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@Auspice said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):

@Coin said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):

@Auspice said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):

@Coin said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):

@Auspice said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):

@Coin said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):

@Auspice said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):

@Coin said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):

@Auspice said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):

@Coin said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):

@Auspice said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):

@Ganymede said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):

@Auspice said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):

are you a robot cat or a trash panda make up your mind woman

can't i be both like aubrey plaza

no
no one can be her
I only have room in my heart for one of her

She's never gonna take up residency in there so you're gonna have to make do.

don't you dash my dreams.

<@Auspice's Dreams>

</ @Auspice's Dreams>

You know that promise to tell you when I use MEW somewhere?
I'M TAKING IT BACK.

You ended up using her somewhere and then telling me like three months later! Your promises are hollow!

it's not like you ever RP anyway

I do! I just couldn't get into a good rhythm on SGM.

pffffff.
that was the most I've seen you RP anywhere ever

Because we have probably not been on games together before then? IDEK, rofl.

It's too early in the morning for your logic.

It's fucking noon. Get on my timetable.

@icanbeyourmuse said in Charging for MU* Code?:

I have yet to meet a mu* creator who doesn't know, almost exactly, what they want and a basic break down of how they want it to work.

Man, I have yet to meet a MU* creator who knows what they want--who really knows what they want--including myself when I've started games.

Often the limitations and the reach of code elude the people who it needs to work for. I have had arguments and discussions with @Thenomain that lasted hours--days, even--about this stuff.

Just because a game owner thinks their mapped out plan is perfect and complete, doesn't mean it is.

@HorrorHound said:

So it's settled. @Coin is making Camazotz Game. Xibalba. Yesplzkthx.

We mixed a lot of Mayan and Aztec stuff (and maybe some Incan?) as backdrop and linguistic roots for the Camazotz. Xibalba was what they called the Underworld--natch--but there was a lot of Nahuatl there, too. I didn't want to limit it to just one of the major Pre-Colonization American native cultures. I wanted all those cultures sort of hodge-podge mixed in as remnants of something that the Camazotz belonged to long before even the Olmecs.

Also, Nahuatl was a lot easier to snag words from and fuck around with, linguistically, which back then was a draw. I hadn't even started studying the intricacies of linguistics back then.

Also, IIRC, Nahuatl was a lot more robust in terms of "violent" words, and a lot of what we needed had to do with blood and cutting and shit like that, so. Heh.

It's Finn's expression in the bottom panel that has me in stitches every fucking time.

@Cobaltasaurus said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):

I know topic drift and all that but ... C'mon. Take it to DMs or something.

We did. Sorry!

@The-Tree-of-Woe said:

I'm not a fan of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Alternate continuities are fine, but really if you have some kind of intrinsic opposition to the characters and events of a setting then you don't REALLY want to play in that setting.

Your idea sounds good, by the way.

I, on the other hand, adore parallel realities, alternate continuities, etc. One of my favorite ideas for a Comic Book MU is basically the premise of "Exiles" except it's a much larger organization (and probably including DC, Marvel, and more). Allowing up to X versions of the same character, etc. I think it's fun to see what alterations and changes people can come up with.

@Gingerlily said:

Can I play a character who lives in Montgomery County but drives into College Park for the parties and Takoma for her new age crystals and acupuncture treatments?

God, @Gingerlily, why do you always need to push limits. GAWD.

@Roz said:

Finn/Poe for life

Rey/Finn/Poe also for life

Sucha nice little sandwic--Imeanwhat

@Auspice said in Good TV:

@Carex We've discussed the show on here before.

I do recommend people read the books, also. Show is good, books are better (aren't they always?).

Man, "books are better"is like my pet peeve. They're two completely different mediums.

Also, in this particular case, I'm pretty sure the show is better. It's certainly a hell of a lot less gross about its representation and the way the characters (and the narrative) deal with the fucked up shit that happens to them.

AH, RIGHT.

Okay, so, very broadstrokes, one of the basic and most prevalent problems with XP in MUing is that you get DINOSAURS who've been around for a long long time and then you combine that with people who are active and create a horrible MECHADINO who not only has XP for being around so long, they are super active and continue to rake it in at a disturbing pace.

Not only that, you have people whose playstyles vary due to preference and lifestyle--people who can play for a month or two very intensely and then be almost completely absent for another month or three because of work, life, burn out, whatever.

So what I propose is an ever rising ceiling to the XP that can be earned in TOTAL. This ceiling rises daily by a very small amount (or very big, whatever the fuck you as the game runner wants).

So let's say on March 30 the XP Ceiling (XPC) is 40 XP (abstract number, I don't know how XP works in EP). The absolute HIGHEST amount of XP ANYONE can have on the game is 40. Let's say the ceiling grows at the rate of 0.5 XP per day. On March 31 it would be 40.5, and on april 1 it would be 50--JK, 41.

Then you simply allow people to rake up XP in several different ways. Let's say you put a +vote system with a limit of how many +votes you can give and receive; then you also give out weekly XP (I suggest this weekly XP actually be daily, since the XPC grows daily--I also suggest that the amount be high for new characters and taper off to something negligible, amounts based entirely on how far away you are from the XPC), and then you give them the ability to get a ton of XP (depending on whatever factors you wanna set) based on running and participating in plots.

What this creates is a system qwhere someone new but very active can actually eventually catch up to a dino, even if the dino has been around a lot longer, because the dino can't advance at the same pace anymore.

It also gives people the ability to play intensely for a few months, (perhaps reaching the XPC), but then go inactive for a while, only to come back and have a much higher XPC, that they can put their energy into reaching via plots, etc.

It's important to have many avenues for acquiring XP instead of just one or two, and have each avenue encourage certain type of RP. +votes probably works for day-to-day social RP, but I wouldn't allow people who are in a plot to be able to +vote for people just because they're in a plot together, etc.

The rate at which the XPC rises should contemplate the rate at which you want the PCs to get more powerful at the ABSOLUTE FASTEST.

If you don't want them to have "more than 500 XP at year's end" then the XPC needs to rise at a rate that won't allow them to have more than 500 XP at year's end.

Make sense?

@skew said:

@Arkandel You mean... My hunters would get the chance to stake some old, witchcraft-using priest that's pretending to be a servant of the Lord?!

I like it.

And, seriously, I do like it. Obviously players would be able to create their own monsters, but I'd be more than happy to collect some old PCs and run them as NPCs, or to help a player run their past PC as an NPC. It sounds like a very fun idea.

This is giving me ideas.

@Cirno said:

'Legend', starring Tom Hardy, is fucking brilliant, and you should all be watching it right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI3v6KfR9Mw

It was all right. I wouldn't say it was brilliant. But it was entertaining. He was really good in the double role, though.

Creed was really good; parallels with Rocky, plot-wise, of course.

Specter was a classic Bond flick, still too attached to Bond's history to really be fun for me. I didn't like Skyfall, though. If you liked Skyfall and Quantum of Solace, you will probably like Specter.

I just wrapped up The Hateful Eight. It's locked-room violent mystery. It's classic Tarantino and his love affair with the word "nigger".

@Derp said:

Fucking freshmen.

Yes, I understand, you think that being late your first day is the end of your college career. It's not. Professors expect you to not have a clue, and the first day is rarely important.

Yes, I understand that you think being in the middle of campus is the best, and you turn the parking lot and garages into Thunderdome. You will learn, in time, that it's best to park at your main building, and only travel to the campus center for lunch.

Yes, I know, you're full of questions, and normally I would be happy o help you, if you would just CALM THE FUCK DOWN. But you panicking is making me ehausted, and I"m losing my goddamn patience. I swear I will hit you with a chair if you scream a question at me again.

I's your first day fo your next FOUR YEARS. Or more. SEriously, ake a goddamn breath.

Easy. Might wanna type a little less angrily. You're typoing all over the place! It's very unseemly!

If anything, I think the divisions should be of function rather than theme (e.g. Build, Code, Plot, Apps, Admins).

@Thenomain, what? You're the one that gave me the date!

@tragedyjones, yeah, well, I got them from this other sloppy website. I mean, it was way worse before I made them better, so there's that!

@Monogram, it may not be Call of Cthulhu, but all those themes are and/or will be readily available at Eldritch MUX!

@Sanguine, sorry not sorry, bro. See Theno above. And thanks for the Neighborhoods props. I'm hoping it'll get tons of use!

@Arkandel said:

The new Preacher TV show will be 'very different than the comics'. I don't know how I feel about that.

I know how I feel! I feel like I hope the show is good regardless of whether it follows the comic book or not.

Also, Crisis on Infinite Earths may be a huge clusterfuck but it is a beautiful and amazing clusterfuck. I love it so much and I hate them for splitting it between December and January.

The internet is where moderation and limitations come to die. You wanna see what someone's willing to do, say, and support? Go online.

I don't care if you're a fucking saint in every social interaction offline--if you're a dick online that means you wanna be a dick and think it's funny. The degree to which that's a problem varies widely.

@ThatOneDude said:

@Thenomain DEMON!!??!?!?

I'm not saying I've been wishing to play demon, but, its been on the top of the list since I heard it was being released...

You'll get your wish (relatively) soon. The game I'm working on will have Demon available for players, though we will beg patience as, even if we know the game inside and out theoretically, it's still a very intensive game to run, especially on a MU* medium.

@Arkandel said:

@Coin Of course I want the show to be good. But if it's good, yet it's not <X>, then call it something else.

I guess I'm just not a purist. I think a story can be told in different ways, or different stories can be told. Also, maybe I'm just super tired of having to worry about whether or not something lives up to its name. It's not a legacy, man; it's a comic book. I can't bring myself to care very much.

I think the only time I got really angry about something like this was when SyFy put Earthsea and white-washed it so bad it was basically Bleachsea. Well, and Avatar: The Last Airbender, but that was less anger and more just... sigh.