Read all the words in my email, people. ALL THE DUCKING WORDS. EVERY ONE OF THEM IS IMPORTANT. I could understand if I had written walls of text or something but it was like 3 sentences long. READ IT!
This is the lament of the coder doing requirements discovery.
@faraday said in Managing Player Expectations:
@thenomain said in Managing Player Expectations:
I played Fallout 4 expecting a Fallout game. My expectation was they called it Fallout, but it ended up being a very different experience to the previous offerings and I felt kind of lied to.
You’re entitled to feel however you feel, obviously. But hypothetically if you were to go off on a cruel rant to the devs about how the game didn’t meet your expectations, I would say you were wrong.
O...Kay? That kind of goes against my point, but sure, because my point was that some complaints about expectation are reasonable.
So yes, I suppose if I were unreasonable, you could call me unreasonable.
...good?
The smell of rain on freshly mown grass and evaporating off hot blacktop.
Childhood comfort, thy name is petrichor.
I played Fallout 4 expecting a Fallout game. My expectation was they called it Fallout, but it ended up being a very different experience to the previous offerings and I felt kind of lied to. I agree that people complain too much, but I try to see if their criticism has merit, too. That’s just how I’m wired.
This segues into what @Arkandel was asking: Why play a game that isn’t quite what you’re looking for? Because it’s close. Friends and popularity too, yes, but choices aren’t so flush that someone can find precisely what they’re looking for.
So it’s a mix of a lot of things. I think players should play the game that was created, but as a lot of players are asked, and sometimes demanded to create on the fly, the need for give and take is critical.
@ashen-shugar said in Dies Irae: Paid Positions for Coder:
@ominous said in Dies Irae: Paid Positions for Coder:
@thenomain The stock market is not hard to game-ify. Many board games have done it. It's just a really big auction house. People are selling X at Y price and other people are buying A at B price. Once these people meet and agree to Z price, that sets the new value of the stock. That is a very simplified version, but a MU* only needs a simplified version.
And for all that's holy, try to code it so that a group of people can't nerf the system by cornering the market in attempts to sell 'a common rock' for like 10k a pop?
Are you telling me what Enron did was wrong? Because it was legal, and that’s all that was important.
@ominous said in Dies Irae: Paid Positions for Coder:
@thenomain The stock market is not hard to game-ify.
Which should tell you something when I'm taking a pass at it. I also don't act as a storyteller for much the same core reason.
Yeah, I can’t keep track of everyone’s personal definitions of specific phrases either. God knows I’ve clarified myself and had people not pick up on that.
Often.
In this thread.
By you.
People gonna be people. It’s important to work toward common ground whenever possible.
@faraday said in Earning stuff:
I really fail to see how simply bribing people into doing more social RP makes the social RP any more interesting.
Social? I can't keep track of how many non-social scenes I've been in that were not the least bit interesting.
I just want to mention briefly how boring you guys are right now. If you’re going to put on a show, at least wear sequined tights.
While I wold be happy if HBS made Shadowrun games through the end of time, I’m very happy for them for this development. I hope that Paradox is the kind of company to give it’s developers some autonomy and not be, e.g., like EA which kills franchises for their life energy so that they can shamble around making a few touch ups on their yearly Madden.
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I am still paying Battletech. I think I am halfway through. 1149 days of the revolution and counting.
I would take the “think of the children” comment much better if the NRA hasn’t used it excessively itself.
I think we need a ban on that statement. I mean shit, look at the children all marching for a safer world and all, “think about the children.” And Millenials, all complaining that they can’t afford things in the current economy, wanting an education, wanting us to think about them, like they’re the future or some shit.
They’re all, “we want clean air for the children” and “we want a stable climate for the children.” They can pay for it if they’re so keen; I’ll be dead by then so stop whining and trying to make me care.
No, I’m not falling for it, you spoiled brats.
@lotherio said in Earning stuff:
@lisse24 said in Earning stuff:
I think we need to do a better job of finding ways to make random/social RP focused and meaningful from the outset.
It would be great to find a solution that could reward random/social without unbalancing scales; without becoming code heavy/staff reliant.
Maybe some light code system that gives characters a reason to interact. Ooh! How about a game system where there are unknowns and the characters get together sometimes to pass along...lets call it lore. Oh! Better! Clues.
All praise and joking aside, even a system like this is very game dependent. Another system I’ve seen is one that rewards people for playing together, but I’ve seen it work (Arx) and not work (The Reach). It doesn’t matter what system you design if the players don’t engage with it.
Lookin'.
Mind you, "Country Roads" is from 1971, and the Fallout extended timeline makes no bloody sense anyhow, but matching songs is not my forte. It's not even my thirty!
Sssssssoooooooo... more modern songs for Fallout?
Nnnneeeehhhhhhh.
I have an incredibly important question for you, @RizBunz: Have you chosen a melancholy and ironic theme song for the game?
No rush.
How about now?
RL Anger: Be more political; stop making courts decide your shit for you, people.
We don't want to decide anything for ourselves, that's why we have (pick one depending on age):
... to do it for us!
But we better not have (repeat choice above) disagree with me, because that's wrong, and I will use the court system to make them think like me.
@coin said in Now for something different:
Why are you sharing pictures of your mom?
Because that's how you left her last night: Sad and unfulfilled.
@coin said in Now for something different:
@surreality said in Now for something different:
Hermit powers, go. I choose GrumpyCat to be my avatar.
I think @ILuvGrumpyCat called dibs.
@coin said in Eternal High School.:
Most things can be reduced to "high school but [insert supernatural thing, insert other stage in life, insert whatever]".
@wildbaboons said in Dies Irae: Paid Positions for Coder:
@dies-irae Might be helpful to list what codebase you're using (or maybe it's obvious if someone knows that MUSH Park is)
He says: Vampire: 5th MUX
S'all good.