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itt we are john titorto be fair guys, the future he described looked completely implausible at the time, and now it looks pretty similar to what he said. the difference is we didn’t have the added stress of y2k, which he said he changed for us, remember? 9/11 isn’t enough to cause civil war yet. maybe the war just got moved ahead more? i could see his predictions coming true soon, right? (view post) |
12/01/2007 | |
Time to end it?i’ve decided to wait another day, just to spite you jerks. no one takes me seriously. (view post) |
11/29/2007 | |
It's Live Tonight - Forumwarz: The RebalancingBad poetry is doing more than it used to. Everything else is of course doing less. I do feel like I’m getting a lot more dodging now, although I’d prefer to see more effect per point of defense in damage reduction. I do notice a difference between low and high ego in my attack, which is good, which likely means that each point in attack is worth a fair bit. The worth of defense per point just seems lower. Did you do the math, with chance of missing + ego deflected, to see the average ego each point of defense saves? (view post) |
11/29/2007 | |
It's Live Tonight - Forumwarz: The RebalancingWith the decrease to the attack buff on low ego, will it still be a noticeable increase? No more doubling/tripling of damage, yeah, sure, but a couple extra points of damage may not be worth it…
Another thing that could be done to nerf emos would be to make the forum damage much more random, so that we might be tempted to risk going lower than we should. (view post) |
11/28/2007 | |
Time to end it?anyone with me? warm bathtub, down the road. who’s in? (view post) |
11/28/2007 | |
the pessimists aren't big enoughthis thread is so like rain on your wedding day. i love that song, in as much as i’m capable of loving anything. which i’m not. because i was abused. (view post) |
11/27/2007 | |
Why?i wish people like cyst wouldn’t toy with my feelings like that. i mean, i expect it from the misanthropes, but from u? it hurts so much. i knew i was right not to accept your friend request. you’d only stab me in the back later, like everyone else. (view post) |
11/27/2007 | |
**** TRAPPED IN THE CUPBOARDIt was so freaking hard to get all those points. I mean, figuring out what to do wasn’t that hard… there’s only so many objects in the game after all. It’s the bloody parser.
I suffered, you suffer. No walkthrough. (view post) |
11/27/2007 | |
Bob's Abortion Clinic...you should try to get along. there’s enough pain in the world already. can’t you visualize peace?
the less people in the world the better though. i can sorta understand the op. (view post) |
11/26/2007 | |
Random Upkeep Complainti don’t know about u, but my piercings in game require repair almost every single forum i visit. (view post) |
11/26/2007 | |
Why?just… just why? why must everything exist? torment, pain… these envelope everything. the pleasure in cutting does not balance out the pain it brings. the world is tipping… tipping…
why? (view post) |
11/26/2007 | |
Where did you get your name from?I wanted my persona to be one of those pretentious know-it-all high school freshmen. I kept hitting the random name generator until it came up with this, which seems to fit the idea. (view post) |
11/26/2007 | |
Higher Level Mechanics (Ideas)These are not “PLEASE IMPLEMENT THIS NOW” suggestions. More long term brainstorming for levels 20-69. Maybe even 30-69.
One of the worst things a game like this can do is become stale, and the best way for a game to become stale is for the high levels to be exactly the same as the low levels, just with bigger numbers. Low level play -needs- to be different than high level play. You can get around this problem with good enough writing… lord knows that Final Fantasy follows this formula… but why patch up shoddy gameplay with a good story when you can have both?
Right now, you can only pwn forums by basically ****ting it up. Heck, right now, as an emo, I go into these forums and start whining about my love life in a thread discussing, say, fishing limits in north carolina. Now, with forums that don’t really have tight knit communities, and with poor content moderation, I can see that working, as people start ganging up on you, and all the ****ing collapses the place in a big ole pile of psycho-drama. But what about when you find forums with moderators that… *gasp* ...care!?!
If being a simple bumhole could get you banned outright, tactics would need to be changed. At low levels, I think the gameplay should be about the same, but as things get more sophisticated, so should the techniques.
Here’s some ideas in that vein. They should be great timesulative.
Idea 1) “Lurking” to build strength in order to deliver a better killing blow. This could be made a gameplay mechanic by forcing us to pwn threads with n attacks or less, forcing our attack strength to be high enough to pwn it quickly. Too many attacks, and you’re banned. Now, just keeping quiet is no fun, so instead, I’d say that you’d have to pretend to be a valid member of the forum for a little while… and because these forums are all so stupid, doing so would damage your OWN ego. But when you deliver your little bomb of psycho-drama, being a respected member of the community will make your attacks do more.
Basically, you’d have a new meter— forum respect. As you attack, or are attacked, it goes down. As you damage yourself with “blending in” posts, it goes up. Resource management at its finest. You’d of course have to balance this with your desire to require less consumable items though. Maybe more (and more effective) self healing abilities?
Idea 2) Initiating Forum Splits Right now, we’re engaging in flame wars of us versus them. The clbumic flamewar psychodrama though, is where the entire population of the forum becomes polarized, everyone going at it left and right. The mods can’t ban EVERYONE, ‘cause then no one would be left! This would be a little tricky to set up, but I think it could be simulated in game.
Instead of a zero to whatever linear bar, we’d have a balance scale added, in order to show the balance of power between two “factions”. The desired result would be the two factions being evenly matched, for greatest camouflage. What you would be doing is feeding one side of the issue or another, getting a balancing act going on. Forums should start with one side having full power, so you have to work at feeding the other side… and there should also be threshold at which point one side is crushed, forcing you to get past that threshold to even start, requiring a strong attack to begin with… requiring “respect” (idea 1).
Once there’s enough flaming going on around you, you should be able to pwn threads without getting banned. Of course, once you’re allied with a side, pwning threads will shift the balance of power, requiring maintenance there. Using moves to adjust the balance of power wouldn’t pwn threads, but it would get you flamed by the other side.
Idea 3) Politics and Democracy, maybe a little hacking With diligent enough moderators, even these sorts of things can be suppressed, banning topics of discussion entirely. If the moderators were to get into the fight itself, of course, that helps your cause. On lower level forums, they’d automatically get involved. On higher level forums, you need to manipulate things to your advantage.
Best way to do this? Sock puppetry. This may take multiple forum visits (give more forum visits at higher levels to compensate… of course, weaker forums would be worthless to attack at this point). Set up a polarized style attack, not on the forum’s topic of discussion (Star Wars vs Star Trek) but rather on the moderation practices of a mod. Get a mod replaced, preferably by your sock puppet. Resume as normal.
This would be almost a “stealth game” type thing, failure on having your sock puppets discovered.
Well, that’s what I can come up with. Any thoughts? Other ideas? (view post) |
11/26/2007 | |
[Spoiler] Different sTalk reply options for a particular missionI just completed the Opheliamammary glandsupp quest, which was an interesting change of pace… basically exchanging some equipment damage and two forum uses for a new attack and a bit of flezz. I have one major complaint though.
My character, an Emo Kid, was making fun of her poetry. I felt like I had suddenly switch clbumes to “Troll”. In general, most of the game text has been pretty good, really immersive and sucking me in, but here, it just broke the illusion. I’m going around writing bad poetry every other attack or so, and yet I’m trashing hers? Heck, my character is the sort the would probably BELONG to the Woe Is Us forum.
Any chance of making some different dialog options for this mission? (view post) |
11/21/2007 | |
What are you drinking now?i’ve been sitting here, pondering this glbum of hemlock after reading socrates and plato, but i’d be more than willing to slip some into you ****ers drinks for making fun of her like that. i mean, if i’m going to go, might as well take you with me, rite? (view post) |
11/16/2007 | |
How to remove blood stains from a white t-shirt.lay off guys. sometimes when things get hard, you just need a little help, you know? its hard being unique. you don’t need to make it worse. youre all the same. (view post) |
11/16/2007 | |
;_; (Scientology :( )hes not the same freind anymore. im so sorry for u. want to od on sleeping pills togetehr? (view post) |
11/15/2007 | |
who wants to roleplayyou guuuuuuuys! you don’t understaaaaaand! theres this deepness to enveloping yourself in the tribulations of an imaginary charcter, and your not gettting it! superman isn’t about hitting things cause superman can do anything except find love and happyness. you should show how much that hurts you. (view post) |
11/15/2007 | |
GOONS Recruitment Threadi’m a goon. i paid my 10bux. Only 10bux though, so i’m still a stupid newbie. (view post) |
11/15/2007 | |
who wants to votei don’t understand. is this about the meaningless of choise in the face of there being no real choices? all the other options must be so beautiful, but they are all out of reach because the system breaks us all down. what of spheres? or if spheres find the pressure of 3 dimenisons too great, circles? i read in flatland about how the criminals were all cute triangles, but they were just oppressed because they had knives and could cut. i’d vote triangle, because at least then the cube could be cut. if there’s only one choice, there might as well be nothing. (view post) |
11/15/2007 |
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