Posts made by Ominous

@tinuviel Read the context of the thread. We are discussing institutionalized courts of public opinion - trials.

Good attempt, though! I give it an A for effort in semantic derail.

@tinuviel So the exact same thing I said in my first post? I'm confused. We're you replying to me out of agreement or...?

@tinuviel Good job then? So you are agreeing with @Carex that holding court of public opinion trials is a good idea, because it's going to happen anyways, or...?

@tinuviel The difference is they are not institutionalized by the server, which is what was suggested, and generally I find most people don't bring up problems with other players on public channels on servers.

The moment you air that grievance on a forum rather than to staff. That's what a forum is - a court of public opinion.

@arkandel How are you reading "let's keep courts of public opinion off of MU*s" as "let's not ban creeps who violate policy?"

Let's be honest. We kind of already do trial by public opinion here on these boards. Someone makes a thread about how much of a bastard Ominous is and lists the details of all the awful things I have done to them. Other people add to the litany. I post a "No, you" response. Maybe one person sides with me, becoming my advocate so to speak. So on and so forth.

Let's keep it off of the MU*s, though. Those places are already crazy enough without importing our particular kind of batshit to them.

@cobaltasaurus said in Development Thread: Sacred Seed:

I just want to be clear here, I'm not saying that @Pyrephox or @Carex are wrong for their suggestions, or that it's wrongfun for wanting that level of verisimilitude. It just isn't the type of fun that I want to enforce and run as the game designer. I hope that there's enough of interest in the setting for them to overlook the breaking of their suspension of disbelief and play when we're ready, but I'll understand if they chose not to play and won't hold it against them.

Certainly and that's perfectly fine. I might even play there. Who knows? My issue was with someone poo-poo-ing on the idea that a game with limited social mobility is by default unfun and people liking such settings are somehow doing it wrong.

As for the rape factory discussion, I am going to side with the fact that we have actual examples of societies in Asia, Africa, Polynesia, and the Americas that upend the argument of women as property being a default state.

@sunny Notice the "what they view to be" that I intentionally put in my statement just for this very reason.

What has been laid out does not appear to be "realistic" to someone for reasons they articulated very well. This breaks their suspension of disbelief, which I imagine most people don't find fun. It's great that it doesn't bother you. It bothers them and they explained why. I was pointing out that you were badwrongfunning someone for having different standards than you.

@sunny Some people find fun in playing in what they view to be an internally consistent and logical world. Different strokes for different folks.

I play RPIs, MUXes, and MUSHes and manage to navigate the cultural differences just fine. As for fixing the issue of only being able to play when the server says it is daytime, that can be solved by using alternative time ratios. 1:0.5 would work. You log on and it is 3 am on the server. You log on the next day at the same time and it is 3 pm the same day on the server. This also helps address the issue of stopping by a bar for one or two drinks and conversation at 6 pm Tuesday and you leave at 6 am Wednesday as time will be flowing slow enough that a 4 hours IRL scene was only 2 hours in-game.

If your server needs the weeks to fly by, use time skips. At convenient time IRL when few people are playing, say 5 am, have the server jump ahead four to six days.

I think the Avatar comparisons are probably going to cling because of the fact that you have limited magic to elemental powers.

@faraday For me it depends on the culture of the game. If there are no emits then people can set however they like, changing the time and the weather. If there are emits, the time and weather is what the server says it is. Don't make sets that disagree with it.

So we got:

• Rifts
• Birthright meets Naruto/Magic the Gathering/Avatar: the Last Airbender
• Battlestar Galactica/Voyager

All are interesting concepts. I kind of lean towards #2 because I want a good Birthright game and it sounds like your most fleshed out idea, so has the potential of actually seeing fruition.

@darc said in San Francisco: Paris of the West:

@admiral Our 'Resources' merit will be appropriately scaled for San Francisco's living costs, have no fear.

Resources 3 - Warren Buffet
Resources 4 - Vladimir Putin
Resources 5 - Scrooge McDuck

If he/she gets away, though, you may have created an intense fetish for them, so now they have to rob banks to get off.

@kay Orgazmo is a great superhero concept.

I always liked Kushiel's Debut's handling of TS preferences. They had RPRating, which was a stat shown in characters' +finger info. It worked just like US movie ratings: G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17, X. G meant they didn't want romanctic RP or wanted to keep it to just flirting and maybe a kiss. X was hardcore porn territory. It didn't elaborate who a person might be interested in making a sex tape with or what activities will be involved, but you generally knew who might be up for sexy times and just how graphic those sexy times might get. It's also important to note that many of those with X's weren't just looking for TS. Quite a few were movers and shakers in the political intrigue and TS was just an occasional story-driven occurrence.

@arkandel The way society makes children such a burden in modern society, I expect us to go the route of Japan and experience a massive population downturn.