Another weekend comes by, so some more time to work on this. I'm trying to decide what some useful generalist (non-class) skills would be to put in the default hotbar.
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This is basically inevitable for all of the cities in the present situation, for certain commodities. The rate of consumption vastly outstrips the rate of production. Whether it'll be a hard crash, who knows, but likely not. But it's in…
In my experience (admittedly some time ago) scientific writing for peer review or just journals in particular is less about quality of the actual work and more of adherence to accepted formats and networking with people. It's why I was glad I only …
Sacrifice a goat to the mudlet gods, and hope that it actually loads all your modules properly. It's been the struggle of people trying to use my UI as well. Mudlet just drops thing sometimes.
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The same reason Facebook and Twitter are so massive despite the fact that large amounts of their user base clamour for improvements or something better: the network effect. It's where everyone is. So that's where everyone gravitates towa…
Allowing neutrality mechanically would remove consequence, not add it, so it would seem at odds with the "player responsibility" angle. Imperian's experiences with it teach that it's not a good conflict generator. Celidon has put it's head in the …
It's a present too, but yeah, naming names and turning this into a personal flamewar hardly helps progress matters. Any conflict system that doesn't also want to become a griefing system needs to have safeties, and I think relying on the players to…
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If your focus in game development is on making the losers suffer, well that cultivates a certain type of community, that, if I desired that kind of competition, I'd just play League. Your community in many ways reflects the conscio…
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Saying that something cannot have meaningful rewards and also be fun basically flies in the face of the entire gaming industry so much I don't even know where to start rebutting the point.
I deal with that kind of stuff on a sort of "off again, on again" basis. Well, I don't really deal with that, I guess is the thing. Like, having someone on the Discord tell me to f- off? Yeah, I'm just going to go. My tolerance for that kind of …
I've decided a good thing to do would be to populate the hotbar with some good things to have if you're classless, and then just override them with class specific things for those that have a class. This way, the hotbar defaults to some semi-helpfu…
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Forcing people to participate when they didn't want to, in some ill-advised drive to "get numbers up" is exactly what killed Imperian's PK community dead. Why is it a negative thing that only people interested in the mechanic engage in it…
Some documentation cleanup in the code and also some general fixup of depreciated stuff and whatnot tonight. Mostly just getting in the swing of things again.
It's been a month now of government bureaucracy trying to get home care so I don't have to essentially be in the hospitall the rest of my life and it doesn't look like things are going to be resolved anytime soon. The thing is, basically every doct…
Going to return to this soonish I think. First order of business will be to cope with the times it tries to bash off-balance. I'll also add multi-targetting (with the long-term aim of some form of semi-automatic bashing). The archivist hotbar stu…
Tina raises an important point that I think gets glossed over - it takes a trivial amount of time to defile a shrine, especially if you're hunting already anyways. It takes an appreciable amount of time to raise shrines to replace those that have b…
Unless you're in a holy war, you really shouldn't be able to defile IMO. People so often just wait around until god-knows-when in the morning and then do stuff like that to annoy people.