Posts made by Cobalt

Some important culture/politics/whatever information here:

https://euphoriamush.com/wiki/setting#culture

@Ominous said in Welcome to the Euphoria!:

Are you still looking for a builder?

Sure. I have 3 of the 7 decks done, but I could open faster if someone wanted to assist. Since I also need to drop some theme stuff on the wiki I realized probably isn't clear.

Re: simulated weather, technology, law stuff, etc.

@Darren said in Welcome to the Euphoria!:

Oh yes, I really like the way this looks! Great idea!

Doublepost to add: @Sunny Def needs all the praise for this. It was her idea.

@Darren said in Welcome to the Euphoria!:

Oh yes, I really like the way this looks! Great idea!

Oooh, that looks awesome!

I had been doing this for just the rooms that I as like "eh can't do story desc" but I think I'm gonna go back and through and make sure every room has the listing above the main desc too for those who wanna tl;dr.

@Coin said in Welcome to the Euphoria!:

@bear_necessities said in Welcome to the Euphoria!:

I do think you need to add SOME point of reference if you're not doing a narrative desc, such as pictures or specific aesthetics. It's hard to understand where you are if there's absolutely nothing there? But you can absolutely insert pictures in the room desc, @krmbm has done it and can probably tell you how maybe.

Room designation: Medbay
Amenities level: Low
Staff level: High
Occupancy Limit: 16 people
Style: Clinical; white; metallic; antiseptic; square shapes with rounded edges.

Yeah, I'm going to do this for a the rooms that I can't get a narrative-type-desc written for. But even thinking of these things has allowed me to streamline a 'it gets the point across' desc for several places.

@Sunny said in Welcome to the Euphoria!:

Or get clever/code with it.

Room designation: Medbay
Amenities level: Low
Staff level: High
Occupancy Limit: 16 people

Make all your descs like that instead of narrative descriptions, and now it's like coding instead of describing.

I... I don't know how you know my brain so well, but I like it.

Guys, guys...

Descing rooms isn't nearly as fun as playing with the weather code, or making rosters.

Guys...

Can the descs for each room just be: "This is the bridge, use your imagination". Or "This is the medbay, figure it out."

@Tehom said in Hello!Project's Mysterious Game Project Thread:

My feeling is if your game concept can be done in Ares, then it really should be - the amount of work that needs to be done to get an Evennia game up and running is pretty daunting right now, even with code samples from Arx or elsewhere. Hopefully that's not always the case, but as is I'd endorse Ares for anything that fits it reasonably well.

This is why I ended up shelving my Sacred Seed project. Between writing a whole new fantasy setting (and I was convinced I needed to write -so much lore- right out of the gate), AND learning how to code it in Evennia, it was just too overwhelming for me.

With Ares, however, I'm almost done with my silly sci-fi game enough to start alpha. I highly recommend taking a look at FS3 and seeing if you think you can make it work for your game, and going with Ares if you're able.

Having poked at Evennia I'm in awe of @tehom and the work he's done, and everyone else who coded for Arx.

I started to make a graphic for people, but photoshop froze so now I'm frustrated and gonna take a break.

Hey, look. I made some rosters one each for the different "departments". I need to make a couple of civilian rosters. And then I'll maybe try to make another for each of the departments.

https://euphoriamush.com/roster

Meanwhile, still gotta tackle the grid. We're thinking pretty small for alpha and we can build out as we need.

@Bliss Okay, when can we play?!

runs away

Anyone really, really like building? >.> Wanna help me build a grid for a spaceship?

@faraday said in Welcome to the Euphoria!:

Ranks I think you just have a typo - Civillians vs. Civilians.

Thanks @krmbm for the assist

Fixed now, though I added that this morning because I had been getting that error and wasn't certain if I needed it for the civilians org.

@krmbm Aha! Thank you!

Here's the actual stuff for starting_skills:

Everyone:
  skills:
    Standard: 3
Race:
  Human:
    attributes:
      Grit: 3
    skills:
      Terran Patois: 3
      Alertness: 3
      Athletics: 3
  Esper:
    attributes:
      Perception: 3
    skills:
      Esper Cant: 3
      Terran Patois: 3
  Drekin:
    attributes:
      Brawn: 3
    skills:
      Drekian: 3
      Melee: 3
      Alertness: 3
  Yllian:
    attributes:
      Presence: 3
    skills:
      Yllian: 3
      Diplomacy: 3
      Composure: 3
  Zllian:
    attributes:
      Reflexes: 3
    skills:
      Zllian: 3
      Stealth: 3
      Technician: 3

Then my ranks file is:

---
ranks:
  rank_group: Faction
  rank_rows: 9
  rank_style: basic
  ranks:
    United Planetary Star Navy:
      All:
        Ensign: true
        Lieutenant Jg: true
        Lieutenant: true
        Lt Commander: true
        Commander: true
        Captain: true
        Rear Admiral: true
        Admiral: true
        Vice Admiral: true
    United Planetary Diplomatic Corps:
      All:
        Attache: true
        Secretary: true
        Second Secretary: false
        Third Secretary: false
        Counselor: true
        Career Counselor: false
        Minister: true
        Ambassar: true
        Senior Ambassador: true
    Civillians:
      All:
        Civilian: true
        Civ 2: false
        Civ 3: false
        Civ 4: false
        Civ 5: false
        Civ 6: false
        Civ 7: false
        Civ 8: false
        Civ 9: false
  shortcuts:
    rank/clear: rank/set

@faraday Oh! I feel dumb, re: incapable level skills. Thank you that takes care of that one really easy. The attribute one, I put in a line that was:

Race:
  attributes:
    Brawn: 3

(this is just an example) But it didn't take. So I also tried adding a new key that was starting_attributes, and that didn't take either.

The ranks thing everytime I save a config file it tells me that my file is saved but one of my config options is invalid with this message:

- ranks:ranks does not list all group vals for the rank group.

I am >this close< to having my chargen finished. I have three problems I cannot currently solve:

1. I cannot figure out how to set up starting attributes for people.
2. I cannot figure out why ranks is screaming at me.
3. I want to set it so that the psionic skills don't default to 1 pt.

I am taking a break from it now to play a game and do some laundry, so I can spend some time thinking on how to either fix it or work around it.

After chargen is done, I will likely dig out a small grid with a few key locations on the ship, and then open for alpha testing. For alpha testing I'm thinking of limiting it to like 20 players. I don't think I'll get that many people interested, but if I'm wrong and there's a lot of interest I wanna be able to handle the load until I get active staffers to help and get more of the system worked out.

@bear_necessities said in Gauging Interest in a new Erotic RP MU* (with anonymous survey):

@Cobaltasaurus OK I'm down but no TS, I'm only going to play to hunt the dickcows and craft dildos.

That's cool you can be my sibling that earns me all the money while I go have sex parties in the town square.

I'm interested. I have a few thoughts I don't mind sharing here:

1. I don't have much in the way of strong feelings for most of the questions asked, so alot of my responses were just 'neutral'. I don't care either way. However...

2. I think my biggest issue with Shangrila and it's multiverse setting is that it allows literally anything. Such as @bear_necessities dick cows or the horrors like Baskin Robbins. And that just ... I just ain't into it? I also have a general preference -against- playing with copyrighted characters (super heroes, characters from popular TV shows or movies), or real people. If it's someone's copyright or it's just too weird it makes me wanna run away.

3. I don't much care about whatever anyone's kinks are, right? Except... another big problem I have with Shangrila is the ageplay. I would absolutely love it if there was an Erotic MU* that drew a line in the sand and said: No, you can't have underage characters.

4. Similarly I'm kinda eeeeeh about non-consent and rape RP. On the one hand if both players are OOCly consenting to exploring that... ok, I guess? On the other hand, eeeeeeh, icky.

5. ....but I do absolutely love the idea of a robust crafting system and an IC economy on a sexmux. I'll be right there hunting dickcows for making armor with @bear_necessities !