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      Testament @Roz
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      @Roz said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

      I don’t see how it would look any more dead than a traditional MUSH/MUX where people are just RPing privately in rooms that don’t show up on +where? I feel like if scene logs are still going up regularly it’s not gonna look dead.

      I think that goes back to something Faraday said about how the display of active scenes(async or not)is relatively new to the MU mainstream. So it gives a slightly different perception of ‘how games are’ rather than how we used to view them as. Because there’s more information that’s now viewable.

      So you’re absolutely correct that it’s not that much different from logging onto a traditional MU and seeing a relatively small occupied +where list, while also seeing a +who list of about 20 or so people logged on. The difference here, or at least, the difference to at least me, is that addition of more information does change an aspect of whatever perception or context you want to take away from it.

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        Faraday @Testament
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        @Testament said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

        the amount of feelings that seeing so many private scenes can elicit and seeing so few public ones. …
        Wish there was a better option. Like making it a toggle to be able to go back and forth? So if you wanted to shut that option off so you didn’t have to look at it, you could?

        If you’re worried that people are going to be put off by a lack of public/open RP, hiding the private RP isn’t going to help. There still won’t be any public/open RP.

        If you’re worried that people are having some kind of bad feelings (FOMO, resentment, whatever) over people RPing in private without them, I don’t really think that’s a problem that code can solve. They’ll still feel left out if they see people posting RP and they can’t find any.

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        • Third EyeT
          Third Eye
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          The whole ‘should private scenes be viewable’ thing is a whole OTHER topic, though async is why I’d ultimately like the list of them to be collapsible at least. I don’t mind them as a gauge of activity on the overall game but that becomes less useful if there’s a bunch of scenes with no poses for 3+ days hanging around.

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            shit-piss-love @Faraday
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            @Faraday said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

            If you’re worried that people are having some kind of bad feelings (FOMO, resentment, whatever) over people RPing in private without them, I don’t really think that’s a problem that code can solve. They’ll still feel left out if they see people posting RP and they can’t find any.

            We’ve had a bunch of people in this thread or another recently including myself express that the Ares format of showing all the private scenes does in fact hit different. For some of us it definitely gives the impression that the game is going to be impenetrable and that reduces excitement, and also a look at the “last pose” stats for those scenes conveys the impression that the game is full of dead scenes. Regardless of how people might think people should be reacting to this, the brain works the way it works.

            Also, since I have not been able to get into Ares much (for the reason cited) I am not sure if there is a way to make your scene actually private, like not show up in the list at all. It feels super icky to me that that everyone can see who everyone is in private scenes with. That just seems like a risky move in a hobby that is already full of “What were you doing in private with THEM?!”.

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            • FaradayF
              Faraday @shit-piss-love
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              @shit-piss-love said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

              We’ve had a bunch of people in this thread or another recently including myself express that the Ares format of showing all the private scenes does in fact hit different.

              🤷 Private RP has always shown up on the +where list of every game I’ve ever been on, Penn/Tiny/Ares, and it’s always engendered that same reaction.

              I am not sure if there is a way to make your scene actually private, like not show up in the list at all.

              You can set yourself hidden, which means your name won’t show up in the public scene list.

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                KarmaBum @shit-piss-love
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                @shit-piss-love I don’t know how to put this nicely so I hope this doesn’t seem pricky 'cause it really seems like… just don’t type scenes / visit the scenes-live page if it’s bothering you that much. 😞

                You can also use CSS to hide the “last activity” column on the page -

                .live-scenes-block .col-sm-3 {
                    display: none;
                }
                

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                  Faraday @KarmaBum
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                  @KarmaBum Also, scenes/open in-game will only show the open scenes. The scenes page on the portal puts the private ones you’re not a part of at the bottom of the list. FWIW, I did once look into making them collapsible as @Third-Eye suggested, but it’s just problematic because it’s all one big table currently.

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                    junipersky Administrators @shit-piss-love
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                    @shit-piss-love

                    This is 100% accurate for me.

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                    • Third EyeT
                      Third Eye @shit-piss-love
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                      @shit-piss-love said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

                      “What were you doing in private with THEM?!”.

                      Whether this is an impulse that should actually be maneuvered around or indulged is always where I get stuck because this stuff bottoms out with me pretty quickly, whether it’s via WHO list/where checks or just watching scenes. But, again, whole other things.

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                        Scissors
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                        @Faraday My feeling on this is exactly like yours.

                        Unfortunately Async seems to be increasingly becoming the norm, or at least I’m noticing it more in my latest round of dipping-my-toes-into-Mushing-again. And frankly, it’s burning me out a lot faster.

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                          tsar @shit-piss-love
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                          @shit-piss-love said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

                          That just seems like a risky move in a hobby that is already full of “What were you doing in private with THEM?!”.

                          if anyone pages me that I’m sending them explicit TS poses, you’ve all been warned

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                            Jumpscare @Faraday
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                            @Faraday said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

                            @KarmaBum Also, scenes/open in-game will only show the open scenes. The scenes page on the portal puts the private ones you’re not a part of at the bottom of the list. FWIW, I did once look into making them collapsible as @Third-Eye suggested, but it’s just problematic because it’s all one big table currently.

                            Random thought, but could Ares benefit from a hybrid of Private & Open scenes? One where people can watch the RP as it’s happening, but it’s closed for additional characters entering the scene. You could call it “Full” or something like that.

                            There’d still be the obstacle of normalizing players of using Full instead of Private, but I feel like it’d help with the penetrability of the game if people could get an eye of what’s happening right now.

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                              Faraday @Jumpscare
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                              @Jumpscare said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

                              Random thought, but could Ares benefit from a hybrid of Private & Open scenes?

                              You can use scene notes for this, though it’s mainly used for scenes where it’s open but only for particular characters meeting certain criteria. Per the help file:

                              Used for open scenes where participation is limited (by quantity, character type, etc.) or other special considerations apply.

                              But honestly, what people are doing in their private scenes is none of anyone’s business. At the risk of being harsh, I’m disinclined to create coded solutions for people who can’t handle that.

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                                Third Eye @Jumpscare
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                                @Jumpscare said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

                                Random thought, but could Ares benefit from a hybrid of Private & Open scenes? One where people can watch the RP as it’s happening, but it’s closed for additional characters entering the scene. You could call it “Full” or something like that.

                                Spirit Lake had ‘Watchable’ scenes for a while, which was a tag people could use to make closed scenes viewable to voyeurs. It was a lot of fun, honestly, but the code broke after like every update so I don’t think it felt worth maintaining.

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                                Semi-charmed kinda life, baby, baby
                                I want something else, I'm not listening when you say good-bye

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                                  KarmaBum @tsar
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                                  @tsar said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

                                  if anyone pages me that I’m sending them explicit TS poses, you’ve all been warned

                                  like… personalized right then on the spot or do you have a dispenser…? 'cause i know where to find you and got a week off coming up soon

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                                    tsar @KarmaBum
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                                    @KarmaBum said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

                                    @tsar said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

                                    if anyone pages me that I’m sending them explicit TS poses, you’ve all been warned

                                    like… personalized right then on the spot or do you have a dispenser…? 'cause i know where to find you and got a week off coming up soon

                                    lol what are you planning on coming to my house and having me recite TS out loud

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                                      KarmaBum @tsar
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                                      @tsar omg i meant what game to find you on. but WAY TO MAKE IT EVEN WEIRDER

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                                        tsar @KarmaBum
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                                        @KarmaBum said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

                                        @tsar omg i meant what game to find you on. but WAY TO MAKE IT EVEN WEIRDER

                                        YOU OPENED THIS DOOR YOU SAID YOU KNOW WHERE TO FIND ME AND YOU DO

                                        AND WHY WOULD YOU NEED A WHOLE WEEK UNLESS TRAVELING

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                                          KarmaBum @tsar
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                                          @tsar said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

                                          WHY WOULD YOU NEED A WHOLE WEEK

                                          to test your commitment

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                                            Pavel @tsar
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                                            @tsar said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

                                            @KarmaBum said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

                                            @tsar said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

                                            if anyone pages me that I’m sending them explicit TS poses, you’ve all been warned

                                            like… personalized right then on the spot or do you have a dispenser…? 'cause i know where to find you and got a week off coming up soon

                                            lol what are you planning on coming to my house and having me recite TS out loud

                                            Either beat poetry or Shakespeare style, please.

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