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Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo
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Right. Not that it matters, the game feels hollow
Anyways. The amazing Timejump today. Cujo is very much trying to convince people to speedrun CG
Probably to pretend the game isn’t dying.
Now, I also decided to walk around Nar. Found out that shops were moved… without consultation because you are just an ‘investor’ and… one of my alt was renamed. No consultation.
That is just me being bitter because changing descs and moving names is bad if YOU want to do it. Because… things were always like this for 20 years, open your own place. But Staff? Oh. Let’s give it the very much not overblown:
Blast Zone Exotic Arms
rather than the nice Missing Digits. Nope. They never even asked. Not that I play, really… it had been some 2 months since I played. Ever since the Timejump was announced my motivation was low. Why do I even log on? Probably to follow the game, to see what goes on. But it kinda… stings.
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@Krautistanian Yeah, that would definitely sting. Sorry about that.
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@Krautistanian Speaking of feeling hollow, we have this, which just hit the boards tonight:
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Message: 7/156 Posted Author
The Future is NOW! Feb 25 2023 CujoAttention all players of Star Wars: Age of Alliances MUSH!
We are excited to announce that the 15 year time jump has finally arrived! The Staff has been hard at work preparing for this new chapter in our game, and we can’t wait for you to join us on this journey.
With the time jump comes age-ups for characters, along with XP boosts and other exciting changes based on player requests. Please note that these updates are not instant and will take some time to roll out, but we assure you that we are actively working on them.
We are thrilled to be exploring a more open-ended narrative with all of you, and we hope that you share our enthusiasm for the future of the game. This is an exciting opportunity for all of us to delve deeper into the Star Wars universe and create new stories together.
As always, we appreciate your patience and understanding as we work through this transition. We look forward to seeing how your characters have evolved over the past 15 years and can’t wait to see where the story takes us.
We also hope that you’ll consider new alts in the new era, with groups like the Sith Empire, Rebellion, Jedi Order, and Mandalorians all actively recruiting members with perks and benefits for joining now on offer, from lower +nom costs, to free starting armor sets. If interested, ask Staff for information!
Thank you for your continued support of Star Wars: Age of Alliances MUSH, and may the Force be with you all!
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So much empty enthusiasm! How can anyone say this game isn’t the bestest evar?! (Hint: by reading with their eyes open)
Also, recruitment posts are getting thrown around. You can tell when a group has no headwiz of its own enthusiastic enough to make a recruitment post; Cujo will do the posting. Since he’s made two Resistance recruitment posts, the only ones not made by other staff to date, I have a feeling the game will fall long before the Sith Empire does.
At least nobody can say the NR/Resistance playerbase (non-staff) aren’t smart enough to spot a con job.
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Imagine gutting a 22 year old game because rather than punishing a creeper you made them staff instead.
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@kalakh Sadly, not completely gutted yet. But hope remains.
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@Warlander Obviously there’s always a chance at a turnaround, but even if this considerable blow doesn’t actually make the game crumble, it’s proof positive that it’s ultimately destined for it.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from my time in gaming, it’s that people like this simply do not change, because changing one’s behavior requires honest introspection and acknowledging that such behavior is both unacceptable and the root cause of why no one wants to game with them. It sure as shit won’t happen when they’re being shielded from any and all consequences while the people pointing out their behavior are the ones being punished.
Having a player like this, let alone multiple, let alone in a position of power, is poison for any game. The game will either slowly rot or out and out drop dead.
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@kalakh Having seen SerenityMUSH, a game very comparable to Area of Assholes that deserved to collapse under the tonnage of its own abusive staff stupidity within a year, last around a decade, I’m inclined to think this place will die by slow rot. Possibly for the second time.
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@Warlander said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
I have a feeling the game will fall long before the Sith Empire does.
That one was the plan for a bit anyways, I am afraid. Like, make the SE unbeatable before excitement.
Speaking of no headwiz. The leader of the Sith is Darth Omen, since Darth Ferren was one of the players they banned
/<* Darth Omen (Omen) *>
| Full Name: Darth Omen | Status: Approved |
| Alias: Omen | Species: Unknown |
| Homeworld: <none> | Gender: Male |
| Date of Birth: 34th of Kelona 1163 (00) | Weight: <none> |
| Residence: <none> | Height: <none> |
| Education: <none> | Eyes: <none> |
| Profession: <none> | Hair: <none> |
| Prof. Level: <none> | Skin: <none> |
| Relationship: Anger | Handed: <none> |
| Curr. Location: Unknown | |
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| Sith Empire |
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| Mysterious |
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| RP Award: Rian Johnson Award |
| Unread @Mail: 0 |
| Fingered: Oh my! Darth Omen has been +fingered 45 times. |
| Last 5: Xyomara, Risani, Xyomara, Nylis, Nubri |
| Last On: 227d 4h 22m 36s ago. He was online for 5d 6h 9m 21s.Yeah
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A faction leader that’s the character equivalent of vaporware named Darth Omen is a little painfully on the nose.
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@kalakh Yup. I mean, I suspect it is Banshee, who got his old Force-Twink back, but still.
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Cujo’s recent board posts read like something put out by the EA marketing department. And given what the rebels have to work with, and what they’re up against, the Sith Empire will be ruling the galaxy until the game shuts down for sure. Whenever that might be.
There’s few GM’s left at this point and the actual remaining playerbase is a lot smaller than it’d seem from looking at +who on there as the logins are massively inflated by alts. And that’s not even factoring in players who continue to log in despite not actually playing. There’s a few players that have been a bit more active lately than they were before, but most of the game is pretty much staff + Kora clique on their various alts at this point. And Jallo’s player if you don’t count him in that group, but he might as well be. Can count on any events going forward to be comprised of them on one of their alts and one or two other players.
Also, Hadrix on his staff bit seems to run the game as much as, if not more than, Cujo at this point so of course he wasn’t going anywhere.
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@Arethusa said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
Cujo’s recent board posts read like something put out by the EA marketing department. And given what the rebels have to work with, and what they’re up against, the Sith Empire will be ruling the galaxy until the game shuts down for sure. Whenever that might be.
There’s few GM’s left at this point and the actual remaining playerbase is a lot smaller than it’d seem from looking at +who on there as the logins are massively inflated by alts. And that’s not even factoring in players who continue to log in despite not actually playing. There’s a few players that have been a bit more active lately than they were before, but most of the game is pretty much staff + Kora clique on their various alts at this point. And Jallo’s player if you don’t count him in that group, but he might as well be. Can count on any events going forward to be comprised of them on one of their alts and one or two other players.
Also, Hadrix on his staff bit seems to run the game as much as, if not more than, Cujo at this point so of course he wasn’t going anywhere.
I am curious to why you say Jallo may as well be one. I know his player and throwing him into a group you guys say are some of the worst without saying why just comes off as you having a grudge. Sometimes, as it has been expressed here several times, people have troubles leaving games because they care about the character they’ve spent a long time on/building up. I’m not going to say anything about the rest because I don’t know them.
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I don’t really know Jallo’s player enough to judge him, but they’re pretty closely tied to one of the staff members - Discordia - and frequently shows up at Clan Kora-specific events despite not being a member of the Koras himself. I don’t think everyone that grouping includes is necessarily bad either, just that group pretty much covers the active playerbase on the game at this point. Staff and players in Clan Kora.
“people have troubles leaving games because they care about the character they’ve spent a long time on/building up”
That, in particular, AoA has a LOT of, and probably one of the biggest reasons many people stick around. The game’s practically designed to cause those kinds of feelings not just from the typical earning of xp and building a character through roleplay, but the way equipment and ships are handled on the game.
I don’t know if this has been mentioned in detail before now, but the game has a randomized vendor system. At least once a day, at random times, the items a vendor has for sale are randomly determined. Most of the items a vendor has will be common/uncommon items based on the kind of vendor it is. Armor, weapons, weapon mods, ship mods, etc.
Sometimes, though, rare items will spawn on those vendors. There are a LOT of different rare items in the game including high tier mods, powerful weapons, armor, not-so-powerful weapons/armor that are just… rare for some reason. Some of the best weapons in particular can be pretty hard to find. And even after you’ve found them, you’ll want or even need to find rare mods before using them in combat, which are also hard to find. Armor doesn’t tend to suffer from this as much, there’s not much in the way of rare armor and even less that’s worth buying, but there’s some pretty highly sought after weapons, weapon mods, and ship mods in particular that you could be searching months or more to obtain.
On top of that, ships themselves are limited. There’s only a few of any given type of ship available in the game. Usually less than five of a given type of ship. This isn’t as much of a problem now after so many players left - staff were unusually quick to take ships from the recently banned players - but prior to that the pickings at the shipyards were pretty slim especially if you wanted something that had an ideal setup for cargo. So you were pretty lucky if you even found a good ship or one you really wanted. Which you’d then be upgrading with those rare ship mods mentioned earlier. So you can end up pretty attached to your ship there, and even now there’s certain types of ships you just can’t get because they’re all bought up already.
It can be a pretty miserable system to deal with and just adds to that reluctance to leave once you’ve managed to get the things you want.
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@Arethusa Did the events say only Kora types can go? I would go to scenes to get rp that are not my thing if they are open even if the focus is specific people. I don’t know who Discordia is or anything and only loosely following this thread. Is she someone who has shown to be one of the bad people on the game? I try not to paint all staff with the same brush even if they staff on the same game.
Getting anything on this game sounds complex. I assume the reason for limited ships relates to trying to get people to rp together. I don’t know if that is true. Though, Getting attached doesn’t necessarily mean ‘physical’ things. I have seem people invest in the characters stories and the people around them. I know I have stuck around on a game for people I enjoy talking to/telling the stories with. It sounds like it is a lot of hard work invested into achieving anything on this game, though. So, I don’t entirely blame some people for clinging to their character despite everything said about the place.
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At least once a day, at random times, the items a vendor has for sale are randomly determined. Most of the items a vendor has will be common/uncommon items based on the kind of vendor it is. Armor, weapons, weapon mods, ship mods, etc.
Sometimes, though, rare items will spawn on those vendors. There are a LOT of different rare items in the game including high tier mods, powerful weapons, armor, not-so-powerful weapons/armor that are just… rare for some reason.
Yup. It took me… 2 years to see T1 for pistols (rifles were oddly easy to find good mods for, as a side-note), and usually only a single being sold for 100k. If you had too little money at the moment… tough tits, you are out of luck.
And the system was defended since it encouraged ‘exploration of the grid’… while also getting a softlock on checking vendors if staff felt you checked too many.
And, to, I believe quote Banshee… there are just 300 vendors or so around the whole galaxy. Each of which had a chance to get a rare item that day.
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If you always pal around with somebody who openly abuses other people, you don’t get to be offended when you get painted with that brush, or when people decide that you condone the behavior. It was a hard lesson for me, but it is what it is. I STILL apologize to people for the PF shit. I was bad. I was culpable. Just because I didn’t do it doesn’t mean my presence didn’t support it or let it hurt more people. Same with Spider’s enablers. Spider might be awful, but they never ever would have managed the damage they did without the folks blowing smoke up their ass or the staff on games they played in cheating for them.
Lay down with dogs, get up with fleas.
the entity previously known as Sunny
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@IoleRae said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
the staff on games they played in cheating for them
And now I help run an internet forum. Redemption is possible… or I’m in hell, whichever.
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@Warlander IMO it currently feels like those parasites/fungus that hijack bugs so they can reproduce. The bug’s still walking around, but it’s already braindead/not in control any more. It’s the parasite wearing the corpse until it finds the right conditions.
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@SolarFlare One of several varieties of Cordyceps fungi. In which case I’m guessing the fungi are a certain group of staffers and one headwiz.
But to continue the simile, based on my own experiences, that bug can stagger around brain-dead for a long time before it finally keels over. Guess time will tell.
