Best posts made by Thenomain

@arkandel said in How to use Potato MU Client:

@skew said in How to use Potato MU Client:

@testament I don't use spawn windows

I'm so sorry.

Spawn windows are good for some, but I have never been able to get them to be anything more than either a distraction or something I will ignore for hours.

@surreality

Last from the tangent here for me, but have you looked at some of the files people are calling critical? I’m still spammed by default on supposedly pending news, jobs, votes, and boards on games that I log into with a 100% fresh new character. And this isn’t just a WoD game problem, either.

Anyhow. Farscape. Yes.

@skew

The public flag ignores all other publish settings and makes it all visible. There is certainly a way to un-publish individual comments on non-Public buckets.

Okay, hands up everyone who remembers Nuku making highly involved interactive web pages with his games fifteen years ago.

For the curious, he was using Muck. The only negative aspect of Muck is that it was synonymous with Furry. Sometimes it’s embarrassing how we let trivial things stop us from moving forward.

As long we are catching up.

Summary: When you use @descformat on an object you're @parenting to, TinyMUX runs the space-compression algorithm.

After years of frustration on this, @Chime overhears my complaining and comes up with the solution that works:

&fn_roomcenter #5=[repeat( %%b, floor( fdiv( sub( %1, strlen( %0 )), 2 )))]%0
&fn_roomspace #5=repeat( %%b, %0 )

You're going to encounter this because you have a room parent that you want the game to look nice and pretty on, but sometimes you want to center things.

Thanks to her, now you can!

If you installed with SGP, your function object is #5. Throw the above two lines on it, @restart, and use those on rooms connected to a room parent and only those.

I do not know what would happen if you pass the description through more than one parent.

Explanation:

@descformat renders the code and passes it to the %0 for the special formatting. Apparently @parent is rendering it again. So if the space is escaped once, it will render on the second and come out properly.

Tab (%t) still processes correctly, for some reason. It's just multiple spaces that get crunched down to one.

Notice: I am responding to something from pages and pages ago.

Notice: I am kind of the opposite of a superhero comic book fan. I have liked a lot of the movies, because they are fun, but when it comes to theory I’m not there.

1. I watched a video of Movie Bob explaining, at length, the Lantern Corps. It was concise, positive, and made me excited for this concept that came out of, essentially, “make anything as long as it’s green and doesn’t effect wood”. I mean, except for the Sexy Color, I like what they tried to do. Would be interested to see where that goes.

edit: Part One, Part Two (the one with the Emotion Spectrum explained for us newbs).

2. I’ve told him this personally, but I would have no contention playing a multiverse mash-up as described by @coin. One of the things that absolutely scares me away from any roster system is that not only that you may have history there that you weren’t aware of and having to negotiate hooks severed with other parts of the game, but it’s entirely possible to play it wrong and mostly this is no longer that character, it’s now another authors take on that character.

This may explain why I can’t get into superhero comics.

@Ninjakitten

Which is why I mentioned a stepped account creation system.

@ganymede said in Alternative Formats to MU:

So, your complaint is about players, not the technology being discussed.

As I have said many, many times: This game would be great if it weren't for all the damn players.

Usually I say that when players are all, "Nyeh, this code is broken! Nyeeehhhh, I want phone and IM code! Nnnyeeehhh!"

(For those who don't watch Venture Bros, you really should. Nyeh is the sound that Shoreleave makes when mocking someone's whining.)

@derp

It means any more than one space gets compressed down to one, like if you typed:

think this     is     a           test.

Would return ‘this is a test.’ That is space compression. So a room description containing:

center( Welcome to Night Vale, 80 )

Would, no matter what you wanted from it, return:

 Welcome to Night Vale

No centering, just one leading space. The same thing happens with space() and %b but not, for some reason, %t, which must be passing the ASCII tab character to the client.

@Ghost

The next time you get chance, can you get him to explain the kind of fucked up dice mechanic system?

@Collective

Possibly a part of Brus' "Don't Be a Dick" thread?

@faraday said in Questions About Evennia:

@griatch said in Questions About Evennia:

it's not our intention to make misleading comparisons so if the example comes across as disingenuous we can remove it.

I think that a MUSHcode vs new code example is helpful. If the existing one isn't good, maybe @Thenomain could point do / provide a good tutorial-worthy example in MUSHcode and then someone can make an Evennia version.

+finger, +who, +where, in that order. These are the base three Learning To Mush Code systems that everyone should do. As +where is a nightmare in Mu*, I think that it would be a good example of why not to learn Mushcode.

@Chime said:

...Geez I sound like the Free Council now.

Say that with pride, woman!

@ZombieGenesis said in POLL Gothic Fantasy System:

Just thought of Warhammer 2nd Edition too.

I was amazed by how dark this game is without being inaccessible. Burning Wheel can be nice and dark, too, but is very fiddly for the adventurers. There is some Warhammer RPG Love Letter (i.e., a game created because of how much they like the Warhammer RPG) and it just didn't seem easy to grasp.

@Collective

I could put on my 1998 Musher hat and tear your ICA=ICC rule to so many ribbons that even a stripper would question putting them on. I say this because it's a peeve, because as recently as The Reach have I seen people defend their OOC vendettas with that tired phrase.

I know you mean well, I just never see that going well.

To me,what you're going for is "be loyal to the setting, theme, and other characters, be loyal to the story, play the game as a living world". Apocalypse World phrases this better, but I don't have it on hand at the moment.

@rnmissionrun said in Questions About Evennia:

More documentation can only help.

Said someone who apparently hasn’t had to make sense of Arx’s files.

I kid. Well, I’m completely serious, but I kid that it’s just Arx which is bad at documentation or that Arx has such bad documentation that it’s in the realm of harmful, but it’s a good starting point. If you ever looked at a wall of text and your brain froze up, that’s bad documentation. If you ever tried to find something in a sea of nonsense, trying to cross refrerence information with no help from the writer, that’s bad documentation.

Evennia has incredibly good documentation, and I trust them to be aiming toward better documentation, toward better organization, etc., all the time.

I can verify that the Evennia chat room is open, friendly, and usually appropriately silly. The occasions I've seen tensions rise, others have stepped in to say, "Hey, okay, let's not go there." Even tho I've done little there but kind of trade witty repartee with @Volund.

@Roz said in What locations do you want to RP in?:

Speaking just as one user among many

Here's my take on "one user among many": You can have brilliant ideas that would help the many. Sometimes you have to defend those views, but just because you're not "the many" doesn't make those ideas any less valid.

Maybe that should've gone into the peeve thread, but whatever. I'll work on this as soon as I figure out what logic is bad in my 'shift' code. Because f'ing Ferals. (It's Onyx Path being inconsistent again, really. Feral players are fine.)

@Seamus said in Grid Construction and Planning:

Yeah, my Ex, Traveling Man ran Victorian Reverie.
I ran Twilight Moons, back in the day.

I still believe that the hub-based room system is not the way to go. Something of a hybrid, like what Eldritch and BitN have done, is a better idea, but I'll be honest: When it was built, Haunted Memories' grid was fantastic to me. It was huge, but it didn't feel huge. It felt like communities, and each community had a few rooms, and it absolutely was built very tightly from a map of Vienna (also huge).

It didn't feel huge because it felt spacious. It felt that I was being invited to use it. And because every grid space had a wiki page, with the meta information at a glance (neighborhood, population, security, key features), I knew where I was, and where that was had personality. I could easily imagine the kinds of stories that could be told there.

I don't get that feeling on a small grid. I can't get into it. I'm not "immersed". Even the moderately small grid from Dark Water felt too cramped to me. (Sorry, @Cobaltasaurus.) The Reach's grid was only a little larger and it felt very roomy.

VR's grid was about as bad as I imagine they could get, just shy of "here's a room, now just make whatever temproom you want from it, now stop bugging me".

I am happy with no embedded videos, linked or otherwise, especially since a lot of browsers will auto-play if asked.

Links to the source material are good enough. Animated GIFs are bad enough.