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Pyrs love snow!

No! Can't have no vidya games without a vidya

I'm your mom and I want to tell you that you need a varied diet for nutrition.

I worked all night at an extremely undemanding job, in front of a PC, and I was bored. A friend was like "I stay up all night playiing this text game, come try it" and I was like "sounds fake but ok".

No one cares if Aquaman is good, though I'm not sure why they didn't just have Jason Momoa and Amber heard getting sprayed with water in tight clothes for 75 minutes. It would have been way cheaper

@sparks I mean yay but MAGIC and EXPLORING

atlantis is not an app, sadly I have an ipad pro i've been wondering about a client for. I think people have mentioned mudrammer

So thanks for the idea of this thread, but we get goodfeedback talking to players directly and aren't really getting the kind of suggestions we'd hope for. If you have feedback, take it through the official channels in game or on github, we are abandoning this MSB-staff-interfacing to focus on what we think is important, and fun.

Back to your regularly scheduled posting.

@sparks said in Constructive (keyword) Criticism of Arx Systems:

To be fair, maybe the real answer is "we need to just stop listening to complaints about system design until everything is done, and then do any re-balancing afterwards." Because the systems are meant to facilitate RP, not replace it.

Maybe!

@tempest Sure, this is all fair, and I agree!

I think maybe as staff we are overestimating how upset people are about prestige. Or maybe not. I especially feel for Pax, who has been working really hard on supremely exciting fun shit to go into the game, and instead it seems like all the focus is on prestige and who is where on a chart.

We could get rid of the chart, but I don't think that would make a big difference - long before score, long before ARX, there have always been people who complain and accuse when other people get things they don't have. I remember way back in the beforetimes it was how unfair it is that people playing leadership chars get to make decisions.

@sparks yeah, what I would love to hear suggestions for is how to shore this up and make it fun and rewarding without necessarily being as tied to prestige.

What would make hosting events feel more rewarding? What would make you seek out a socially statted char? We have some ideas, of course, but by no means are gonna come up with all the best ideas.

I had ideas I liked for needing social chars for spin doctoring and hype and PR type things, but that's all to mitigate staff /npc reactions to things. What about things that are much more player driven? What's a good reward for someone who runs a bunch of in house events for new people to their orgs?

@three-eyed-crow said in Constructive (keyword) Criticism of Arx Systems:

Can't staff make it clear this isn't cool and punish people who do it when they are reported?

So we could. We tried that. And yet we still heard all the time that it was happening, and the people who DID want fashion felt bad enough that they might be keeping someone from getting THE BEST ARMOR to help the House that they wouldn't even ask, or - and this is the worst part - it was just accepted as the Way Things Were and that's the culture that was spread where staff wasn't aware of it.

@ganymede cool, go take a class or do a workbook or something. You don't even play arx, so that's not surprising, but it also isn't very relevant.

we have a different solution in mind! but kind of want to save up prestige, etc changes into a batch so we aren't roped into spending a lot of time putting out OHNOES fires while other things are not in, yet.