@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.

@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.

@catzilla said in Numetal/Retromux:

@ChaoticSin Pika ousted from their own game? What’s the story there?

Pika distanced herself from the game quite some time ago. So, when the domain lapsed, those of us who wanted to see the game succeed continued on without her. Hence the moving of the server

@RedRocket said in AI Megathread:

So the next time you are thinking about trying out a new game, ask ChatGPT about it. You might find something interesting.

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@RedRocket said in The 3-Month Players:

You had to struggle to become enough of a bad-ass not to have to live in fear all the time. I can not emphasize enough how important that feeling of progression is to the health of a game.

Many players enjoyed DarkMetal.

Many other players wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot pole because that style of gameplay holds no appeal to them.

TGG was a game with permadeath, trivially easy chargen, XP-based progression, stakes, drama, rotating “seasons” to keep things fresh, and the some of the most impressive immersive code systems I’ve ever seen. It still had a lot of player turnover. (and about 10 very passionate core players)

People want their actions and choices to matter. … It’s the same reason people add stakes and drama to TV shows. If nothing changes, there is no point.

This I agree with, but routinely killing your PCs off is not the only way to accomplish this. There are plenty of successful TV shows that avoid the Game of Thrones style of knocking off main characters left and right.

There is no one-size-fits-all game.

@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.

@Jennkryst

May the next one be even remotely as progressive!

@Hobbie it’s the same story as serenitymush. There will be deaths and rebirths until it just ends up dead on someones VM server forgotten in time.

@Tez
This may have been introduced during the last update/upgrade? Looks like it might be a quick fix. https://community.nodebb.org/topic/15860/solved-eacces-errors-after-rebuilds

@Snackness said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:

We are trying to figure out if my mom is “actively dying”. Dementia fucking sucks.

;.;

There’s been some side-eying given to a family member in my case as well, because they have been saying and doing certain things that seem like a precursor to it, or outright misremembering if not forgetting certain things.

@L-B-Heuschkel Funnily enough, I worked with Raph for years when I worked at SOE, and he was doing Star Wars Galaxies. He’s a smart cookie. Knows his shit backwards and forwards.

Recently finished FF7:REBIRTH for PC.

15/10 OST.

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

@Raistlin Totally does. Very cool. If I have free time (which is a luxury these days) I’ll be sure and check it out when it opens.

Is Songs of Avaria still running? It looked like an original setting.

@Ominous said in Lords and Ladies Game Design:

@Rucket Could you elaborate on what you mean by “basic House development”?

Apologies at the insane delay I don’t check this place daily. Anyway I liked the basic concept that Arx had of domains and I would enjoy seeing projects people in the house could work on to improve areas of their domain over time. I don’t know that I have any super specific things in mind off the top of my head right now.

@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.