Posts made by TNP

Hmmm. My very first Mu*, maybe the second, was a Pern game called Dragonsfire.

@Sunny said in The 100: The Mush:

Edited to add: I mean I bloody closed the Sabbat sphere on....shit, was it Due Rewards? @TNP, you're the only one I know that MIGHT remember. On players' heads. It was so, so, so, so bad. This doesn't hold a candle to that.

Can't help you. I never played on Due Rewards so don't know what you're talking about. I can't recall any anecdotes about it either.

It was fun. There was a lot happening (often too quickly, especially to start), lots of RP, good players. Having played on 5W, I knew they ran a fun game. I was also expecting this, though admittedly not quite so quickly, as it's much like what happened on 5W.

They're a married couple, they run the place themselves, and don't have other staffers at all except for code. At the constant, nearly frenetic pace they start out, it's guaranteed they're going to get burned out especially with a very young child thrown into the mix. It was fun while it lasted and that's all I can expect.

Assuming the theme was something I liked, I'd almost certainly play on another game that they ran. And I'll expect that one to be fun, busy, and eventually close when it doesn't turn out how they wanted and/or they burn out. It's more like a tabletop module than a long term campaign.

Or you get to know the other players. 'But there's a public channel!' you might say. And I had to keep it turned off because it was MUCH too spammy. I would rather chat with 10 other people in an OOC room than listen to 30 on a channel. And if some of them are idiots, some won't be.

But to each their own. It's just one of the ways I decided the game was definitely not for me. But as far as I could see in the limited amount of time I was there, the staff and players are fine so if it's the kind of game you like, go for it.

I've really wanted to like this game. I apped and everything and am trying to give it a shot. But it's very player unfriendly. The lack of a meetme command is part of it. The +help menu is huge, unwieldly, and makes finding things difficult/impossible. Nothing is obvious or intuitive. And while I normally don't spend a lot of time in OOC Rooms, I hate not having one. You either have to idle in your room alone or go into this ghostly state where you can't interact with anyone using the +ooc command.

Yes, there are channels which I normally use less than an OOC Room. They're way too noisy since almost every single person is on it since it's the only way to interact OOCly with people as opposed to a much more limited number of people hanging out in an OOC Room. I'm feeling no real sense of community.

Yes, it feels like the worst parts of a simulation slash MUD made worse by badly organized help and news files. I'll keep trying but even after such a short time, it's turning me off. And like I said, I really wanted to like it.

SimpleMu

@Hushicho said in Flights 'n Tights MUX:

Gay and bi male characters tend to struggle, even in settings where they are of that orientation in the original source material. In superhero genre especially, these characters have always struggled and been ostracized and, to quote a friend, tend to be "treated like a barge of medical waste". It's a disturbingly common experience.

Right. Just got rid of a muti-paragraph response that I decided wasn't really necessary. tl;dr version.

This is not the case for all. Probably not even most. I suspect the person's attitude might have something to do with how others regard and treat him. I'm basing this on my own 20 years of experience in playing exclusively gay male characters that have never been ostracized or "treated like a barge of medical waste. So. Glad he's found a place he's happy, whoever it is.

Finding the flavor of cilantro revolting is genetic.

So not only do people ignore where they're going while texting, now they're doing it playing this game?

Likewise. Rather annoying.

So. We have 59 approved characters. I'm going to guess this is about 30+ players based on unique IDs which consistently is about 60-70% of total logons.

We have 3 factions created: X-Men, SHIELD and the Hellfire Club. The grid is fairly typical Manhattan with a spread of socioeconomic businesses and places to live built ranging from poor to filthy rich.

Events so far have included a violent protest against police brutality and a fight between the Italian and Irish mobs.

No. With a qualifier. I acknowledge that there's still lots of things we don't know yet and that today's 'paranormal' could be tomorrow's science. However, I've yet to see or experience anything that leads me to believe that such things do in fact exist, explained or not. I could be wrong but the burden of proof is on the one making such claims. This does, of course, apply fully to religion as well.

Well, we're still a bit on the small side. But the numbers are growing and things are picking up. I think we're all quite pleased at how it's coming along.

@Ninjakitten said in Flights 'n Tights MUX:

What I'm kind of curious about is: DO superhero games have a history of treating non-straight male heroes poorly?

I've never found that to be the case. But I suspect that part of 'poorly' might be staff not wanting them to turn straight characters gay. That's just a guess on my part having looked over the cast list on their wiki and seeing a lot of similarities to the 'gayified' straight FCs on HD way back when.

Now granted, comics in general never used to be overly gay friendly but a lot has change over the years.

It pretty much comes off sounding like a gay sex Mu* set in a superhero genre. Any MALE character willing to have sex with MEN is welcome and so are you straight MEN if you don't mind getting hit on and maybe, just maybe, get drunk and be willing to get sucked off. But sorry all you vagina types, you've got cooties.

And really, that's fine but just come out (so to speak) and admit it. (Ok, not really fine but it's your sandbox so whatever.)

I don't think we've been around long enough for OOC drama to rear its head. Give us a couple months.

People. Come play.

Do it.

Ok, there it is. Thanks.

I don't see an ignore option. Is it in the same menu as the 'chat with'?

@Ganymede said in Kushiel's Debut:

I don't get so emotionally invested. I don't rage-quit. @Sunny's got every right to, and her reasoning is made more sound from @Skaldia's reaction here.

Actually, from what was said, she didn't rage-quit either. She said she'd be taking a week's break then got back to find her character frozen.