Things this place should have...
Admin beware...coding involved.

1.  Recognize:  A command used to recognize a person you do not know.  An example being.  

A young man with black hair is standing here.

"So sir, what's your name?"

A young man with black hair replies coyly, "I am Damarung...who're you?"

recog 'young' Damarung

Damarung, a young man with black hair is standing here.

Booyah, this gets rid of the entire issue with logins...now the name you give is the name they see.

2.  Removal of all socials besides pose and emotes.  Force the players to actually express their characters more.  It seems a harsh way to do things, but shortly, and I mean shortly you'd be writing entire books.  I've learned from another Moo this is much more invlolving and so much more roleplay is achieved.

3.  Remove the automated combat system when versing PC's  and instead introduce a turn based system where a person emotes where their attack is going then rolls to try and attack that bodypart, example being:

Damarung brings his blade over his head and swings heavily, in hopes the blade connects with (random PC's) head.

kill (PC) head

You swing and miss.

(Random PC) jumps to the side, barely dodging Damarung's hefty swing and gripping Damarung by the wrist, brings his fist to swing low for a gutshot.

kill Damarung body

Simple and VERY effective.  Think on it.

I personally like to toss in poses when I am in combat, things outside just the messages. It's a happy medium between the two.

Funny when we get these kinds of posts though. Thx for the laughs.

socials *shrugs* I could leave em as much as take em

And stonemonk, don't know you but, I can take a bullshit emote a little better than someone pwning me because of some lame coded excuse not to make things better.  Jump three feet if you want, still comes down to the roll, the supplement.

For you Iga I say, keep the stats.  I'm not suggesting removing them, they would be what is required to determine if you actually hit or not.  One person emotes their attack and where they're aiming.  Then, they type kill blah bodypart so their char attacks that area.  Head and limbs being more difficult to hit.  If the attack connects, calculated by those nifty stats, then the person who was hit emotes and retorts in the same fashion...its all really quite simple.

But make fun...thats fine, let SD crumble if you'd like.  We've all bared witness to you all leaving for long periods of time and coming back to do nothing...other than the grid being fixed there's no reason to applaud any of you.  I'm sorry but...that's just how I've come to feel about the lax administration of this dying moo.  There will be no further reply from me, you've all made it apparently clear you can't even appreciate a simple idea that would help this place.

but I think that the combat system you're suggesting would be really boring.  I for one would avoid combat as much as possible if that sort of thing was implemented.

Quote: from Damarung on 1:14 am on Jan. 29, 2007[br]And the one I forgot.

The lovely background system...get rid of that rediculous junk.  I'm currently at a moo that is not CP in any way but blows SD out of the waters, despite the sadness that brings its the truth.  This place is hindered by backgrounds.  As if the admin ever use them for anything anyway.

Sorry man, me and you got a long real well while you were here, but i'm calling bullshit on this one.

Most of my characters have had pretty intense histories. And most of my characters, the ones who wanted to dig up their past for whatever reason, were greeted with lots of cool stuff from their past. It's a give give situation. The GMs sole purpose is not to make the game better for you, but for everyone. If you wanted them to do something from your past, you should initiate it. It is very possible to do that, and then the GMs decide on what from your past should come back to haunt you.

As a GM elseMoo, I find that histories are an integral part of a player/character bonding experience. It helps the player get  sense of where that character is mentally and emotionally which should determine all his/her actions in game. It lets the GMs know the same thing and gives them ideas. Maybe they didn't do shit with your history, maybe they did and you didn't bite. But getting rid of it is just assinine.

-tool

The recognize command is interesting and been discussed before. Further discussion may see something like this implemented.

As for your disgust with histories. I never once saw a 6 page history on your character or any other character for that matter. Most people who want to do something concerning their history bring it up with an admin and discuss what can or can't be done. There are many players who have had things in their histories come in the game. Just because you haven't witnessed it, doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

It's quite obvious you're bitter. I know your character was getting fucked around and believe it or not I stepped in a number of times behind the scenes to try to get things turned around for him. So, this is where I take great offense at the administration being called lax. Sure we all have our bad days, weeks, months.. but many of us are still around at different hours of the day attempting to make things a bit more interesting for our valued playerbase.

Yes, there are cheaters around and trigger use is against the rules. Macros are available to anyone in game. If you believe somebody is using client-side triggers/macros to get an advantage, that is breaking our rules and you should have brought it up with the administration.

There is also no rule against players engaging in a turn-based RP'd combat situation. Ask the admin to assist and we'll deal out damage based on your stats/skills. We've done this a number of times for certain situations (although no large battle sequences that I'm aware of yet).

I'm tired of people voicing their problems and complaints after it is too late, then getting mad when nothing was done. If I don't know there's a problem, then how the hell am I going to get it fixed?

Everyone go read @rules again and use xhelp if you have a concern/complaint/issue/need help with an RP situation

Anyway, back to the point I was getting at, you've had a nice run with your character as far as I know.  I for one can say that I've enjoyed multiple great RP sessions with him, yet I can also say that in all the years I've played that at one time or another any character I've had has been shafted ICly.  It happens man.  Don't let what happens ICly affect your view of the game overall.  Can you honestly say the bad things that have happened to you here overshadow all the good times you've had?  Take a break, think about it, and as numerous times before come back.

i think i do.

i thought i did a pretty good job of working in plots and RP for you, and while yes, usually they were deflected by a certain unnamed admin, i still worked to make sure you had a good time while we were both on together.

your blanket insult to admin of sindome includes me, and that does sting a bit, seeing i thought we were bein pretty good friends out-MOO.

Dam, c'mon man.. what's behind all this? you said you werent going to respond anymore, but are you still reading? ok, so you're having fun elseMOO.. good. congrats! no one is calling you traitor for it.. its okay..

but believe it or not, things are moving forward here. we've built a game plan for the year, reactivated several previous admin, and are working towards a great accomplishment for the year ahead.

See? you've got several admin, including myself, interested in the recognize command. (i also saw that in a moo core i had downloaded and thought it brilliant and a good way to correct the *name/nickname etc etc etc issue)

shake it off, mano. take a break. enjoy your otherMOO and we'll will be waiting for you when you come back.

*removed the character names and associated nicks. you all know the examples anyway.. if not, find out ic.

(Edited by SoulExistence at 6:18 pm on Jan. 29, 2007)

(Edited by SoulExistence at 6:32 pm on Jan. 29, 2007)

I'm tired of hearing this shit, seriously. I can't say it any better then Kevlar...so TAKE THIS!

What's to argue? Some situations shouldn't be winnable. There's no gaurentee for success, only for failure.

Sindome IS the Kobayashi Maru scenario. You will not survive. Period. Death, destruction, entropy, and failure is inevitable. The only variable is when, and how.

The game is fun because of that! The more powerful you become, the more people envy that power, and will seek to gain it for themselves, and the harder you're going to have to struggle to maintain it. The joy of playing lies in holding off that death and destruction just another day... keeping that power just a little longer.

It's a non-zero-sum game, with no 'good' ending. And the candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long. If you've become so powerful that you're literally indestructable, the game becomes quite pointless and dull (isn't that right, Murphy?). The only thing that keeps it interesting is having to constantly maintain that power. And sometimes that means losing it.

It's not about the destination. It's about the journey.

(Edited by ReeferMadness at 1:28 pm on Jan. 30, 2007)

Quote: from Damarung on 9:14 pm on Jan. 30, 2007[br]I am still reading yes. �And I have some words I'd like to say.

The post started all kind and nice then suddenly I lashed out simply because someone said something I thought was insulting. �I think...even though its pretty fucking personal, that I should explain.

On December 29th of 2006, my mother dissappeared from her home. �Her sleeping pills, and half of her cough medicine were missing...she was found in a field south of Holdenville. �Sadly...she is dead and I have been very alone.

I'm upset...I'm unhappy and I took those frustrations out on everyone here. �I am sorry.

I am soo sorry to hear that, Dam. Really, I am. If you need me, mano, you know where i am. i'm serious, bro.. you wanna talk.. you wanna just play cards or chess or whatever.. lemme know. don't have to be alone.

That said, You probably despised my character both Icly and OOCly, but that was what made it fun for me. It was refreshing to go head to head with a LEO who wasn't completly clueless about his job. You were doin good, then you just up and did your thing, which is fine if that's how you wanted to end it, but there was still so much you could have done. You were a good opponent, and when one of my character partnered with you, a good ally who allways kept me busy. Don't get frustrated man! If someone pisses you off ICly, plot plot plot. IF you can't get em, get an army of other motherfuckers to do it. Find some way to ruin their name, nything. Just don't get pissed and walk away. I admit, I did something simmilar after a heated argument with an admin, but I kept my character on the hold just incase. But good luck with whatever comes your way bro.

...it's like shit I would have posted 5 years ago (if hadn't gotten myself banned) has somehow fallen out of Lotus' head.

I blame Bishop.

I tire of such comments.  I love SD, and that's why I'm an admin.  I don't have nearly as much fun doing adminly things as I do actually -playing- my character.  

It's a half in half out kind of thing that I've seen happen so every active character who's player has become an admin.  Iga's, Chaos's, Mine.

All great characters that did a lot for the game, but when you become an admin, you just don't have as much time to devote to it.  We talk about 'getting into the mind of your character' thats whats really fun for me, getting into the mind of my character and being -him- for awhile.  

But, when your puppeting on the admin side, and RPing your character on the player side, and writing descriptions or whatever, you can't get into the head of your character as well if at all..

So, why do I continue to admin?  Or why don't I just play Seven one day, and admin the next?

Because it's not that easy, all the players need and deserve attention, both positive and negative, and I want to give it too them to keep the game progressing, to keep people enjoying and playing the game..

But really, the BEST RP is the RP you MAKE ON YOUR OWN.

Recently theres been a player who has done a -lot- on there own.  'More then when I was a GM' as he puts it.  And I agree, he's done a lot.  We can't do everything as admin, we can only push things in one direction or another, or put forward situations that make your characters make a decision.  We don't always know whats going to happen next, it's not static, so if you want something to go one way, RP YOUR ASS OFF, and make it happen!

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