A +meetme (with some caveats) is likely. The OOC room suggestion is prooobably a hard no. All I can speak to is my own experience, but of all the (four?) wod mushes I dipped my toe into, there was just 0 organic, random RP to be had. Also the OOC rooms were horrible and headache-inducing.
But, every character in Arx is assigned a home room, a private space in which they can idle and chat and watch paint dry as they like.
@Arkandel The disadvantage of an entirely player managed system is that there is no quality control and you lose your ability to ensure you are maintaining consistent theme.
@Misadventure I am blunt. Super blunt. What little wit I possess is sarcastic and a bit acidic, and I don't hold back when people get in my space with bullshit or smalltalk. I'm mean. I like to argue. I have resting bitch face.
I can tell a hell of a good story with 3-5 people, but yeah if your goal is "a thriving game" that's probably not a good indicator.
A lot of this is already doable in Evennia. On Arx you can see anyone's background, only secret stuff and stats are hidden.
I'm thinking of:
A different permission set or alternate ST bit people can log into which will give them access to commands and NPC spawning and such they don't have as players, but NOT give them access to things staffers can see, like secrets and granular system commands.
Group creation, so you can create groups of NPCs and commands to equip them/make them attack/whatever.
I love it when people admit I am intimidating. YES, FEAR ME. One of my favorite things.
I got a discount on the charge for my move when I threatened a bad yelp review.
Of course, I was threatening it because one of the guys casually joked about shooting my roommate, and didn't actually put my bed together. Like, it fell apart when I sat on it to go to bed.
@Misadventure said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
Grid wandering seems a poor substitute for an actual living setting (which is beyond anyone to provide unless you have tens of thousands of players, and even then they won't want to be all the roles that you need), and it's the unusual circumstances where you meet someone you might never run into otherwise, or come upon a scene in progress.
My experiences lead me to disagree! I got into mushing on a text game with a high population. There was a big grid, and it was all enforced IC on the grid. I joined the game knowing two people. 80% of the RP I found there was organic, grid wandering RP. That found-rp was 100% of the reason I stayed.
We do need those guides, and actually one of those wasn't even on the list so I am adding it. Thank you!
As for temp rooms: you're right, we don't have them. There will be an exploration system that will generate rooms of challenges/puzzles/fights etc for groups of people striking out into the wilds (or semi-wilds). I think ship combat (further out) will utilize the same system with a different skin. I don't know about temp rooms for PRPs, the idea is that you can run things on the grid or in those exploration rooms. I mean if you are going to PRP a gan fight or whatever you could just spawn those in the lower boroughs.
We definitely want people to do storytelling for others, and are going to have a feedback system, by which you can 'level up' as a storyteller and get access to more tools (such as NPCs/creatures, metaplot elements etc).
The player help in explaining things to people is wonderful. WONDERFUL. Also, our help file situation should improve drastically. We know they are not great.
@Insomnia She probably still thinks that 45 seconds was about as troublesome as sneezing.
There are plans for LOTS more of that. Eventually (big eventually) we want the game to be welcoming even to people who have never used Telnet. That means CG, journals, support and tasks all available via web forms, and some work on the webclient to make it good.
I'm getting downvoted for saying state your case. Lawls. But yes, state your case! We are definitely willing to change things if we are convinced there's a better way, and the final call is not mine.
Noooo? When the code update is done the current DB will be copied over, so nothing should be lost (except pending messengers, afaik).
@Arkandel
Prooobably not? Maybe. But probably not. We want people to be out on the grid. You could make your case, we have an entire board for that - systems discussion. Also, requests can be used for code requests.
(We are in a code freeze right now as Tehom updates to the latest Evennia)
@BetterJudgment said in Coming soon: Lawless Space MUSH:
The very first thing I thought of while reading this was a guy in a bathrobe, carrying a towel.
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I fucking love Betty White. STAY AWAY FROM HER YOU HARPY YEAR.
Now that we have all that cleared up, can I just say that your excessive abuse of ellipses makes me want to rip the "." key off your keyboard and make you eat it? That is all.
I don't even..is that because I HAVE one, or are you implying I'm in some way a coward? I have lost the steps, the dance is rent asunder.