Best posts made by Ganymede

@Caryatid

To be fair, I didn't entirely create the Alucinor at Reno. I think that was more skew's doing or Derp's doing.

I did make the bloodline for a different game that, to my knowledge, never opened.

But, yes, try Echoes.

@Raemira said in Raemira's Playlist:

Past:
Tartarus - Katerine

Dear Lord.

I played Locke.

My brain just exploded.

You literally are the reason I stayed MUSHing this long.

I'm not sure if that's a compliment or not; depends who you ask.

But it's nice to see you're still around.

They think my partner has developed ovarian cancer.

It's really not fucking fair at all. I'm tired as fuck, and I can't imagine what she's going through.

We are looking to bring on at least one other admin to help us run and moderate the forum. If you're interested, please notify me and/or Derp by PM.

We would ideally like to have such new admin on or about the end of May (2022).

@Derp

Then maybe I did draft it? I did an awful lot of these back in the day.

@Bargle said:

If a game is trying to have any type of feudal politics going on, I'd think some type of family tree would be pretty necessary.

Although primogeniture was used often, feudalism can still occur in the absence thereof. What matters is a line of succession.

@alzie said in Yes! More Micro-transactions! (Activision, WB Games and EA appreciation thread):

Holy shit. That's so evil I have to step back and appreciate it. Buy this instagib cannon and we will guarantee you multiplayer matches against people that you will one hit kill. That's beautiful.

It is, but that's why I'm playing Horizon Zero Dawn and NHL '17.

For this particular thread started in the Suggestions area.

https://musoapbox.net/topic/3708/suggestion-transparency

Mietze locked the thread after determining that it was nothing more than a personal attack. These sorts of threads are not going to be tolerated any longer. Questioning the change in policy regarding the boards is just fine, so long as posts and threads follow our updated code of conduct.

@Misadventure

Sorry, but that song was written in the 2000s.

@Songtress said:

I suppose for me in a Fantasy MU* I don't want to play a brutal, harsh theme that has no hope of changing because my character and others work for it.

You need a system that will allow you to influence an area, similar to the Off-Screen System employed by Kingsmouth. That way, players can enact immediate, positive, lasting change, even if the circumstances around them are dire.

@ghost

Really fucking good, actually. Physics are spot-on, and the controls aren't too sensitive. Checking is more realistic. And you get to micromanage errrrrrything with your franchise. Don't like the price of nachos at the Air Canada Centre? Knock it down or jack it up -- whatever!

Drafting and trading remains horrible, and you still can't extend contracts.

Moist.

In second place, damp.

A reminder to all that this particular area is to be considered mildly constructive, and that the request was for game recommendations rather than a call for why not to go to certain games.

@Derp said in L&L Options?:

These systems don't exist not because nobody's bothered to make them, but because people have bothered to make them and found them not worth the effort when the backlash came back.

That's not at all true. I made and used a system way back on Gilded Promises / Due Rewards. We also did the same for a short period on Denver by Night. They used a system on Requiem for Kingsmouth as well. I maintain that it's not the backlash, but the time needed to create a political economy that fits the system.

As an example, the World of Darkness wasn't made for this level of crunchiness, so you have to adapt the game accordingly. For the Dark Ages game I was working on with Arkandel and SunnyJ, SunnyJ had taken part of Damnation City and adapted it whilst I worked on creating a set of bloodlines that fit the location (Livonia) and the timeframe. (Admittedly, we were really ambitious and started to delve into bloodlines for the Julii and Pijavica, but I digress.)

As another example, FS3 was also not made for this level of crunchiness. In developing a Mass Effect system, my progress essentially ground to a halt when I started to think about how to create a system that'd both the universe and the system. Add to that my ambition to have Advantages make a difference in Action Skills, and that system was tabled.

After I'm done slap-dashing bloodlines for RDC's game, I am probably going to work on something for City of Shadows. More than happy to collaborate with Lisse24 or whomever, but much will depend on future discussions with Taika on how deep she wants to go. And by 'deep' I mean 'getting a coder on board that is willing to create new systems or revise existing systems to automate as much as possible'.

But, no, I disagree, mostly because you know that I don't give a shit about the whining. People will play the game or they won't, and if you make the game simple and easy enough to understand and use players will overlook minor problems.

@Arkandel said in L&L Options?:

You know what's funny though? A lot of us have said this exact thing, and yet it's yet to be done. At some point the-collective-we need to put our money where our mouths are.

You know what's funny? Patience. A lot of people demand it, but few actually have it.

If we all agree that this is something we need, it makes absolutely no sense for people to open up new games without it. I know people have been working on one system or another but, at least as was the case of Fallcoast, game developers simply don't wait.

And, surprise surprise, games go up, games go down, and we all still agree that something was missing.

@insomnia said in Yes! More Micro-transactions! (Activision, WB Games and EA appreciation thread):

Oh hell no. Mobile games are almost exclusively P2W. The War one with Kate Upton in the commercials? It makes nearly $ 750, 000 a day.

And yet, Fallout Shelter is so much more enjoyable.

@23quarius

You have my blessing to keep posting and to take commissions, if you want.

We're sooooo toxic.

If ESH’s policy on spoofing potential PCs is so problematic that one would rather continue playing on UH, then I am without words to advise you as to where to play.

That said, again: this thread is to recommend games, not critique them. This is the third time I have had to say this. I will not do so again.

@Cobaltasaurus

You did not like Sidney, though? I thought everyone loved the Feesh.

@ghost said in Yes! More Micro-transactions! (Activision, WB Games and EA appreciation thread):

Last I read, microtransactions account for 25% of all profits in the gaming industry.

Micro-transactions support the theory I have that most new gamers are fucking stupid.

Whatever. I hate you, I hate them.

So, like, what are your commissions like?