#HBC | ѕoup

I am too. =(

Oh ?

heh sorry to say im a bit mafiad out for the time being

There we go! :D

Yes you are; send a picture and a room description to either me or Xiivi via PM and it'll get done. =)

I've done better gay Rockin stories, but mine are obviously all true!

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Do you live in a gay brothel?

oh yeah, and don't be vague in descriptions/action resolution. People need lots of information about their surroundings. In AIM people can ask for clarifications but even a decently active mod will slow their game right the **** down if that becomes necessary in a PBP game. More than needed >>> not enough

Basically you're doing it wrong if you finish your update and people don't have an astute idea of the setting, layout, how they are situated within the layout, what is around them, what they can see etc. At the same time try not to make your descriptions give people hints. If there's a gun hidden out of sight they should still have to look before they find it for example. Or say there's a particularly easy way out of a scenario, like at the zombie bar thing, maybe it would be finding a way onto the roof from the second floor and then hopping to the next roof. It's easy to hint that too much in the descriptions. Just make it natural; consider the five senses and try to give them a clear picture of what's going on as though they're actually in that situation and you should be fine.

Glyph usually includes maps in his games, including semi-realtime updates of positioning during climactic fight situations. Since you're doing a PBP that might be a good idea as again you have more time to prepare your updates.

I have nothing of value to say. I've never run a play by post AGame, only AIM AGames.

I guess I'll just tell you what problems I've seen in other PBPAGames.

Mod unreliability. This is a huge one. Heroics died because M3D was constantly breaking his promises about when he would update things, which made it hard to maintain the interest (or generally giving a ****) necessary to be around when he finally got around to it.

Mod inactivity. This is similar to the above but not the same. Mods need to be very very active for a PBPAGame or it's going to feel like you're putting your actions in the mail and waiting for a return letter, which is again going to cripple interest. M3D had too much going on to run Heroics and thus the game was doomed to fail even if he did update whenever possible.

Design. If it's not run on AIM, you can't have any competitive elements whatsoever or it's just not going to balance or be fair. Glyph played a PBP pokemon AGame in the DR. It was terribly designed, because even when making conversation with shopkeepers or NPCs to get information -- useful information that obviously no one else would be aware of but him -- everything was played out in the thread. You can try to circumvent this by allowing PM actions like Eor did for The Thing but then it just becomes a cluster**** of when to do things by PM and when to do them in the thread. To muddy. Doesn't work. Also even in a cooperative game you probably need everyone to be in the same area at all times, or separated into groups by thread ala Heroics, because the thing I mentioned about Glyph's situation applies just as much to cooperative situations... if Eor is in the process of getting mugged and Tom is in his group but physically separated in the game world Tom shouldn't know that it's happening. So make something simple. Like everybody's at a bar at zombies attack or some **** I don't know.

Tell people a ton of information about the flavor of the game and gameplay before you make them sign up or you're going to get a ton of people who sign up and end up not all that interested.

Also ZV's game was a fun little thing but freedom is important in an AGame. Multiple choice gets boring as hell, particularly when reasoning out actions becomes based on some arbitrary and esoteric personal metric instead of logic and reason.

Use random.org for some things, but sparingly. Only for what can't be reasoned out by logic and needs to have random chance in effect. I played a non-PBP AGame that was overly reliant on randomization and it was awful. For a good example, I used random.org to resolve things like gunshots/gunfights in Batman (did he get hit by any bullets? Did it strike armor plating or a seam?) but strictly logic for things like hand to hand combat. It's very easy to make a new metric for each situation by just thinking quickly. For example when people are in a gunfight with assault rifles and whatever I use random.org on a 1-100 thing, where the values where you get shot and how critical it is depend on the skill of the character. A terrible marksman will only get hit values from around 80-100 and only critical hits at like 94+ if they're shooting each other at a reasonable distance, while an excellent marksman is going to get at least 50-100 for hit values and a much wider critical hit umbrella if the gun is accurate/well-sighted/maintenanced/etc. It's hard to think of what your values are going to be quickly when you have to weigh so many factors but since you're running this by post that won't be an issue at all. And again remember not to get bogged down by randomization. If logic works, just use it. If the Joker is two feet away from a beat cop with a shotgun in an open area with no cover the beat cop is going to get hit. If Hush is right behind the Joker with a gun to the back of his head Joker is going to die. Etc etc.

That's all I've got. Macman has run some PBP games so he's probably better to talk to. Don't think I'm going to play btw

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Good game, Soup. =)

You post like never.

How am I supposed to catch you?!?

SpIn Me ArOuNd

Sorries, I can't join your game.

Happy birthday dude!!!

and now soup is old enough to go to the movies and buy mrated games and jerk off in public places.

Let's /in Laundry's as Illiterate Poetry?

k sounds good

nah, if you have a setup that you want to run go for it.

if you want to run my setup with me then I'll take the spot.

well why didn't you come up with the flavor before? me and ee have been talking about me hosting it for awhile...

i mean sure you can co-mod but its gonna be my setup and errthing...

but you need to play in it!

half life.

full. life. CONSEQUENCES

okay be sure to talk to me then.

when is the next time you can get on aim or skype to talk about reads?

the aim didnt work or ur not online or something

since you seem to care
setup has pretty much been approved, I'm going to Lake Michigan tomorrow (and it probably won't be very fun because it's so freaking hot) and after that I'll try to finish drawing the pokemon, and send out role PMs tomorrow.

Tell your friends!

give you a time? maybe a few days idk

setup may or may not be done, but tom has to approve it first

i love the Tony Kornheiser pics

Oh no! You've revealed a dark part of my history

I was actually in two other clans.... but I don't think anyone remembers...

Hmm... Yes. It appears so.

you should bug Bio to add you to the exception list for his plugin thing

can u get on aim?

Souuuuuuuup make me some soup : D

Were you able to get past this?

"when i tried making a new account, i got this -

The following errors occurred during your registration

You are not allowed to register multiple accounts on this forum."

Are you replacing out of Dexter Mafia or not?

dont use the same email...

You don't need his permission. To activate the account to post in dGames you need to send him a VM asking him to with the link to the account already created and the names of the two players needed to hydra.

get on aim

now

yo soupaderp, im on kaillera

wuts ur aim