An Arx Peeve Thread

[IoleRae]

@shit-piss-love said in An Arx Peeve Thread:

Sounds like some legitimate competition to Arx would be just what Arx could use too, if they are struggling with the size of the game.

The size of the game has always been a struggle. It comes up a LOT. Competition would have been really helpful YEARS ago; at this point a lot of the adaptations have already been made for the size though. “Run two parallel games” wouldn’t be easier even if competition opened up, though. While it wouldn’t exactly double the work, it would create enough extra work that even if the size were normal and reasonable, it wouldn’t be appropriate to ask.

“Oh just run two games instead of 1” would be unreasonable even if they had a normal player base.

[Jennkryst]

On the one hand, an ArxLike that I can jump on early so I know all the +clues and what not, would be neat. And maybe like… with systems I don’t forget exist or how they work every time I look away, and whatnot.

Like, my only critique of Arx is ‘oh fuck, there is so much to do, I cannot decide what to focus on’. Which is not that bad of a problem to have.

But also, on the other hand, I enjoy the (super limited) RP I have had on characters there, so nobody leave meeeeee.

[icanbeyourmuse]

I wanted to put Atharia on Arxcode but it was too hard for me to figure out what does what on staff side and to make the changes it needed far more knowledge about the code to do. I wanted to remove the votes and make it auto-XP or similar to Ithir where X number of poses got X amount in tiers. ATM, we’re going to switch to Ares because it has things many players desire these days. My coder and my players all seem to like it or are willing to try it.

I brought this up because Atharia is in a similar vein as Arx but lacks all the code stuff.

[Jennkryst]

@icanbeyourmuse Yeah, digging through the public ArxCode to try and learn STUFF for my Star Wars THING (that definitely didn’t stall at all, nope, why do you ask?) is… a lot. But it also reminded me of even more commands I learned and then forgot again, so that’s neat!

[Gasboy]

@shit-piss-love Or they could get more staff. Easier said than done, most of the time.

[watno]

What happened to this place? Used to be poppin’ 24/7

[Roz]

@watno There was a discussion over here v recently but the tl;dr from a staffer who commented was just that there’s just been a lot of RL getting in the way of stuff.

[crawfish]

There’s also a news update as of yesterday.

[Tributary]

@crawfish said in An Arx Peeve Thread:

There’s also a news update as of yesterday.

I feel this update in my bones.

Everyone is tired. Everyone was tired before, and then things started to pick up a bit after the new year. And then, right when things were starting to gather momentum, the database crash took the wind out of everyone’s sails.

Not just staff, either. A lot of players couldn’t find the momentum that had been lost by that incident, too. Just felt like a little too much.

Because it was a huge setback. It was an emotional situation. I’m sad that it happened.

[Polk]

@Tributary I just looked that up. Three weeks gone. That’s heartbreaking.

[Tchotchke]

An event finished with a GM’s player character being sad and the GM forcing all the regular players’ characters to be sad too. Don’t do that. It’s narcissistic and weird. If every time a player’s character was sad they wrote that now everyone else is sad too, that would be rightly ignored.

The alternative I guess is that it was really powerful magic and the GM’s player character had received abilities inaccessible to all regular player characters. Still really weird though. The character wasn’t at or relevant to the event until suddenly a GM wanted to put her center-stage. She came at the end to be sad and totally eclipse anything player characters were doing or feeling.

Don’t take agency away from players.

[Cobalt]

As a long term player, I’m going to disagree with you. Those the characters in question were NPCs now they both started as PCs and are both really relevant to the history and story of the game. And several PCs were heavily impacted.

[kalakh]

It’s pretty powerful magic when a demigod splits in half.

[Solstice]

I would gently encourage rereading the pose preceding that composure check.

Also, a character briefly getting sad from supernatural shit is laughably low stakes when one has already opted into a scene where death is very likely.

[Jennkryst]

@Solstice Something something, ‘I CONSENT TO (possible) DEATH, I DO NOT CONSENT TO FEELINGS’

[Aria]

@Jennkryst said in An Arx Peeve Thread:

@Solstice Something something, ‘I CONSENT TO (possible) DEATH, I DO NOT CONSENT TO FEELINGS’

From my BG3 memes group, but seemed relevant.

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[Testament]

@Aria Durge has entered the chat

[Smile]

@Tchotchke I’m going to have to assume you definitely didn’t read the pose. It was not a player character and an objectively magical event happened in that pose that lead to those checks.

Idk what gave you the impression people could cite “player agency” over reacting to a magical composure check. That has never been the case in Arx.

Edit to add: Objectively as in someone split into TWO.

[kalakh]

@Smile said in An Arx Peeve Thread:

@Tchotchke I’m going to have to assume you definitely didn’t read the pose. It was not a player character and an objectively magical event happened in that pose that lead to those checks.

Idk what gave you the impression people could cite “player agency” over reacting to a magical composure check. That has never been the case in Arx.

Edit to add: Objectively as in someone split into TWO.

It was clearly a divisive event ha ha haha

kill me now

[Noraaa]

@kalakh kills u