Posts made by Misadventure

Time their lunch. Go burn a bag of popcorn in their microwave everyday just before their lunch.

Sorry I made you type that out.

The equivalent (atm) would be match making in OverWatch where you will see Heroes you play often but with their other skins, or with Golden Weapons, to show off how cool that looks and encourage you to get them. One takes money to get quickly (via purchased instead of earned lootboxes), the other takes skill and time.

I think even adding that to the really difficult and intensive matchmaking process would be too much for OverWatch. Probably less so for a less stakes intensive setup like Destiny 1 & 2.

What-now?

Okay, so this describes what could be terrible.

It wasn't in Destiny. Can't tell you about Destiny 2.

But until you can actually buy things that are above average gear, it really won't matter.

People are very clear about what is a pay to win game, and any major push for it would annihilate Destiny populations.

It might be popular in Korea or China.

Reskin spell building from Ars Magica, Masterbook, RuneQuest Sorcery, etc with WoD terms.

For some awful reason people focus on system as how to kill one another, and resolve yes/no story gates. If you like skills so much, look at the mess that is combat, and social interaction. Look at he boredom that is research rolls. None of it is fun online.

Systems can do other things, like show how the story is affecting the character, challenging and changing them. They can suggest directions you wouldn't create or choose.

Y'all just want MU* In Space. Same stuff. Same play. Same baRP and dating sim. Annnnd system doesn't for into that either, so why care about the system?

@faceless said in Looking for potential staff for a Colonial Marines (Aliens) game:

@Seraphim73 and random people I never really got to know from TGG can attest: I ain't afraid to assault a trench on my own. Everyone else will catch up. Eventually.

Jack: What are your legs?
Archy Hamilton: Springs. Steel springs.
Jack: What are they going to do?
Archy Hamilton: Hurl me down the track.
Jack: How fast can you run?
Archy Hamilton: As fast as a leopard.
Jack: How fast are you going to run?
Archy Hamilton: As fast as a leopard!

You aren't unhireable, obviously.

You have the traits and skills that some jobs need.
Not everyone has openings, and not all openings will contact you. These are things that can change.

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Productive forum discussion is strongly linked with active moderation. No one here has time to be that active moderator.

So we get what we get.

Magic.

A wiki to store the same old fight summaries, played by lists, MU* lists.

A link off any advertisement to a thread where people can go wild. I'd like to be able to find both the ad content and updates with ease, and make it easy to find the discussion about the given ad poster or place.

A reminder that phrasing things in the form of accusations, and not questions pretty much guarantees that your discussion is going no where.

@fatefan Well, MU*s are low budget, but you could make a list of "voices" to suggest e.g. Morgan Freeman, Sigourney Weaver, Sam Elliot, Dorothy Parker, Harrison Ford, Linda Hamilton, Woody Allen, Claudia Christian, Punch and Judy (Cowboy Bebop), Queen Elizabeth.

You get the idea.

I think it might be cool/fun if you could somehow make the history of a given unit sort of the goal. Sorta like having a achievements, including things like "Going in hot and overconfident" and "We didn't lose a single civvie (they were dead when we got there)" and "Shoot them? We nuked them!" and "Xenos not hostile, but colonists are" and "Carved the roast beast for Cindy Lou" etc. So that way even if a unit is completely wiped out you could have a little memorial page with the groups record on it.

Make the pain of loss into part of the story. Maybe have players suggest funny titles for how their or other characters went out.

@lithium Yeah coding wouldn't be too hard, just not a formula.

The adding up of factors in accuracy would make a great checklist on a webpage.

It goes decently fast once you get it, but the payoff is if you really enjoy that it seems to be realistic. Verisimilitude. The system tries to account for everything, so you feel like you are getting a realistic tactical war game experience.

I will always think of the overall system fondly, as it's where I learned about Angle of Incidence factors in vehicle armor.

i send Phoenix command to you @lithium, you code it up, and then the RP!

@ghost said in Looking for potential staff for a Colonial Marines (Aliens) game:

That's a character sheet that screams EXCEL FORMULAS

That's not character sheet, it's a space station.

Actually, its the hit location chart, and the damage per penetration charts for some locations, and the firing statistics and damage/penetration of weapons at various ranges.

And you can use a lookup chart, but there are no actual formulae. That is a complaint leveled at the game actually.

@sg I thought the RPG was great for getting back into the feel of the Aliens movie, and while I love details, I am thinking that for online play, the rules set, even as a slimmed down version of Phoenix Command, is too much.

Did you know there was an Unreal Engine full replacement that used the load, and wounding and other details from Pheonix Command? It was called Urban Terror.

@Sgt Capone said in Aliens:

All right, sweethearts, what are you waiting for? Breakfast in bed? Another glorious day in the Corps! A day in the Marine Corps is like a day on the farm. Every meal's a banquet! Every paycheck a fortune! Every formation a parade! I love the Corps!