Posts made by Testament

@Kanye-Qwest said in Arx's Elevation Situation:

The only way to actually fix this, imo, is to get the systems in and tested and then do a hard reboot/time skip/wipe. Beta!

There is always the option of simply walking out of the scene as well. You don't owe anyone anything if the other person is making you feel uncomfortable. You don't owe a reason or a justification or anything. At worst, the other person gets reported. At best, the other party apologizes and you're able to talk it out.

Is this the best method? There are downsides to it, of course, but the reality is that shouldn't matter. This is obviously based in the realm where we're all sane and rational people. Sadly, this is almost never the case, but I do prefer the times where it's nothing more than an honest miscommunication.

@Pandora I feel like that's creating even more work for staff than they already have to contend with. Especially if the game is active.

And as someone who is involved in the BDSM community, I can say that what you've created is not bad at all...but it could certainly consider some refinement. The whole red/yellow/green thing has been around for a good while now and it works. But it works because there's a whole lot of communication between two people before anything even starts. What are your consent lines? What are you hard limits? What are you soft limits? Is this what you'd prefer in this situation or if X were to happen, how would you like to proceed? This works because it's two people talking to each other long before any kind physical actions even starts, long before you're in a room alone with another person or even if you're in a sprawling wide dungeon. Never mind that they've probably vetted each other for weeks of social interactions(ala munches or conversations via FetLife or something similar)beforehand. If you're smart about it, anyways.

This doesn't take into account large group scenes, because even with this kind of system, it has the potential to grind a large scene to halt if one party doesn't feel like keeping it to pages and may perhaps wish to make an issue about it publicly. This doesn't account for interactions with staff either. Staff may care, they may not. There's also the potential that a staffer is the person who might be causing the discomfort.

I'm not sure if every scene on a mush should be handled the same way, nor do I believe it should be. I don't want to spend 20 minutes talking to someone before we actually RP just so I know what I should or shouldn't do for that particular person. In the vein, I'd rather modify a +finger system so that everyone can write down exactly what they are/are not comfortable in. Whenever someone asks, point them at their +finger. Would that work, I don't know.

I'm not knocking the whole thing, I think the idea could be beneficial, with some potential tweak to possible player dynamics in regards to interaction.

What worries me is that a system like this could be abused so that someone could make sure that nothing bad ever happened to their character ever.

There are already enough players who feel that any negative consequences to their actions on a game is infringing on what they believe they're comfortable with.

Paging @Ghost

That fear when you start seeing people drop like flies from some random illness that you just know is starting to spread through work. And you are trying to survive as best you can, lest the Deathclaw named Flu or Strep eyes in on you because it tracks by movement.

@Auspice Hit up r/niceguys if your skin hasn't crawled lately. Some of those stories that are posted are just....Y I K E S.

It's winter.

That means it's time to play Skyrim again.

I'm at 216 mods. I've gone too far, please send help.

But it's running surprisingly well. Vortex is a better mod manager than I expected.

@Arkandel Then we should make it weirder.

@Roz Lies. You took your fists to a swordfight at the recent tournament event.

@faraday But how we would all know he quit unless he made it a point to tell staff to ban him?

/sarcasm

@Kodiak Pfft. Wellwalla.

Do not tease me. I repeat. Do not tease me. After reading most of the books twice now, I am more than ready for season four and a mush.

Just give me the chance to play a character in the MCRN.

Or a Belter. Preferably not on Medina Station post book 8.

So far as I'm concerned, Citadel is the official ending of Mass Effect 3. Not Casey Hudson's temper tantrum when the added 'fourth' ending was released.

Fuck that guy for ruining Drew Kapsharin's written ending. It altering the ending that he had written(never mind most of the plot of ME3)is in part what made him quit BioWare.

@Thenomain But it wasn't Outer World enough, was it?

It's not Star Trek enough.