@auspice said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
I had never thought of compression socks for helping with walking. That might not be a bad idea!
They are pretty nifty, from personal experience, but don't use them too often or your body'll demand them.
There's a part of my that wants to fly @Sunny and @mietze and a lot of other people to my place so we can all cook and devour the eats.
Seriously, I love to cook. A lot. Having children and a partner with finicky tastes makes me so pissy all the time. Like, I need to make a pork tenderloin, potstickers, and other stuff at least once a year to remind everyone that I'm a kitchen god.
@ixokai said in FCs on Comic MUs:
For those who are gonna say, JUST MAKE ALL OCS THEN, shh. No. People wanna play make-believe with Captain America and Batman. Let'em.
Can you update the M1963 advertisement a little for me? I'm seriously interested in what you're throwing down, and I'd like to try and add something to the game if I can when I app onto it. I've had an OC brewing for a long time, and I'd like to try her.
@tempest said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:
I want to play in stuff like Final Fantasy, or Super Robot settings but....
Without 90% of the people those kind of games tend to attract.
Man, sometimes I hate you because you say the things I'm thinking of all the damn time.
@faraday said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:
Yeah, I'd dare anyone to find a single post on MSB favoring consent-based games that wasn't immediately met with snark, disdain, cries of "wrongfun" and/or insults about "wusses who just can't stand to lose".
Sure. Here's a good thread: http://musoapbox.net/topic/1713/naruto-mush-legacy/20
In addition, there's even a post in there about how the proposed system isn't really consent-based, and that it really should be.
But, that's just one thread. Everything else you said is mostly true.
(I just wanted to look.)
@dariryu said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:
I apologize for expressing that unpopular opinion. I didn't realize consent-based roleplay was so incredibly universally hated and reviled here. I have deleted the post in question, and I will refrain from expressing any other such views.
I would prefer that you express your views because they are legitimate. My response was merely to point out that proposed FS3 system isn't a PvP system, and that not all systems are PvP systems.
I like consent-based games, and have played on several. That said, everyone that I know who plays on FS3 games like the fact that most of it is by consent. What FS3 is really good at is large-scale PvE where you have a large volume of people and do not want the predictability that comes with consent-games.
So, to repeat: please keep posting! Differing perspectives and perceptions are important here.
@bored said in FCs on Comic MUs:
I'm also not sure what third way you're implying here. Either you're a person who promotes and creates story, or you're a person who largely consumes it.
There are three types of players presented: (1) plot-runners; (2) story promoters; and (3) consumers. Plot-running is different than promoting story; story promoters are the sort of folks that RP with others often, provides entertainment for other players, and, on an OOC level, helps get new and old players involved in things. That's different than a plot-runner, who, as the identification suggests, actually runs plots or stories for people.
We're all consumers, so instead, I'll focus on the other two characteristics. From them, there are four types of people: (1) runs and promotes; (2) runs but does not promote; (3) does not run but promotes; and (4) neither runs nor promotes.
You want (1)s. (2)s come on board to run stories for others, but otherwise aren't around; these are rare, but I've seen them. I fall into (3)s mostly because I rarely run events (because of schedule and time), but when I'm on I try to involve as many people as I can. (4)s aren't necessarily bad to have, but you can't rely on them to keep going.
Just my opinion.
In the Final Fantasy world, being healed from near death to full status is a regular thing, actually.
Not that I really mind it the way it is, though. On Fifth Kingdom, my PC was near-legendary for his ability to continually being KO'd in combat, only to be healed by a healer and back in the action a moment later. I think in one combat I was KO'd 4 times.
Good times.
Anyhow, yeah. FS3 could work. Needs tweaking. But could work.
I think we can all concur that the first step is to contact the OP to figure out what their wishes are, whether their game is closed or no longer in development, and what they would like to see happen to their thread.
Any objection to that?
See, I always thought that combat/treat does a little bit of immediate healing, but thereafter caps the healing process. Am I wrong? Can you treat the same wound over and over until it's fully-healed?
I'm pretty sure that Faraday could possibly whip something up for FS3 that allows for healing, but frankly she's a pretty busy lady and I'm not at the point where I'm actively planning anything like that.
Anyhow, yeah, I'm not saying FS3 won't work. Far from it. I just think FF XV is the best suited for it.
@thenomain said in Make MSB great again!:
Why are we talking about culling any post? Is there something about this forum that an out of date post needs to be removed?
We're talking about this because a member has indicated that they'd like to see old threads in the Ad section cleared.
What I'm suggesting is that OPs of threads which have seen no activity in 6 months be given notice that their thread will be cleared unless they drop a note to us (mods) indicating they want to keep it open. Otherwise, after a certain point -- 14 days, let's say -- it would be reasonable to presume there is no interest in keeping the thread open.
The discussion is simply for the Ad area right now. I don't think anyone has said anything about other areas.
Wrong thread, dork. You're looking for the thread titled "Shit that don't mean shit to Ganymede or to how the NBA Finals are going to play out."
While what you say is true, Cure and Life are the most important spells in your Final Fantasy arsenal. I don't think they are compatible, as they are presented in the games, with FS3.
FF XV is the best for FS3 because magic is heavily-minimalized. You have Fire, Ice, and Lightning attacks and spells, but that's about it. Curing is done via potions, for the most part. From what I've seen on BSG:U and Fifth Kingdom, I don't think FS3 allows you to heal people. So, there's that limitation.
@arkandel said in MU Things I Love:
I want to say HM but maybe it was TR, there was a time when people thought it was unfair/close to cheating if you took a failure without failing the dice.
People also thought the planet was flat once.
@faraday said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:
But FS3 is not designed for PvP games or for magical games, so I agree it's not a good fit for FF.
To clarify my position, FS3 would be great for FF XV's setting in which magic is relegated to near non-existence. I've thought long and hard about this.
I'll shut up now, mistress.
@lithium said in MU Things I Love:
Actually it is /impossible/ to make a werewolf that is incapable of frenzy. Even a Ragabash with a Rage of 1, can get modifiers to their rage pool for purposes of rolling for frenzy. It's just a rule that /most/ of the games choose not to enforce.
As a GM, when situations arise in my games were a Rage roll may be involved, and failure may be hilarious or dangerous, I offer certain players an additional XP point if they consent to failure and have their PCs frenzy. It leads to fascinating and hilarious results.
@dariryu said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:
Who said anything about a system? I'd prefer it if there wasn't, in fact. Systems lead to PvP, PvP leads to competitiveness, competitiveness leads to gaming the system, and gaming the system leads to a subset of the game being able to pretty much walk all over everybody else because their numbers are bigger. That's never good.
FS3, as a system, is not capable of handling PvP competitiveness -- at least, not to the complication that many people who do like PvP will get much, if any, benefit. What FS3 does well, however, is simulate a battle scenario with two sides, which may be unbalanced number-wise, and figure out the outcome on a per-turn basis.
Which, if you have played Final Fantasy games, seems pretty darn reminiscent to the games themselves.
Systems produce unexpected consequences. Unexpected or unintended consequences can make RP more interesting. Consent generally connotes the absence of those kinds of consequences.
I'm almost certain that folks using FS3's new system, via Ares, can attest to the absence of PvP on their games.
@ixokai said in FCs on Comic MUs:
My experience: Almost zero. And its been ... I don't even know. At least a year, going on year and a half to two?
Is your experience limited to your game? Because your game has a very definite time and scope, so I can see why there would be fewer issues regarding timelines or versions.
I can see how people may believe there to be a massive discussion about timelines on other games. I mean, it seems that there's an awful lot of discussion of this nature for a game like UH, for example, but I'd like to hear it from those players.
@lithium said in Make MSB great again!:
Actually they could probably do with a repost, and an update, so having a time limit does make some sense in that regard as well.
Right. That notice is more of a "hey, we're thinking of taking this down, you mind?" To which they can respond: "please keep it up" or "sure, that's fine, take it down." Would probably cull the list substantially.