Posts made by OldFrightful

If you do try out Arm, keep in mind it's more like... an IC D&D MMO than a roleplaying MUSH. If you've played an RPI, that's what you're going to get - it is one. The RP is going to be pretty fast-paced and combat can pretty brutally lethal. If you end up in any kind of PVP, it becomes twitch reflexes. You can die in some very stupid ways as well.

I played it for about 12~ years off and on. I don't think it'll really appeal to most of the crowd here, but if you're okay with the above caveats and up for trying something new, it's worth a shot.

@kitteh Yeah, @Pyrephox is spot on. One of mine is about the death of a prominent NPC, for example. All the clues attached to it say 'JEEZ, THEIR DEATH SURE WAS FISHY'. The revelation, paraphrased, says 'WOW, THAT IS DEFINITELY FISHY' without actually going into detail about why it's fishy.

It's pretty nice to have it as a sort of confirmation, but it's generally not current or super relevant information or something determining decisions/actions.

@Pyrephox +1. My character is just shy of 400 with 14 revelations, and so much of it is tangential stuff. If I cut out everything except what's attached to those revelations, I think I'd have 80~ish.

@fortydeuce One thing to keep in mind is just because you have a clue doesn't mean it's true. That took me way too long to wrap my head around. <.< Historical accounts can be inaccurate or get details wrong, there could be red herrings, stuff like that. But it's a good RP motivator to link up with other people and try to figure out how stuff fits together.

@faraday said in Regarding administration on MSB:

I don't see how this is any different from being a game admin. I don't expect to have to use "Staff Voice" "Not Staff Voice" on my game's channels. When I correct somebody, they know it's The One Me correcting them because they stepped out of line. It's not like I'm gonna fool anybody if I say "Hey knock it off" from my PC. (Oh, that was Fara talking with her not-staff voice, she didn't really mean it. No, that's just not how people read it.) And yeah, there's a burden that comes with that, because it can easily make people uncomfortable like @Tat said about their bosses. It just comes with the territory.

This.

The whole MOD VOICE thing is well intentioned but should be completely unnecessary. The NOT MOD VOICE thing honestly comes off as passive aggressive. If you want people to have confidence in their moderators, they need to be moderators, not plainclothes detectives randomly slapping a pair of sirens on their car whenever they feel they need the extra authority. Can we please stop it? It's ridiculous. Imagine a game owner tromping in and going NOT STAFF TOTALLY ORDINARY PLAYER OPINION ON THIS STAFF THING. Establishing consistency would go a long way.

As long as micro-transactions remain profitable and unregulated, this sort of thing just gets worse, not better. The line betwen 'p2w' and 'freemium' is honestly a lot blurrier than we'd like to think.

@caryatid

but make the potato peel an upvote, okay?

yay 2.94

RPI (roleplay intensive) games are basically 'always IC'. If you're logged in, people can interact with you. Coded actions are considered roleplayed actions (i.e, if I walk into a room and use the 'punch' command on @Arkandel and don't emote about it, I'm still ICly punching Arkandel). Limited in-game OOC communication, usually just a 'help' channel, a local OOC command, and something to communicate with staff. Out of game they usually have forums with user, not character, based identities.

MUDs and MUSHes are two sides of the same coin! I'd just take 'social MUD' to mean 'code heavy RP game', but @Streetwitch may have their own idea about what it is.

Is this really a 'MU' problem? Legit question. I'm a MUD-playing heathen and I've probably been exposed to four different MU(sh/x) games at most.

To me, it seems like the problems addressed in the OP are about genre saturation. Someone found something that works decently well (White Wolf system + bureaucracy) and made a mold for it. Other people took that mold and ran with it. It's not like 'World of Darkness MUSH' is the end-all, be-all of the genre. It's a lot harder to go out and make your own game versus sit down and build your own IKEA WoD playpen, sure, but it's not impossible and there are clear-cut examples of it working (Arx, BSG, Transformers: L&F - I'm sure there's way more). Just stop using the mold. Make something new and divorce it from the sticky ideas.

@Thenomain said in Lords and Ladies Game:

To reiterate: The only way to win is not to play.

@Thenomain said in Lords and Ladies Game:

@Pandora

... What?

edit: More to a point, why in the world would I post an image that's an insult to me? I'm pretty good at being self-demeaning but ... what?

In 'Thenomain VS Qwest' or the game of forum trolling? @Pandora is way ahead of you in the latter and I would honestly just recommend (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ing and walking off.

(EDIT: I am totally kidding if it wasn't clear, except for the insinuation you are being trolled and probs shouldn't bother putting stuff under a microscope. Please don't murder me.)

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

And seitan works super well with Cavender's greek spice to make faux-gyro meat.

I had seitan for the first time two weeks ago. Reading this dredged up all the incredibly confused feelings that went through my head while chewing it, none of which were 'this tastes like and/or has the texture of meat'.