I haven’t RP’d in awhile and I forgot all about the ‘there can be only one girl’ player. You know the one that will immediately perceive nearly all other female PCs as threats and ignore them when a male PC is present and otherwise be weirdly passive aggressive about everything because you might take their man.
Lady, I just want to kill zombies. You can have all the dicks. I don’t want them.
@Whisky said in MU Peeves Thread:
Woke up in the morning to find the password changed and my mostly-done character was now a roster character, mostly edited to suit what they wanted.
I would be super pissed if a PC I made (even if I didn’t finish it!) was made a roster without my consent or approval. That’s so rude.
There are things I really like about Ares, but if you’ve got ‘is everyone hanging out without me’ brain weasels it sure does love to show you scrolling pages of private scenes that say yes, yes they are.
You all know this is a troll, right? There are no minds to be changed here.
She’s the person I was complaining about who wanted all the dicks on the zombie game. It was so blatant and ridiculous that she’d go out of her way to exclude other female PCs on a summary writeup for a posted scene.
And like just to be clear the sexiest thing my PC did in that scene was lift up someone’s shirt to see if they were wounded there (they were)! So it’s not like I was romantic rivaling her or whatever.
@KarmaBum said in Neitherlands:
(to KarmaBum) Irene says, “I didn’t do submissive things about female PCs.”
Please tell me that’s not just a transcription typo because LOL.
@Serafine said in Neitherlands:
but given the hasty rush in and out of the hospital for (I forget exactly what, it’s still posted on the bboards) exhaustion/stress/burnout/whatever, which was then blamed on said player…
@Serafine you are the one that brought this up. All @Cobalt was asking was if this particular thing, which you said, was really true.
It’s okay to say “That was just what I thought” or “Sorry, I’m making shit up to keep the conversation going” or “lol i dont even Rp” if you don’t actually know that she blamed her hospitalization on @Jenn
I get that everyone is very excited to be able to AI generate Henry Cavill their favorite actor as their PC, but can we please keep everything safe for work on actual character pages? Generate all the naked/nearly naked pics you want sure, but please share them on Discord or something and don’t post them to your character page.
@shit-piss-love Yeah, it hit me like that too. Like, it’s great that there are so many people RPing, but when there’s 30+ private scenes and not one open scene that’s telling me there’s a lot of RP happening on this game that I just…don’t have access to as a new person.
I’d much rather see a list of OPEN scenes and maybe a little line saying something like ‘there’s 34 active scenes!’
@Warma-Sheen said in Inuki Ban Thread:
What was said was, “What I’ve experienced here has given me insight as to why some people have chosen to do ‘this thing’.”
I feel like that’s an extremely generous interpretation of what she was going for there.
I think there’s a real difference between “I am having thoughts of self harm” posts and “if I kill myself its your fault” posts. And I’m fine with the latter being a ban-worthy offense.
Didn’t she have at least one other account too where she pretended it wasn’t her but it was definitely her?
Edited to add: I think it was chookitypok right?
MORE EDITS: Nevermind, she’s that on Ares not here.
Anyone who doesn’t cry over spilled milk hasn’t spent 45 minutes pumping it.
Fucking old townie racists that insist on bringing up the old (replaced) racist mascot again and again, start threatening people who point out that it’s racist and they need to stop, and then threaten and deadname the high schoolers who chime in to tell them to knock it off.
This is a weird critique post because I do like the game, but:
-I basically can’t play it due to the whole ‘idle out on grid and bad things happen’ bit. I have kids and I work and so I have constant sudden interruptions even if I have carved out some time to play. And yes, sometimes (too often) those things are so sudden that I don’t even have time to hit the pause button (that I am glad was installed). I have been EXTREMELY lucky that most people are cool and seem to understand that part sucks and have returned me to the hotel room each and every time, but it instills an anxiousness in me OOCly that I really, really dislike. It takes me out of the game. It bleeds into RL in a way I really hate because after dealing with an emergency or any sudden, stressful situation I have to be like oh fuck, I need to run to log into this game and hope something hasn’t happened that I’d need to deal with IC while I was RLing and sit there and hit the buttons and wait to get back to the hotel so I can just sign off.
-The game is also heavily, HEAVILY skewed to combat. I don’t know why anyone wouldn’t ever make a fighter Misfit that can travel fast and climb. You are at an extreme disadvantage without any of that and might not even realize it until you hit the grid after chargen and see what your weaknesses are. That can be fun to play! It can also get really frustrating when you find you can’t engage with a lot of the systems or areas of the grid because of a certain way you answered a question in chargen without realizing it.
-While people admire the lack of OOC on the game I find it disorienting and confusing. I was one of the every day RPers early on, but two things turned me off hard for quite awhile–one was a very weird IC (?) drama situation that I am still, to this day, not sure if it was totally IC or some OOC that appeared to cause at least one person to leave the game. Or maybe change characters? Because there’s no OOC there’s zero way to know, but it was all incredibly uncomfortable and not in a way I think the game was designed to be. Was someone being an OOC creep? Were people OOC bullying? Was it all IC?? I still have absolutely no idea.
-Unless you’re online when changes are made or game problems happen, you have no idea about them. I would love if there was at least a forum on the site (if there is one I haven’t found it) where game updates or things like that could be posted. I don’t want to have to sign up for Discord to be in the know. I would love to have a place to post feedback that isn’t here!
-The second thing that made me wander away was the Quills. I love the idea of the Quills and it really fit my character concept. I ended up hating it because it felt like every time I signed on I was getting assigned chores/homework. Go to this event not to have fun and RP in it, but so you can write it up later. Here’s an actual list of things we want you to write articles about. Write something every 2 weeks or you don’t get paid. It very quickly started to feel more like work than fun. It’s no wonder this always appears to be the least populated group on the game.
-RP on the game is at a breakneck pace which is both a great and a bad thing. It is hands down the easiest game to find wonderful RP all day every day that I have ever played. If I sign on even for five minutes I have two people trying to scene with me just moving room to room. That’s great for people who have that sort of time–I would have loved it if I were an unmarried, child-free college student. But I guess Ares has lulled me into lazily wanting distracted scenes, which is just not be a thing that can happen on this game. A total plus for people who aren’t switching screens or getting distracted every so often, but not so great for anyone else.
Again, it’s a great game with responsive staffers and lots of RP, but there are some roadblocks that I just can’t seem to get past even though I keep trying. A lot of them are absolutely “me” things where this is a game I want to like that doesn’t fit for someone with a busy RL. But I do think some sort of forum on the site would help with some of the other things (has anyone ever been banned? Are there problematic behaviors to watch out for? Game Updates, feedback, etc.).
@Tez It seems like later players were able to run with that second secret (I’m sure they were able to uncover more about it than I ever did), so it was definitely a good swap!
Sabella’s first secret was agreed to be one of the worst on the game by just about anyone who ever heard about it because it didn’t make a lot of sense. It was that she knew the Black Rose Mummers were actually the thieves guild and she wanted to become one of them because she thought they were so cool and something something get them to work for Grayson? This on the surface seemed a somewhat interesting thread, if incredibly unlikey (the cons outweighed the pros like crazy), until you realized that the people running the group also hated all nobility. Like actively sought to bring it down and hated that she was trying to be an actress which made my first month there very, very difficult because it was me trying to scene with people who would inevitably just tell me how stupid I was, how awful Grayson was, how they weren’t ever going to let me into the play actions, and it was a disaster that made me dread RPing. An early thing that I think was dropped was that the Mummers would actively recruit children from the Tragedy to be their informants and get them placed as wards with noble families but if that ever went anywhere I wasn’t apart of it because again, totally stonewalled due to being a princess that was barely tolerated to be hanging around.
Add to that early on at the one Mummers meeting I was ever invited to, Sapphire tried to kill everyone and I ended up being like why would she EVER want to be associated with this group?? Like she never went into the Lowers past the park after that happened because she was traumatized by it.
So her secret was changed to that she saw the good in everyone, which was much cooler and fit the PC far better.
Korka was the reincarnation of Caithness and that was VERY fun to play. She didn’t like what the Whispers became and was always annoyed that she had Caithness at the edge of her mind. Did she become an inquisitor because she wanted to or because stupid Caithness wanted to keep defending the Compact? Delving into that with @Herja was probably the most fun I had on the game.
Gretchen was also a great character who the Leer was in love with or something. He’s send her notes and she’d provide the smiling shadows with poisons. She was a ton of fun to play though with Tessa dying nearly immediately after I picked her up, I was the only active Moore for awhile and it was very isolating. She had an alternate identity: Maggie Moins who ran the black market for rare goods in the Shadow Court and I like to think she didn’t end up dying due to the frost elves that got the other Moores but spent her days making a fortune as Maggie selling her snake oil to the public and magic items on the side, taking all those nobles that looked down on her and her family for all they were worth.
Adora was a smiling shadow. I’m sure that shocks everyone since she was such a nice carpenter. But that org was dead, dead when I was there (if you did a last 20 on the channel it took you to the start or Arx and that was two years in). No one ever talked to me or reached out and I never even knew where the hideout was. She was a ton of fun to play because it was during the age where a bunch of nobles loved being insulted by commoners and she was always game. Also she was great at making stuff so a good creative outlet for crafting. She liked to send people things unasked for and then demand a ludicrous payment. 9 times out of 10 they’d just pay and it was hilarious.
My biggest regret was not having the time for Sabella to convince the other highlords to take power away from the Crown. The assembly of peers was mostly for show where the other Houses could vote, but then Alaric basically did what he wanted regardless. I REALLY wanted to make it so the Crown was just one vote that only counted just as much as the other Houses and would’ve traded the other highlords being okay with Pravus becoming a Great House for it. I even had clues saying that they used to have that sort of power! But then Liara was made highlord and she had zero interest in pursuing that and the Pravus thing exploded. But it was some fun politicking RP while it lasted!
