Posts made by Thenomain

I would very much like to see scheduled soft-restarts. They could be as innocuous as 'but in THIS timeline, THIS happened'. Or as harsh as, 'Game over. Reset. You remember things from the game over situation...why?'

@auspice said in Game Restarts:

@kanye-qwest said in Game Restarts:

1. Reboot any and every game into a game of Pugmire
2. Profit

Where's Parxmire?

Hopefully waiting for the cat expansion.

@arkandel said in Game Restarts:

@thenomain Can you define 'restart' in this context?

Nope. Provide your own!

How would you handle restarting a game? How would you set up a game in order to make this work? What's your best game-restart experience?

@faraday said in A New Star Wars game? (Legends of The Old Republic (Name pending)):

Witness TGG's ever-shifting campaign settings.

This is a game where you can lose a character because it's Tueseday. Starting over is baked into its genes. This is what's important.

However, @Mr-Johnson has their goal: Ongoing Changes. A++ for this plan.

I'd be willing to continue talking about Reset Games in another thread and let the poor man have his thread back.

@bored said in A New Star Wars game? (Legends of The Old Republic (Name pending)):

I just don't think it would ever work on a MU. Every timeskip would see ~half your playerbase quit in outrage/fail to engage in the new story/etc.

I've also dreamed of a game like this, but not the time nor inclination to follow through. The Reach/Fallcoast/Fallcoast2 is proving that it's possible, but the mere risk of losing players frightens a lot of people, staff and players alike.

But if the players are enjoying themselves, they will find a way to make it work. I played on a game long, long ago where the goal was reach the apocalypse. And the staff followed through. And half of us stayed on to play the after-effects and it was fun.

I think if you are 100% Up-Front about it, then you can do it. My own plan was to run a one- to two-year plot then move on, but the plot would be, in the nature of plots, something that ends. But more than that, something that the players would drive to the end.

In my case: The martian trade city that the Earth colonies want to control is having leadership issues, and everyone knows that the local Martian King is going to die. The end scenario was "the crowning of a new leader", but each faction or even player might want something different from this situation. It would start with Space 1889. The next jump would be Mars Noir (between WW1 and WW2). Then I would do the Asteroid Pirate Wars. Then...

It's a dream.

Traditional ongoing story with interweaving situations is easier and more stable. AetherMUX did things this way and it was fantastic.

@haven said in Star Wars?:

I worked my way up the ranks through RP and took advantage of important people being murdered.

"Dead Men's Robes."

@admiral

I am not looking forward to the next balance patch.

@cobaltasaurus said in Awesome Youtubers and Videos?:

@thenomain Respectfully, no her voice is the most annoying thing I have ever heard. :x

So you haven't listened to Mangaminx, huh.

@kanye-qwest

I like Cry's voice and laugh and outrageous stories so much that he could stream with PewDiePie (and has) and I'd still watch it (and did).

The Adpocolypse scared quite a few of my favorite Youtubers from Youtube and those that landed somewhere seem to have landed on Twitch. Dexterity Bonus, aka Dodger, seems to have left entirely which is also too bad because her voice is like chocolate to Cry's butter.

Cryotic.

@faraday

The “or I’d lose copyright” excuse was constructed whole cloth from this discussion, not attributed to any author. The statement is just a much supposition as many things said here. If this part is taken out, which I think is a very reasonable thing to do, then it’s about as offensive as saying that you have to clean your room because you’re the mom, not because you want to.

That’s why I think this conversation has gotten, in a word, silly. We were reacting to things before knowing the reality of them.

@faraday said in A Game of Thrones MUX Discussion:

Right. "I don't feel like dealing with any potential headaches, however unlikely" is a completely reasonable position to take. "I really don't mind but my lawyer says I can't/shouldn't" is a cop-out IMHO because the actual risk of losing a court case against a derivative fanfic writer is ludicrously small.

I mean, it's not like writers aren't human and will conflate or mis-state a situation to reflect their ideology or emotions on the matter, and find the whole he-said/she-said liar talk pretty jackass.

I personally don't see a conflict between "it would be a headache" and "my lawyer told me to", and find the last roughly fifteen posts a good thirty seconds of my life that I won't get back.

Doom + Steam Link = $15 (+ shipping)

Is it me or is Valve extremely desperate to get more Steam Links out there?

(Bonus, possibly irony: Without Doom, the Steam Link is not discounted at all. Bethesda and Valve makeouts in their tree fort?)

@faraday said in Favorite Minigames:

@thenomain Dunno. Think that distinction is in the eye of the beholder.

Too many eyes.

@tempest said in A Game of Thrones MUX Discussion:

Or...

Or........

Just don't ask.

That depends. To you want to indirectly engage Nymeria, or do you want to ignore her and pretend she doesn't exist? One of these ways gets you potential permission from the RPG company as well and gives you the opportunity to use the alternate later on. The other way doesn't and gives more power to someone you don't like.

@bobotron said in A Game of Thrones MUX Discussion:

@auspice

So, only the one GoT place will ever have the 'real rights' to use the game then?

I am not trying to derail the important game-design part of this thread, but all you need to do is ask. It would help if you do it with politeness and conviction, and keeping Nym entirely out of the loop.

Green Ronin has been active in not making it easy to get ahold of their rulesets; as a level of curiosity, how would you educate people in how to play the game?

@faraday

Follow up statement: If you have to do any of it, is it a mini game? (That’s a statement because it’s not really to you, but is one of the ongoing uncertainties I have with the thread.)

@faraday

I feel that Zork bends time and space. I kind of knew that, but wanted my reality to be true.