@thrax said in Numetal/Retromux:

When Staff came to speak to her she did not hide, nor keep information from them. The thing I wonder is how can they ban someone for avoiding conflict from someone known to be a problem. Yes she did hide herself, but is that in itsself worth a full gameban?

Hiding yourself from players you have a no contact with in order to RP with them is something I think deserves a gameban, regardless of how open you are with staff.

It really feels like Ganymede has just decided to let Derp drive it into the ground out of some need to avoid losing face from reversing a decision.

Well, I’m reducing my MSB activity to lurking now. Gany just basically said that the only person who needed to be apologized to on MSB for what happened was Derp.

I get two things from reading stuff from this thread.

1. That I definitely am not the target audience for Lords & Ladies roleplay.

2. That Arx, even with all of it’s trouble throughout its history, is a pretty good example of ‘doing it right’ in our hobby.

Congrats to all you Arx players and staff for doing cool stuff.

@Cygnus said in The 3-Month Players:

Without PVP acting as a failsafe, these players often cause games to fail because no one can stand not being able to meaningfully stand up to the bully.

The failsafe against toxic players should be staff action. Going PVP just because a player is toxic seems toxic in it’s own right.

Starting a new thread, for a new year.

First up, and this one hit me hard, David Lynch, legendary director of such weirdness as Eraserhead, Twin Peaks, and the original 1980s version of Dune.

@hobos

Please stop. If you actually care, stop, step away, and come back in a few days or even a week or two. You’re making yourself look bad with each new post.

Also: I can’t make anyone else on this forum switch topics from your dumpster fire of a character to the dumpster fire of Eddie and the people on Staff that did toxic shit to you. Mostly because you keep running back in here and throwing gasoline on your character dumpster fire and making it a much bigger, brighter spectacle than the other.

@Juniper said in Numetal/Retromux:

Most people want to be special in some way, sometimes tactfully and sometimes… not. I think we all get to have more fun when we’re not veering aggressively away from being “cringe”.

The vast majority of players in our hobby understand how to make unique special characters without trying their damnedest to drive it into everyone’s faces at 100 miles an hour.

@RedRocket said in pvp vs pvp:

The objections to ICA=ICC always seem to be that a hypothetical psychopathic player will just go out killing everyone for OOC reasons and ruin the game anyway, so they might as well abandon the game before it happens.

I have no objections to ICA=ICC and I have both played with and had the misfortune of having to deal with psychopaths who PVP for purely OOC reasons as staff.

I too remember some of those games having epic battles and stuff, and I also remember games where getting asked for “RP” from certain characters meant a pvp combat scene. In a few rare cases, those players managed to single out completely new players with completely new characters.

Your experience is not my experience, and neither of our experiences are invalid in this particular conversation. Everybody has their own thoughts on the topic and there’s probably not a single sweet spot of PVE / PVP balance that covers everyone in the hobby.

I would also hedge a bet that some of the MUDs out there are far more mechanically complicated than the average MMORPG simply because they don’t have to waste processing power on graphics and sound.

Tomas Lindberg, lead singer for melodic death metal band At The Gates, considered one of the founding acts of the Swedish death metal scene. This one hurts me a lot because I’ve been listening to AtG since the mid 90s.

@Jennkryst said in Minigames in MUSHes:

I tried for a couple years to convince them to add RPG +sheets, but never got it off the ground.

I’m guessing this was prior to the creation of Mechwarrior: Destiny?

Thinking about minigames in MUs makes me want to build a series of interconnected hidden minigames into a horror MU that act as a trail of crumbs to some plot secret that exposes a hidden truth about the game world. Each time a player finds and completes a step in the minigame chain, it adds a tag that’s only visible to staff to their bit, so progress can be tracked. Any player that completes the full chain will get invited to a special scheduled event and their whole perspective of the IC universe will get tossed on its head.

I too am curious about this issue, because I’ve been eyeballing Evennia for whenever I decide I have time to try running a game, and want to know if there’s something to learn that I can apply to the technical side of a potential future game.

@Roz said in RPing with Everybody (or not):

The other reason why you need to design plot dispersal around the possibility of things getting stuck is because sometimes players who are usually good about dispersing plot around will disappear, sometimes they’ll get RLed in various ways, sometimes they’ll just burn out or lose interest, etc. It’s not just an issue with insulated players.

I think the easiest way to deal with this is to have plot disperse by NPC announcements. Yes have events so the players can be there to hear it ICly in person, but after those events, also post something about it on an IC bboard with a note on which Staff member is running the plot for contact purposes. If a player isn’t able to get a scene with the people who were there at the IC event, the information is still available to them in a way that’s considered IC.

@Warma-Sheen said in Re: Dies Irae:

without the right people there (as opposed to: anyone who is who is willing to do the job)

This is also the reason that the large WoD LARP clubs are dying. They keep flooding their staff with people whose only reason to take the job is to prevent the game from closing, and then those people end up burning out in 3-6 months at best.

@Warma-Sheen said in Re: Dies Irae:

Of course, there could also have been major drama that wasn’t made public to players or other staff.

I vaguely remember a WOD MU in the late 2000s that just shut off randomly and later people found out that it was because the head staff and the Vampire lead met for dinner and drinks after they found out they lived close to each other, and ended up getting into a fist fight by the end of the night.

@Yam I think a lot of Vampire games end up with feeding minigames before too long because trying to schedule feeding scenes for whatever number of players you have eventually will eat all of your time.

That said, if you want crazy minigame fu coded for your game (or just a good coder in general), I would talk to @LeeRoyBatty. They’re absolutely chock full of ideas about how games can be run. (Ask them about +horatio).

I just totally remembered something from my past. A LARP I played in years and years ago (all of the LARP near me is dead now, so much for keeping up that aspect of the RP hobby) had a thing where if you posted an IC story of your characters activities between games, you’d get an extra few XP before the next game. I technically have done solo RP before, but it was within the bounds of a larger non-solo game.

@somasatori said in Strike Systems:

No one is changing their ideological opinions based on an Internet conversation.

I really feel like the majority of people (in the US at least) are locked into their opinions (ideological or not) up until the point something happens to them that flies in the face of those opinions or beliefs. A guy I went to high school with was very right-wing leaning in ideology, had a lot of family in agriculture, and mostly voted Republican across the board (he regularly votes for legalization of marijuana, so there have been exceptions).

That all changed this year when a big part of his family suddenly defaulted on a bunch of their farm loans because of government shenanigans and now his aunt and uncle are living on his couch. He changed his registered party and is now willing to hear any arguments that aren’t Republican ones and vote based on that. He also started noticing a lot of stuff people have been pointing out to him for decades and realizing it’s true.