Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo
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@Warlander said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
It’s not free publicity if it doesn’t help them
The adage of “any publicity is good publicity” still holds true.
Obviously, you can post as you will and nobody’s going to stop you. But honestly, you’re not achieving much of anything beyond seeming rather obsessed with them.
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@Pavel said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
The adage of “any publicity is good publicity” still holds true.
I’m not sure this situation is quite that simple, so again, I both agree and disagree. I do remember mentioning that I am fascinated by failure, and this game is the biggest fail-fest since SerenityMUSH (a very high bar to jump).
Though I will say that anybody who reads any part of this thread and says, “Ooooh! I wonder if it really is that bad? I think I will play this game and find out!”, and follows through on that statement, is an idiot of the first order (pardon the pun) and deserves whatever awfulness happens to them. It could be compared to jumping into the Amazon River just to see if there really are piranha in the river.
I do appreciate the advice, though.
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@Warlander said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
[…] this game is the biggest fail-fest since SerenityMUSH
Funny that, since if memory serves, SerenityMUSH was partly a Gold-of-our-own offshoot of AoA.
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@Warlander You’re diluting your message with the incessant updates about stuff that really isn’t that bad. The actual shitty stuff they’re doing is getting lost among all the kinda just normal MUSH-admin stuff they’re doing.
And, seeing as it’s just getting repetitive, people gonna put this post on ignore. And by “people,” I mean “me.”
gl;hf
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@Jennkryst I remember stories about how SerenityMUSH started life as a relatively short-lived Star Wars MU called ISD Revenge, but I had no idea it was a GOMO of AoA.
Given the fact that so much of AoA has played out like SerenityMUSH, I had entertained the thought that the connection between it and ISD Revenge ran deeper than just them both using DSS. It felt like more than a coincidence that the oldest ship on AoA, the Finalizer, just happened to be a Star Destroyer, and the centerpiece of ISD Revenge was surely also a Star Destroyer (I never played there, so I have no way of knowing. Though from everything I’ve heard, I feel like I dodged at least one bullet…).
Do you know if Mal and/or Inara copied AoA without permission to build ISD Revenge? It’s the kind of thing Mal would do, and might explain why Cujo seems so proddy about anyone trying to copy his gamewreck.
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@Jennkryst That’s a story I’d love to hear in another thread or location.
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@KarmaBum said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
@Warlander You’re diluting your message with the incessant updates about stuff that really isn’t that bad. The actual shitty stuff they’re doing is getting lost among all the kinda just normal MUSH-admin stuff they’re doing.
Yeah, if you’re actually wanting to be an active and effective warning and deterrent, you’re drowning out the salient points with uninteresting noise.
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@Roz said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
you’re drowning out the salient points with uninteresting noise
And everyone knows that’s my job.
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@Pavel I see… heaven forbid I do your job for you!
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@Warlander said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
Though I will say that anybody who reads any part of this thread and says, “Ooooh! I wonder if it really is that bad? I think I will play this game and find out!”, and follows through on that statement, is an idiot of the first order (pardon the pun) and deserves whatever awfulness happens to them. It could be compared to jumping into the Amazon River just to see if there really are piranha in the river.
I mean… I did? And while I am an idiot of the first order, I haven’t seen like…anything that you’re talking about? I play a very flirty character who is very rarely interested in following through, and no one has pestered me? And I straight up asked about the Harassment Policy thing, and no less than three admins messaged me asking if I was having any issues they could help with. One even went so far as to say, "I understand that this game has that reputation, but it’s not like that anymore, and won’t be as long as I am here.’
As for the Empire snatching up worlds, that’s more the luck of the dice, and I felt awful when we routed them from Mygeeto. (I’m Roan, hi!) We’re currently trying to invade Hapan and wow are we getting our faces beat in. We lost like…half of our fighters or something? With no way to resupply. And it’s just how the dice fall in space combat.
That said, when this all started, the Empire was outnumbered 5 to 1 in naval personnel, and I don’t think it’s shifted that far since? The Rebels seem to commit to these big, involved plans that require lots of scenes and I’m just wondering why a few easy targets aren’t snatched up first. Get some green on that map! I only apped Empire because it was super dead at the time. Get out there and rebuild that Republic!
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I think most everyone here is glad you haven’t had a problem. The continued forever-problem most of us here have with AoA (those of us that have strong personal opinions about it at all), is that some of the game’s current staff members are the very people that made the game a problem. That problem that said staffer reassured you, “but it’s not like that anymore”. The prisoners have control of the prison, and they’re telling you all’s well now.
Here’s the problem: These are not, by and large, stupid people. And it may be a bit publicly better than it was 2, 3 years ago, because Cujo may be embarassed about this thread… but leopards don’t change their spots. And some of the game’s most problematic players are among its monst powerful (and are staff).
You may never experience it. There have been high hundreds of players that gave the game a shot during the past eight years alone, and the percentage of people that were directly preyed upon by these people is not high in that context. But higher than is ever healthy for a mush, and the real problem…
Protected, at cost of expelling players that cared and wanted a better game.
I don’t think you deserve anything to happen to you because you decided to check on a game that has bad publicity, and if you continue to play on AoA I, for one, wish you fun stories.
