An Arx Peeve Thread
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Right. I have written plots for the Mourning Isles before, and am doing so currently.
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Alright, so.
I’m just sitting here feeling like I’ve had people ascribe motivations to me that I didn’t have (and this is probably my own fault for not being more clear to begin with and why tossing a throwaway peeve may not have been the best of ideas), and I also feel like a bunch of people rushed in to just pave over me with stuff. I mean, I get it, I’m probably an odd duck and an odd one out in this situation.
I think I’ve found something that isn’t quite for me. If other people are having fun, that’s good!
But I’ll also say that I’ve kinda felt like my own island within the Mourning Isles these past couple of months. I’ve had more connections with the Oathlands and Lyceum. It is what it is though, and I definitely put fault on myself as well.
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@Rucket I’m honestly not trying to ascribe motivations or anything, I’m just really unsure what the crux of your peeve is, I think. You said that three events in a 7 day period is maybe too much, and I think indicated that you were hoping for time to digest and RP about stuff, but my impression is that stuff is going to come in waves week by week. I’m assuming that the upcoming GMed stuff is probably going to be happening around the same time periods IC, like these are all in different areas but kind of independent conflicts, so stuff happening around the same time that will then impact future stuff down the line. So I think there’ll be plenty of time to digest and RP as each wave of stuff comes and goes. It sounds like there’s stuff planned all the way through September, so it’s more of a marathon; there’s gonna be a lot more to come!
But if I’m not getting what your concern is, please let me know. I promise I’m not trying to be a jerk.
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@Roz Nah you’re good. It’s more about feeling hurried or rushed along at a faster pace by a lot of things more than I’d like.
I guess the crux of all of it is that my brain just doesn’t work the way it did 10 or 20 years ago. S’what happens when you are about to turn 40 in a couple of weeks I guess, LOL.
Over the past few years especially, I’ve become more of a slow and methodical type, like give me Final Fantasy XI or Everquest over ESO / WoW / Guild Wars 2, or I play Wrath of the Righteous or Pillars of Eternity 2 Deadfire on turnbased mode type of deal, lol.
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@Rucket It looks like the latest event up is at the end of September, which may or may not be intended as a final climax of sorts, so it may be that your brain is thinking of all the GMed scenes in one week as sequential, when it’s probably more like they’re parallel. Different threads in the same overall plot. So someone could pick a particular thread, and then that one thread might not feel so much like stuff moving really quickly?
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@Rucket I feel you here with regards to things needing to move a bit slower or needing time to mentally plan/plot things out. For me, I get very easily overwhelmed and when I am overwhelmed I cannot think clearly, my reading comprehension goes down, everything feels urgent and everything out of my control.
We went from not having a lot of story happening all at once to having all the story all at once and that seems overwhelming. I think you’re doing a great job with everything that’s come your way. I’m happy to help however I can, too.
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@Birdie yeah I find Arx to be feast or famine. The good thing is that a lot of the times even things that seem super urgent on the surface usually aren’t really.
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@Snackness Yeah, it’s easy to feel like everything is urgent but there really is no such thing as a game emergency.
I’ll keep saying that until I die because I have been devoured by the Moon.
let it be a challenge to you
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@sao said in An Arx Peeve Thread:
@Snackness Yeah, it’s easy to feel like everything is urgent but there really is no such thing as a game emergency.
I’ll keep saying that until I die because I have been devoured by the Moon.
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@sao said in An Arx Peeve Thread:
I’ll keep saying that until I die because I have been devoured by the Moon.
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This cannot be stressed enough. Nothing in Arx is really “urgent”. If something was urgent, people would reach out – usually well ahead of time – and indicate it was significant. A good example is the Turo/Navegant subplot. Staff has given people an entire month to think and submit their hooks/goals. If I need input from specific players, I usually ask them days, if not a week or so, ahead of the event.
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How can I be expected to know and remember this many things.
as previously stated, good day.
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Feeling like an …
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@farfalla said in An Arx Peeve Thread:
How can I be expected to know and remember this many things.
Given the amount of time I have been playing on Arx, and how many of those years have been spent pursuing the same plot, you would think I would have some idea of what’s going on by now.
Yet I continue to be amazed by the number of times I have blundered around like an idiot because Mia-the-character has had information for, like, three years that Aria-the-player just straight up forgot.
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@farfalla said in An Arx Peeve Thread:
How can I be expected to know and remember this many things.
So, I have a (not) serious answer to this. And that answer is that we should ask @Apos how he remembers all the things. I’m pretty sure he has a VI installed in his brain to reinforce his memory, like that one NPC in Mass Effect 3. Either that, or @hellfrog has been keeping secrets about her memory and is able to remind him of things, or Braum is seriously a wonderdog and has been trained to recognize incorrect answers like @Roz does for the Info chan.
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@dvoraen said in An Arx Peeve Thread:
@farfalla said in An Arx Peeve Thread:
How can I be expected to know and remember this many things.
So, I have a (not) serious answer to this. And that answer is that we should ask @Apos how he remembers all the things.
This is a good reply, because if you stop right there the actual answer is: he doesn’t.
He checks in with other people to refresh his memory. So we can all forget stuff LIKE A COOL PERSON.
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When I was actively playing Arx, I had a Google document I would just paste relevant information to. Which, last I looked at it, is now very unwieldy due to the fact that it’s the same doc for multiple characters, defined only by various color text.
I’m sure it’s all very relevant…somehow.
I almost created an Excel macro to help filter and search for clue stuff since, at the time, I had all of my clues between both characters set into an Excel doc. I had thought, at the time, that it would be really useful to create a macro that would easy separation and filtering of said information.
…and then I realized that would be far too much work.
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I put all my clues into Evernote and tag them.
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Staff remembers a lot because we have multiple brains to put detail into and if something comes up, we discuss it to see who has the most knowledge on the subject. No player is expected to know everything about even any ONE lore area much less multiple ones. I don’t even think it would make sense for one person to recall everything. Seems to me like the Despite would wanna target someone like that…
lol lmao
