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Jules
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I really, really like this show - and I don't even watch any shows, so this is special! Your feelings are now validated! But seriously, just when I worry that it's going to get too cutesy or cringey or formulaic (which would disappoint me because …
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I feel like it's already too late in most games (especially this one), but lots of great, widely available out of the box systems basically rob people of the chance to improve themselves, especially if they're a real offense. You could make an argu…
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I actually don't even know that person (that I quoted). I was just reading her post from the link along with posts from the other Nighthawks. It's as if Regina George and the whole Plastics crew took up text gaming. "YOU CAN'T SLIT WITH US".
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Never caused any issues for who? I can't imagine this not causing issues.
Let's give a small group of players an incredibly powerful ability with huge potential for abuse. Let's ALSO make it a secret society/cool kids/invite only club w… -
Someone told me all about the Nighthawks at length a little while back, before we found out MKO was going to be gone
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On the one hand, this seems like it has the possibility to be amazingly better than a simple timer that just clocks last not defense/not healing related action. On the other hand, I am super afraid it might be really, really hard to implement well.…
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Yeah, there is pretty much never any point to yelling back and forth on forums that the other side is bringing too much firepower. You can really only try to build in some sanity checks (hey, what does the other side actually have right now? Are t…
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I don't think it's stupid to try.
If you have a couple of strong leaders and you sort of train your players to not ALL just show up to every fight, you can definitely get better matched teams (which would be partly, but certainly not en… -
Here's what I'd pay good money for - something that is "pretty good" (I realize that is an incredibly vague standard), and is also extremely well commented, and that I can tinker with and pick apart without being a professional coder. Something tha…
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Vaskar, what they mean is that a really traditional "good" char can be fairly stifling in some ways. If you are "ethical and honorable" even to enemies, you then have to honor that.
I think it is actually a poor choice over the long hau… -
Because not nearly enough people are that conscientious (and some are even pretty honest about that). A player activated flag has already come up several times in this thread (and other threads I dug through) and it's just not something that is goi…
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The bashing thing should definitely be ignored, yes. There is something I am missing about what the average player means by "manual".
EDIT: I love your long edit windows, I was able to remove the bashing stuff from that post, which shou… -
Zsadist, I am the world's worst RP-er, heh. In fact, if I am honest about it, I HATE RP (or certainly, I hate a lot of "serious" MUD RP) and have a pretty serious complex about it. If there is one thing that is definitely NOT happening, at least f…
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I don't care if you AFK. I just don't want to be the idiot that talks to someone who isn't even there. Lots of people don't.
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I'd like to talk a little bit more about what this might look like in practice, even though it's a super simple idea at its core.
Review of basic idea: the gray "idle" color shows up on CWHO, GWHO, OWHO, WHO, WEB MEMBERS and uh... any ot… -
Do you mean greyed out on the website? I don't think that would be the plan. That IS a bad idea.
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(Quote) I can. I mean, once you are seriously making a suggestion (even a seemingly innocuous one, that someone else came up with, that quite a few people seemed to like), you'd better buckle in. I am more surprised some other people are as bemu…
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(Quote) You didn't clarify that you were responding to older posts until your third paragraph. I did catch it though, and responded in kind (before you made this post).
And I mean, I've had to repeat several times that the flag isn't… -
You can still idle to your heart's content... I don't know how to make that clearer. YOU CAN STILL IDLE (it always works if you say it louder).
The only difference is that the poor schmuck who just tried to talk to you (not necessarily Y… -
It really is starting to feel like some people want the whole cake and eat it. If you want to watch TV or read, the WORST thing that is going to happen is that people are going to see you're maybe not fully there at the moment. It is not a punishm…
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You don't "turn on" this flag. It just turns itself on when you are idle. It is different than you are thinking.
Many of the things that people currently do to keep from being logged off could probably still serve to keep you from being… -
(Quote) The only thing I want really is just "now I don't have to feel like an idiot talking to what might as well be an NPC right now". Or at least, LESS of that.
EDIT: to be perfectly clear I am not even remotely trying to stop/puni… -
Oh it isn't just here. I'd love to see this in a couple of games (it seems like such a simple, easy thing to ask for), and yet, I bet people would absolutely freak (which is why if I do ask for it there I will probably ask admin directly and hope f…
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Yeah, that is why I wasn't leaving it up to them. They'd just hit a certain point of idleness and be marked gray. Like, that is IT. You check cwho or w/e and guy's name is gray... Probably also a few tweaks to address the concern of being automat…
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I see zero problems with a non-punitive flag system.
None of the things you are bringing up are problems. If someone doesn't want to talk to me now (or ever), that's fine, but no, I don't want to send communication into what may or may n… -
You could still TOTALLY do that though... No infringement on floating whatsoever.
It just means no one will waste their time saying "hey, Rashar, long time no see, what's up"? *crickets*in AFK Comment by Jules August 2016
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Why? There is absolutely nothing even minutely punitive about the suggestion.
I mean, there is one kind of person I can see having a problem with it - and that is the person who actually kind of enjoys the idea that people might try to… -
Yeah, my thought was to let people not get logged out automatically unless they really want to. At that point, if someone is going out of their way to mark themselves as "present" when they really aren't, you can easily write them off as "why bothe…
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If people want to make "keep not marked AFK" things, that is fine. I am not sure why being subtly grayed out to indicate they are AFK would bother someone that much in our games today, but if they mark themselves "not-AFK" and I talk to them and th…
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People won't use a flag they have to activate themselves. Or, not nearly enough people will. It's kind of crap, but they just won't. I dug through a decent number of old to newish threads on AFK-ing, and player activated flags did come up, both a…