honestly I had a whiff of interest in Kingdom Come Deliverance but a bit of watching gameplay vids and reading the game media left me with the distinct impression this is some completely myopic bullshit where Good White Man's Son galavants around have grand Adventures and choosing which whores to be bathed by.
Picture me making the jacking off motion with complete disinterest.
@faraday said in Game Design: Avoiding Min-Maxing:
especially when systems throw in a lot of skills that everyone should have to some extent, like Athletics, Persuasion, Awareness, Driving, etc.
Wait, why should everyone have these, though? People don't all have these skills. Like driving I get, imo you should be able to be fine driving a car baseline but maybe you aren't a stunt driver or a getaway driver or a street racer unless you invest in that skill.
@tinuviel said in Visit Fallcoast, sponsored by the Fallcoast Chamber of Commerce:
@auspice Ayup. Temprooms are a thing for anything else.
shudders
I mean, they have their place! But I don't agree that they can take the place of an immersive grid.
@sparks Barx, After the Oh Heckening
@apos you have to take a Buzzfeed "which dog breed are you" quiz in your app.
Black Panther was fantastic. Awful villain that was still sympathetic, great visuals, great fights, great music, great female characters having great lines and moments, and Angela Basset is a beautiful goddess like wtf isn't she almost 60 or something how
@ganymede True, but - A. not my problem, and B. whining and complaining is not a good way to MAKE them.
@faraday I definitely don't agree. If you want to 'vent', whine, and complain, do it to your friends. They are the people who know you aren't usually like that and you're just being a person (which yes, everyone is and does). Don't whine on channels about other people getting things. Don't whine publicly about people not loving your char or not responding to you fast enough. That isn't just a player being human, that's a player being a negative brat.
And if you let that shit fly, your environment becomes INUNDATED with it. Everyone should be free to whine and snark and complain /sometimes/, right? Wrong. Wrong, or the whining and complaining will overwhelm the atmosphere.
The update fixed that horrible formatting thing, at least. Hurray!
This bug/feature formats the page for me so that I can't even reply to a topic. BUT I CAN CREATE A NEW ONE. Help. Hopefully the forum upgrade fixes this? IDK, I was using the default skin.
@faceless i watched two five minute videos that summed up the story of 1 and 2
Imagine a lot of "and then Geralt fought a thing and a woman was shady" repeated a lot
don't try to play the witcher 1. I got all 3 and figured I'd start there and I made it about 10 minutes before I had to bail. Apparently in games 2 and 3 the devs learned how normal people play games, so that's good.
It's a bad idea to create a setting where people can be spread out all over a universe from the beginning. If you have a game that successfully runs for awhile and attracts players through story and atmosphere, you can work on adding other places, other destinations. But first, you should definitely create a reason for players to be together.
If people want to play in depth ship and planet simulators, they can go play Eve online. People log into MU to roleplay. Everything else is just downtime/minigame.
@ortallus Fool, you can't cut hair with spoons. Spoons aren't even sharp.
I miss Whataburger. Mostly for the ketchup?! Which I realize is weird.
@ShaLeah Well, this is specifically a board - and thus, a thread - for advertising and enticing new players to games, so maybe go back to doing whatever it is you usually do.
@shaleah said in Armageddon MUD:
I'm not surprised there are so many intense feelings surrounding this game. It does that. Gets to you.
I won't sit and justify anyone else's actions. During my tenure I have been fucked over IC'ly by staff and players alike. I doubt a single one of them would admit it. I doubt that players who's characters always hate mine no matter what would admit it's an OOC thing either, heh, but the point of all these accusations and claims is that all sides have HELLA FEELINGS for this place, its staff and players.
Armageddon isn't for everyone. It's not. It's for intensity and fear, adrenaline and hatred. It's for racism and superiority, for dominance and a very oppressive social structure. Armageddon is for murder, for corruption, for betrayal. If you wanna be a princess, you gotta earn that shit. She's still gonna die though and it's probably gonna be fly as fuck.
If you're into roleplay, if you read things and feel shit, if you loath the way that guy talks, walks, breathes Armageddon is for you.
Things change, people mature. The staff now communicates in a way that is emphatically NOT like the game.
I wish players who were burned would open up dialogue with staff IF THEY LOVED THE GAME. If they don't then, meh, let them stay butthurt and bristling with righteous indignation at the unfairness of it all.
Read all this and if you're feeling intrigued at all, come give us a try. The worst that could happen you're witnessing right here. But remember you're also witnessing the best.
Make up your own damn mind.
Cool story.
However, I seriously doubt a game that is all about early 90s era edgelordian ooc politics offers 'the best' of either rp, or storytelling.
There's been mentioned player base is down, right? You're all here talking up this mud because you need new players to come, because murdering the same people you have a grudge against is getting old.
If you want new players, you have to do something to make your game appeal to new people. This isn't rocket science. But aside from @Thugheaven, no one in this thread talking up this mud is making it appealing at all.
@ortallus said in Armageddon MUD:
And if people can't separate IC from OOC as far as punishing someone for being in the wrong place, then they need to separate IC from OOC as far as teaching people
This seems pretty key. If you're ok with punishing a character IC for a failing of OOC knowledge, you need to also be ok with helping a player OOC in the actual game. I mean, if they don't realize something as simple as 'commoners can't read', are they actually going to know about your discord?
I'm a pretty big proponent of not talking to people OOC in rp games. I think the more of it done, the more it hurts the immersion. I think people decide "oh me and X are friends because we've had a few pleasant chats when everything was going great between our characters" and then when they realize that isn't a friendship that's going to stand the test of any sort of conflict, they get extra upset as if they've been betrayed. I think it leads to drama.
However, you can't really say 'oh all ooc communication is discouraged, and it's for the FUN, and that's why no one will give you a heads up you're about to get facerolled for doing something your character would absolutely know not to do' and ALSO say 'but just pop into our ooc discord and you can get the help you need!'
I mean you can, obviously. It just kind of seems to defeat the stated purpose. And since it defeats the stated purpose, one wonders why people don't just say it quickly in the game. Feels kind of like a half measure, like trying to hold on to an older style of full immersion dickery while sort of kind of almost making an effort to actually retain new players.
