MU Peeves Thread

Third Eye

ETA: OR let me know that you’re distracted/slow/in another scene/whatever. So I can go and do something else.

This is where I’m at. I don’t really care if I know the score and can adjust how I’m engaging, but if someone just disappears for a half hour at a time because they’re more into something else, whether it’s another scene or an MMO, I’d rather be doing something else with my time.

This is one of my bitches with a lot of async stuff, where you have people who’ll be in like a half-dozen scenes at a given time but not pay attention to any of them, so poses take days if they come at all.

Tez

@Jumpscare said in MU Peeves Thread:

For the past week, I’ve taken a break from developing Silent Heaven, but there’s someone who keeps nagging me day after day to hurry up and stop slacking: myself.

Wish I could get me to lay off me.

I was really winding up with some knife emojis and some stabbing gifs until I got to the end of this sentence. You can have instead.

Solstice

At work all day:

“Haha, oh man, it’s gonna be so cool to do XYZ with my character(s) when I get home.”

At home:

Cleaning
Making dinner
Spending time with loved ones
Giving pet all the scritches
Social Media
Check in on people on Discord
TV
Tired

In bed:

“Wait a minute, I didn’t do the thing I meant to at all! Well, I bet tomorrow…”

3 MONTHS LATER

“Shit.”

junipersky

The only time I’ve seen upset over playing many games at once was when I was playing multiple Pern games at a time. Even then, it was just a handful of people ticked off at me. One of them recently even apologized for it (despite this being years ago) because they’re the sweetest person in the world.

GF

@Solstice Did we all just have fewer chores when we were younger, or did we go through them more quickly?

IoleRae

@GF

We needed less sleep.

junipersky

@GF

And we had someone else paying the bills.

farfalla

In theory I don’t think it’s any of my business how many other scenes my RP partner is in. I think slow RP is a different, much broader issue, so if I’m getting slow RP I’m peeved by it being slow not by how many scenes they’re in, and that’s what I would address.

However in practice, nothing turns me off wanting to RP with someone as seeing their name in 8 different active scenes on Ares.

Actually new peeve:
Please let me mute/hide private Ares scenes.

Roz

@farfalla said in MU Peeves Thread:

Actually new peeve:
Please let me mute/hide private Ares scenes.

I’m not on an Ares game right this second, but yes, this. I really don’t want to see a bunch of private scenes on the scene list.

Birdie

@farfalla said in MU Peeves Thread:

Actually new peeve:
Please let me mute/hide private Ares scenes.

This turned me off to Ares in general and triggered a response that was not always necessary. You should only be able to see your own private scenes when you look at the active scene list.

Coin

@Birdie said in MU Peeves Thread:

@farfalla said in MU Peeves Thread:

Actually new peeve:
Please let me mute/hide private Ares scenes.

This turned me off to Ares in general and triggered a response that was not always necessary. You should only be able to see your own private scenes when you look at the active scene list.

HARD. FUCKING. YES.

That, or at least anonymize them. So new people can look at the Active Scenes list and be like “oh, okay, there’s fifteen different scenes going on, cool” but there’s no actual information of who is in those scenes.

I understand the Ares “transparency” philosophy but the Active Scenes page is like spamming +where on crack.

glitch

There’s likely a plugin way, or a fancy way, or whatever. But here’s a modestly tested webportal hack for open scenes for you to do with as you please. Basically just minor tweaks to the active scene endpoints and portal page and renamed.

https://gist.github.com/serverglitch/36d47ff41bcf8d6d45dc8c13a100c5ab

Use the files listed at the top of each file and remove the comment. Github didn’t like handlebars templates, so just be careful of the fake comment I left at the top with the filename.

bear_necessities

I used to be bothered by endlessly scrolling private scenes but now it just helps me determine if a game is “for me”, honestly. When I’m tracking a game and I see 15 private scenes that seem to be never-ending, or there’s ONLY private scenes never any open ones? Then I know that one probably isn’t going to work for me. So I appreciate the transparency, TBH. I’d rather know what I’m getting into before I get into it.

TNP

@bear_necessities You’d still know. If you couldn’t see private scenes and there were no public ones posted or just one for a 2 week time period? Same end result.

Testament

@TNP Out of curiosity, would seeing various private scenes being any better than seeing people holed up in private residences? I feel like this would be the same thing.

KarmaBum

I also hate seeing all the private scenes. It’s why I always set the timeout on Ares to 48 hours, so at least they don’t linger forever. (and maaaaaan you shoulda seen how many people criiiiiiiiiied about the idea that they had to REOPEN A MONTHS OLD SCENE WITH A SINGLE BUTTON PRESS DEAR GOD)

It is basically the same as logging in and seeing everyone paired off in private on +where.

Which is how every non-Ares game is, so at least Ares is upfront about how no one is gonna play with you. 🤩

L. B. Heuschkel

I see the points made here about lots of private scenes and I do understand. On an Ares game where most scenes run live, a crapload of private scenes will often read as, ‘no one wants to play with me’.

However, that’s not the case for all Ares games. On games where the majority of scenes are asynchronous, you’ll have the opposite effect – people set their scenes to private in order to not annoy everyone else with craploads of scenes that are on pause for the next two days or similar.

So, no, I don’t agree that private scenes have to be a red flag. Where I look is at the scene postings – are there a fair number of scenes being shared and are a fair number of those, in turn, group scenes? If they’re all couple love-dovey private scenes then… well…

Polk

@L-B-Heuschkel When I see an Ares game with no live scenes, it reads to me as ‘no one wants/has time to play.’

L. B. Heuschkel

@Polk said in MU Peeves Thread:

@L-B-Heuschkel When I see an Ares game with no live scenes, it reads to me as ‘no one wants/has time to play.’

That’s fair. It’s just not always true. Keys averages 40-50 scenes running at a time, the vast majority of which are asynchronous.

The thing is – a lot of people don’t have time to play, at least not in live scenes in US primetime. A lot of us are in other timezones, suffer from conditions and situations, and what have you.

icanbeyourmuse

@Testament said in MU Peeves Thread:

@TNP Out of curiosity, would seeing various private scenes being any better than seeing people holed up in private residences? I feel like this would be the same thing.

I hate seeing the Ares private scenes. I also hate seeing people in their private residence. So, in Atharia all bedrooms are hidden from ‘where’. Or the person is shown as unfindable. I forget which.

I get scenes in ‘private settings’ ( the ares tag and the private residence) are not all sexy fun time. I just don’t like seeing stuff there is no chance of joining. Ares private scenes can only be joined by coded invite. Scenes in private locations are by invite too. So, to me seeing ‘private’ does not create a welcoming feel which means I am not likely to join.