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[Thrax] Anders: Anders was born from Ember’s org action.

You’re welcome

cheree @ liberation
ember @ arx sandbox

@Snackness said in How Long Should Games Last:

I’m realizing that I can’t sustain a character without social connections, like, I need stuff to talk about but more crucially, I need characters to TALK ABOUT IT with.

I think this has been the most crucial piece of how I’ve stuck with Ember for three years. I have a very stable long-term “inner circle” player group with Ember, and a huge part of what makes me excited about seeing where Ember’s story goes is seeing the stories of my friends in that group and what we bring to one another’s stuff. Our excitement for one another is symbiotic.

I think that it’s why I’ve played Katarina for over two years now and at times still feel like I’m figuring out what I’m trying to do. Katarina has a much more free-flowing, looser, far less intimate cast of fellow players around her and while I am very excited about Katarina’s budding Paul Katreides messiah complex, I don’t necessarily have anyone right now with whom there’s been an organic growth of that same kind of “our excitement for each other’s stories fuels each other” on the same level that Ember’s little player group does. There have been people in the past, but Katarina’s just had bad luck as far as those people sticking around the game long-term. If I was to be asked, “can you take Katarina into the end zone and wrap up her story in three months,” right now I wouldn’t feel like it would necessarily break some rhythm I was keeping with another player or a group of players, if I was to bring Katarina in for a landing.

(edited because some sentences were bugging me. Also @Tat is correct about it getting harder each time after you lose those connections and try to reset/refresh.)

@Prototart said in Commissioned Character Art:

i have never been attached enough to a char to spend money but I know @tieflinguist has commissioned a tonnnnnnnnn of stuff over the years

“A tonnnnnnnnn” = like four or five things, plus some Xmas gifts for Arx friends this past year

The highlight was my character on Star Wars: Chontio, where the artist took so long that by the time my character art was finished, the game had closed

Edit: some of the Arx friends’ gifts are on their profile pages:

https://play.arxgame.org/character/sheet/120663/

https://play.arxgame.org/character/sheet/108314/

@KarmaBum Honestly, coming up on three years with Ember @ Arx might be the longest I’ve had a character… ever? This is also probably the longest continuous stretch I’ve gone without taking six months to a year off (at LEAST) from the entire hobby. I got very used to a pattern of picking up a character somewhere, usually at the urging of a friend, and then within anywhere from two weeks to a year the splat/group/sphere/game imploded or atrophied or whatever and I just went back into hibernation.

It’s really only something that I’m thinking about how that the question is in front of me.

@Tez said in Bugs and Features:

@tieflinguist It was NOT bc of the registration issue; it was because you were a new user and didn’t have THE REP for it. It should be fixed now. pls let me know.

Editing works now. Thank you!

@Pavel the Delamain av really sells this more than you might have planned

@Tributary said in A Constructive Arx Thread:

@tieflinguist We’re constructing humor.