Tales of Zalanthas
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@Clarion said in Tales of Zalanthas:
I was reading through all the quality of life improvements and theme changes and feeling increasingly optimistic until I got to:
ERP will not be supported. The focus of Tales of Zalanthas is swords and sorcery; exploration, ambition, danger, and survival in a harsh world. Intimacy may exist off-screen as part of story, but explicit sexual content or sexual violence will not be part of the game or allowed.
NO SEX ALLOWED IN THE DESERT.
I don’t know if that kind of policy in 2026 is gonna play out how they want.
Well our president seems to want to beef with the Pope like a French king from the 1300s so may as ban the sexy times in the Year of our Lord 2026
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@Jumpscare
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@NotSanni said in Tales of Zalanthas:
I don’t have any coding experience, but they’re trying to recreate a diku derivative, simulation (and combat specifically) heavy game, so that may have something to do with it. It’s likely going to be a pretty crunchy game, as RP games go, with a focus on combat and mechanical capabilities vs storytelling (no matter what they say). Probably not enough to explain this exact margin, but it can probably explain a bit of it.
They also point out that it includes “2200 test cases” which, as well as being a weird thing to have in your ad copy, could also lend itself to a decent amount of code bloat. That’d be like me including all of the data entry in PyReach as “code I’ve written” when it’s just hundreds of lines of merits because White Wolf/Onyx Path is ceaselessly wordy. Like it is technically correct, but also just something that’s kind of required for what I’m doing? I would assume the same of trying to emulate an automation-heavy DIKU MUD. Idk. I usually delete test cases once things come out successfully and relatively bug free, so could also just be doing that incorrectly.
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The whole website looks like the text was generated by an LLM
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No ERP? What in the fuck is the point then?
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@Juniper It’s for people who want to live in both denial and sadness simultaneously, I guess.
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@Juniper said in Tales of Zalanthas:
No ERP? What in the fuck is the point then?
Forbidden ERP >>>>>
It’s why I kind of hate that some games have banned in-game homophobia, I mean where’s the fun if I can’t secretly steal away my lesbian lover from her husband to a confessional booth.
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Well, I’ve done weirder things to keep things fresh. Let the skulking commence.
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@Juniper
I have rolled Dexterity+Skulking vs 7, five successes. -
@Juniper said in Tales of Zalanthas:
Let the skulking commence
I totally read the correct word the first time, definitely didn’t misread it as something else.
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@Jennkryst Skanking? Squicking? Skullfucking? The people need to know!
