@Warma-Sheen said in City of Angels MUX (CofD/nWoD 2E):
@Faceless said in City of Angels MUX (CofD/nWoD 2E):
There are just some aspects that would outright require direct staff involvement, such as being Blown.
If staff has to be directly involved in TS on this game I'd really have to argue against so much micromanagement.
Back in the old days, you were pretty sure staff was watching, dark, with popcorn.
@arkandel said in Make MSB great again!:
@thenomain said in Make MSB great again!:
This is mostly why I think it’s better to have the advert thread as being only advertisement information, and any commentary about the game, good or ill, in a separate thread.
The reason I don't like that approach is that I like gamerunners having a post in which they can just answer questions - "is this a L&L game or grimdark?", "do you plan to allow <X>?", etc. I think that information can both help others reading the thread decide if that's the MU* for them, but also game-runners who have this information locked in their heads realize that it's not readily available.
Then keep it to non-opinion-based posts. The point is that if you're going to split commentary, then split off all commentary. You can be Kumbaya-focused and still do this. Or better still:
@kanye-qwest said in Make MSB great again!:
how about just let people criticize or bring up negative experiences without letting it devolve into a bunch of RL character judgments and horrifying vitriol?
That is a very good question. Why can't we do this?
...
I'm serious. Why is it that players and staff of any given game don't let this be an okay thing to do? Because...
@wizz said in Make MSB great again!:
it very obviously wasn't happening on its own.
Even knowing that forum staff cares at all is a step in the right direction, and empowers us users to seek out solutions knowing that we have some fiat and request to do so. This should also be a chilling effect on those who don't want to, which is a positive right there.
Wora had one global rule that Peverel came up with: Don't make the admins care. If the admins had to come and do admin things, there is no guarantee that anyone in particular was going to be happy about it, and they would do what they felt needed to be done.
Wora wasn't perfect, but with this and how criminally easy it was to split and move threads, we did start the move toward the forum model we have here today.
Can we have a link to combat system please? Thanks.
So, geek fantasy (writing) and normal fantasy (sport). Gotcha.
Hey @Arkandel, I hope your playlist likes Star Wars RPG talk!
Because I don't think I've seen anyone even attempt any of the "Edge of the Empire" style Fantasy Flight RPGs. Which is too bad, because it seems needlessly complex. I mean kind of fun.
@paris said in Make MSB great again!:
@thenomain said in Make MSB great again!:
@paris (et al.)
Ironically, is this the place for this discussion?
I was going to make it brief until [...]
Until you (edit: more than just you, Paris, but you were the one I most directly responded to) decided to derail a thread about what's wrong with kids these days, yes yes. I'm not saying that you were wrong in your defense, just in the time and place, but as long as someone (Ganymede in this case) is on it I'm mollified.
It was, however, pretty damn ironic.
Any time someone asks for nWoD code, I imagine all they need is the basics of any Mux, and a nWoD stat system. Extras like rote management, pledges for Changeling, or any of the other support nonsense. Shift code is maybe a must have, but on the whole just for the stat fiddling.
@Cirno said:
I don't believe in the whole "we're all human" mess.
I believe it intrinsically.
I believe humans are defensive of their clan and wired to be afraid of differences. I believe that because of this they pass on the things they know as "good" and the things they do not as "bad".
Everything I see around me supports this. We are all human. This means being a mess.
I don't believe one second that "White Guilt" should be a meme that is allowed to exist for more than the three seconds to see how unjustifiable it is, but at the same time for fuck's sake Other Races, don't pretend that you're without acting shamefully just because you are <fill in culture-plus-skin-tone mix here>.
Can we please, as the Human Race, drop the 'skin tone' part of it and focus on the only part that matters: The culture that provides fuel to that bullshit? Like Chris Rock says, "The niggers have got to go.."
(n.b., I just love this bit, and this thread suddenly gave me an excuse to share it..)
@VulgarKitten said in Darinelle's Playlist:
@Miss-Demeanor said in Darinelle's Playlist:
@Coin said in Darinelle's Playlist:
@Thenomain said in Darinelle's Playlist:
@Cupcake said in Darinelle's Playlist:
And you love it.
You know that he's incapable of love, right?
Stop giving away my secret, robot.
I thought Thenomain was our Skynet?
He DOES sleep in his clothes. That's got to be a sign.
Only after a hectic night staying up and coding.
@HelloRaptor said:
Except that it's literally a machine.
In reading her comment back over I'd guess she means that if she had her way she'd strip the 'it is literally a machine' from it? Maybe.
You've got to stop flipping between super-literal and being forgiving of context. But yes, I agree. I was offering a gentle tweaking that she is basically re-writing the idea.
I didn't expect God-Machine to be this polarizing, tho, as I think it's the best thing to happen to World of Darkness since Mark Rein-Hagen left. It's a convenient plot device without being a crutch or a hammer, it's a metaplot that is 100% ignorable at the table, it gently introduces people to the idea of The Other as a basis of horror.
I can understand not liking it, but there's a lot of 'rewrite it completely' going on that was momentarily surprising.
Bunnies! Bunnies! It must be bunnies!
@WildBaboons said in Shadowrun: Modern:
@ShelBeast a quality wiki includes the links with the NSFW warning
Links, hell, the actual images. Then complain when staff asks you to take them down that they're behind an NSFW link.
@Jim-Nanban said in Thenomain's Playlist:
Wow, are we talking late 90's DarkMetal??
Yes. I helped start it and played Rad, an utterly stupid name that was short for "Signpost At The Crossroads", his Silent Strider name. That crossroads was SONGS, the San Onofre Nuclear Generator Service. Radiation. Rad. Also surfer beach.
@Apu said in Thenomain's Playlist:
Was the LarryGhost game Persistence of Memory?
Yes, thank you. I played Zoe Kincaid, who later became the name for the person I pretended to be when playing women characters. (Note: Saved so much headache doing that.)
Zoe was one of the few characters I deeply enjoyed playing.
I suggest that they are kept. I can’t imagine that Soapbox is everybody’s go to place for advertising, and predict a baby/bathwater situation.
@Cobaltasaurus said in How should we (as a community) handle MediaWiki:
So, let's talk about what things are needed:
- For game owners
The bare minimum I believe:
- The ability to decide whether the wiki is open-to-join or requires account creation by staffers.
- The ability to decide whether the wiki is open to see or only members can see it.
- The ability to create accounts.
I spent a few weeks gathering together and testing and pondering the best extensions for the Eldritch wiki. You can see what few we ended up with here:
http://eldritch.mechanipus.com/w/index.php/Special:Version
The single best find was InviteSignup, which is perhaps the best extension for all Mush wikis that you didn't think of. (You thought of DPL3 already, which is the best.)
I would like to be able to link character objects to accounts. (Cough cough Evennia.) Your access to add, remove, post, read things from inside the game, or access information from outside it, could be based on this. It's pretty trivial from inside TinyMUX, but not from outside.
Last I read, the MediaWiki group said they were never going to install an access system beyond locking and editing, and that if this is what you want then use a different system or create a different installation. This deeply sucks.
Oh, and because I can, hee hee hee on @Chime putting herself in the position to continue maintaining a PHP install. I feel for you.
I don't know why it's important that someone spell it out for you. French, Swiss and English ... what, Jew? I mean, duh.
Googled "Haunted Memories Mush", tripped over this:
https://github.com/HM-CODE/Haunted-Memories
This is the official repository of the game.
G'luck.
With chocobo, Bob. With chocobo.
Dooblay Post.
@faraday said in What is out there? Hard and soft codebases of choice.:
@Thenomain said in What is out there? Hard and soft codebases of choice.:
Actually, here, let me suggest this:
- Pre-MUD (Adventure, etc.)
<snip>I think we have a fundamental disconnect on what makes a MUSH a MUSH.
I was slightly regretting putting MUSH on Tier 4. I should have added MOO and MUCK to that, as both allow complete in-game scripting. I'm not saying that Tier 4 Multiplayer Text Games are all Mushes, but that Mushes are Tier 4 Mutliplayer Text Games. My apologies for being lax on that.
That is, it's not "what makes a Mush" but "what makes a Tier 4 server system".
AresMUSH is a MUSH server by my definition. And since I'm the one naming it, well...
AresMUSH sounds more like a Tier 3 server, Mush or not. The same way that Evennia has a MUD build philosophy behind its development, even if it's a Tier 3 server. Capisce?
Better terms more than welcome.
edit: My thanks to you and @Griatch for not taking my own blunt language as an attack. I imagine it would be easy.
@faraday said in Idle timer? (Tiny):
most random idle timeouts are the client's router
Which means there's no solution from the game. Finding out what is causing these people to be disconnected becomes an exercise for someone who knows networking tools.
