Anyone here ever play on the original Anomaly? I'm hoping to reconnect with some old friends (or frenemies, that's cool too).

I played Poole. (I'm sorry. And yes, it was my fault.)

What's prompting this? Well. For one, reasons. Reasons that are totally not that I'm in the beginning stages of building a Star Trek game. For sure.

So if any of you are Anomaly players/staffers/survivors: well hello there!

And if you aren't, but love Star Trek (especially TNG/DS9/Voyager era): hi, how you doin'?

(P.S. Thank you MUSHing community for tolerating my lunacy for nigh on 20 years now).

@Cobaltasaurus As I was saying, I'm totally not working on a Star Trek game or anything.

At all.

Which is to say that if I were hypothetically building a Star Trek game, it's not quite ready for players yet. Though, still speaking hypothetically, I would say it is not far off. Hypothetically speaking, that is.

@faraday I think this is more the approach I would want to take. Basically big stuff gets some sort of report to track it. I could use department-based forums to cover this. Otherwise it's assumed or hand waved.

However, some good points were made elsewhere on this thread, so I am still mulling it over.

@Cobaltasaurus So rude. So demanding. I literally am so offended.

P.S. Re: your demand. Soon.

@Cobaltasaurus So rude. So demanding. I literally am so offended.

P.S. Re: your demand. Soon.

@BurgerSlave Oh hells yeah, I remember Sharei. I just read the log for one of the promotion ceremonies where Commander Balin pranked everyone at the end and "tar and feathered" everyone and Sharei almost lost his telepathic shit.

@faraday I think this is more the approach I would want to take. Basically big stuff gets some sort of report to track it. I could use department-based forums to cover this. Otherwise it's assumed or hand waved.

However, some good points were made elsewhere on this thread, so I am still mulling it over.

@Cobaltasaurus As I was saying, I'm totally not working on a Star Trek game or anything.

At all.

Which is to say that if I were hypothetically building a Star Trek game, it's not quite ready for players yet. Though, still speaking hypothetically, I would say it is not far off. Hypothetically speaking, that is.

@Decius Homeskillet, feel free to highjack it all you want. I do not mind a little discussion on what worked and what did not on all those old Star Trek games. (I'm taking notes!)

@Cobaltasaurus I was on Anomaly from the beginning and I feel comfortable saying that while +reports added a layer to role-play, I think it bogged down things as much as it helped generate RP.

That being said, I think a happy medium where only certain types of things are actually reported might work.. Though exactly how I'd get a +report system up and running on AresMUSH, I'd have to do further research on.

@runescryer Oh God, the pregnancy drama. I am so so sorry.

I think of Anomaly fondly, but I was (still am???) a lunatic.

I have no plans on incorporating a +reports system. My thoughts on that are:

You are a Starfleet Officer.

Of course you are going to file a report.

Do you need to actually write one? No. No you don't. It can be assumed. The only time you'd need to change that assumption was if in that particular case it was not true (IE, not writing a report, reporting a different version of the story than the truth, or some sort of classification on the report).

Right now I am looking at AresMUSH and modifying the FS3 system for Trek use (most of it seems to translate fine).

@roz Thank you. I changed careers and am now computers/technology/etc dumb. In addition to just being plain dumb.

goodstarbuck#0777

Also, if you don't want to be the first person to out yourself as a Star Trek nerd, but you are interested in this Totally Not Doing A Star Trek Game, I am on Discord as goodstarbuck.

Anyone here ever play on the original Anomaly? I'm hoping to reconnect with some old friends (or frenemies, that's cool too).

I played Poole. (I'm sorry. And yes, it was my fault.)

What's prompting this? Well. For one, reasons. Reasons that are totally not that I'm in the beginning stages of building a Star Trek game. For sure.

So if any of you are Anomaly players/staffers/survivors: well hello there!

And if you aren't, but love Star Trek (especially TNG/DS9/Voyager era): hi, how you doin'?

(P.S. Thank you MUSHing community for tolerating my lunacy for nigh on 20 years now).