Recent Posts

While I agree with Bobo the hostile nature of the post doesn't do it any favors, I don't really care because the only downside to a biased hostile post is that people won't engage with it, not really a problem on this board. Also I can just discuss the points without using the aggressive terminology, easy peasy.

There is 100% a culture clash on Armageddon but it's not exclusive to the game (in my experience). It's a clash that happens across text-based roleplay games in general and it's based primarily on playstyle moreso than mental state (though you can argue those are linked). During the development of Project Redshift, which was never released I know I'm a loser, we identifyed the "cliquey" people as House Players. This was born from a discussion I was having with Jaunt where we were trying to ensure the game had a niche for the core playstyles. House Players are normally risk averse, social, and tend to be crafters. They also tend to focus their RP more on day to day situations and personal storyarcs. Meanwhile you have the Adventure Players (yes I realize the naming is still biased) who spend a significant amount of time outside the safety of "the town" or safe area. They tend to focus on pve/pvp content and want secrets to find and challenges to overcome from the gameworld itself. Sometimes you get the social version of the Adventure Player who seeks to shake up the status quo of "the town" area. There are other types and hybrids and exceptions but the gist of it is risk averse and risk prone. Personal fulfillment and External Challenges. Both playstyles have derogatory and over the top stereotypes of the other. You have the fme and the twink, as an example.

In Bitter's post he posits that Adventure Players need to have the majority influence on the game for it to grow and I would say that games which cater to that playstyle may feel more progressive in their content than games that cater to House Players. The reason (once again) being that risk aversion doesn't normally lead to significant world progression unless the staff are pushing it themselves to create new personal RP hooks for the House Players.

Now that's a lot of supposition so lets just delve into a scenario in which Armageddon can cater to House Players (like Bitter's says they are now) and still be a good game.

1. House Players are risk averse, but they can enjoy RPing the outcomes of risk. In fact RPing about the failures and successes of Adventure Players is one of the key inputs that give House Players variety outside of the stuff they create for themselves.

2. House Players tend to be long lived and wealthy. While House Players are risk averse they enjoy being influential and wealthy (as long as it's not to risky). They are the source of large budgets for Adventure Players or the buyers of the Adventure Players spoils from going outside of "the town".

3. In a game with predominently House Players and few Adventure Players, the staff can still drive the plot in meaningful ways to provide House Players (and the game) new content and a changing future.

So I've laid out those three points and now for the finale. The closing of Tuluk. Yes the Kryl Queen Brain Slug Mindbender Psionic takeover closing of Tuluk. If they hadn't closed Tuluk and instead had left it open, downgraded the overtness of the plot slightly, that would have been a perfect progressive world plot to appeal to House Players. They live in Tuluk, they aren't directly affected, but they see changes all around them. They flee Tuluk, try and secure their safety in Tuluk, or turn to Adventure Players to try and solve the problem. There's a lot of possibility for House Players to engage with that plot hook and for small population Adventure Players to have a staff generated challenge to overcome.

Likewise the Black Robe rebellion in Allanak, with a minor tweak, could have been a good plot progression catering to House Players that still enables the smaller population of Adventure Players as well. Even the apparently vindictive Lord of Storms Sands? Whatever that took over Luirs could play to both with a minor tweak. Though Bitter's correctly states that by providing a challenge for players to overcome, Adventure Players become energized. That's why when catering to House Player's with challenges you need to make them higher level, less obvious solutions, and more affecting of day to day life. They need to have a more diverse effect and longer time horizon.

I feel like I've lost the plot a little with this post, but since I typed it up. I'm posting it and will re-focus on my next one.

Posted on the 7th, still getting responses on the 23rd! =P This is the official post letting everyone know, I believed Jkarr.

A Hive of scum and villainy such as shadowboards deserves a shadowy game.

youtu.be/k2YUYPDq7gQ?t=1183

coup.thebrown.net/#

Any takers?

I'll play most things. Could also checkout www.boardgame-online.com/ and en.boardgamearena.com/ for smaller scale stuff.

According to sources Nergal is not Nyr but a well known Tuluki sponsored role that became staff, their sponsor role got stored, and now we are to this point. To assume that a staff that stuck by Nyr for so long wouldn't end up promoting someone similar to him to the "Bad News Position" is silly. I also doubt that Nyr or the staff would go to the length of changing Nyr's name, they'd just have him be Nyr if he was still in that position.

I guess I was just the first of Nergal's witchhunt... You know ignoring the fact I had been publicly separated/quit from the game for like 2 years before he banned my forum account from the GDB which I was only using to keep up on threads.

BEHOLD THE SAGA

www.mudconnect.com/SMF/index.php?topic=79738.0

If you're adventuring outside the walls a lot and you cannot solo a tembo after a certain amount of time played. I'd probably be like, hire a bodyguard who can. Yo.