MU Peeves Thread
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I feel like this sums up several many MUSH interactions I’ve had with people over the years
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@Ashkuri said in MU Peeves Thread:
I feel like this sums up several many MUSH interactions I’ve had with people over the years
I feel attacked and my only logical response is to do another forum coup.
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@Ashkuri said in MU Peeves Thread:
I feel like this sums up several many MUSH interactions I’ve had with people over the years
The one I need to keep reminding myself of is “Your feelings are valid. But managing them is also not my responsibility.”
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Belated reply. Put me in the “prefer the grid” group. I very much dislike off-grid RP rooms. Why even log into a server? You might as well just be RPing on Discord or by email at that point. I am fine with small or large grids, but I prefer location based.
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@MisterBoring said in MU Peeves Thread:
@somasatori I really feel like most grid bloat in most games is from PC builds from idle / dead / retired PCs that just didn’t get cleaned up after they leave. I think most games just forget to clean that stuff up when characters idle out, but I have seen a few that will post up a bbpost about PC owned grid spaces that will be removed in an effort to allow other PCs to claim them if they’re popular.
I allowed myself to be weird and tyrranical about the grid, and didn’t let people just build, and when people left their houses and businesses stayed in place to be sold/rented out again. Buildings didn’t just disappear, but there weren’t that many empty ones either and I sort of hoped that the PCs might fight over some of the best houses in the city.
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@Gashlycrumb said in MU Peeves Thread:
when people left their houses and businesses stayed in place to be sold/rented out again. Buildings didn’t just disappear, but there weren’t that many empty ones either and I sort of hoped that the PCs might fight over some of the best houses in the city.
From a game design perspective, this works better if there’s a concrete economy rather than the usual abstract ones that are representative in most MUSHes. Not sure what type of game you were running, but something with discrete numbers to represent your characters’ cold, hard cash makes this more worthwhile. Systems like WoD, GURPS, and others that have a merit/perk/boon referring to wealth flatten the experience since there’s a lot of room between (in WoD) Resources 2 to Resources 3. That could be a small luxury apartment or a nice rental house in a not-so-rich part of town.
Same with resource trading. Most smuggler or equipment-provision characters in abstract wealth games don’t have any real mechanical function, as you can usually just buy stuff up with your Resources background/merit/whatever in your own stockpile so long as it doesn’t require additional skills or black market connections or something.
I’m going to mark my own MU peeve and say that resources and equipment house rules always fucking suck. The worst options are deeply reactionary (buying mundane equipment with XP to keep your thumb on the players), but even the best ones become super weird. If you have 2 dots of resources worth of stuff to buy every week or month, I always feel like I’m wasting it if I’m not getting new stuff.
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@somasatori said in MU Peeves Thread:
The worst options are deeply reactionary (buying mundane equipment with XP to keep your thumb on the players)
Referencing any games in particular there, Soma? >_>
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@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:
@somasatori said in MU Peeves Thread:
The worst options are deeply reactionary (buying mundane equipment with XP to keep your thumb on the players)
Referencing any games in particular there, Soma? >_>
No, no, not at all
