Best posts made by Tinuviel

So long as the Hog Pit isn't quietly misplaced in the move, I don't care which option you lot choose.

The only real way to unequivocally "prove" that an interaction occurred is to log everything server-side and have someone go through it all. Then that becomes a freedom vs security debate, which is older than time.

@ortallus I got a bunch of those from banks loosely related to my own bank, but only while I was in the United States. Very odd.

@cobalt ... strip mahjong.

@arkandel said in Forum wonk:

Be the change you want in the world!

I'm middle class, white, and male. I am the world (as it stands in the current patriarchal-capitalist-white supremacist paradigm)

Oh. Since a lot of people don't know how to do the thing with @locks, making an OOC communication blockery command. So '+ignore Wretched' would stop me seeing his pages, getting his @mails, seeing his channel messages, and any OOC comments in the room I'm in. (Or any comments if we're both in the OOC Lounge).

@lithium I'm the same when it comes to writing. I can type up essays like nobody's business, but put a piece of paper and a pencil in front of me and my brain can't fathom the idea of a word.

@BobGoblin said in Star Trek MU*s:

How do you set up a system that lets people who WANT to be a Captain, be a Captain but not water things down?

If you're having a game set on a ship (which is the obvious, but not only, choice), then I'd say... the Captain should be an NPC. The Department Heads should be players capable of, and willing to, running plot for their department

How do you have Space Combat without Space Sim?

Use the game system ruleset of your choice. In this instance, I'd probably look at the FASA Star Trek RPG but there are other options.

How do you have stories and adventures that aren't dependent on Staff +events?

Main overarching plot should be under staff direction, with department heads running smaller-scale things as above, with staff assistance if necessary.

How do you have progression as a character beyond promotions, etc?

Skills and such, as with any RPG system. IC progression would likely depend upon the exact setting chosen.

@ominous said in Forum wonk:

@tinuviel

I will allow this only if the archive is named The Book of Grudges.

That's Facebook.

@Ganymede said in How To Treat Your Players Right:

No staff should be playing PCs that obtain any sort of status or power on the game.

I would add to this that perhaps headstaff shouldn't be playing PCs at all (unless they're the only staff). Or have a designated "complaints investigator" of some kind that doesn't play, thus isn't likely to have biases or to have conflicts of interest. It's only a thought, not a definite "you must include this in policy."

@jinshei

@auspice Gimme a tick to look at the post, and I'll see what's up with it. Stupid bloody thing.

ETA: Someone moddy will have to delete it, probably. Whatever's wrong with it, it won't let me access the edit button.

ETA2: Did some tinkering with my browser's display, edited the post. Is that any better?

Well my most immediate "plan" would be to set it on one ship during The Original Series (not the Abrams revised edition), with a monster of the fortnight type thing. Go to a planet, deal with monster/threat/story, move to next planet. So really no space system would be needed.

@auspice You must sacrifice your first born child and pay three pigs, one goat, seven cows, sixteen pure wool fleeces, and a turnip. Then you can begin the application process.

@Goldfish Mage is kind of like quantum mechanics. If you think you understand it, you don't understand it.

@Thenomain said in How To Treat Your Players Right:

@Tinuviel said in How To Treat Your Players Right:

@Thenomain said in How To Treat Your Players Right:

I do not think your concept of "appropriate" is appropriate. Neither does Ganymede or Faraday.

Then what is my concept of appropriate?

I'm not interested in playing this game. Defend your thesis or not, but I won't respond to this Right-Wing Playbook nonsense.

What's so difficult to understand about the concept "we want to see that our complaints are actually listened to and the problem to stop" followed by "if we don't see problems stopping at all when complaints are made, why should we complain?"

ETA: The point of the thread being 'encouraging people to submit complaints.' It's not a thought experiment or a mental exercise. It's a thing that actually happens. How can we encourage people to submit complaints when they don't always get to see the results of their complaints? That's a legitimate question.

Watch this. You'll thank me.

@mr-johnson Maybe you blocked yourself.