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Post by Jeshin on Mar 21, 2018 11:57:27 GMT -5
I remember that Murdle thing, I think he attacked the High Templar outside the Sanctuary (NPC). I might have actually been there when he died, will have to check logs later tonight. The most famous dwarf during my stint was Meso and the super dwarf/breed duo in the north. I forget their name at the moment. They were a husband wife (ooc) duo and were like the unofficial mage hunters of the north. I think? I'd need to poke my logs.
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Post by Jeshin on Mar 20, 2018 16:47:17 GMT -5
Hey,
I feel like when I played Armageddon I had a lack of amazing dwarves to interact with. There were some good characters but nothing like the over the top comments that Shade or Gold got in RAT. Love to hear some dwarf tales.
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Post by Jeshin on Mar 19, 2018 15:07:18 GMT -5
Note people who are not 'actively' playing can still login and view the forum they just can't post.
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Post by Jeshin on Mar 19, 2018 9:43:26 GMT -5
Hey,
Is it true that Armageddon staff briefly banned all IP addresses from Israel or some country in the middle-east because of the OG Arm hack? I know they lifted it eventually, but this was a tall tale some people once shared with me.
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Post by Jeshin on Mar 19, 2018 9:42:35 GMT -5
I did see that, hopefully this fresh eyed user kept a screenshot or something. So people don't just cry fake news at him.
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Post by Jeshin on Mar 19, 2018 9:38:57 GMT -5
Haven Update with CITATION!
So as some of you may know Haven used to have a pretty heavy forum moderation culture as executed by Discordance. It pretty much killed discussion and eventually a subforum called DMZ was created for +1 posts and casual conversation and shittalking. It ended up being kind of the de facto forum used because the only rules were don't out peoples alts and don't death threat... or something. Anyway a thread was created most recently about Haven 4.0 being "dead". I can copy the entire thread but for ease I will TLDR it...
Haven is dead I feel Haven is not dead Player numbers indicate Haven is dead Haven goes in waves, all games drop from their peaks I tried to play but my efforts were ruined by crybabies Maybe you were a baddie for the way you played Someone explain to me how game design "forces" players to be baddies, no one has ever done so properly Several people make points on the topic People are just dicks and if you look at their dickishness you can see they are dicks and it isn't game designs fault If game design doesn't cause behaviour change than why give people attractiveness debuffs for wearing socks. If that causes changes than all the other design encourages being a dick in-game. Notice how most of the people criticizing the game no longer player?
[In another thread]
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Area: Announcements - Note #2510
From: Tyr
To: all
Cc:
Subj: The Big Three
Time: Sun Mar 18 06:24:27 2018
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The Elm Street Apartment building has opened, offering a selection of new
homes for urban residents.
People will no longer be able to post on the forums unless they are actively
playing the game.
The hacking requirement for accessing network 666 has been dropped to 2.
Roleplaying in dream worlds now drops the time it takes to use makedoor to
travel to other places.
Two new options have been added to crisis, mist and nodrive.
Then this happens
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RE: Dead Game
HI... I'M GEORGE ZIMMER --- CEO AND FOUNDER OF THE MEN'S WAREHOUSE. TYR... IN LIGHT OF THE RECENT ANAL ANNIHILATION YOU'VE SUFFERED AT THE MANLY HANDS OF CRAYON AND HIS CADRE OF FOLLOWERS, SOMETHING THAT HAS LEFT YOUR ASSHOLE RESEMBLING THE BEATEN BOX OF YOUR WHORE WIFE AFTER I UNLEASHED MY GARGANTUAN GUT WRENCH ON HER, I KNEW I HAD TO PAY YOU A VISIT. I UNDERSTAND YOU FEEL INSUFFICIENT AS A MAN AFTER THE PROSTATE PENETRATION YOU'VE SUFFERED, AND I WANT TO ASSURE YOU THAT YOU'RE RIGHT. IT TAKES A CERTAIN TYPE OF MEAGER MALE TO RESTRICT CONVERSATIONS AMONG PEERS ABOUT THE MASSIVE MISCARRIAGE THAT IS HAVEN. WHEN YOU DECIDE YOU WANT TO RECLAIM YOUR MASSACRED MANHOOD, COME ON DOWN TO THE MEN'S WAREHOUSE. I'LL PUMP MACADORA'S PUNISHED POON FULL OF POLE MILK WHILE MY PROFESSIONALS FIT YOU FOR A FINELY TAILORED SUIT. I'LL EVEN LEAVE A NICKEL ON HER ASS TO HELP YOU COVER THE COST. YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE THE WAY HER GAPING GASH LOOKS. I GUARANTEE IT.
Then the DMZ is removed and we are to today.
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Post by Jeshin on Mar 19, 2018 9:30:06 GMT -5
I do find some value in the conversation. I do like debating and since there is a long history of this stuff I get to use citations for my points I mean that alone is interesting. Also I think that as this come up in cycles it becomes harder and harder to argue the point like... « Reply #128 on: Today at 9:26 AM » Quote Quote from: Jeshin OR on Today at 4:54 AM Yes someone can look up optional realities and find my registration. It's definitely not worth 8 bucks a year to do so anonymously because as you might glean from my facebook name, I have had the handle Jeshin so long I feel no need to hide it. It's just classless to look up someone registration information and use it in a weak joke. Of course the difference between my website collecting IP addresses and someone using say... https://www.[/img]WARNINGTRACKINGLINK/ is probably intent. I ran/run a website which is inactive but legitimate. https://www.[/img]WARNINGTRACKINGLINK/ exists solely for the purpose of tracking IP addresses. Maybe if some day a thread on TMC was titled "Jeshin gathers IP addresses to ban people from Optional Realities" you'd have made some kind of point. Meanwhile we do have people being banned from Armageddon for being members of the alternative forum as Hades_Kane said "Boom" to earlier. [End Jeshin Quote] [User Desharei] Except that isn't why they're banned. They're banned because they 1. Did something and 2. Posted something and 3. Spread something and 4. Did something else. and 5. Are members of that community. Notice the "and" between each point. It's not an "or." It's an "and." As I said - there are lots of members of that forum who are NOT banned from the game. Several people who actively play it, even now, who are not banned, and either are lurkers, or active posters, on that forum. So the entire subject is moot. If someone is collecting IP addresses, it is not for the exclusive reason of "banning someone for being a member of that forum." It is for the combined reason of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.[End Desharei Quote] Right here at the end of the thread we loop back to the real topic. If someone is collecting IP addresses, it is not for the eclusive reason of "banning someone for being a member of that forum." It is for the combined reason of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Which pretty openly admits, if IP addresses are being intentionally collected the most likely people are staff. So in 12 months when this invariably gets brought up again if I happen to be part of that discussion just quote that and the bajillion other things I've cited and the list of things grow from he said she said to oh all these people said and here's a link to them saying it with screen shots.
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Post by Jeshin on Mar 17, 2018 10:24:28 GMT -5
After an indepth look through Shik's profile of about 5 minutes it appears their first post was for the wiki dump. They had a tracking pixel in their signature. They posted very brief messages with little substance. They encouraged players to get links from the GDB/post from the GDB likely as a way to cross reference IPs. armageddonmud.boards.net/post/28201/thread
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Post by Jeshin on Mar 17, 2018 3:38:08 GMT -5
Saw the comment that Shik had a tracking pixel on TMC =(
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Post by Jeshin on Mar 14, 2018 18:50:21 GMT -5
Thanks!
I figured that would be the case and it's a shame the staff aren't seizing an opportunity to respond in a surprising manner to this incident. Some MUD developers have been shifting away from protecting their "secret sauce" game code and perhaps making it open source. This is impart to allow public bugfixing and the like a la Evennia but also once it's out it's out. It doesn't benefit the game or the staff to try and be secretive anymore. Would have been way easier to put on a smile fake or otherwise and be like well we didn't plan on it but going forward we're going to be doing more open source development with items, areas, etc excluded.
EDIT - I don't think there is a illegal issue either but if you wander over to TMC you'll see that Nergal basically tried to drag me through the MUD during the last "big dump" even though I didn't release it, own the site it was released on, or ask for it to be released. It was also when I was "officially" banned years after quitting, very publicly.
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Post by Jeshin on Mar 14, 2018 18:43:41 GMT -5
So I've been pretty quiet on this whole thing. I actually pulled the code when it was released and asked a coder who would be able to do so verify that it was indeed Armcode. Shocker it was or it appeared to be. At the time we discussed the release method and we wondered why it was released in raw format?
Did you release it as straight text instead of a more functional/usable github format for a specific reason? Was it just easier? That was how you got it? You wanted to discuss the code but not enable easy use of it by the public? I'm a coding newbie of the lowest order so I don't actually understand the basic reasons one might have for this or that release method and since the code is no longer up I'd ask.
PS - To Nergal or any staff who might be reading and want to take a crack at me again on TMC for condoning illegal blah blah blah. I deleted the code after I verified it was real impart because that was all I cared about but also because in its current state it's more or less unusable to the average person that doesn't want to put time into reconstructing it to be run.
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Post by Jeshin on Mar 14, 2018 14:10:13 GMT -5
Looks like valenkudos is happening which is evidently some kind of period where players are encouraged to send kudos to those they enjoyed playing with. It's possible that there was some general amensty given out or you were banned for a set time and/or some limitation in the request tool required unbanning you to fulfill sending the kudos.
All that we know is that you have been Noted, taken Note Of, perhaps your words were Marked...
I didn't get any Kudos which is hurtful because when I was playing back in 2007 I felt like I was pretty okay </3
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Post by Jeshin on May 7, 2017 22:20:59 GMT -5
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Post by Jeshin on Apr 23, 2017 22:49:31 GMT -5
This article gives some context to game economies not only for MUDs but other genres. It explains the different challenges and provides two suggested methods of handling economies in your own games. The Article
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Post by Jeshin on Apr 16, 2017 22:45:42 GMT -5
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