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

I have no idea how it’d work but I’ve always kind of wanted a game inspired by Ark: Survival Evolved/Ascended

If you want dinosaurs, go play a WoD game.

@Gashlycrumb said in Lords and Ladies Game Design:

I don’t think the characters in Pride and Prejudice are nobility

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

And L&L is probably among the easiest themes to run.

In my experience, L&L is more like the icing on the cake. Arx being (in a very, very, very reductionist view) L&L & Magic & Elves. L&L is set dressing for the so-called real game.

Whenever someone mentions The Magicians I get it confused with The Librarian(s) and I feel the urge to watch those movies (and the subsequent TV series) and then make a game out of it. Somehow.

@Prototart said in WoD/CofD/Supernatural Games, One Splat or Many?:

all super-goths, all the time

With the occasional trenchcoat-wearing, samurai-sword-carrying genre-savvy wanker.

@Gashlycrumb Oh absolutely, we’re not really disagreeing about anything substantial. Staff shouldn’t be treated as martyrs for deigning to volunteer their time, but should be politely respected and thanked a little, they should be held to the same standard as anyone making a promise of commitment outside of exigent circumstances, and if code staff they should probably just be left alone to ensure they don’t make something weird out of boredom.

ETA: For the record, staffing a WoD MU is worse than working a trauma helpline.

@Gashlycrumb said in WoD/CofD/Supernatural Games, One Splat or Many?:

Hobby. Game.

Ah, I see. Where you’re making the distinction is not where I thought.

I, also, don’t think that it’s a distinction worth making. It’s a hobby-game-fun-thing, sure, but it’s unpaid mental and/or emotional labour in service of people who aren’t me. Thus, volunteer work. Much like being a sports person and being an air traffic controller are both work. One is fun (hopefully) and ultimately frivolous where the other is neither of those things, they’re both still work.

@Gashlycrumb said in WoD/CofD/Supernatural Games, One Splat or Many?:

It’s not really untrue but it’s the wrong framework, I thinks.

That depends entirely on how one typically views “volunteering their time for the community.”

MU staffing is not like the volunteering their time of someone volunteering to pick up trash from the sidewalk, it’s more like my volunteer gig working the trauma helpline. It’s very nice that I’m taking time out of my schedule to help, but if I bail without telling anyone, people are rightfully annoyed because there needs to be someone available during the period I said I could be there. And if I do a piss-poor job, people are going to be negatively impacted.

It’s a community service, it wouldn’t exist without unpaid people doing hard work, but it’s also a job. That, on a much less drastic scale, is MU staffing.

I like the sphere system because it, theoretically, allows subject-matter experts to focus their attention and time on areas for which they are particularly qualified or passionate. Theoretically. I’m also not generally one to engage in the Super Friends/cross-sphere style play that is often advocated for on multi-sphere games, so the siloing effect that the sphere system can have is actually, often, a positive from my perspective.

That said, the MU community is twelve people and an outraged grapefruit, we don’t have the manpower to maintain a constantly rotating/shuffling party of subject-matter experts who burn out after six months. Not while also maintaining a group of interested and passionate players, limiting conflicts of interest, etc.

One also, largely, wants to avoid being in a position where only one staffer knows what’s going on. Faraday frequently manages it, from what I’ve seen, but I think she’s part dragon or something, so she doesn’t count. We’ve all seen games die because the lone Staffer With The Book burns out/goes missing/gets bored/starts dating someone.

So, ideally, one would prefer a team of subject-matter experts in all fields one wishes to run, with enough time and energy to coordinate story, timing, and mechanics decisions as if they were a hive mind.

Has anyone asked the Borg if they can start a WoD game?

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

a Car Wars MU

I don’t know what that is, so I’m presuming that it is Star Wars but with the cast and style of the Cars films.

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

Especially Game of Thrones.

Some time ago, there were a pair of SuperFans (who did some legitimate work with GRR Martin, to be fair to them) who ran a Game of Thrones game. I can’t recall its name, so it may well have been spoken about already. They would regularly berate others who made Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire games, to the point where one could characterise it as bullying and harassment.

That in combination with the swift evacuation of Game of Thrones from the public consciousness after that disastrous final season is probably why we don’t see many, if any, games from that universe.

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

Game of Thrones universe

There are a pair of really annoying reasons for this one, at least previously.

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

you’re drowning out the salient points with uninteresting noise

And everyone knows that’s my job.

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

It’s not free publicity if it doesn’t help them

The adage of “any publicity is good publicity” still holds true.

Obviously, you can post as you will and nobody’s going to stop you. But honestly, you’re not achieving much of anything beyond seeming rather obsessed with them.

@SirKay Looks like we’ve run into a permissions error on the server itself. Nodebb is trying to do something it’s not allowed to — probably a result of the recent update/migration leading to a folder ownership/permission mismatch. Just gotta wait for the boss to sort it out.

@SirKay Is this error message appearing when you try to upload a picture, then?

@SirKay What “profile stuff” are you specifically trying to change, and what steps are you taking to change it?

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

The Star Wars nerd in me is screaming at the idea that the end of Episode IX

Fixed that for you.

ETA: Fixed that for myself.

@kalakh said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:

@NotSanni said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:

@Kestrel said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:

One side is accidentally doing Nazi salutes twice

And the other side suddenly cares now that it’s not their side’s cause du jour doing it

I’m stressed. I’m concerned.

lol “accidentally”

Look, sometimes you just caught up in the moment and invade Poland.

I mean there are currently German tanks pointing towards Poland (maybe even driving through it, I’m not totally caught up on the minutiae of the movements) but it’s not what it looks like.