@Faraday said in What Is Alpha Anyway?:

Alpha and beta are really meant for players to provide feedback and help test things out before it’s ready. That’s why so many video games offer free alpha/beta test versions. You’re doing them a favor by trying out their half-baked game/app.

I think that this is really where I’m at:

If the main purpose of having players on the game is to test systems/theme/etc and the features are not complete, I think it’s Alpha. If the main purpose of having players on the game is to test systems/theme/etc and the features are (nearly) complete, I think it’s Beta. If the main purpose of having players on the game is to tell stories and play the game and the features are complete, I think it’s Gold/Release – even if there are still going to be additions made to the game later.

Those are just my definitions, of course, and I wouldn’t expect anyone else would stick to them (although it would be nice for me if they did).

Jumping in to add a vote for BeipMU onto the pile.

I used to use SimpleMU, then Mushclient, then Mudlet, then Potato, and now BeipMU.

BeipMU (not counting being currently supported) outclasses all of the other clients I have used.

@Istus said in Witcher MUSH Design:

I probably should not have attached a label to it. I don’t think I truly understand the nuance between the various flavours. I’ll do my best to describe the end goal.

What makes a game one or the other can be pretty arbitrary imo, and I do think there’s sometimes a bias here as to the difference that isn’t necessarily shared with the rest of the hobby.

Arx has as many coded systems as some RPI MUDs, for example, but they call themselves a MUSH. It’s a pretty hazy line.

I think most people would agree that if the focus of the game is on MMO-style gaming, it’s a MUD, and if it’s roleplay it’s a MUSH/MUX/whatever, the latter distinctions depending on the codebase you’re using. Since Evennia can be used to make either a MUD or a MUSH it’s basically whatever you want to call it, depending on the crowd you’re trying to attract.

Btw, if anyone does feel inclined to read the whole privacy article, I’d love to know if there were any lingering questions, any bits that didn’t sound quite right, if you think it’s too verbose and prefer the tl;dr; summary version above, etc. This is important to me, so I want to make sure it’s clear. Discuss here, in PM, on the Ares forum, carrier pigeon, whatever.

Alrighty, no default attributes at all, all rolls will call for attr+skill.

… somehow.

@Roz said in Evennia dev blog - release plans for 1.0, MULTI_SESSION_MODE changes:

Saw that your 1.0 is officially released! Congrats, that’s a really awesome achievement.

That’s awesome - congrats @Griatch!

Well, that’s fascinating. Thanks Glitch.

Update day!!

Fixed a bug where #include files were not being added, and no error was given. Now you can link external files and format them away!

File Icons. Because having a neat icon and syntax highlighting makes your language legit!

Coming Soon!

@installer mode! Make a professional-looking install script for your code archive!

Slow and steady progress. I know there aren’t many of us who still write softcode. But the DX is SO MUCH NICER with a bit of tooling. 🙂

Thanks for stopping by!

@farfalla Oh my god I invented a weird ritual about this where I had to hold my breath after deleting letters because if I could type those letters before I ran out of breath they would come back to life. I had no idea anyone else did this!

@sixregrets An older meme...

I think this is more of a system question and less of an XP question.

If the system doesn’t make each point of a skill matter that much, then it will very much be a generalization gambit. I have a custom homebrew system that generally incentivizes spreading out points early on so that you can live long enough to specialize. Though the diminishing returns is high, each point of growth, in this system, is so significant that a person with 2 points in something will very often lose to someone with 3 points in it. And since lots of strategy appears in both social and combat situations to navigate you toward which skills you’ll be using in those rolls, the person who plans and implements well, can lean on their specializations more often.

I generally think that most of the classless systems generate more generalized characters because you don’t know what ‘situation’ you’ll be in on a MU*. In TableTop I’ve never been in a game where anyone was a generalist like we see online, even to hundreds of karma later type situations, or multi-year long campaigns.

On MUs, it’s system choice that will do this for you, keeping XP limited so you can’t just buy everything, and maybe having steps that matter when you achieve certain progression levels. These would all be very system dependent, so no one answer fits each situation.

@MisterBoring said in Code Question: Rock, Paper, Scissors:

You do have a point about RPS strategy that I hadn’t considered, so perhaps having the command be a bit more interactive so that each player inputs their choice.

If it only ever runs one game at a time, you can run it so you rps <choice> and it creates a data attribute on an object. If you’re the first player, it stores your data and emits something about “waiting for 2nd player…”

If it already has one DATA-* attribute, then it knows you’re the second player, and it resolves the match, emits the resolution, and wipes the data.

If it already has two DATA-* attributes, then it is broken. 😄

The key thing about magic systems is making sure they are as balanced (or not) as you want them to be, and that the documentation is accessible to all so that nobody is getting the wool pulled over their head.

In some cases Magic is by it’s very nature not balanced at all, and then you have to worry about wether or not you need to restrict it, or just assume that all PC’s are capable of it due to being special, as they are PC’s, or how you’re going to piss off the have nots.

It really is something that needs to be baked in at the ground level so that the system is accounting for it.

My three cents.

@glitch said in Listing for MUs:

Sorry for the slow response on this, you should be good to go now!

HOW DARE YOU TAKE TIME TO FIX A FREE RESOURCE NOT TO MENTION UPGRADE IT WTF KIND OF WORLD ARE WE LIVING IN

(<3 and ty, appreciate it!)

@Selira said in Killing telnet +/-?:

@Pavel Not for everyone, but no system is. The ability to do more with the tools on hand and experimentation within the field are critical for bringing it to new audiences, imo.

True. I’m very old and grumpy and want things to stop changing so much because I can’t keep up. This is all a reflection of me, not of how the field should develop.

@catzilla Once we are that step. I will be in touch!

@hellfrog The monster I designed is actually a swamp-based biological robot construct boss with four frog “cassette” mini-bosses that exist inside it. Because robots, but also frogs.

Heh! Fixed the link! 😄