Best posts made by Three-Eyed Crow

Base it on the Citadel or Omega?

I know there is the eternal debate of sci-fi players who want multiple planets and those who don't care, but!

WAR.

Oh my gosh, dude!

So happy to know you're still out there in the great, wide Internet.

I will now have to bother Pestilence to see if I can get him to post here.

Introvert doesn't automatically equate to subdued or shy or retiring, either (just like extrovert doesn't actually mean sunny or outgoing). It can, but all it really means is someone processes their feelings more internally than externally. I've had a lot of fun playing a handful of introverted characters, because I got to play that extra layer of them processing their own feelings and then expressing them in a way that was somewhat edited for public consumption. They were very different people with the one or two PCs they actually considered friends than they were with their co-workers/acquaintances, which to me at least was interesting.

@Ominous said in Spitballing for a supers Mush:

So a bit like Pixar's The Incredibles.

This is what I was picturing. Though "The Incredibles" largely conjures up its retro aesthetic with visuals. It's really important to the animation but I don't feel like it played all that much into the story. I'm not sure how you'd approximate something like this in text.

Kell-ster!

I am happy I made this thing. I have missed all you guys, and am glad you're still kicking around these dumb games.

@mietze
I tend to look at coded toys (especially many of the ones on Arx) as Features Not Bugs That Aren't For Me. There's a type of player they are for that clearly really loves engaging with them, but I'm not in that demographic. I do play with some of the stuff on Arx now, but that was only after resolutely ignoring it for like 3 months until it stopped feeling overwhelming/like homework.

My own preferences run pretty lean, code-wise, but I come from a free-form background.

@Lemon-Fox said in Spitballing for a supers Mush:

I was hoping for a Shadowrunners are Superheroes theme, not 'Here's another Batman for people to fight over, and another Supergirl for people to camp.' More like...ultra street-samurai. Wildly powerful magic users. Saints Row IV stuff.

Gosh Saints Row would be a fun as f MUSH setting, super tangentially.

@Admiral said:

I get accused of being a guy all the time.

I used to get called a guy all the time by readers when I was a reporter. Which amused me far more than when I get called one other anonymous places, because my byline was right at the top of every story and, if a dude named Sarah exists, I've yet meet him.

@arkandel said in How much Code is too much Code?:

At the moment what reasons do characters have to go outside their usual circles? What are you giving 'me' in return for taking the 'risk' of meeting up with people I don't already know I like?

What's being done on BSU with Ares is pretty different than standard temp rooms. They're sort of being tried as grid-replacement (though there's still a grid), so you create public scenes within them. So it's not like the standard holing up in a TP room with your friends, it's everybody using temp rooms for normal, public RP.

It does feel like a cultural adjustment and I'm kind of feeling out what I think of it. Mostly I feel like it's a work in progress that will evolve.

FWIW I think the biggest incentive to do something like this for Evennia is to give more options for coders who prefer Python over Ruby. I suspect you could rip the web portal out of Ares/significantly change its functionality to make it a more 'traditional' grid-based MUSH experience (if one had the coding capability to do that and wanted to as a gamerunner philsophically).

@Arkandel said:

Are three-eyed crows named Sarah more common?

Somewhat, as there is one.

@betternow said in How much Code is too much Code?:

My guideline: I never, in the history of ever, need to have a coded system tell me I have my period, and how heavy the flow is. Looking at you, Firan.

I'm not sure what it says about me that the code that made me NOPE out of Firan was the one telling me I needed to @bathe, not the @period mails I logged into as a female character. I guess I'd mentally prepared myself for the weird sex stuff, but the bathing was a bridge too far.

@Pyrephox said in Web portals and scenes and grids oh my!:

@Coin Weirdly, the Ares portal doesn't bother me at all. I usually have a bit logged in on the webclient for chat, and then another tab open for the scene in the portal, and that really works for me.

Same. I'm usually playing both on my browser and in my client , because they both do certain things a little better, but if I'm only playing solely on web I don't tend to lose track of those scenes like I do the flashbacks. The ability to check notifications on my phone probably helps as much as anything else, but I also just approach them with a different mentality, so it may be back to a culture thing. I don't do any RP on Arx via the web outside like my two flashbacks a year, so I just don't habitually check them.

Cool! I was Strife and many poor dead bastards on TGG. Always up for MU nostalgia.

When I'm using 'help' at all it's for quickie command reference of something I've gotten wrong/a few keystrokes off. So I generally just use help/detail. I read the news files in full on the web for deeper/longer reads, but I look at the ways I utilize game files vs web files as pretty different.

Even FS3 didn't have full web support until...what a couple of years ago? It got it because enough people were using it and wanted it that they either coded it themselves or it became clearly worth supporting.

@Sparks said in Sparks' Playlist:

Added new alt because, dammit, the discussion else-thread about how dogfighting works on BSGU intrigued me enough to go pick up a character there.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!

@moonman
I mean, we all still MU for a reason beyond just inertia. I've yet to find anything better for persistent-world, real-time RP. If I could've migrated to Gdocs or Roll20 ages ago, I would've done it, but they aren't as good a platform for it. If anyone's arguing the contrary of that, I haven't read it.

My own view of the argument, and the position I take in it is, the way we RP is unnecessarily archaic due to MUSH code's limitations and could be vastly improved and made more user-friendly.

@krmbm
Yeah, this seems like something Traits + a d20 roller would work fine for if you just aren't going to sweat some aspects of magic in the code and intend to be more freefrom. FS3 isn't actually a very good generic dice roller, even if it is sometimes shoe-horned into that role as well.

Glad you're OK! Best wishes from Calliope@BSU.