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Re: LOVE
Thank you to everyone who supported me on the grind to 200. I had been chipping away at it at my own pace but the last couple of weeks where I was bashing for 16 hours a day have been particularly hard and the support in whatever form it took, whether it was with knives, chocolates, chatting, or just listening to me gripe about the grind really, really helped. There are too many of you to list, but I really do appreciate you all.
Czcienn
11
Re: Quotes & Misquotes: Falling Off of Bridges
Motrec has been bludgeoned to death by a warbling hobgobbler.
Location: Before the ruined skull of a massive wyrm
(Bloodloch): Motrec says, "...We won't speak about how I got killed by a gobbler twice."
A warbling hobgobbler shouts, "Gobble gobble gobble gobble!"
You pointedly say nothing at all.
You shout, "WHERE ARE YOU?!"
As if responding to your question, the tremulous tones of a warbling hobgobbler sound in your mind: "GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE!!!!"
You are afflicted with stun.
You are too stunned to be able to do anything.
You are no longer stunned.
You have cured stun.
"Wow!" you exclaim in surprise.
Location: Before the ruined skull of a massive wyrm
(Bloodloch): Motrec says, "...We won't speak about how I got killed by a gobbler twice."
A warbling hobgobbler shouts, "Gobble gobble gobble gobble!"
You pointedly say nothing at all.
You shout, "WHERE ARE YOU?!"
As if responding to your question, the tremulous tones of a warbling hobgobbler sound in your mind: "GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE!!!!"
You are afflicted with stun.
You are too stunned to be able to do anything.
You are no longer stunned.
You have cured stun.
"Wow!" you exclaim in surprise.
Tetchta
12
Re: Chaos Lord and Transparency
I like finding fun RP wherever possible.
So, I had to do this and of course, it took a little convincing to get him to agree to meet.
(Tells): You tell Rhyot, "Shall I hunt you down then instead of the politeness of agreeing to a mutual meeting?"
Shadows around Rhyot dim the surroundings as he steps in from the west.
Rhyot appears irritated as the sun bears down upon him.
Rhyot raises an eyebrow questioningly.
You smile at Rhyot.
Rhyot appears irritated as the sun bears down upon him.
You give a black rose to Rhyot.
You start to wield an orb sigil in your left hand.
You cock back your arm and throw an orb sigil at Rhyot.
Rhyot appears irritated as the sun bears down upon him.
Rhyot raises an eyebrow questioningly.
You ponder Rhyot's profile, deep in consideration.
Prince "Shadowlord" Rhyot Bahir'an, Warlord of Chaos says, "First time someone has tried that."
Rhyot ponders the situation.
You say, "I suppose you're not that kind of Warlord of Chaos."
Prince "Shadowlord" Rhyot Bahir'an, Warlord of Chaos says, "No. I'm better."
Rhyot taps his nose knowingly.
The corners of your mouth turn up as you grin mischievously.
You say, "Maybe a bigger sigil."
So, I had to do this and of course, it took a little convincing to get him to agree to meet.
(Tells): You tell Rhyot, "Shall I hunt you down then instead of the politeness of agreeing to a mutual meeting?"
Shadows around Rhyot dim the surroundings as he steps in from the west.
Rhyot appears irritated as the sun bears down upon him.
Rhyot raises an eyebrow questioningly.
You smile at Rhyot.
Rhyot appears irritated as the sun bears down upon him.
You give a black rose to Rhyot.
You start to wield an orb sigil in your left hand.
You cock back your arm and throw an orb sigil at Rhyot.
Rhyot appears irritated as the sun bears down upon him.
Rhyot raises an eyebrow questioningly.
You ponder Rhyot's profile, deep in consideration.
Prince "Shadowlord" Rhyot Bahir'an, Warlord of Chaos says, "First time someone has tried that."
Rhyot ponders the situation.
You say, "I suppose you're not that kind of Warlord of Chaos."
Prince "Shadowlord" Rhyot Bahir'an, Warlord of Chaos says, "No. I'm better."
Rhyot taps his nose knowingly.
The corners of your mouth turn up as you grin mischievously.
You say, "Maybe a bigger sigil."
Aloli
5
Aetolia GUI
Hello, as promised on the Sunder Discord...
eta: Make sure if you're using this with sunder, do disable Sunder's gui.
Courtesy (and with permission) of Zulah, in Achaea, I have made his GUI work in Aetolia (may be a hiccup or two, I'm not yet 100% familiar with his code).
This is a suite of prebuilt movable, resizable, saveable, style-able, generally able individual windows. A short display of it can be seen here.
Download is available here.
Right click on the menu bar area of any window to bring up the window options.
Double Click the area highlighted blue in this picture to switch the window back and forth from a userwindow to an adjustable window
If and WHEN you lose a window and can't find it. use zshow
4 Aliases: ZSHOW and ZSTYLE being the most important:
zgui - refreshes the entire gui. Should never need but included.
zguis - Open this alias and change the font sizes you want to use for each window, Then run the alias to update
zshow - Show a window you've closed or can no longer find for some reason.
zstyle - Change the look of the gui, colors, borders, etc
I'd strongly suggest reading through his actual thread here, for more information.
Current Included Windows:
Chat
Map
Balances
Exp
Logger
Prompt window
Allies
Enemies
Afflictions (currently not working)
AffLock (also not yet working, soon!)
Target Afflictions (Requires Sunder to function)
Players in Room (Requires Sunder ndb, because it highlights the names. Easily adjustable, though.)
Denizens in Room
Items in Room
Screenshots (from Zulah):
My own setup in Aetolia:
eta: Make sure if you're using this with sunder, do disable Sunder's gui.
Courtesy (and with permission) of Zulah, in Achaea, I have made his GUI work in Aetolia (may be a hiccup or two, I'm not yet 100% familiar with his code).
This is a suite of prebuilt movable, resizable, saveable, style-able, generally able individual windows. A short display of it can be seen here.
Download is available here.
Right click on the menu bar area of any window to bring up the window options.
Double Click the area highlighted blue in this picture to switch the window back and forth from a userwindow to an adjustable window
If and WHEN you lose a window and can't find it. use zshow
4 Aliases: ZSHOW and ZSTYLE being the most important:
zgui - refreshes the entire gui. Should never need but included.
zguis - Open this alias and change the font sizes you want to use for each window, Then run the alias to update
zshow - Show a window you've closed or can no longer find for some reason.
zstyle - Change the look of the gui, colors, borders, etc
I'd strongly suggest reading through his actual thread here, for more information.
Current Included Windows:
Chat
Map
Balances
Exp
Logger
Prompt window
Allies
Enemies
Afflictions (currently not working)
AffLock (also not yet working, soon!)
Target Afflictions (Requires Sunder to function)
Players in Room (Requires Sunder ndb, because it highlights the names. Easily adjustable, though.)
Denizens in Room
Items in Room
Screenshots (from Zulah):
My own setup in Aetolia:
Deva
5
Re: Useful QoL Code
So someone may have made/shared one of these already, but I got tired of my emotes being borked in super dumb ways, so I coded a couple aliases and a function that basically replaces "em thing" with "preview thing" and gives you a couple options from there. You can click "YES!" and it will send the emote, or you can enter "confirm emote" and send that, both accomplish the same thing. I just figured "confirm emote" would be good for people with shittier mice or people who just prefer to type. I think it works with all emote tokens without breaking. Here's an example:
Edit: and on last minute decided to test, yeah it works with (), if you're a weirdo that still uses those.
edit edit: if you're a habitual "emote" instead of "em" user, just head to the emote_preview_code alias and change the "em" to an "emote"
Edit: and on last minute decided to test, yeah it works with (), if you're a weirdo that still uses those.
edit edit: if you're a habitual "emote" instead of "em" user, just head to the emote_preview_code alias and change the "em" to an "emote"
Tetchta
5
Announce post #3264: Sermon Milestone Change
11/21/2021 at 3:14
Ictinus, the Architect
Everyone
Sermon Milestone Change
Hi folks,
As of today, we've reduced the reward on the sermon milestone from 2 keys to 1. Normally I'd put this change on the changelog instead of posting, but we've been talking about doing something here for a while and I wanted to explain our reasoning.
I've noticed a pervasive trend lately where sermons are being held only for the milestone reward with almost no roleplay or interaction surrounding them - by making this an optimal way of earning daily credits, I think it cheapens what should be a meaningful activity.
God worship is an extremely rp-centric thing, and I would like to see sermons used more for that purpose than something people feel obligated to do in order to earn their rewards.
Penned by my hand on Gosday, the 5th of Severin, in the year 499 MA.
Ictinus, the Architect
Everyone
Sermon Milestone Change
Hi folks,
As of today, we've reduced the reward on the sermon milestone from 2 keys to 1. Normally I'd put this change on the changelog instead of posting, but we've been talking about doing something here for a while and I wanted to explain our reasoning.
I've noticed a pervasive trend lately where sermons are being held only for the milestone reward with almost no roleplay or interaction surrounding them - by making this an optimal way of earning daily credits, I think it cheapens what should be a meaningful activity.
God worship is an extremely rp-centric thing, and I would like to see sermons used more for that purpose than something people feel obligated to do in order to earn their rewards.
Penned by my hand on Gosday, the 5th of Severin, in the year 499 MA.
Announce post #3267: Aetolia Survey!
11/23/2021 at 1:07
Ictinus, the Architect
Everyone
Aetolia Survey!
Hi folks!
As we get close to the end of the year, I'm starting to pull ideas together for 2022 and I'm looking for some feedback in order to start getting a plan in place.
I've created the following Google form with a bunch of questions, please feel free to fill it in and leave comments!
The form can be found here: https://forms.gle/eiiEkt6LHMn9otxL9
Thanks!
Penned by my hand on Kinsday, the 16th of Severin, in the year 499 MA.
Ictinus, the Architect
Everyone
Aetolia Survey!
Hi folks!
As we get close to the end of the year, I'm starting to pull ideas together for 2022 and I'm looking for some feedback in order to start getting a plan in place.
I've created the following Google form with a bunch of questions, please feel free to fill it in and leave comments!
The form can be found here: https://forms.gle/eiiEkt6LHMn9otxL9
Thanks!
Penned by my hand on Kinsday, the 16th of Severin, in the year 499 MA.
Re: Announce post #3264: Sermon Milestone Change
100% agree with change. They seemingly only ever occurred 5 minutes after Howling. Since that is basically "Wjoltyr never gets to play time," I never got to see sermons except in very rare circumstances. Good change.
Also, I have no idea which deity to follow.
>market "WTB: a deity to follow. Send tells with information please!"
Also, I have no idea which deity to follow.
>market "WTB: a deity to follow. Send tells with information please!"
Wjoltyr
5
Re: Mirroring classes? Is this good or bad in your opinion?
Since almost the flavor comes from text, it's really easy to make things divergent as hell. Mirror Frenzy could just as easily be "He opens his mouth and a bunch of tiny flies zip out of his throat and slap you in the face."I see this misconception a lot and I want to take the time to clear it up, because I think it sets up unrealistic expectations for mirrors.
While yes, the mirror version of an ability just needs to perform the exact same mechanics, it also needs to be conceptually similar.
For a very common example, a skill that is described as using voice originally is going to probably need to use voice in its mirror too. There exists a number of afflictions that impede speech for example. It also ensures we leave ourselves room for future changes that introduce new mechanics along a similar vein of thought. As another example, an ability that is described as being magical in nature won't have its mirror counterpart be described as physical.
These aren't hard rules, and we most definitely haven't followed them for every single mirrored ability, but we try to keep it in mind to save ourselves future headaches later on down the road.
To pull apart the mirror Frenzy idea (I know it wasn't a real suggestion, but it serves for illustration purposes), this wouldn't work for a couple of reasons.
(1) It's vaguely magical in nature, while Frenzy is a brute-sourced attack (drawing from your STR stat). Also makes it harder for us to introduce new things that might counter it in the future, if there's a balancing reason to do so. For a kind of bad example, Frenzy might be too strong and we decide to introduce a noodle_arms affliction that reduces its damage, which again isn't going to make sense.
(2) The handtohand_damage artifact affects Frenzy.
(3) Along the same thought, a broken arm stops Frenzy so mouth flies won't make sense there.
Razmael
7
Re: Mirroring classes? Is this good or bad in your opinion?
I was a little skeptical of Mirrors when they were first hinted at, but then I thought about it for five minutes and it makes a ton of sense to me. For one thing, Aetolia has a tooooooooooooon of unique classes as a base, and, in retrospect, it's borderline ridiculous that they ever tried to balance the game for its bazillions of years of running without mirroring.
Aetolia has always been structured as a 1v1 sided game; there's internal complexities and tensions (duiran and eno don't perfectly get along, nor do Spines and BL), but overall, with its small population, that's about as deep as the well can be for conflict axes until we triple our playerbase. The way it was set up before was kinda like trying to play Overwatch where one side can only play as the Overwatch characters and the other only as Talon. Mirrors allow the folk upstairs a way to hand everyone all the available tools without disrupting the entire structure of the game's premise and lore. I love it.
On top of it, it also will nearly double the available options people have to explore their character design and roleplay, and the mirrors are, frankly, objectively cooler than the classes they're mirroring. In short, it's an "easy" way to release a flood of "new" classes into the game without making it feel stale. Mirror classes are one of the best ideas this game has ever had, frankly.
Aetolia has always been structured as a 1v1 sided game; there's internal complexities and tensions (duiran and eno don't perfectly get along, nor do Spines and BL), but overall, with its small population, that's about as deep as the well can be for conflict axes until we triple our playerbase. The way it was set up before was kinda like trying to play Overwatch where one side can only play as the Overwatch characters and the other only as Talon. Mirrors allow the folk upstairs a way to hand everyone all the available tools without disrupting the entire structure of the game's premise and lore. I love it.
On top of it, it also will nearly double the available options people have to explore their character design and roleplay, and the mirrors are, frankly, objectively cooler than the classes they're mirroring. In short, it's an "easy" way to release a flood of "new" classes into the game without making it feel stale. Mirror classes are one of the best ideas this game has ever had, frankly.
Tetchta
6