@thrax said in Numetal/Retromux:
When Staff came to speak to her she did not hide, nor keep information from them. The thing I wonder is how can they ban someone for avoiding conflict from someone known to be a problem. Yes she did hide herself, but is that in itsself worth a full gameban?
Hiding yourself from players you have a no contact with in order to RP with them is something I think deserves a gameban, regardless of how open you are with staff.
It really feels like Ganymede has just decided to let Derp drive it into the ground out of some need to avoid losing face from reversing a decision.
Well, I’m reducing my MSB activity to lurking now. Gany just basically said that the only person who needed to be apologized to on MSB for what happened was Derp.
I get two things from reading stuff from this thread.
That I definitely am not the target audience for Lords & Ladies roleplay.
That Arx, even with all of it’s trouble throughout its history, is a pretty good example of ‘doing it right’ in our hobby.
Congrats to all you Arx players and staff for doing cool stuff.
@Juniper said in Numetal/Retromux:
Most people want to be special in some way, sometimes tactfully and sometimes… not. I think we all get to have more fun when we’re not veering aggressively away from being “cringe”.
The vast majority of players in our hobby understand how to make unique special characters without trying their damnedest to drive it into everyone’s faces at 100 miles an hour.
@Cygnus said in The 3-Month Players:
Without PVP acting as a failsafe, these players often cause games to fail because no one can stand not being able to meaningfully stand up to the bully.
The failsafe against toxic players should be staff action. Going PVP just because a player is toxic seems toxic in it’s own right.
@Trashcan said in AI In Poses:
“I don’t want to RP with GenAI because it’s not very good” is not going to age well as a position.
I think the better position is “I don’t want to RP with GenAI because I’m here to RP with real people.”
@Pacha said in Empire Discussion Thread:
My assumption (perhaps false!) is that when opening a game one wants to develop a large and diverse base of players.
I feel like we’re reaching a point where new gamerunners are going to focus more on just running the game they want to run rather than running a game that attracts a large crowd.
Starting a new thread, for a new year.
First up, and this one hit me hard, David Lynch, legendary director of such weirdness as Eraserhead, Twin Peaks, and the original 1980s version of Dune.
Please stop. If you actually care, stop, step away, and come back in a few days or even a week or two. You’re making yourself look bad with each new post.
Another factor to consider that I just remembered is that if a player is applying for a role that is of considerable IC power or will have a significant immediate impact on the current plots in the game, a lot of staff (rightly) require a more detailed and lengthy application (and sometimes an interview) to approve the character.
@Pavel said in Long or Short? Application Process!:
Which isn’t something I deal with at work RL at all.
If I had a dollar for every required piece of documentation that didn’t actually help me at my job, I’d have retired to a nice estate a decade ago.
@Pavel said in Long or Short? Application Process!:
Such games should, then, have those requirements explicitly detailed somewhere. What mechanics need explanation, what needs to be explained, and why, etc.
Agreed.
I’m weird. I’m for however long it takes a person to write an application that shows they have a functional understanding of both the mechanics and lore. Additionally, a player should have notes for any mechanics that need explanation. If your character has a Mild Phobia on their sheet, you need to explain that in your stuff. For some people that can take 30 minutes. For some people it can take days.
I’m more worried about how the coded systems of a given MU interferes in a persons ability to both build their sheet and write out all their background details and any notation they may need for specific stats on their sheet.
@Gashlycrumb said in Numetal/Retromux:
That’s where you get the people who stop logging in before they even know they got approved.
Slightly tangential, but a long long time ago, I was part of the staff for a whitelisted Minecraft server. For various reasons we had two tiers of whitelisting, one to give people basic access and the ability to claim a chunk and build for themselves, and the second to give people access to several mods we were using that could be dangerous in the hands of trolls. To get to the second tier of access, you simply had to be active for 60 days without being a troll or jerk or whatever. We had this clearly lined out in our server rules. I shit you not, one in four people would apply to be whitelisted, and then vanish, only to get the whitelisting while they were gone and return 60 days later to find out their whitelisting was removed for inactivity.
@Testament said in General Video Game Thread:
I now understand the jokes about how this game is single handedly holding up SquareEnix financially.
Yep. FFXIV is really keeping them in business. Prior to that it was the Dragon Quest series.
@Kestrel said in Numetal/Retromux:
I’ve played on games with lengthy chargen processes, and games with quick/painless chargen process.
The games that really bother me is the ones that have lengthy chargen processes because their coded chargen forces it to be that lengthy because of bugs and various archaic command processes.
@Gashlycrumb said in Numetal/Retromux:
There’s nothing about being a MU staffer that makes a person more honest. I don’t know if I’ve dealt with @Wikibara before. I have been told that one of the Retro staffers is a person I have dealt with whom I find untrustworthy.
From your history of posting here, I have assumed you find 100% of staff on 100% of games untrustworthy, so that doesn’t surprise me.
@bear_necessities said in Numetal/Retromux:
I don’t disagree but also it is very very very clear from the wording of that post that there’s an expectation that an inappropriate amount of time is spent on applications.
I believe that inappropriate amount of time is subjective. What one person sees as inappropriate is appropriate to another. So in this case, the amount of time was inappropriate to you and @Wikibara, and probably at least some other non-zero number of people out there.
So if we’re normalizing that, whose subjective opinion are we using to set the baseline?
@bear_necessities said in Numetal/Retromux:
But also if 1-2 hours spent on an application is considered minimal effort and not good enough for a game then woof, probably better to move on. We all have lives, right? RIGHT?!
That really depends on what the 1-2 hours produced. I’ve ran into players who take 2 hours to write two unintelligible sentences in a pose, so it’s feasible that what was written, even though it took 2 hours, was awful.
Amount of Time != Quality