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Post by Jeshin on Sept 1, 2019 12:30:41 GMT -5
Can a mage be shunned by staff and some PCs. Sure.
Is it intermittent and often discussed even on the GDB that people are to friendly with elves, breeds, and mages and that there is no functional deterrent to this and in fact, it is advantageous for players to commit taboo things because of the power benefit of a mage friendly to yourself?
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Post by Jeshin on Sept 1, 2019 12:18:09 GMT -5
Mages are employable, gemmable, are not killed on sight, and evidently make up a large part of the Allanak force projection strategy. What is their balancing factor?
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Post by Jeshin on Aug 30, 2019 22:02:07 GMT -5
I'm not really a big fan on term limits either, but I also have a policy against deleting entire threads.
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Post by Jeshin on Aug 30, 2019 17:23:32 GMT -5
Come on. It's only 4 posts to read. And I was using a phone. But yes. I'll try to be more precise in other cases. Given you did the whole Jeshin totally supports hacking and linked to a giant multi-page forum thread, I'm not really sympathetic to you doing it anywhere. |
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Post by Jeshin on Aug 30, 2019 17:02:31 GMT -5
To be honest, okey. I can do that, Jeshin. Maybe not the number you indicate, but enough to be given thought if the reader is objective enough. It'll take me awhile of course. And it'll be a lot of wasted effort since people actually need to be objective, but it's okey. Give me a few days. As an example here's a link. Please pay attention to commentaries. The actual OP is actually a worthwhile read. armageddonmud.boards.net/thread/1010/impersonating-nobleTake a screenshot of the offending statement. Above or below the screenshot link to the source (thread). Then we can see -exactly- what you are referencing and probe further if we like. Putting the onus on your audience to go into a source and find what you want them to find is disingenuous. State what you believe clearly to be critique accurately. Don't provide a link and be like well if you were OBJECTIVE you would have found what I wanted you to find in a multiple post thread. Especially the one where you immediately qualify the OP of the thread as acceptable or not your intended point. |
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Post by Jeshin on Aug 30, 2019 16:25:44 GMT -5
Hey. Speculate. Not a problem. But then support your speculation with something. Speculation: the author is not staff. Support: the author displays lack of knowledge any staffer would have. Support of support: no other disgruntled staffer ever said things the way he did. To do so, would primarily disrespect themselves first and not many people are willing to do that over a game. Most claims on these forums are more akin to Speculation:staff loaded 10 tarantula on me and pked me. Support: because staff sucks and they are keeping me from playing high power roles. Please provide 10 citations of grievances against staff. Of those 10 please have 5-6 being analogous to the speculation you described. That would then constitute 'most' and your claim will be accepted in the peer-reviewed halls of debate. |
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Post by Jeshin on Aug 30, 2019 15:37:53 GMT -5
As a minor point of order a former staff's criticism is no more valuable than a former players. The only difference a former staffer can make is if they take responsibility for the complaints levied by players and apologize for it. So it doesn't really matter if this guy is staff or not unless he goes, I killed players, these were the players, this is how I killed them, and maybe here's the log from staff side of me doing it.
Or this is me being a complete ass in request tool with screen shots, etc etc.
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Post by Jeshin on Aug 30, 2019 14:05:10 GMT -5
Don't staff sign some silly unenforceable NDA? So I assume they should know his legal name since they'd need government issued IDs to do the ND- oh who am I kidding.
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Post by Jeshin on Aug 29, 2019 15:57:07 GMT -5
MUDs are games, they are roleplaying games but they are games with mechanics.
Good roleplay is commonly recognized in the eschew of mechanics for story but the mechanics still exist and are part of the game especially with a policy that code is RP.
It is not the characters or players fault that when the stakes are high that they resort to viable mechanics which have no negative drawbacks except being kind of cheesy and disappointing to the story. Is it good roleplay? I don't know. Is it good story? No it objectively is not good story because it is cheese and we all know it's cheese. It is upon the staff and game designers to recognize where the interest of story/roleplay diverge from the state of the mechanics and address it. Ideally by updating the gameplay and mechanics to be more in line with the way they want stories to play out.
As to making things less secret you guys have rumor boards. You should be using rumor boards. Are there raids on settlements, is there whispers of rogue cult gicker cannibals, do people blame redstorm, do people blame the gemmed, do they think the templars aren't doing enough, do they think it's rogue templar from that big Black robe battle a year or two ago? Maybe it's tuluk, they have mutant cannibals over there right, fucking tulukis. Basically the issue is not that players need ACCURATE information they simply need information. Being misinformed is part of RP but it is still being informed. Something is happening. Something I can look into. Who might know about this, can I reach out to them? By creating a bottom up approach to misinformation and a top down approach to 'accurate' information you empower your leadership to show their leadership and enable your Amos crowd to get involved if they want even if it's just talking about it at a bar.
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Post by Jeshin on Aug 28, 2019 12:23:12 GMT -5
I don't, I'm just pointing out easy solutions. They already have an ifcheck if you wear to many magic items you start humming. Just have an ifcheck for # of spells or # of different elements cast in a room within a certain timer, give it a range so it can't be -to- easily gamed.
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Post by Jeshin on Aug 28, 2019 10:59:06 GMT -5
You know the staff could probably make magick scarier and balance high tier RPTs by just applying what they do with rangz.
Oh there's 5 gickers in here casting. Okay wild magic surge, the fucking elements are going haywire because all these motherfuckers are channeling energy from their linked planes.
OMG WE SUMMONED A MON TIER MONSTER THAT IS ATTACKING US BECAUSE OF OUR HUBRIS USING ALL THIS MAGIC IN ONE SPOT
Just make magic disruptive to the fabric of the material plane. Planes are canon in this game, they exist, people go to them.
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Post by Jeshin on Aug 27, 2019 17:13:07 GMT -5
I believe this cannibal encampment might have been the culmination or the continuation of that... Apply to be an unlucky person role that we can't tell you more about.
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Post by Jeshin on Aug 27, 2019 16:49:07 GMT -5
What was the final outcome of the shebang?
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Post by Jeshin on Aug 26, 2019 16:30:30 GMT -5
How do you keep elven tribes in line?
1 - Treat them like fucking elves! Templar's should be threatening them, oppressing them, making deals and changing the terms vader style on them.
2 - Turn their unity against them, take the weakest one and hold them hostage should the others step out of line. You do not need to physically have this person as hostage just a death threat everyone knows will come true.
3 - Elves are Elves. Turn dwarves, humans, HGs against them. In a tribe it's them against the whole world, tell turn the world back on them.
Any claim that celves or even delves are to powerful is just silly. For the most part they are limited by staff approval so they can just be like nah no openings it already had 3-4 active players and if we give them to much more they'll start rivaling full on Byn. The reason the Red Fangs were so powerful was because they were some maxed out rangers and knew the game. It's good to have the proverbial boogeyman out there making the sands scary and mugging you every so often.
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Post by Jeshin on Aug 23, 2019 14:00:31 GMT -5
Purg pretty much got it right. MUDs also doubled as college projects for coders looking to show their chops and get their game on. That is why the major MUD codebases are all licensed non-profit. They were required to be because they were run on college servers and done as college projects with these very large teams of students.
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