Posts made by DeadEmpire

Okay I cannot resist.

Joslyn

My alt that I only tell close friends about

I'm Joslyn and I don't really give out my alt, but she exists!

Been doing stealth updates for a while, also trying to dip my toes into Gray Harbor! Haven't done anything yet but... Well I hope to change that eventually. Back on Arx full swing though.

I have some unlisted alts, maybe I'll tell sometime but for now I like my privacy!

Why does it not surprise me to learn that you have a character called "Butters"?

I'll jump onto the "she was so great" bandwagon. I wasn't aware she was so popular, but I need her Fatima back in my life!

The employee bathrooms are in the locker rooms. Single seat. So when I have to go, I have a litany of people coming in.

"Is anybody in there?"

"Yes."

"What?"

... Did you not just hear a human voice coming from in here? Great bathroom setup for people with anxiety, too!

I tend to play outgoing and confident characters. I think in part because IRL I have a hard time being so self assured, but in RP I can be that person I wish I could be irl. I like my characters to be kind, but usually harbor a darker side, secrets and all.

But I also like to step outside of my comfort zone, play criminals, or nasty people. I just can't do it when alts are limited, or else I'd feel like I have to be that asshole character all the time. Madika on Firan comes to mind, she was such a fun, in your face, asshole.

@apotheosis You're referring to the election where the winner lost by 3 million votes?

@apotheosis

At this point, that is all I can add to this conversation. If you can't say something without being a bigot, it just shouldn't be said. This isn't the site for that.

@apotheosis We don't need sexist, homophobic, racist or transphobic comments running free on the Hog Pit. If you wanna get nasty, get nasty, but you shouldn't have to be allowed to attack what they are instead of who they are.

Constitutionally protected free speech allows for some vitriolic bullshit, and I think the rules regarding the only things that can't be said in the Hog Pit are fine.

With me it's pretty simple and it's actually very easy to get immersed, but a few things need to happen to really draw me in. Things need to feel connected, or else it just feels like nothing matters. It's why rp rooms disconnected from any kind of larger grid just don't work for me, it makes it all feel so much less alive for day to day rp. The option to create a room for one off scenes works great for events, or prps, but a grid where people could wander through your square because they were in the neighborhood? Maybe you leave a room because you hear shouts from outside and see that a fight has broken out in a separate scene. In a system of rooms, those two scenes could never interact in such a natural and fluid way. The lack of a grid makes everything feel so much more rigid and disconnected. A well made grid can make a game spring to life for me. I think the simple approach to Arx's grid is rather perfect. To start? That's really all I need. A world that feels consistent and real.

I also need real consequences. If I charge the big bad while naked and unarmed, I shouldn't be able to just say that I don't consent to my death. Losing a character has never been easy for me, I'm an emotional person, after all, but without that risk of death, it all feels so inconsequential. I mean, if I'm not going to die anyway, what's the point of showing up to the battle? To show off? (I'll add I appreciate the approach that Arx has to PK, in that you're not likely to be ambushed and murdered for no immediately apparent reason)

A roster system I've also found helps. Gives a sense of permanence to the characters, instead of a rotating door of OCs that never stick around.

Hey you! Have you been here this whole time?

@seraphim73 said in Big city grids - likes and dislikes:

@sunny said in Big city grids - likes and dislikes:

I love the idea of the scenes code.

I think it should be implemented alongside a real grid, not instead of.

Yup! I love it too. And that's actually exactly what we tried to do on The Eighth Sea. We had about 30ish rooms (by the end) on the grid, but about 1/2 of them had pre-desced scene rooms that were ICly in that location that were listed below the room desc. Players were (of course) free to create their own scene rooms as well.

@faraday Yuuuuup. Totally agree. It's definitely a culture/people problem. Emblazoning "Open Scene" on open scenes is about as much as you can do from a tools perspective to help out.

For what it's worth, the lack of a grid has made it very difficult for me to get into 8th Sea, as much as I really want to! Even though what I do on Arx is check "where" and zoom over to where it looks like RP is happening, which is functionally the same as joining a scene in progress, there's the mental roadblock of it feeling more mentioned above. It's a hard one to hurdle over.

So, Subnautica is really good. Also, it was an awesome surprise to have two familiar voice actors (more famously known from Battlefield Friends) show up in the middle of the game for what has to be one of my favorite cameos in game history.

It's the "ham and cheese" transmission, if you're curious and know what I'm talking about.

Or I suppose I could join you on this game instead! I said as I continue a conversation from a different medium entirely.

My big thing is that I do always worry about whether or not my RP is fun for other people, and if it isn't how I can improve myself. Reading this thread has been so good because it's good to see what people don't like. I know I'm not perfect but I am trying to improve at least! Honestly, if I am doing some of these things I have no idea, as a roleplayer that I'm "that person" is one of my biggest fears. I'm always striving to try to come up with something that the other person will find compelling.

Things that turn me off are the same that so many people mentioned. People that have to make everything in a scene all about them, people that make redescribe the room in their far too long poses, etc.

By far the biggest thing is when I start to get stressed out by the player OOCly. I've gotten burned quite badly in the past, and on certain occasions I will be pushed to my breaking point by drama I never wanted any part of when I just want to come here to play a character that likes to beat people up with hairpins while dressed in pretty dresses. I want all the drama to be IC and when I bring the IC drama to a player, and they give me grief about it OOCly... that's just gonna really start to kill it for me.

Every game I've ever really gotten into has been word of mouth from the same person, and that same person lost interest shortly after I joined, but I stuck around because I liked it, except my first which she stuck around with but I left because, ugh. (Star Conquest, Firan, Arx)

The big thing that has always kept me away from a lot of superhero MUs is that I'm just not interested in playing as Batman or other already established heroes, but an OC of my creation? I'm totally down for that, and era doesn't bother me, as long as I get to make a badass superhero lady (Boob window optional)

Updating again, because why not? I was Avaline, retired her and now I'm Denica again!