Posts made by Meg

@lordbelh

It was fun playing with you as Sylvie. Even if I fell asleep on you once.

so your friends can't look?

What codebase are you using? That's going to make a difference for coders who want to help.

@Thenomain

Well, I think basically what was 'called out' was just-- that we all knew documentation needs help.

I mean, it's been said, a lot. In this thread, too. Documentation still needs help.

I don't know what staff's plan is for it, but it would be something to probably touch on at the end of beta, if not before. A whole documentation review.

@ThatGuyThere

Eh, to be fair, we've been encouraged not to make /too big of a deal/ about keeping everything secret, either. I mean, we're all facing the same threats, we want to stop them.

On another code-y thing, I missed our sprint planning meeting yesterday so I guess I gave up the right to complain, but I came in today to so many ill-defined PBIs (product backlog items). yay, not like I wasn't already struggling with my projects.

@Thenomain said in RL Anger:

I wrote this code yesterday. It works. I can no longer figure out why it works.

// Never touch this again

@Cobaltasaurus

As someone who is often sick a lot in RL but luckily has a salary and a very understanding workplace--

I feel a lot for you.

I hope you get better soon.

http://austin.blog.statesman.com/2017/02/07/austin-named-best-place-to-live-in-america-by-u-s-news-and-world-report/

Leaving this here for you, too!

If I weren't already promised to move to Boston the next time I get restless, I'd be totally tempted, Admiral, I admit.

@icanbeyourmuse

There also may be BG stuff you can't see on her. But if it's the public one, yeah, it doesn't really imply sex slave to me, either.

aw man this guy.

@Ghost said in Need a Job/Place to Live?:

• I will need the house once a month for "LARP", which is code word for an elaborate NERF-weapon fighting game with roleplay elements that 9/10 time results in everyone placing their car keys into a bowl and having sex on surfaces that I do not clean. Afterwards, we rate each other's performance and assign XP accordingly.

Is it wrong that my first thought goes to those commercials of Trident where 4 out of 5 dentists would recommend, but the last one-- Of course he had a squirrel in his pants or something!

You don't want to know what happened the 10th time.

@WTFE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TphEh0Qgv0

Getting my house cleaned by others. Paid to have people come in and clean it today and it's basically made my day, week, month. Need to have this happen more because it definitely improves my happiness levels.

@dontpanda said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

4. Difficult to get caught up on lore stuff. The website lacks a lot of important information and so I've had to rely on what other players can tell me. This is also a challenge since I don't know what Marius would ICly know, and I don't want to be one of those people who assumes his character knows everything all the other characters in his sphere knows;

This has been pretty consistently a problem that I have seen since even I joined. There are things that I actually do think my character would know, that you'd have to spend a lot of time exploring the grid or asking questions about. I wish we had a more concise way to know with a trust to people to not assume whether it makes sense for their character to know. (I play a level 5 intellect character with tons of varied learning written justifiable I think into her background. It's harder to play when someone mentions a really common history thing and you are like ??? yeah that sure happened.)

I think people have made strides to helping this as players and as staff. With the player wiki being an unofficial thing and the theme board being an official. I hope I see the theme board used more now that we have it.

Yeah, I am not staff. Sorry if it sounded like I was talking so. I didn't mean for it to come across that way at any point.

@Sunny

Actually, let me just come back here and say that I am sorry. I wasn't trying to imply a measure of success or failure, nor that only people who can RP a lot can succeed.

And I think that any conversation about resources or balance is a lot more nuanced and would take a much more macro look than I can see.

@Arkandel

Well, I certainly can't. You might be on to something there about diminishing returns. On the other hand, I'd be really annoyed to feel like I worked really hard for all my support only to get it strangled. On the other hand, as a lady with a full-time job that doesn't really allow for RP during work hours and a life and obligations, I dislike being naturally poorer than others, so. On the other hand, there is always going to be naturally some of that, where people who can RP more just get more, and I feel like I am just being whiny.

I have a lot of hands. It's because I am really two kids in a trenchcoat. That's four hands.

@Sunny

That's true. If I was better about doing economic tasks, I could have a lot more silver, theoretically. If we assume that people could average 100 economic resources a week (which of course, some people can do more but I think that is a very generous average), you're only looking at 33 weeks.

Which seems more fair, certainly.

(Though I would like to emphasize that I think 100 economic resources a week is a VERY generous estimate. That means every week, you have to get a lot of support for econ about the pop.)

I am very torn about resource management too. I just-- want to be rich and afford all of the nice things?? And it feels impossible to ever save up to the point of some of the stuff, especially for some of the less necessary but nice things. Like, I can afford to pay Sylvie 5,000 a week without bankrupting the house and also paying others, and at that point, it's 200 weeks before I could ever afford a steelsilk anything.

Which I get is a point, but at another it's just-- annoying. That's 4 years OOCly. Especially when other people already have all that stuff from being around early in Alpha.

I love the PrPs. They are very usable and doable and I hope a lot more people start running and having fun with it.

I think randomscene got exhausting for a bit especially when we had an influx of new players, but I think it's died down a lot and people are picking back up on mixing in randomscene with their continued stories.

I also don't think that OOC support happens that often. I think you're going to get people abusing systems when they can, but I think it's the minority.