Concordia Thread

[Tributary]

@tsar Check this bit out. It goes on for a few pages, and I brought screenshots to the party.
https://brandmuday.mythicus.net/topic/53/mu-peeves-thread/1701?_=1695511552641

[tsar]

@Tributary Oh RIGHT. THIS GUY.

[mietze]

I appreciate when private scenes are hidden from view honestly. That way I don’t have to see my lonely just me scene is cricketing while others are actively posing on their private things. (Even if I intellectually understand why that might be happening, and I myself would have been likely to have a private scene too, it’s still kind of an ouch personally) That tends to remove most of my stress of FOMO.

I usually have set a time limit for myself for how long I’ll wait for someone to show up. If I liked the set or managed to come up with a clever title, I shamelessly keep it and close/stop it! And then recycle the next time I get a nibble of someone saying yes to my RP request channel post or whatever after I’ve spammed the channel for days with no response. I’ve never had anyone complain about it, they probably never noticed me on the orginial scene in the first place.

Keeping/reusing is actually very helpful to me especially with my brain and now fatigue issues. I’ve not done this on concordia because private scenes are visible, but I’ve done it regularly when it could be hidden and even tried to have like 2ish premade scene starts ready to go so that the other person/people and I could jump into play without having to wait for someone to come up with the mental energy to fill out that form.

[Third Eye]

So about Concordia in the Concordia thread. Seriously, like Coin I was super-confused about if @Duke-Whisky was making a ‘game closing’ post or just bemoaning how shitty some players were in surprising ways and I wanna know.

[Coin]

@Third-Eye said in Concordia Thread:

So about Concordia in the Concordia thread. Seriously, like Coin I was super-confused about if @Duke-Whisky was making a ‘game closing’ post or just bemoaning how shitty some players were in surprising ways and I wanna know.

RIGHT?

[helvetica]

@Coin @Third-Eye I was right there, too. It was def that tone.

[mietze]

I’m reasonably certain it’s just a shake off frustration post. That’s how it read to me anyway, and there’s been stuff going on there since.

Until game owners make posts saying that they’re closing the game, I don’t assume that they’re closing it. I thought we’ve learned that lesson before when game runners make a relatively innocent post in the community about needing to take a little time to destress and people immediately freak out and abandon ship.

Just like the spigot of new game FOMO excitement from the community can obliterate games and crush gamerunners’ souls beneath the feet of WhY AReN’T U DoinG IT LiKE tHe GAmE I waNteD iN My HeAD/THaT oTHer PlACe?!?!?!eleventyone!!111! I think sometimes the opposite happens too.

[Duke Whisky]

@Third-Eye said in Concordia Thread:

bemoaning how shitty some players were in surprising ways and I wanna know.

This one.

[SnowWhite]

@Duke-Whisky
I hope you do not close… Coming from a player. But if you need help dealing with shitting people… I can help. I’m pretty good with that. Just keep your joy and imagination.

[Birdie]

@Duke-Whisky I also hope you don’t close. I’m just getting back to finding a smidge of time in my hectic RL. I truly think there’s a lot of potential even if I’ve had trouble with Ares games in the past.

Also I totally understand how becoming a game running and getting a glimpse behind the veil can make you feel jaded about how folks treat one another. There are more folks who aren’t creeps than there are creeps.

[bear_necessities]

FWIW @Duke-Whisky isn’t the only one involved in Concordia so even if they were done with the game, that doesn’t mean closure. @spes is clearly still very visibly active and involved with the game.

[Pacha]

@Duke-Whisky

Yossarion definitely rings a bell, so I checked my discord, and I have him blocked because he was a bit of a penis to me back when I was running CS. Maybe it is just something that person does.

Sorry that happened to you and try not to let people wear you down. Easier said than done, I know.

[spes]

So I don’t usually engage here because it feels a bit like wading into a tank of piranha, but I wanted to pop in after scrolling back farther than was good for my heart.

(All of this written in my own words, without the help of ChatGPT )

1. We are not closing any time soon. Quite the opposite! We have just opened several new systems, OCs have opened back up, secrets have been doled out, and Something Big is coming next week.

2. Duke and I put this game together for fun, thinking maybe a handful of people would check it out over time. The intent was certainly never to be a novel-quality masterpiece, just a little place to RP with our buddies. About an hour after opening, I think we were up to something like 50 players and went oh man, I guess we need to give people something to do while we make more rosters and wade through these OCs! I busted out ChatGPT to churn out a heckload of documentation in a short amount of time, as well as dozens of roster characters, and one vignette to give people something to interact with while we tried to get our stuff together. I know that offended people, it just never occurred to me that I would need to clearly disclose something that seemed very obvious (and temporary) to me.

3. Getting our stuff together turned out to be really hard. While I intended to go back through and rewrite all the doc (which was generated from my own writing and notes) the way I would have if I’d had the amount of time we thought we were going to, instead I ended up putting out a lot of the fires that Duke mentioned above. I am just now getting around to it, but I am glad that I used AI so that people wouldn’t have to wait endlessly for individual answers while we scrambled to keep up. I would do so again in that same situation. It’s a helpful tool, even if it is very fond of describing the resilient spirit of the tapestry of grandeur of Ignovis. I might feel bad if I were making money off of this game instead of spending money so that people can play it for free, but happily, that is not the case!

Anyway, all of this to say, we’re alive and having fun over on Concordia, the AI-generated things are gradually being replaced now that I’ve caught my breath, and the heart and soul of the game have always been human-written anyway.

If you’re still turned off, that’s ok! This was never going to be the game for everyone, and we knew that going in, but everyone is very welcome to stop by and check out our latest stuff if they’re in the mood!

[Tez]

@spes I appreciate the clarification. Godspeed and good luck! Lord knows there’s clearly an appetite for what you are doing.

[helvetica]

Now that the player base has started to settle after that initial influx, it almost feels like there’s more plot happening than there are characters to deal with it. Which is to say, app into my House and solve our problems.

[Pacha]

@helvetica

Yes, it is true! Things are really jumping right now.

[Roz]

Hey quick question who the fuck is Lucian because they’re stealing my character’s desc.

Kind of not cool

[Selira]

@Roz james somerton plays MU’s now?

[Roz]

@Selira Upvote for the timely reference. Maybe hbomberguy can get to the bottom of this!

[hellfrog]

Yeah, who ‘wrote’ this? I mean, I know who actually wrote it. I wanna know who stole this.