Best posts made by Wolfs

To be honest, I'll believe it when it happens.

Then again, a viable alternative to Cuendillar would be nice. I know that game's been inactive for like a decade now, but every once in a great while you can log in and see Nynaeve made a post about how the place isn't dead yet, that if she can just do one thing or another she has plans to make some stuff happen again and...well, she needs to face the fact that the game's time has come and gone at this point.

It can certainly be a fun, intriguing setting with a few different paths to take characters in, but it really needs a firm setting and some clear outlines of what will and won't be accepted in order for it to work. Having things really spread out, at least to begin with, may allow for some alts in different areas, but it may be better to start out focused on one region and build out from there.

@three-eyed-crow The place is still up, though there's only ever really one or two people sitting around there and we know who one of them is.

@ShelBeast As someone not connected to this - I've never set foot on the game - you may think staff owes you a detailed explanation as to why they might turn down something you want in your background or want to have access to, but the truth is they don't. It would be nice to clearly know what is expected or what the reasoning is, though, and it seems to me they made an attempt to answer that based on what @Autumn reported.

The answer was given that Cole was not the founder and owner of Halo, and while Bruce Wayne did not found Wayne Enterprises, that is a direct family connection that simply transferred to Bruce. That's a small but important detail that would be different with Cole and Halo, because presumably the Cole app is trying to justify him having control of Halo and all its assets. If staff says no, he doesn't, then he doesn't.

That is not unfair or unequal, even when you add Ted Kord and Kord Omniversal, which would be along the same lines of the Wayne example above. When it's a matter of a corporation that was not founded by the character (or character's family), or the character is simply connected to it through an association, even if comics canon leads to him eventually coming into control of it, that doesn't mean the same thing is going to happen on a game. Staff has other things to factor in there when it comes to handling multiple players and characters, and more importantly, potential players and characters.

All that said, starting this part of the thread off with a somewhat vague criticism that accuses staff of playing favorites and acting like the issue in question is trivial and an attack on you (while not giving details or even saying it was about you until more details emerged) makes it look like you're out to create drama. You are unhappy that you didn't get to have your way, and that's fine, but that doesn't mean staff is out to get you. I'm sure they're trying to keep a balance in mind when it comes to in-game corporations that go through family ownership vs. outside ownership changes.

If you stick with the character and eventually settle in, perhaps you will have the opportunity to run a plot that winds up with Cole owning Halo.

@Macha I checked on who Cole is, because I didn't know, so I saw where things happened in the comics that led to him being an owner or sole owner, whichever the case. But, the point remains that he did not create the company, nor does he have a direct family tie to the founder, so if there IS a concern about that stepping on the toes of a potential Marlowe, that could be part of the denial. That would be up to staff to further clarify, however, along with whether or not he would have access to any of the company's money or "toys."

The point also remains that someone playing Bruce Wayne or Ted Kord does not have that possible conflict to worry about, making their situations notably different.

@ShelBeast So I went back through the thread and see where they're trying to be a Marvel setting but allowing characters from other media if people can make things fit in, and they'd try to help if people needed it.

I guess this is part of the problem of trying to run a publisher-specific world while allowing DC (and other) characters to exist within it, but I can't say I see the big deal about naming a corporation that isn't a Marvel one, especially if they're already allowing it in other cases. The situation is not really what I interpreted it as originally, at all.

Maybe there's more to this than I'm understanding at this point.

@Lotherio Makes sense.

I usually avoid OOC Lounges and Public channels because they often get spammy as fuck with a bunch of stuff I really don't care about. That probably means I miss out on some things but if someone takes the time to page me, I will answer even if it's to say I can't play at that moment because I've got other stuff going on.

I think there's a difference to make between "hindering player initiative" and "keeping in the know about what's going on."

If you want to run a one-off thing that has no real repercussions and doesn't affect anything in a major way, people should generally be able to do that to their heart's content. If it involves an NPC villain and a game has a pool people can pick and choose from, once it's over there should be something that goes back to staff in order to summarize what happened so staff can make any updates they need to when it comes to what that villain's done.

If it's an actual plot that involves something bigger, I see no reason why staff shouldn't have a process in place to review and approve or disapprove of those. A plot is more than a one-off, and even if it only affects one or two people, it's important for staff to know what's going on. They might have feedback to give. They may have something to point out that the players weren't thinking or aware of.

A player-run plot is not meant to be a spur-of-the-moment thing when it comes to RP. It requires planning and setup, and in most cases part of that should probably involve running it by pertinent staff. It's also more likely to lead to putting together something that's well-defined from beginning to end instead of "Hey! I just had an idea! Let's go do it!"

On the other hand, if staff has a policy like that in place, they need to hold up their end of the bargain by being quick and efficient with whatever their response is. If it's something you want to start in a few days and there's a reason it can't wait, staff shouldn't be sitting on it for two weeks before giving any feedback. Of course, there may be reasons for staff to have a policy that includes not trying to force a quick yes or no out of them.

This all ties into staff actually having a say when it comes to certain things that happen on the game they've built and run. Playing a character there usually doesn't just give you carte blanche to do whatever you want, whenever you want, particularly if it's a big thing.

"American" has always applied to the United States by default, not the North/South American continents themselves. This dates back to the American colonies when the English crossed the Atlantic.

If you use "African-American," the vast majority of people out there know and understand this to be talking about a US Citizen.

If you really want to differentiate it that much, you need to be using "Americas" or "the Americas." By itself, "America" is understood to mean the USA.

@ThatGuyThere Okay, maybe not always, but at this point you're pissing into the wind (and apparently content to do it) because you know exactly what the meaning is now to the majority, yet you insist on trying to tell people it really doesn't mean that. Sometimes, the usage of words and their meanings does change.

There's trying to argue a point, and there's being willfully stubborn. Guess which one you fall under?

Do you also go around trying to tell people "gay" really ought to mean someone's just happy?