Posts made by Otrere

@Auspice - I totally understand. Hope your RL calms down soon.

Guest access and character creation are now both open for our game. Deets added above.

Hi all,
As promised, @browncoat and I have been discussing and working on our security setup and admin policies for FSF. We've just posted an improved policy on our wiki. There will be no DARK snooping on players. We will, if necessary, set people SUSPECT and whenever possible communicate with them as that happens rather than doing so silently. Thanks again to those of you who engaged us in discussion on all of this - our goal is to create a good, solid game where people can have fun playing together in the Firefly Verse.

Another improvement: we've just opened up guest access to the game (and to the +newbie channel, in-game) so that people can drop in and talk to us before creating a character. We hope to add player-spawning of characters soon. For now, that step still goes through an email, and we'll be glad to set people up.

Come say hi!

firefly.silvertree.org 2517

Osiris

@Jennkryst
I enjoy space sims, too. We decided that it wasn't a fit for a code light, story focused game.

(I also really love sailing - and would be glad to see a game for that.)

@Sunny

Thank you! This isn't the first time I've heard the suggestion to not take everything from this forum as gold, and I do take that to heart. I also appreciate your kind words!

Scrolling back...

@Ghost said in Firefly - Still Flyin':

Question.

What will the policy be on recreation of Serenity Mush characters and/or whether or not content from Serenity Mush is allowed as canon for this game?

For characters: yes, you can. Just keep in mind that we're using a different time frame. ICly it's 2530, sixteen years earlier than it is on SerenityMush. You'll either need to warp your character back through time, or play a younger version of them. They will also need to follow our chargen policies - using the same starting points as everyone else (we're not preserving anyone's dinosaur status - and that includes me, as I figure out how to bring Donna over).

For content: we're open to that, too. Take a look at our Theme policy here: http://firefly-mush.wikidot.com/policies and also at the FAQ about theme which is linked from there. We just want to review any bigger ideas, to make sure they'll work, before we say yes and make them part of our game.

Okay, I've caught up all of this now that I'm home from work. Quite a lively discussion.

If I can be so bold as to boil down what I'm reading, the chief complaint is something on the lines of: we haven't adequately set up and stated how we will observe or track troublesome players, in a way that lets us deal with them effectively, while also respecting the privacy of our non-troublesome players. (If I've somehow missed another major point, let me know.)

I hear and get the concerns. @Auspice - I agree with you that there needs to be a reasonable expectation of privacy, and we do want that to be established as part of our setup for also dealing with the troublesome sorts that we know will eventually rear their heads at us. Thank you (and @sunny too) for bringing this up, and advocating for it, it's the type of constructive feedback I was hoping to hear.

There have been good suggestions put forward (things like Suspect and Rhost, as well as having a clear setup for tracking/logging complaints). I'll admit to being a bit rusty on my PennMush, so I'll need to do the legwork on all of that. I will. I don't want to guess at the final solution right now, but know that I'm working on it and will report back.

Having just announced our Firefly game over here, I thought I'd start up a companion thread...

If people have constructive feedback - especially if there are things that make you hesitate from joining - we want to hear about it. Post here, contact us in-game, or at our email address... we're listening.

Osiris

Soapboxers -
A friend and I have created a new Firefly Mush and just opened for beta! We invite you all to come check things out.

Our wiki is here: http://firefly-mush.wikidot.com/

Guest access and character creation are now open!

Connect at firefly.silvertree.org 2517

As you may recall, just about a year ago I came to this forum to try and get people interested in returning to that other Firefly mush. The one with all of the problems. It sparked some good discussion, and got my friend and I working on a new game to provide a fresh start. We're still setting things up and welcome constructive feedback and of course active players.

Relevant info:

• it's on PennMush with FS3.
• we don't plan to do lots of coded systems. we love collaborative storytelling.
• we've built out a grid for Eavesdown as a central RP hub. we haven't set up other planets yet.
• we intend to have basic flight code to move ships between planets, nothing fancy. that's not set up yet.
• we are open for beta. we will do a character reset at the end of the beta period.

Again, check out our wiki for more, drop us an email with any questions, and come join us in the Verse!

Osiris (and Kirie and Donna) on FSF
Serenity: Donna from the Guan-Yin, Yvandra from the Redemption, the current Zoe.

@Ninjakitten
Elton John - Cry To Heaven

@Cupcake
The Highwomen - Heaven Is A Honky Tonk

@hedgehog
Meat Loaf - Heaven Can Wait

@LittleLizard
The Civil Wars - Dust to Dust

@Cupcake
Philip Quast, from Les Misérables - Stars

@Caggles
Grateful Dead - Box of Rain

@hedgehog
Elaine Paige in Chess - Nobody's Side

@hedgehog
The Irish Rovers - The Orange and the Green

Thanks @Lotherio. The name Rixt rings a faint bell here too - we must have interacted at some point.

Notable characters, from days gone by:
Castle D'Image - Jade, Sarina
Firan - Hadiya (2002-2006)
SerenityMush - Yvandra
Star Wars 1 - Inanna
The Reach - April

And by far my most notable is the one I'm still playing:
SerenityMush - Donna

@Ninjakitten
Sergei Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf