@Pavel Thank you! I’ll check it out when it isn’t 3am.

@Hobbie said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

@Lemon-Fox said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

I don’t get harassed on AoA.

That’s the neat part, you won’t be. You’re extremely chatty and candid in this thread and they know that, and the best PR that they have right now is for you to remain unharassed and continue doing what you’re doing. There’s too much risk that you’ll change your tune and denounce AoA if Hadrix or any of the million other sex pests decides they no longer like taking “no” for an answer.

Side note: I did beseech you to have a great time on AoA last year, and it looks like you have, but “it didn’t happen to me so it’s not a problem” is not a good look. The protection given to you is not given to others.

Ouch. This one hurt.

And @DapperPenguin , all right. It will suck, but all right. I know what happened to you and Ben is just waiting to happen to me, the moment I try to be relevant in the plot again.

Maybe this is the perfect time to go anyway, when I’m not invested.

@Meg I’ve never once asked for sympathy? I’ve just been reporting my findings along this journey, sheesh.

@catzilla said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

Just make your own game with your friends who aren’t sex pests or abuse enablers and have fun with that.

I have no interest in running a game. I just like being a player who can dip in and out as the mood strikes.

@Jennkryst said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

Recent events in the world has made me want to do things taking out Space Nazis, so Star Wars has weaseled its way back into my top 5. Will it stay and how long? Whomst can say.

I’mma need you to get on that. Chop chop!

Okay. So, give me a place to play. Somewhere fairly busy, without draconian standards of what you can or cannot pose, where I can be a socialite without running scenes or getting anything approved.

Do you have that?

Because weirdly enough, I don’t get harassed on AoA. Every time someone got a little too weird, I’ve asked them to stop and they did. Twice, before you ask. And I’ve never had someone go out of their way to make my life miserable, which did happen on Arx and a couple superhero MUs.

When I say I can just ignore Cujo and little changes for my gaming experience, I mean it. So what do you want me to do, exactly? Quit to make a pointless statement?

Since a lot of people asked: Because it is a fun place to play. It was more fun when I had more friends there, but it’s not like there’s a ton of really active places to peddle my unique brand of lazy socializing. Usually when a game gets mentioned as an alternative, I log on to find 4-8 people there.

I like big games like AoA and Arx, where there are people of all sorts about at 1am. I was miffed about Cujo because I tried to actively reach out to him and interact. Him being weird doesn’t make the game unplayable.

But, that said, I don’t think I’ve seriously played since September. I just keep hoping the spark will reappear, and if it doesn’t, whatever.

@DapperPenguin Thank you. I think I needed to hear this. I can’t promise I’ll walk away yet, but… Ugh. I think I always suspected. And I let Cujo talk me out of my convictions, not once but twice. That’s very unlike me. Thanks for speaking up. I really appreciate it.

@Roo I get on fine without them. Make your own activity/stupid ideas. Worked for me. Currently working on a combat alt, Foxy.

The bonus XP happened this time last year. That’s how I made Roan.

@dvoraen You could app a character in? 2000 bonus xp right now.

After talking to Cujo about what happened, he pointed out that he had no idea who Ruby was, and did not mean to intentionally lie to me. And that’s fairly plausible, to be honest. And while I’m still not happy with how everything went down, he did offer to show me the complete logs of when he confronted some friends over the ruling that caused the whole thing. So I don’t think he was trying to be duplicitous. It would be extremely easy to compare those logs to what my friends had.

A few recent comments have made it seem like all this has been an ‘Ah ha!’ moment that all the staff on AoA are bad, and that wasn’t my original take on things. I still like to believe the best in people, but actions do speak louder than words, and Cujo taking the time to talk to me rather than banning me speaks fairly well of him as a person.

I like to correct things as more information becomes available, and I try to be as fair as possible. There’s always more context to be had.

(Still sad my friends are gone though.)

@Hobbie said in Missed Settings:

@Jennkryst you cannot bait me with the idea of a BattleTech MUSH then suddenly waylay me with Exalted! All I want is to take a contract in my MAD-5M against some Capellans and drain two cases of Timbiqui Dark when I get back to the mechbay!

Exalted Battletech. When your mech is destroyed, you leap out with your sword.

@Roo said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

Seems all too often Discordia’s mantra on dealing with players is shoot, shoot, aim.

Oh my god, I literally had this conversation with someone about an hour ago, when they asked why I hadn’t asked Discordia about X Imperial plot. “Because she’s about as friendly and easy to talk to as a buzz saw?” “She’s just brusque! I’m brusque!” And I’m just like, “No, it’s a little more than that.”

Well, I said I would update this, so here goes:

You were right.

To everyone who told me: “You can’t trust Cujo!” and “The staff are crazy!” and “Bad actors will ruin your experience!” you were right and I admit defeat.

The game was fun for most of a year, where I had crazy adventures and made tons of friends and had a big impact on the game. Cujo was fun and silly and nonserious. Most of the staff were friendly and helpful. Faction leaders on both sides were great to engage with, with one notable exception.

But everything came crashing down when Ruby did what Ruby/Rey does best and set fire to other people’s fun. Then Cujo lied to my face about it.

The update is as follows:

Many of my friends are gone or weeks idle. Plot progress receded into nothingness. The rebels were allowed a single world in all this time and the Empire got to blow up the Millennium Falcon. The Jedi are unchanged. The Sith are unchanged. The galaxy is unchanged.

And that’s not going to change any time soon, because Ruby/Rey had a bitchfit about Ben Solo having a girlfriend (not me). Sure glad we avoided THAT problem, you hateful harpy. Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you?

As for Cujo… I’m just hurt more than anything. I was only ever nice to him. Friendly. Encouraging. And he still lied to me.

I’m just really disgusted that she managed to do this to me not once but twice and I wasn’t even involved in the situation she flipped out about. And I’m actually pretty angry that Cujo proved this whole thread to be correct when I was absolutely convinced that it couldn’t be true. How gullible I must have seemed to him.

Anyway, that’s my final report, almost a full year since I tried to redeem this place’s name, unless something radically changes. I may log on now and then just to see if my friends have poked their heads back in. But I’m not holding my breath.

It was fun while it lasted, at least.

@catzilla This is me. ._.

@MayorMccheez said in Numetal/Retromux:

Oh, and for the people wondering what sort of ‘creepy’ things she sent him. Which, he obviously gave her his address willingly. I talked to her about it. It was a stuffed animal bat for his birthday because she felt bad when he felt like he was going to have a shitty birthday.

Wow, fuck that guy. I know nothing else about him and this alone is enough to make him the biggest piece of shit on the forum in my eyes.

Get shit on, @Cygnus . Just fucking peace out and never return.

Well, this all sucks. I was gone for a couple days and came back to not only Ben/Mando Alt being gone who were super cool, but also Ruby wanting to burn another MU I’m fond of.

Will update as details emerge. Also, if you’re reading this Ben, hit me up! You’re the best! (I’m Roan/Nika.)

@Warlander said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

@Lemon-Fox I’m curious as to which staffer made that statement. If it was a relatively new staffer (one who has been around for roughly a year or less), you may be able to take them at their word. If not… well, just be careful. Most of the time, ‘I haven’t had that experience,’ usually means, 'I haven’t had that experience yet. But I wouldn’t cry if the place really has turned over a new leaf (or at least buried the really nasty stuff far, far away from the non-twisted population of the game, and stopped hunting up new victims).

Also, the Empire snatching up worlds being due to dice results is a relatively recent thing, one that arose with the implementation of the naval combat system. Before that… well. It was basically, ‘Don’t bother locking the door… they’ll just knock it down or burn through it’. So you could either be under occupation, or be under occupation AND have to get a new door. This was especially true just after the timeshift.

As for population, the place is miles ahead of almost every other MUSH out there (even if you can see 100 logins on WHI, and about 40 of them turn out to be alts. That number has sunk to a rough average of 80-85, with at least 30 alts, but that’s still miles ahead of the 12-30 logins typical of most MUSHes), and there are a lot of scheduled events. Spontaneous on-grid RP seems to be coming back out of its grave at long last, too. This is entirely due to an influx of new and very active players over the last six months or so.

It was Discordia, and staff has been immaculate. There are occasionally semi-creepy players, but a simple “I’d prefer not to be greeted like that” has ended it on the spot. As for the Empire eating worlds, the Rebellion has since come out of its coma and been aggressively fighting back, in really stellar world-plots. For example, Tion 2 is currently viciously contested in a space war between guerilla Rebel starfighters (Black Squadron) and Imperial forces, while Turkana has been embroiled in an active ground resistance. I managed to fly up to the neck of an AT-M6 during one battle and disable its heavy guns through slicing while tanking point defense fire in my power armor. 10/10 experience!

The Hutt Cartel has also been experiencing a renaissance, while PC pirate activity is on the rise. I think Andor’s lasting impression has people energized and plots are going strong. Good time to come join us! There are also Jedi and Sith about, sometimes. My PC is gearing up to kill one.

@KarmaBum said in World Tone / Feeling:

People seem to be saying this a lot, so I’m kinda curious what “touch the world” mean in terms of MUSH gameplay.

Can you share some concrete examples from a player perspective of what this looks like on a MUSH?

Recently on Star Wars: Age of Alliances, my derpy Space Captain stumbled across the really rather grimdark tone-shift on Chandrila. Like, full-on fascist hellscape with military police on every street corner and history being dramatically rewritten to favor the Sith Empire. It really broke her heart, because as a noble-born Coruscanti girl, she had visited Chandrila as a child before the Sith rose to power in the wake of the First Order’s destruction.

This character was also very friendly with several suspected or known rebels because for her the war wasn’t personal. She had a shiny uniform that never got dirty while standing on the bridge of a Star Destroyer. People were always worried about the Empire building a new superweapon, but really, what were the odds of that happening? The idea of killing a whole planet (or star system) was just cartoonishly evil, and no one would really do that. Right? After it had failed… how many times?

But Chandrila changed that. Suddenly the idea that these people would murder an entire planet, not just once but many times over, became terribly real. And all the rumors, the speculation, the inaction of the Jedi, nobody really doing anything to go after this one big problem all came crashing down on her head.

And I decided that she wasn’t going to stand for it. So I started working with Empire players, Rebel players, and staff on how to bring about a change. What might kickstart a renewed effort to stop these things before they get deployed? (Nevermind that at this point I didn’t know the planet killers HAD been deployed before at least once.)

Eventually we settled on a two step plan: Step One: Defect to the Rebellion. Step Two: Take the planetkiller schematics with her. Quitting in style, basically.

Well, no plan ever goes that smoothly, and it ended up with my poor Captain in a locker room, struggling against computer checks three times what she could reasonably crack. She had Black Widowed her way into getting security codes, then further Black Widowed her way into arranging a brief window where she could be alone with specific a code cylinder, an uplink point, and a datapad. But it wasn’t going well. I had failed too many rolls, and if she wanted to get out, she needed to move. Now.

But this was important to her. More important than anything else had been because the idea of little frozen bodies floating in space amidst the rubble of a dead world was too much for her to bear. If she ran and that happened? That was on her now. So she stayed, blew through the last firewall that she could, and uploaded the data. She didn’t get the schematics–but she did find out where they were, who the project director was, who the lead engineer was, and where they had originally been built. It had to be enough as the security team broke in and stunned her. Game over.

But, luckily for her, Captain Derp had made a lot of friends, and in something between Mass Effect and Doom, lightsabers and blasters and some really, really lucky rolls got my character out. And she got exfiltrated to the Rebellion! She lost everything–wealth, status, a luxurious private shuttle, and command of a Star Destroyer. But, because of her, knowledge of the planet killers was out in the wild. And that made me really happy. I had poked the world and made an indelible mark on it.

And that felt a lot better than any mountain of credits, gear, or rare junk I could have gotten my hands on.

I would absolutely jump on this. Make it so!

@Jax said in Games we want, but will almost certainly never have:

Battletech Lords and Ladies is as important as the mechs. Probably more so.

But mercenaries!

@SpilledBeanz said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

I don’t think you deserve anything to happen to you because you decided to check on a game that has bad publicity, and if you continue to play on AoA I, for one, wish you fun stories.

No worries. I only posted about it again because once more it was said, “Well! You can go try it for yourself, but…” And I’m still like, “Well, I mean, I did. Still no issues.” Still not trying to trivialize other peoples’ experiences, just updating about my own, like a cave explorer.