@Lemon-Fox said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

Have you actually talked to him about any of this? Like, directly? Casually?

Yeah, a few times way back if it came up while we were talking about other things. I’d get various permumtations of “I worked really hard”, or complete silence. I think silence was actually the best result I got, 'cause then I could fool myself into thinking he’d listened to me. Then… history would repeat, and eventually I just didn’t try.

Most of the time he’d built something no one wanted or cared about and then got upset because no one wanted or cared about it, because he never really looked at what his player-base wanted or cared about. Some form of coded space combat was requested for years, in that time there was an alcohol system, vendor randomisation/rarity, a hugely growing space grid that was never used, endless Mandalorian handouts, beskar, the time-skip, etc.

The first indication the grid would receive that he’d made something was when it was suddenly live.

@Lemon-Fox said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

The Naval Captain thing is open to anyone! No XP, Noms, or what-have-you required! You can also make a General or Wing Commander if you like! Just wanted to make sure people didn’t have that impression about it.

It is now, thanks to your actions. I don’t know whether or not you raised it as a concern to them, but I’m going to assume someone noticed and therefore the change was made. My point was the part before that, where another player took offense at you trying to play a character that could actually interact with the new system simply because you weren’t starting at zero. That’s never sat well with me and I saw it a scary number of times on that grid.

I can’t and won’t tell you what to do or what to think, that’d be disrespectful. I say the below because it’s what I experienced over eight years, and I got off pretty lightly compared to others. I will always do my best to provide clarity but with a disclaimer that I might not avoid bias, since I’m still a bit crispy from my time there.

Crap is being applied to the wargame system because it is another over-tuned Thing in a long line of additional over-tuned Things to be rolled out without any real consultation, consideration, or internal testing. This’ll be interesting to the player-base for about a month or so, then GMs will get either bored or frustrated and start doing it their own way.

Then the resultant hostility from Cujo will follow, because now he has been slighted by the ungrateful players that don’t want to use what he worked so hard to create. The issue with this is that he didn’t create it. Hadrix/Reverberate did. It follows his normal pattern of doing nothing until the demands are too loud to ignore.

It’s elicited a mass groan of “oh not again” because over the decade or so that a lot of us experienced AoA, the above happened time and time and time again.

@Lemon-Fox said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

Someone disapproved of someone coming in without starting from the bottom of the ladder, and I was flabbergasted that they would care since the org had very little activity.

…yeah, that happens. You’ve encountered AoA’s tall poppy syndrome. If you try to rise up above the dinosaurs, you will be pulled back down unless you have powerful friends. The fact that you needed staff fiat to start in a position where you can actually play with this new system (which is otherwise locked only to dinosaurs) is both common and unfortunate.

Many players tried many years to inspire positive change only to run headlong into brick walls, to the point where the advice given to GMs was often “run what you want as long as Cujo doesn’t care”. Change must come from the top as well as the bottom to meet half-way, and the majority of the current staff are corrupt and disinterested in little more than their own egos. And that’s not even starting on the sex pest problem, which is the original impetus behind this whole thread in the first place.

I wish you the absolute best on that grid. I really do, and I say it genuinely, without a hint of sarcasm, condescension, or irony. Nobody should be forced to stew in negativity and I pray for your sake and the sake of all the other folk that came after us that you and they are allowed to play the game that you want. Never lose sight of what you want to do and strive to do it with the people you enjoy.

And good luck with Aryn.

It’s not just multiple alts, but those alts connected multiple times. For example, Sumi in the past used to connect all her alts from three-to-five different devices, meaning over a dozen connections from one player. That’s the number WHO looks at, and the number iberia.jdai.pt sees.

@MisterBoring this is the same game that made a DL-44 identical in stats to a DL-18.

Four uses of the term “meant to”. This is standard fare, Cujo creates a blueprint and with it, usually without communication, comes the expectation that blueprint is followed.

As is tradition.

@RightMeow said in MU Peeves Thread:

I miss RPing. I’ve filled my hours with other things, but I miss logging on and writing stories with people. I also miss the daily chatting with people I use to chat with about random stuff.

However, the idea of making a new character makes me feel like I don’t have the mental energy. Then I’m not sure how well my RP will be after the ‘break’ I’ve been on.

Anyways, in conclusion – if we’ve RPed at all, you’ve been on my mind and you rock - so thank you for writing stories with me.

I don’t post here very often, if ever, I’m mainly content to just lurk and read and keep up to date.

But this hit me like a brick.

I’ve got no game to play on right now and haven’t for over a year. Part of it is because I’m picky, another part is trust issues, and a third is a general lack of time. But every so often, at least twice a week, I think back and I miss logging on to a grid, seeing the familiar faces, and getting stuck into a bit of chaos.

I’m despondent that the last game that I invested a lot of time in went up in a sea of toxic flames, and I’m saddened by the lack of anything equivalent out there that’s similar in systems and size. I miss the people I don’t talk to anymore, and I miss playing in a codebase I understand.

I would love to find a game out there that fits my specific niche, but at this point I’d have to loosen my stifling standards and try something new.

I think I’ve been sitting on this for a long while, and I needed to let it out.

I’m gonna go out on a soon-to-be-removed limb and say Mortal Kombat 1 if he’s into fighting games. Plays like an absolute dream and looks amazing.

I’m pretty sure there’s some ancient BattleTech code sitting around out there. I stumbled across it… many many moons ago.

I was Nathaniel the priest/Paladin, with two scenes under my belt before the game went under.

Will there be a Demon: The Descent-style go loud option? I’m all for a sudden shift to horror as a mess of wings and eyes yells “BE NOT AFRAID”.

Imagine the need to experience sheer terror, but being unable to, because not doing so has been commanded of you.

I judge my neighbourhood’s lawns as I drive past.

@STD said in What original theme interests you?:

Not mentioned in the list, but damn would I like some kind of Spycraft MU. Everyone is an Agent or works for the Agency. More 1960s crazy mad science trying to take over the world with frickin’ mind control lasers than modern slick spy stuff.

I would be 100% down for a '60s-era pulpy spy thriller game. Lean hard on the zany concepts played totally seriously.

But then again I’d love a Danger 5 MUSH, so

@Mercutio The question was super-general, and the Graph DB issue is an interesting one. You could say the same thing about trying to code a near-MUD in Penn (what I’m doing). There are easy ways, but it’s the road you’ve taken, and I respect it a great deal.

Out of curiosity, why ArangoDB instead of something like MariaDB? Disregard, you’d have the same problems as MySQL if you went with MariaDB.

I should probably actually play the game, that way my “How did you do this?!” questions will make more sense lol

This entire concept around complex systems built in Penn that aren’t necessarily RP-inspired intrigues me, and not just because I’m doing the exact same thing. What are some of the coding/technical challenges you’ve come across?

It’s probably sad to note that the number has dropped over the years, especially as I join outwardly-promising games only to see what’s going on under the hood.

Of course, when the box is a lie and someone points it out, the general response is usually some variation of “Hey look, a scapegoat, let’s ban him!”

So it’s about a two. To the point where I explicitly don’t read the blurb anymore.

@Solstice How does it compare to Potato*? Positive and negative, aware that Potato hasn’t had an update since 2018.

I use the Events in Potato pretty regularly.

You could theoretically run Evennia and all its prereqs inside a Docker container to avoid that.

However, that’s advanced work that involves mashing together two ideas that work well in a vacuum.

EDIT: Even more advanced theory, with Evennia running in Docker you could theoretically hook it into k8s to make it autoscale when under load. Why you would do this is another question.

Oh man.

When I get a cold it lasts for like, four days.

Except the cough. That sticks around for a month.

Two weeks in now and auuuuuuggghhhhh.

My desired approach when dealing with this problem is that logs are helpful but optional, because as proof it’s unreliable since text on a page is so hilariously easy to alter. But, true or not, having them for reference answers one burning question straight away when running an investigation.

“What am I looking for?”

It’s not impossible, and it’s not even hard to investigate a potential harassment case without them, but context is for kings. Logs of interaction provide a pattern to look for, then when you’re checking behaviour, you cross-reference it against what you have. If it matches, you can rule out #1 and #2 in @Pavel’s list of reasons pretty much immediately.

Yes. No. “They’re new, they’ll be gone in two weeks.” I’m a male btw.

I noted it down on a lesson on what not to do. Which to be fair I’m doing with a lot of the examples I see here. It’s the weirdest thing, the common sense to actually take something like this seriously doesn’t seem to be very bloody common.