get out alive.
Pulled up schematics for the tower and found the elevator shaft went all the way to the top.
Checked and the elevator doors were not mag-locked!
Thought we caught a break till someone leaned in and looked up the shaft. Gunfire almost took off his head.
Security was repelling down the shaft from the roof.
We were screwed.
Then I had a "Bright idea!" (
️)
Closed the doors until there was only enough room for a finger to stick through, stuck my finger in, pointed up...
FIREBALL!!!
Burning corpses of security agents caught in a confined space with a fireball-blast fell past us.
Their ammo and explosives start detonating as they fall.
We levitate up to the roof and steal their heli.
Ditched it in the river.
We drove away as the building burns like a Roman candle.
The person who hired us to hack the database only wanted to make sure she got a promotion.
She was supposed to be a major player in several upcoming plots...
We destroyed her life.
Ooopsie...
Is it just me or do you automatically suspect anyone playing a wraith/mage leans towards stalker/creep?
Has that been your experience as well?
Have I just had bad luck and ran into the worst people?
@Auspice said in How to Approach (nor not) a Suspected Creep:
So I ask you MSB: have you ever been in this spot? What did you do, if anything?
I played on a game with a strip club on it and I saw this often. Once, we were having bar chatter and this guy just came up to one of the girls and asked if he could suck her toes. Not go somewhere and do it, but just right there at the bar. Everyone was instantly uncomfortable with the situation and he would not take no for an answer.
Rather than deal with it OOCly where I knew he would throw a tantrum I paid the stripper for a lapdance in the VIP room and we left. He had the nerve to ask if he could come with me. Pathetic. We didn't even do anything sexual in the VIP room. We just laughed at him and talked.
Creepers gotta creep, I guess.
@Auspice said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):
LARP houses happen.
These share all the qualities of a cult.
Isolation.
Take over the person's life.
Dictate how they live.
Keep things unstable so the cult is both the victim's only source of comfort and a constant source of pain to need that comfort.
Create a social group that pressures them to conform and never to leave.
Sounds like a LARP house is a good way to become the king of your own tiny kingdom.
@Ganymede said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:
There is a reason that Dark Metal eventually shut down: because the market was unfair, and better products came out. Unsurprisingly, those better products leaned towards evening out the unfair market.
I agree and I think this was mostly because they refused to let the game reset. All MMO will update and find a way to reset the playing field in some way at least once a year. DM really needed to do the same.
Brings up a good point: Maybe in the future games should have zones like an MMO based on how much XP you have so all the dinosaurs are in their own special zoo doing their politics and sending orders to the people in the lower power zones?
Found it!
It was my peerblock firewall. At one point the game's IP address must have been used by a spammer so the moment I disabled my peerblock software firewall it went right through. I'll add an exception to the list.
goldenroad.mudhosting.net 4201, right?
Maybe it's a routing thing... Never had a general failure error before.
I'm on CityofHopeMush.net at the moment just because it has actual people on it but there is only so much hanging out and surfing I can take. The people are nice and don't get me wrong, it's a lovely place to hang out as long as you don't mind everything being baby-proofed.
If you want kinky sex and intra-sphere drama it's a good bet you can find something you'll enjoy, just don't expect any clashed outside of your own sphere. People play it very, very, safe.
I miss the days when things happened and there was excitement.
It could just be nostalgia-goggles but the game seemed a lot more fun and worth investing in when you could die if you pissed off the wrong person.
@chibichibi
Sounds like a great game. I loved those books.
Just let me log in and check it out...
Error occurred during phase: Connecting to world: 144.217.205.176, port 4201
The only WOD game I have found with an active player base has the Fate system which means nothing exciting ever happens because 99% of the people are set to fate1 and never do anything that might risk their perfect blanket of OOC protection.
I'm trying really, really hard to keep it interesting but it's like fighting the ocean. It just becomes tiresome after a while. Is there a game left which has both players and no child-proofing system?