Posts made by Ganymede

@The-Sands said in FS3:

In fact in some ways it might even be clearer to the people playing. While they might not understand exactly how 75% came about (though that can be pretty easily explained) the fact that they are given a clear percentage chance for success would probably offset some of the situations where people think that because they've got 11 dice and the other person has 9 their odds of success should be around 80% when it is actually only about 70%.

Have you ever played XCOM? It pissed the shit out of me when I would have a stated 85% to succeed, and then didn't. Because, fuck, really?

Some people like transparency, statistics, and all of that. A lot of people, I'll wager, don't give a shit. That's why nWoD and other RPGs persist because, as @Thenomain points out, good writing overcomes shitty mechanics.

@skew said in IC Message Code/Alternative to @mail:

We might not be speaking the same language. In order to clone the mail system on TinyMUX, we'd need to get into the actual source code. While it's surely doable, it way out of the reach of most of us MU-coders. In this case, it's certainly way, way out of my reach.

That's fine, but we're speaking the same language. The problem is that I'm stupid. That said, what I was referring to was games which had more than one mailer available. According to @bobotron, those games used soft-coded mailers, which you can pick up from a MUSH code repository he provided a link for.

@Bobotron said in IC Message Code/Alternative to @mail:

There are tons of softcoded mailers on mushcode.com though.

Ah, okay. But this -- this is what I'd recommend doing for that.

@Bobotron said in Random links:

I would throw money at that, Clayface is my favorite villain. A noir-ish Batman movie with the Matt Hagan actor Clayface would be beautiful.

Yes, Matt Hagan. Because I don't really look outside of the Animated Series much. (Also, voiced by Ron Perlman.)

@Monogram said in Mass Effect: Andromeda: The Thread:

It's only because both of their last names are Harper. That's really it. I doubt it's real too, but you yourself just said the writing at points were...questionable. I wouldn't put it past the writers to throw that in because it's such a 'great idea'.

Conceded.

Would be nice if Lexi finally just asked Drack out or something.

@Monogram

Whoever started that theory is a fucking idiot.

@Monogram said in Mass Effect: Andromeda: The Thread:

Why, would the Asari, suddenly out of the graciousness of their hearts, take in a human, a member of a race that's still more or less an unknown at that point.

I know. I mean, maybe if they wanted to fuck her a lot. Which I could understand. I could also see Asari wanting to pair up with Jack to see what sort of super-biotics they could breed, but again: angle missed.

@Tinuviel

I expect you to be there when I get this fucking game done.

@Tinuviel

@Arkandel said in FS3:

Remember though that on a MUSH things are different because you can automate so much, whereas on table-top everything has to be done by hand. So maybe you can hide some of that complexity behind the code (since it knows the target's armor/defense, the weapon's penetration and modifiers, etc).

... it's like you didn't read the second part of my post, and that makes me sad.

Anyhow, my aim is to simplify the system without falling back to code. My hope is this will make the coding easier and more attractive to others.

@skew said in IC Message Code/Alternative to @mail:

The @mail system is built into the server itself. I have no idea how I'd go about duplicating it, without getting into the server's code itself.

I think that PennMUSH's mailer is not built in, and has been used on other games as an alternate mailer. Or BrandyMail. Not entirely sure: my coding-fu is weak.

On Cora Harper:

BioWare / EA needs to get better, smarter writers. This was a storyline that just failed from top to bottom. Why? Because it failed to incorporate themes evident in the first trilogy.

One question nagged me: why would the Asari ever allow a human to run with their elite commandos? The only answer I could think of: they wouldn't have.

Asari are assimilative, but, cruelly, extremely prejudicial and seemingly arbitrary. They understand prejudice because they must assimilate all races; yet they are ironic because they marginalize "pure" Asari and those they consider to be "dangerous" aberrations. They also enforce their traditions harshly, as evidenced by Samara.

So why? It doesn't make a lot of sense to me. The entire idea of it was jarring.

So, I figure: maybe Cora had a shit time of it. But, no: she apparently was a liked-and-well-respected member, even if she was removed from the order eventually. And she never gets into why, really, but I suppose you're just supposed to believe that it's because she's a beta, not an alpha.

I felt like the writers missed an entire angle that would have made the character deeper and richer. Of all the races, the Asari are the most interesting to me (if only because I adored Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness as a kid). Yet they do the least with them, whereas they can obviously create richness with other aliens, like the Krogan. (Drack is, by the way, the best.)

sigh

@skew said in IC Message Code/Alternative to @mail:

I think it's also helpful for my game immersion to be sending IC communications in a different medium than what I use to send/receive OOC information.

Couldn't you just clone a mailer, change the syntax for commands, and install it?

@Seraphim73 said in FS3:

I think that thousands of rolls happen faster than you might think in FS3 2nd Edition. Uh... yeah... so here's where I remind everyone that I'm a massive system nerd. I've probably got about 5,000 individual FS3 rolls under my belt over the last five years. Considering that in FS3 2nd Edition each attack in +combat actually causes 2-7 rolls (attack, defense, hit location, armor penetration, armor reduction, lethality, KO--way more if you're firing burst, autofire, or using an explosive weapon), and I've run a lot of +combats for fun, for testing, and for scenes... I wouldn't be surprised at all if I've seen the results of more than 5,000 rolls in FS3 (that's only 1000ish attacks).

Jesus.

And here I am thinking: "Man, I like FS3, and I'm going to use it as inspiration to simplify my own system!"

I still like it. But what I'm working on is simpler still, and I'm happy for that.

As for WoD, the rolls to take fucking forever because of the discussion on what to roll:

• What's my Attribute?
• What's my Ability?
• What Merits/Flaws modify the pool?
• What situational factors modify the pool?
• What equipment modify the pool?
• What specialties modify the pool?
• What Powers modify the pool?
• Will I spend Willpower to modify the pool?
• Where's my car?

And that's one side of it.

So, I like FS3's code which handles all of that, and tells you: BITCH PLZ THIS BE WUT YOU GET SHADDAP.

@Miss-Demeanor said in Random links:

I wanted Ron Perlman to play Cable in Deadpool 2. But noooooooooooooo... lets NOT go with the guy that's voice how many superhero/villains, is a comic nerd himself, has already played at least ONE superhero/antihero in movies, and is INFAMOUSLY capable of being gruffly sarcastic at the drop of a dime. >.>

While I realize it will likely never happen, I've held out hope that someone out there will make a Batman movie with Clayface in it.

@faraday said in FS3:

Like starting with a 5 in WoD. Although I dunno, maybe that's not a thing WoD MU*s do?

When everyone's a snowflake, it really doesn't matter how special you are.

@Thenomain

THE HORROR.

@SG said in Random links:

Wonder Woman is pretty much DC's last chance. Especially with the major fumble of having Jason Momoa playing fucking Aquaman instead of Lobo.

You could always get Danny Trejo to play Lobo.

Take a moment to read this article. Like, 10 minutes. You'll thank me, once you're done crying.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/lolas-story/524490/?utm_source=fbb

@mietze said in FS3:

I get that for whatever reason you hate this system. More power to you. It just seems a little weird.

I could be wrong, but my understanding is that @WTFE has no love for FS3 2E because it was hard to succeed in it. Apparently, @faraday fixed this in FS3 3E, which @WTFE has no experience with. But he'll still knock a game with FS3 because of his experience with 2E.

This is fine, actually, given that FS3 3E is only available on BSG:U. So, if another game has FS3, it is probably 2E. The beef isn't weird to me -- I think I get it -- but it's hard to sift through it because @WTFE apparently doesn't communicate clearly.

@WTFE said in RL Anger:

See, what I get out of that story is that adults are shit, not children.

The thief is also shit. It wasn't enough that it stole a cellphone, which is worth a substantial amount of money; it also had to go ahead and be a tremendous dick about it.

I'd press charges if I were the victim's parents. And then inform the school board of the principal's failure to act.