@Warma-Sheen said in MU Peeves Thread:

Fully serious question. How do you really expect staff to build a limited number of places people want to go to when you have a constantly shifting player base who all want different things?

Great question!

So having just opened a game myself (ahaha lol screaming), my original plan was to just do one big room per area. The game itself is an ocean with a bunch of island city states, so I was like “One room per city state, boom, done”. Because at the end of the day, descing 40+ rooms just felt like a chore to me.

MY GOOD FRIEND @Nilli was more into descing out spaces, so she went ahead and did I want to say like 3 rooms per city state. And they’re, I think pretty classic MU hang out spots.

If we need more spaces, or players want them, it’s easy to build them out. We’re operating on Ares, it’s super convenient.

And I guess I should clarify when I say I don’t like big grid games, it comes down to that I personally don’t want to build a giant grid of rooms all at once, or have a room of dead business and empty apartment buildings. That said, I also specifically created a game where that’s more or less not a thing that’ll happen super often.

But otherwise, yeah. I can ignore the rooms that are used less often, it’s not the end of the world.

@Jumpscare said in MU Peeves Thread:

in 2 years

Oh my god has it been open that long? I feel like we were JUST reading posts about you developing it. Two years is great, congratulations!

@Jenn said in MU Peeves Thread:

@MisterBoring

I guess, for me, I don’t assume that staff has ever written a grid so THEY can tell stories. A grid has the basics so that characters less familiar with the setting have ideas and places to congregate, the concept of where are folks most likely to gather. Putting together a bar, diner, movie theater, park, etc for the playerbase to run amok from and through.

Yeah, I think this is part of it for me. A lot of rooms aren’t built specifically for storytelling purposes, they’re being built to give folks places to RP in outside of that? Or because staff thinks this is what players want. That they want this kind of immersion, that they want the streets and all the intersections.

I personally am not a fan of big massive grids. I’d rather build exactly the places I think people will go and no streets and call it a day.

Because grid bloat sure is a thing.

Sometimes you don’t know what rooms you’re going to need until you need them. If inspiration strikes and I really want this scene to happen in place A but I don’t have place A, I’ll just do it in a generic room and write the desc into the set.

If someone really wants me to build the room out for later use, yeah, sure. But it’s not going to be priority if I don’t plan on going back there for anything specific.

@Ashkuri said in pvp vs pvp:

People did love beating me up and some loved the threat my group and I posed.

In my time playing a bad guy for a game there were a lot of really great players and then there were some people who were like-- super fixated on how they’d kill my NPC. To the point that I was at my keys like, are you guys okay?

@Pavel You’ve got a good point there.

I know that I shouldn’t be but I’m still always kind of ??? when someone can list all the things they don’t like about how a person ran a game and then be like but if they could just do it better I could play there again.

It’s hard as hell to put these games together and run them, IDK.

@KarmaBum I love him

@dvoraen It was all leading to this moment

@KarmaBum said in AI PBs:

Ben Affleck and Ray Stevenson and clipped them together (very badly) so it looks like they’re kissing

I got this reference

@dvoraen I’m about to have so many snails.

@Snackness I’m so sorry.

I had surgery about a month ago now that has really just jacked my whole life up as I recover. But this weekend I met up with a pair of MU friends and it was a really nice reminder that things are OKAY and fun and enjoyable.

@MisterBoring said in The Magicians:

As far as magic school subgenre of stuff, there are examples of that I do enjoy. Most recently the anime / manga series Mashle. I’ve just never been able to get into the Magicians for whatever reason.

I love Mashle so gd much

@Aria Yeah, same. In general I don’t even really mind when people don’t show up without any warning, it’s kind of whatever. Shit happens. I’ve just noticed it happening more often lately and with the addition of not reaching out before or after. Just sort of EH behavior in general.

No call, no shows to stuff. RL comes first, but your GM or RP partner is also a real person.

RPing with someone who you can do comedy with and is able to roll with your dumb one liners as you giggle to yourself.

@Nilli you know who you are

dear lord lol

people with small boobs can also be very sexy they are not un-boob’d