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Re: Aetherspace Bashing Rework Proposal

You seem to have a healthy understanding of the plausibility of your proposals, but some of this does seem pretty neat. :>

Daraius

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Re: Gurashi Draws: An Autobiography

Absolutely incredible! FYI, you're not ever allowed to stop playing, k?

Morgfyre

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Re: Gurashi Draws: An Autobiography

This seems extremely canon to me.

Daraius

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Re: Announce Post #2960: A Roadmap for Lusternia

ElrynGreythane said:

Xenthos said:

..? SSC is one of THE selling points for new players. "You don't need a programming degree to be able to do even the most basic of things." It is a major draw for returning players, too. "What system do I have to buy?" "None, SSC ON!"

Yep, not disputing that. Fixing a couple of very specific cases where it doesn’t perform optimally (aeon, writhe, blackout) is awesome, but not exactly holding anyone back from recommending ssc right now for new players. I could be wrong, but surely people aren’t avoiding playing Lusternia because ssc doesn’t handle writhe/aeon perfectly? I mean, I love ssc as it is personally - even knowing I might gain an edge by switching to a custom system.

SSC is great... but when it breaks it is incredibly offputting. And that can (and has) reduced engagement from people who aren't sure how to go about fixing / working around its shortcomings.

It is also basically the best / only thing on the market so you don't have an alternative.

I do love SSC! It is one of the better things to happen to this game. But leaving it in a partially finished state is not beneficial to anyone. It is well past time to sort it out and make it shine, so it is "SSC, woo!" instead of "SSC, but..."

Xenthos

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Re: Gurashi Draws: An Autobiography

This is absolutely stunning. Thank you, @Gurashi! You nailed what Vira looks like in my head perfectly.

Viravain

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Re: Tweets VIII: Knocks Me Off My Tweet

Merlose said:

Sylandra said:

Miso (not the soup) said:

I just discovered the Hallifax projects. I am dying of laughter that marriage arrangement is the MMA (I just imagine a busy bureaucrat punching you and exlaiming "Why haven't you married yet? The strength of the Collective families relies on you") and that the adoption agency is HALP.

MMA: my joke ministry turned reality. Don’t let your dreams be dreams.

If you've ever dreamed of being a Shevat, Hallifax has two entire ministries to help with whichever route you would prefer!

True story, a recent stage production started with me checking the list of potential actors against CWHO, and realizing they were all of a certain family.

CT: Could all the Shevats come backstage, please?

Kethaera

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Re: Simple questions?

My understanding of critiquing is that it is more meant as a check to make sure people aren't doing obviously terrible stuff (plagiarizing, insane/obviously OOC junk, etc)? I think you may be able to critique for obviously not proofreading for spelling/grammar issues, not sure on that though.

There is a second stage after the critique process where the admin will review the book for a final up/down. I am actually confused as to what occurs here, because if they disagree with it you get told the book was rejected / failed to publish, but admin have also contradicted this by saying it did successfully go through? Regardless, they do review it for final quality control.

If it is just content / writing style, that does not really seem to be critiquable.

Edit: My answer seems to be "not so simple after all."

Xenthos

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Re: Artifact Ideas

Mini shrines/totems/fetish imbued with the resonance of the Seals that allow you to perform Karma Blessings anytime, anywhere, so long as you have the karma to do so. Save a trip to the caves!

Could either be one expensive item or one for each seal (or both)

Misericorde

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Re: Announce Post #2960: A Roadmap for Lusternia

Fair enough, thanks for answering!

Edit: And just to be clear, I am extremely appreciative of some of the non-PvP changes that have already been implemented - turning off affinity was awesome, the new divine flavourtext stuff looks brilliant, recent family changes sound great and I guess there’s a small chance that revisiting end-game activities could potentially cater to some non-PK player styles as well (I don’t really know what endgame is outside of the various pvp competitive systems).

So I will continue to look forward to every changelog, hoping that trend continues!

ElrynGreythane

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Re: Lack of Raves VI: Rave Today, Tweet Tomorrow

Definitely the most exciting Roarkian of my Lusternian career. What a night.

Daraius

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