@Cobalt OKAY. WILL WE START FROM SCRATCH? Also I have Enshrouded too.
Posts made by dvoraen
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RE: General Video Game Thread
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RE: General Video Game Thread
I’ve been eyeing Manor Lords, myself. My city-builder game for now has been Farthest Frontier, which is close to 1.0 launch and just had a major update for its combat system that I haven’t explored yet.
Lightyear Frontier - Early Access. This is a life sim type game for 1-4 players with a little alien civilization mystery attached. I spent about 30-40h on just the basics before I put it down for the next update, having done virtually everything the EA launch had to offer. I have not found all the secrets, though, so I may go back to that.
Soulmask - Early Access in June; open limited-time beta on May 1. This is kind of like Conan Exiles, in that it’s a survival-tribal type of game with PVE elements. I’m not sure how to fully explain it. I wanted to like it, but I had a hard time getting into it alone, so I feel like it’s meant for multiplayer. There are PVP elements to it as well (PVE and PVP servers, for example).
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
@mietze You were not alone. I couldn’t parse it either.
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RE: Installing Arxcode?
@Tez I’ve seen some TezGPT too. For reasonable rates, I hear.
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RE: [BeipMU] Removing pose order spam from Ares games.
A random aside, but I wanted to comment on the regex patterns being displayed here. This will be pedantic.
@Roz 's pattern of
^(<.+>).*
will get the job done, but you will get false positives from it. Anything Ares sends to your client that starts with<
, has text, and ends with>
, including poses from a player, will potentially be seen by this pattern and match, getting you a potential spawn window if they should start* their pose with something like<Meanwhile...>
. Will that happen often? I imagine next to never, but I did want to bring up this slight possibility.On the other hand, @Pavel’s and @Tez’s patterns will exact-match channel names, but if you want to add more channels, you have to verbatim copy in the channel to the pattern for every one you want a spawn window for, and the opposite for those you don’t want one.
So in short, it depends on how invested you are in the outcome. Want a specific subset of channels? Go with option B where the channel names are spelled out in the pattern. Want a catch-all? Option A.
* (ETA) I forget how Ares sends poses to players on a client, since it’s been a while for me. If the first character is literally
<
(i.e., only the pose is sent and not a nospoof like the PC who sent the pose) then it will happen as I’ve outlined. -
RE: MU Peeves Thread
@somasatori This is kind of me. I rarely initiate “omg rp?” these days on public channels, because past experience has taught me I have the opposite effect on people. (This means I almost never had any replies, like dead silence. It’s eerie.)
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
@Testament said in MU Peeves Thread:
@dvoraen Yeah but that takes effort.
Takes less effort to get into the head of a character you made than one you didn’t, imo.
(I’m totally not trying to convince you to restart your char on Concordia and conquer the grid, since his brother was murdered.)
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
@Testament said in MU Peeves Thread:
A new peeve of mine is working second shift, having a slow workday, but not so slow as to really allow myself time to find a new place to look at to play.
I’m oddly missing roster games now.
No thoughts, only app.
You could always restart characters you’ve already app’d. It’d be like a roster character. That you made!
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RE: On PvP and permanent injuries
@Livia said in On PvP and permanent injuries:
@Pavel Prism ponders Percy’s pernicious Prism prison prism.
I just wanted you to know I upvote for alliterative responses (ETA - bonus points awarded for username being part of the alliteration).
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RE: General Video Game Thread
@Roz said in General Video Game Thread:
@GF said in General Video Game Thread:
@Solstice said in General Video Game Thread:
Considering detoxing from the internet for this week to avoid the inevitable gleeful spoiling of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.
Sephiroth didn’t betray and murder Cloud’s father. He is Cloud’s father.
More like Cloud’s daddy.
Excuse me, this is Final Fantasy VII reMAKE, and reBIRTH, not reWRITE or reFANFIC.
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RE: A Constructive Arx Thread
I want to know if Ask Tyrval would be hosted by Aleksei or someone else.
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RE: A Constructive Arx Thread
@Apos So what you’re saying is it’s possible. With the right persuasion.
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RE: The Arx Secrets Thread
So I want to actually talk about my IC secret in more detail, now that I’ve had a lot more time to digest everything from the AMA and other conversations. But first, here’s what the spoilers were!
Apostate says, "So Bhandn’s GM notes are kind of hilarious: “Bhandn is cursed by Limerance for flamboyantly betraying his vows in a past life. He was one of the guards in the Bijoux and made the unbelievably mistake of talking to Sapphire and taking her advice, as she trained him wrong as a joke. As a godsworn knight, he had the sword which was the heirloom sword of House Morganis (ie Aleksei’s cardian house in olden times), and he was oathbound to help defend the Metallics, as a sign of the Faith supporting them. However he both contributed to the Great Fire, helping them escape the Bijoux (by unwittingly undermining the defenses), and when at the meeting with the metallics and cardians, he broke ranks and ran for it, and actually cut down the Metallic he was bound to serve in a cowardly attempt to curry favor with Cardia. He was executed anyways. sword is #8098"”
I think “lol, lmao” is appropriate here for Bhandn’s past life, but I am not an expert in saying that unlike others. Anyway, I think discovering what happened here would lead to quite a few places, some of which might be heretical as far as the Faith was concerned. >.> So let me itemize where I see this going.
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I see extensive conversations with the Faith, starting with Esme (hi @RightMeow) as Archlector of Limerance, and quite possibly with the Legates and Aureth (hi @sao), maybe Preston (hi @Narson) about the nature of Vows and divine curses. One thing I think will be abundantly clear to him: he wouldn’t try to directly atone for the Vow breaking, in that I don’t think he would try to go the opposite direction. Definitely do not see him swearing Godsworn Vows lol; he’d see that as a “hi Limerance, can I slap you by taking Vows even though my past life was a Vow breaker?” I see Bhandn being more “I deserve a curse for something like that, past life or not, but that doesn’t mean I have to repeat my mistakes.” In other words, I think his form of atonement would be more in the nature of acceptance and carrying his own cross, so to speak. That is to say, he’d put up with that curse for the rest of his life as Bhandn, in the hope that said curse is removed for his next life.
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If the curse from Limerance is part of what led to his painful reactions to seeing Malar and Malardin – I’m still not clear on this particular point – it has a very practical application, albeit a debilitating one (and potentially fatal if by himself when it happens). This I think he would actively pursue, in terms of possibly trying to mitigate its worst effects. So, maybe find a way to turn it into Malar detection, kind of like how Thesarin had Legion detection? But, it’s possible this isn’t an achievable matter if it’s built into the nature of Limerance’s curse.
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Dear Sapphire. We need to TALK. I actually put in an action to try and get this to happen. This is visible on his char page as action 4471. This action was brought about by the following plot pitch and goal I made. The idea was to try and kick off that plot pitch, but the goal was to a) address What Happened with Sapphire in the past; b) try to convince her to not act like Veil for 1 second and collaborate on dealing with More Serious Issues.
PLOT #1452
[Where Light and Dark Meet]In the distant past, the Metallic Order and the Fractal Order joined hands to seal a dangerous force in the world. Now, a new threat is gaining strength that threatens the present day people of Arvum and perhaps even those who remain of the Fractal Order: the Metallic Traitor once known as Orichalcum, who yearns to be a god. He has been gathering items of power infused with primum, sealed Arvum from external aid, and recently made a move to obtain a means to bring the Fractals to his will through the use of ancient Writs that already bind them. Should he succeed, it would increase his power to even greater, perhaps unstoppable heights. Action must be taken to address this.
The Unforgiven (#1373)
Scope: Venomously Ambitious, Status: Active
Description: (To redo) This is about recruiting people who understand that consorting with Fractals is probably going to condemn them in society’s eyes forever.
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With respect to Fidelis itself, I am unsure how that would have progressed other than by playing it by ear. Becoming an adept I think would have been a major progress point for him at dealing with the sword. Petraea was very clear that the sword was imbued with primum, and that conversation and other factors led me to believe I needed to find a way to get Bhandn magesight so he could study the sword himself. Given that others had adverse reactions to magesight’ing it, I had the thought that since he was clearly attuned to the sword, it was “safer” (super air quotes) for him to use magesight than others. I’d really like to know what the primum was in the sword for, unless that was how Limerance was cursing him. That would be funny. “You think it’s magical? Sure, we’ll go with that.” Either way, finding out about the nature of the sword’s magic was on my shortlist, but I stalled trying to get magesight because I was a dummy and didn’t reach out for help from anyone, even staff. I thought I was on the verge at one point, but that was based on my own conjecture.
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Since he was one of the jailers of the Fractals while the Bijoux’s containment was active, I kind of wondered if there was the possibility he could rehabilitate its magic somehow. Not necessarily to recapture Fractals, though that was probable, but anyone who was proving magically dangerous. I had Orichalcum in mind when this thought came to me. This would’ve been a more side pursuit, and part of his magical growth I think, as well as part of how he’d be indirectly telling Limerance “hey I’m trying here.” Resolving past issues in a non Vow breaking way, in other words.
Anyway, that’s my rambling about my sekrit and what I think it would have done for character progression, thanks for reading my Ted Post.
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RE: The Arx Secrets Thread
I clearly was a Rex’alfar in another life.
Pry my hypothetical kitties from my cold dead IC hands.
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RE: The Arx Secrets Thread
@insomniac Will you elucidate on the bit you wrote about adepts and “more options for magic than I’d initially thought”? I was never really clear on their details other than they turned primum inward as a kind of augmentation, iirc, and even then I might be missing the mark with that summarization.
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
@sao said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Rinel find me a person in this hobby who doesn’t read a peeve and think ‘this is about me, isn’t it?’
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RE: The Arx Secrets Thread
I don’t know if this is really a place for it, but I wanted to ask for an informal vetting of how I perceived Bhandn’s magic being, as well as his would-be-PC retainer (meaning I was at one point considering deleting that retainer and CG’ing him as an OC).
Bhandn
I saw Bhandn’s magic as being relevant to color. Not like: “this glows a given color if it’s magical,” or that he does the equivalent of D&D’s color spray or prismatic ray for his use of it, but rather his magic would be something a bit more subtle.For example, if he perceived something aligned abyssal, it might seem shadowed, whereas an elysian-alignment might be perfectly clear to his eyes like he had perfect vision of it, even at a distance. If the magic was primal and maybe had to do with Fire, it might be like a reddish tint to the air or his perception of the object, similar to someone looking flushed.
My reasoning for this was that he kind of sees the world in a more direct way. “It’s a sword, it’s made of X, X should look like this.” Lines of thinking like that. Buuuut, if he ends up an adept, I don’t think it works that way since adepts’ magic, iirc, is based upon your self-perception or to that effect? Kind of why I was curious what others in the know thought of this.
Aendal
Bhandn’s retainer I imagined as a nascent mage. He mostly learned about the world through the written medium. Just like you can read a story in a book, a scholastic treatise on a subject, and so on, I saw his perception of magic as being somewhat similar to how I imagined Platinum did (I got the impression Platinum saw magic as a formulaic, perhaps mathematical study; this is partly based on a scene with Silver in the Nox’alfar embassy). So Aendal might see “arcane writing” he wouldn’t necessarily be able to read (fully understand what magic was done) until he learned more about it. Kind of like how you need to look up a word in the dictionary. You can recognize a language by its characters and style, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you can read it or understand it without study.