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It does have coded combat with stances and various kinds of weapons and skills



Stats



Physical Social Mental



Strength: 5 Charm: 3 Intellect: 3

Dexterity: 5 Command: 2 Perception: 2

Stamina: 5 Composure: 2 Wits: 3





Special Stats



Mana: 2 Luck: 2 Willpower: 4





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Skills





Athletics: 3 Brawl: 3 Dodge: 5 Intimidation: 3

Investigation: 3 Linguistics: 1 Medium wpn: 5 Ride: 1

Stealth: 1 Survival: 5 Teaching: 4 War: 1


In addition to coded combat there are instances where you will be asked to make a @check which is like a tabletop roll. So if you are in a PRP (event/RPT) the GM might go make an @check dexterity + weapon of choice at 30 and then they'll post the outcome.


As for crafting there are raw materials but for the most part you buy them from the market. There is currency and a resource system Military, Economic, and Social which have varying uses. Crafting is a thing and weapons / armor have stats there are also non-combat items like clothing but as it's a MUSH you can wear no clothing and just emote having an appropriate attire. If you want super rare stuff like above silk and rare gems you need to buy them. @actions are actually a lot better than you might think because they enable a staff of 5-6 to manage a playerbase of 100s.

Example: I want to expand a settlement in my domain. I get people to assist, I get the resources and silver to do it, I put in the action. Staff get to it in about 2-4 weeks (due to the number of actions they process) and go this is what happened this is the outcome and then they update the appropriate domain stats like income, population, buildings, etc. In addition you can do an @action to make hostile tribes kneel to your House or wipe them out or create social pressure or just about anything you can properly articulate to staff. You can also request certain @actions are handled off screen (you get a summary of outcome) or on screen where a staffer GMs a PRP/Event/RPT for you and normally up to 5 other people.

I would point out of course the fact Armageddon manages to support its own forum with ups and down in activity might imply that it is in need of more objective consideration.

Also on MSB some games dominant the discussion. It used to be a game called Firan which would be like an RPI version of a MUSH. Now Arx, Paris of the West, Horror MUX, and Calavera all seem to be the primary games discussed (not all of it bad).

I mean you assume that this forum generated the weird dude who is griefing people. It could just as easily be someone from Goonswarm who likes RP games and wants to troll Armageddon and learned of this board. Could be some rando from reddit who likewise wants to get the lawlz. We don't know the account they're posting on isn't an old account is it? No indication they've been a long time poster? Then even if they were a long time poster I don't see a general consensus on this forum that the correct path of action is griefing people with PKs with no IC merit so you couldn't play guilty by association realistically anyway.

MSB is Musoapbox it's basically like OptionalRealities/Jcarter forums for MUSH/MUX/MU*s where game owners are called out on inappropriate behaviour and problematic players are haraunged and outed so they can be banned from games. Used to be known as WORA.

Jcarter removed personal information from the leaks and he didn't post them with the personal information and even offered to remove any further information that people found.

I don't quite see how he (or me) or the people who run MSB or the people who run TMC are responsible for any behaviour they condemn and censor on their various forums.

You know when there was the wiki leak or code leak, forget which one, Noted Liar Nergal attacked me on TMC under the name Noted Liar Nergal. He wanted -me- to denounce the leaks and admit Optionalrealities was a baddie website. Even though I never asked for the leaks, had no involvement in the leaks, and they weren't even hosted on my forums at the time. Kind of seems like if a producer of a game publicly calls you out and there was never an apology or counter statement issued that the staff 100% approves of denouncing things for the sake of morality.

I didn't but Optionalrealities (just like here) had a no tolerance policy to threats of violence and ooc harassment and we were the 'raiders' according to Nimrod from SOI.

I think TMS nuked the archives from orbit.

I wasn't blaming the characters I am pointing out how higher karma characters can be seen as more prone to PK. Whether it is PK happy or an issue born from gameplay issues doesn't change the optics of it.

Probably does encourage a review by staff to change the status quo if they want to enable more solutions than PK.

In truth game theory is the issue with all PK escalation concerns.

In a game where anything short of PK is not a solution but an invitation to escalate it behooves players to PK first and early. Only by discouraging PK as a solution (in Allanak for politics) do other options become more viable. The other issue is that how are noble houses supposed to compete in a mechanically meaningful way? If you cannot affect the income, the prestige, or the day to day play of a Houses characters then you cannot affect the house. You can kill people off though. That affects the house ergo it is used.