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  • This is mostly for maintenance and board-wide stuff from admin.

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    TezT

    Made a big jump of the server version while working on fixing some registration issues. Things look wonky on my end and likely will on your end too for a bit. I’ll try to get those bits nailed down. I’ll make a discussion thread as usual so you can report things.

  • This is a place for game runners to post about their games. Discussion on those games will happen elsewhere. Please respect this!

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    CrystalMUSH is a game based on some of the works of Anne McCaffrey, originally launched in the 90’s, and running with various levels of activity until the early 2010’s. At that point, it dropped off the net, because I as the host was dealing with my wife’s chronic health conditions, and didn’t have the time or energy to deal with it.

    But, it’s back. I relaunched the game a few weeks ago, and was absolutely shocked to have a surge of old players return. We’ve also had some new members arrive, but we’d love to have some more new members in our community.

    tl;dr Theme Info
    CrystalMUSH is set on a quarantined mining planet, host to a strange silicon symbiote that alters the people who live there, and makes them unable to stay away from the planet permanently. The ‘crystal’ mined on the planet is used for many different high tech devices, including starship drives, data crystals, and FTL communication. Players take on the role of members of the Heptite Guild, the company that controls the planet, with jobs ranging from technicians and doctors, up to the Crystal Singers who explore the planet looking for veins of crystal to mine.

    The game has heavily coded systems for finding, mining, and selling the crystal, with an ingame currency, but is still largely RP driven, with an active community of people joining together to create stories. Since the re-launch, we have already brought down a fresh class of recruits (including at least two brand new players, as well as alts of existing players who wanted to try something new), and had multiple days with 30+ characters logged in. We’d love to see some fresh players, so if you enjoy 80’s and 90’s space opera scifi, or just want to try out something new, we’d love to see you.

    There is a bit of dust, as we re-learn the game’s coded systems ourselves, and fix up old / clunky / quirky systems to be a bit friendlier, but everyone is friendly and generally happy to answer questions or help out.

    Server crystalmush.kydance.net:6886
    Discord https://discord.gg/at25HtppSh

  • Conversations and questions about current, upcoming, and advertised games and the hobby as a whole.

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    @Pavel said in The 3-Month Players:

    To make a metaphor out of it, sort of, how I view it is thus: John Wick cares about his wife, and his dog. That character development, that relationship/emotion-driven play gives us much more investment and interest in the plot-driven stuff of the rest of the film than if it was just a regular"retired killer comes out of retirement for one. more. job." So the social RP isn’t just acceptable, it’s required to make the plot RP have any kind of investment.

    I don’t know if I agree with that. At least as it has been put into a metaphor.

    I see it more like this: If John Wick had simply gone to the gas station that day, and all that happened is he paid for his gas and went home, then there is no movie series at all. Something had to happen for there to be a story, and what happened was John Wick was assaulted by Theon Greyjoy and then his dog was killed.

    I understand that his emotional investment in that is what makes it matter and resonate with the audience/players, but I don’t see that as something born of social RP. That’s a detail in his Bio.

    I think the social RP comes in when players then either a) explore it with John Wick ICly, b) talk about it with others as IC news, or c) don’t care at all that it happened but are just stoked there are now active players to socially RP with because something happened.

    But without the Event, what does the social RP by itself offer in terms of (other/new) player investment? If John Wick’s love for his wife and dog is the social RP, in the metaphor, then what story is being told if the wife never dies or if John is never attacked by the Russians? I’m not seeing much for anyone to come get involved with, and grow activity from.

    Serious question, not just trying to contradict you.

  • When you want to talk about HOW to do something when running a game, bring it here: Code, Theme, Policies, Game Design.

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    DrQuinnD

    @Ominous It still seems like you’re setting it up so that people are going to mob staff NPCs and that’s going to put what sounds like burnout pressure on them. And then there’s favoritism and times people can’t get on to meet up with a staff NPC and and and…

    But as @KarmaBum always says: what are people going to RP? Because it sounds like everyone is just going to be fighting for I Talk To The NPC tonight. And that’s going to get really old really fast if you have more than like 5 people playing. Will there be bonuses for people who just chat/fight during the down times ala the Bachelor/ette? Or does this sort of thing favor the person who only logs on for events, gets the NPCs ear, then logs off so nothing can stick to them?

    Like this seems great for a small group of friend running a sandbox, but looks like it will fall apart the minute you get more than 10 people.

  • Please post a playlist if you feel comfortable doing so, and if you are looking for old friends -- try here! If you are looking for old enemies, consider a nap.

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    @Pyrephox Thanks! Thomas is still one of my favorite characters, glad to hear from you. Bummer to hear you’re not playing anywhere these days, but neither was I for longer than I ever was, so I get that. Hope to run into you some place if you ever get back into it.

  • Gloves off, but don't be a total asshole.

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    PavelP

    @Jennkryst said in Re: Dies Irae:

    At last check, you have to spend XP on a cellphone if you want to use it for data searches in plots, so.

    The equipment system is undergoing a change.

  • Comments, criticism, suggestions, feedback?

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    @RiotDawn Check Jenn’s other devices. If they ever logged in from a phone that phone or a different web browser on the main PC might have the log in information stored in the password files.
    That’s about all you can do.

  • The place to put non-game things.

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    @Raistlin 100% agreed. Lower decks is kind of campy at times but it’s probably the most accurate depiction of how a crew functions in space.

    They go through all those years of academy training then are flung into wild, deadly, and chaotic situation after situation once they are in space that their training barely helps with.

    I think, on the majority of ships, it’s just a bunch of people trying not to fail so bad they blow up the ship.

  • Video games, tabletop, etc.

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    Recently finished FF7:REBIRTH for PC.

    15/10 OST.

    Can’t say more because don’t want to spoil anyone.