@faraday said in Alternative Formats to MU:
It's all well and good to say "If you build it they will come"
I said nothing like this. Not even close. I said quite the opposite, thank you. I even used open source projects as evidence that good does not mean successful, and I almost posted a bunch about how bad could still mean successful.
Not sure where you're getting this.
@faraday said in Alternative Formats to MU:
Everyone has different things they want out of RP. What sucks for one person is literally the only way someone else would get any RP at all. All the posts here are just kinda illustrating my point about "the majority of MUSHers vehemently don't want something like this".
We are an infamously bad polling source; three people out of...how many people on Soapbox?...say that they wouldn't like it. The vocal minority has only one thing on their side: they're vocal.
Make your system. See where it sticks. Reiterate. Sometimes you have to try something illogical before seeing where the limits of too-much and too-little are. I don't even think that the concept is bad, but it's not for some people.
I bet if I went over to GitHub or SourceForge and looked for unused ideas, even if I weeded out the impressive and good ones I would be swamped with them.
What's hard to attain is popularity, the critical mass to get an idea into the mainstream. This is why I only code for myself these days. I have coded so many things that have not caught on that I would be frustrated as hell if I let myself. I guess people don't want a well-designed and complete approval system. Well screw 'em. I'm going to install it where I am, because I think it's fantastic. And if people don't use it? Well, I don't do this hobby expecting praise.
Well, not much praise.
Just a little.
@mietze said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Scientology is much more boring than I thought it’d be.
Is the fear of tetanus on their rusty “navy” not exciting enough? How about the doxing and harassment if you leave? I think the fact that they can manage to call their dangerous cult a “religion” for the tax breaks to be depressingly interesting.
Look for thspeech from the director of Battlefield Earth where he apologizes, and explains his time inside the compound. He is a comedic writer, I swear.
I started my online RPG life on a dial-up BBS. I don’t mind multi tasking to fill in the time, but I could either RP on web forums or IRC, and I picked IRC every time. I prefer the back and forth of collaborative writing when I’m getting feedback within minutes, not hours, not days.
I think there is a place for play by post. I think it exists well, and has a lot of tools and ideas, but I see Mushes as online LARPs, and as such I’d like to see the tools more geared for improv than writing circles.
This is a wholely personal comment, but it seemed notable here.
It is always possible to over analyze something and strike it out. Pure logical decision making is not on my personal list of what makes a game fun or engaging. I honestly believe that it detracts from it, and is when a coder needs to let go a little.
@faraday said in How much Code is too much Code?:
@thenomain said in How much Code is too much Code?:
She told me I was being silly.
I bet she has it in game for players like me. I mean, it’s not perfect but at least it’s easier to browse than whatever train wreck style Arx has going on.Yep. It's 2017. Web is the future. We as a hobby need to move out of the dark ages.
And yet, when I made a suggestion to bring more of your game onto the web, you said why bother.
Sometimes you can wish for sunlight then complain about the glare, you know.
You hate me, don’t you.
Okay, when will there be a PS4 bundle with this? I’ll start budgeting now. Ramen for a month can’t be that bad, can it?
@tat said in How much Code is too much Code?:
@faraday said in How much Code is too much Code?:
very little code is invisible. (Help being one example that is... but, well, it's not like you're going to do away with your help system even if nobody happens to be using it very often. I hope :))
No, but you might move it off game. I'd actually be super interested in how many people do help/detail on Ares to get the full file, for example, vs following the web link.
She and I had a lively debate about this kind of recently. I am too tooled to looking for the help on the game, and would resent not even having a link, or even having a link pushing me out of the client.
She told me I was being silly.
I bet she has it in game for players like me. I mean, it’s not perfect but at least it’s easier to browse than whatever train wreck style Arx has going on.
@auspice said in General Video Game Thread:
@ganymede said in General Video Game Thread:
@thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:
Who do you think? She can afford a corset-style leather jacket.
From what I know of both of you, I'm fairly certain I wouldn't break a sweat repelling you.
That and, y'know, I'm a bad-ass Internet bitch.
And I carry.
@Thenomain lives closer, so he gets to try first and report back.
We clearly need to gang up.
You go for the feels, I’ll go for the logics, and we'll hit the one-two nerditry.
@auspice said in General Video Game Thread:
So who are we gonna roll so we can both afford a PS4?
Who do you think? She can afford a corset-style leather jacket.
@derp said in System dealbreakers:
@thenomain said in System dealbreakers:
Gangrel was my second choice, but overlaps a bit too hard with Werewolf. Well. Depending on which Werewolf Princess archetype we'd be going for.
Think of the TS possibilities though.
Yawn.
@ganymede said in System dealbreakers:
@thenomain said in System dealbreakers:
Bonus if Ventrue.
Nossie Garbage Princess? Overdone.
Ventrue Garbage Princess? Eh. Still a bit predictable -- all that power over the utility.
Now, a Gangrel Garbage Princess? That's priceless.
Gangrel was my second choice, but overlaps a bit too hard with Werewolf. Well. Depending on which Werewolf Princess archetype we'd be going for.
@ganymede said in General Video Game Thread:
I'm a Street Fighter kid.
That said, yeah, this makes me a little moist.
Stop.
Teasing.
Woman.
@derp said in System dealbreakers:
@thenomain said in System dealbreakers:
@derp said in System dealbreakers:
@thenomain said in System dealbreakers:
@auspice said in System dealbreakers:
YOU TOO COULD BE A WASTE MANAGEMENT PRINCESS.
I have my next WoD concept.
I'm afraid you'll have to fight me for it. puts up his dukes
Tell you what. I'll take the concept to Werewolf, you can have Changeling.
Only if they can either be BFF's or mortal enemies.
Why 'or'?
ETA: If we can get @Ganymede to throw in with a similar Nossie concept, we could do wonderful and terrible things.
Bonus if Ventrue.
@derp said in System dealbreakers:
@thenomain said in System dealbreakers:
@auspice said in System dealbreakers:
YOU TOO COULD BE A WASTE MANAGEMENT PRINCESS.
I have my next WoD concept.
I'm afraid you'll have to fight me for it. puts up his dukes
Tell you what. I'll take the concept to Werewolf, you can have Changeling.
@auspice said in System dealbreakers:
YOU TOO COULD BE A WASTE MANAGEMENT PRINCESS.
I have my next WoD concept.
@arkandel said in System dealbreakers:
CGen shouldn't be a trap.
Except for Traveller. It's actually kind of fun knowing that you could die in chargen. But it's a short series of rolls so it's no big deal.
But I have come to absolutely hate different point distribution systems between chargen and gameplay. Shadowrun has twisted itself in knots trying to have its cake and eat it too, on this front, but I don't see any need for this at all, whatsoever, for the Mu*.
@karmageddon said in General Video Game Thread:
Is your cat named Monika?
Haven't gotten that far in the game. I'll tell you after a few more playthroughs.
As it happens, though, my cat's name is The Cat or just Cat.
I was thinking about naming him Five or Six.
