@Hobbie There is BTMux, which is only appealing to people who liked HSpace but thought it didn’t go hard enough. But also BTMux is only mech scale… you can VTOL or tank or squad of ground troops, but no proper aerospace or individual person.

I’ve been into those too, recently, and the ‘fated mates’ romances. But have started giving up on all three because most of the time in them the female/omega lead is abused by her family and community. And often the male/alpha lead is like ‘I don’t want you because you’re shit.’ type deal and is ‘in love with someone else’. Then the male/alpha adds to the abuse, if he/the alpha wasn’t already involved. It usually ends up with the omega/female being ‘in love’ with the abuser and forgiving him when he automagically has remorse for abusing the person their whole life.

I would still love that sort of game, though.

I’ve been reading a lot of silly romance novels about stupid wealthy people and I just wanna swan around pretending I’m rich on a game where it won’t get looked down on because very one else is also pretending to be stupidly wealthy.

But I also want a game with lots of fun (but optional) coded systems that is just enough crunch to sink your teeth into.

@Jennkryst said in MU* Wishlists:

Literally just Lords and Ladies but in SPAAAAACE,

Yes.

Also, I am ready for it .

Maybe I’ll finally get the updated Time of War book, because that selective OCD is hitting hard.

Also Urbanmech Plush, for clout.

Literally just Lords and Ladies but in SPAAAAACE,

Yes.

… but if combat campaigns, Megamech or whatever. The hard part is they don’t have personal-scale rules, though, so it’s tricksy.

If someone made a grimy-ass Battletech game I’d, well, try to play it but I don’t even know how that sort of thing would work.

Also, no Clans, sorry, even if they have the sexy hardware.

(Edited for typo)

Give me dark cults, and covens of psychics trying to fight back against them with their small magics. Corrupt cops who’ve signed deals with Huntsmen to capture Lost. All of that.

I have zero familiarity with the source, but this sounds very interesting!

Give me dark cults, and covens of psychics trying to fight back against them with their small magics. Corrupt cops who’ve signed deals with Huntsmen to capture Lost. All of that.

I’d really love to see more single-sphere (or Mortal) focused games with staff who were really passionate about running those stories. More often what I see is “here are the most popular spheres or the spheres that people have loudly demanded, anyway, but the game staff actually only feels comfortable doing anything with X and Y sphere, so Z sphere, while technically extant, is basically stuck with whoever decides to take one for the team until they burn out”.

I suspect there’s also a lot of “Well, when the game started, we had someone who was super passionate about running Highlander: The Quickening, but they eventually got overwhelmed with <thing> and had to step down, so now one of the other staff members who isn’t really enthused about it and doesn’t care much for a lot of what Original Highlander Staffer did and honestly doesn’t have the time because of the sphere they’re really interested in running, but we didn’t want to just shut down the sphere and leave all the players who are invested in it in the lurch.”

I’d really love to see more single-sphere (or Mortal) focused games with staff who were really passionate about running those stories. More often what I see is “here are the most popular spheres or the spheres that people have loudly demanded, anyway, but the game staff actually only feels comfortable doing anything with X and Y sphere, so Z sphere, while technically extant, is basically stuck with whoever decides to take one for the team until they burn out”.

I have been saying this for literally twenty years. It made sense when I was working on White Wolf’s official game servers that they offered (almost) every splat that they had published because they were ostensibly marketing vehicles for the company and were built to support their product line, but…

After that, it seems like most places just opened up as many spheres as they could manage out of a desire to reach a critical mass of players, whether they could actually serve those spheres well or not. I would really like to see games that are single-sphere or maybe - maaaaaaybe - two or three spheres if they have overlapping themes that will be highlighted in the game’s setting and plot, thereby giving them reasons to be running around in the same spaces.

My kingdom for a Mage: the Awakening 2E game.

But I did consider it a while back.

More seriously - I think the reason why PvE games are more difficult is that it takes a lot of staff time/energy to keep players with Things to Do, particularly when you have multiple spheres, and while I think there’s a large pool of CoD/WoD players, there is a much, much smaller pool of people willing/able to put in the work to make and actually run a game with the strong horror/PvE focus that would be amazing. And some of the ones who are out there have a tendency to be somewhat emotionally unstable, so it’s a dice roll when it comes to play experience.

I’d really love to see more single-sphere (or Mortal) focused games with staff who were really passionate about running those stories. More often what I see is “here are the most popular spheres or the spheres that people have loudly demanded, anyway, but the game staff actually only feels comfortable doing anything with X and Y sphere, so Z sphere, while technically extant, is basically stuck with whoever decides to take one for the team until they burn out”.

In kids terms this is also said “they are being mean to me” (and all its variations.) A great deal of the time they aren’t being mean, they just aren’t acting in a way the kid wants them too. So they must be mean.

I don’t think we ever fully grow out of this…

But let’s not conflate liking someone with the ability to problem-solve and handle conflicts in a mature manner. They are very different things, and one neither requires nor implies the other. PVE games have stupid schoolyard drama, but PVP games tend to ratchet it up to 11. I just can’t stand dealing with it (as player or as staff).

This came across my feed the other day and I immediately thought of the MU community:

I would argue that the human element is the entire point of a MU*. The fact that you are interacting and collaborating with another human being through the thin veneer of a fictional character is one of the key differentiators between MUing and other forms of gaming.

This.

@shit-piss-love said in MU* Wishlists:

My wish is actually a game that supports PvP very well and not liking someone IC and OOC is considered fine.

I don’t think there’s a game in existence where all the players liked each other OOC. I know I routinely get caught between two friends (or groups of friends) who really can’t stand RPing with each other. And that’s fine - different tastes, different personalities.

But let’s not conflate liking someone with the ability to problem-solve and handle conflicts in a mature manner. They are very different things, and one neither requires nor implies the other. PVE games have stupid schoolyard drama, but PVP games tend to ratchet it up to 11. I just can’t stand dealing with it (as player or as staff).

This conflict was written as frequent, hostile, often intensely violent, and an intrinsic part of the game. Some variation of it has been baked into every version of Vampire since, whether it was in VtM 2.0, the anniversary editions, or as Invictus/Lancea Sanctum (with a few additional convenants just for funsies!) in what became the Chronicles of Darkness. It’s a big part of why - as much as I love both WoD/CoD Vampire as it’s written - I generally don’t think it’s a great fit for large online games unless staff actively wants to spend a decent bit of time telling stories around and adjudicating interfaction and interpersonal conflict. Most of the other splats will have some shared antagonist that they’re willing to at least temporarily set aside their petty differences to face, but in most versions of Vampire, the antagonists are… some other group of vampires. Could it do well in a smaller, controlled setting with a clearly outlined group of antagonists and and a narrative driving towards a particular endgame? Yeah, I think it could. But that would have to be baked in from the beginning and constantly reiterated, because otherwise you’re eventually going to get some random player(s) that decide their primary goal is to be Lord of All the Fangly Ones and being an ICly scheming, manipulative dickface to get there is part of the theme as written.

Note that I have had plenty of fun over the span of many years playing exactly this theme. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with it. But in comparison to a lot of the other World of Darkness lines I’ve run on various games over the years, I’d say that Vampire: the Requiem was 100% the one that caused the most amount of me sighing and going “…fucking really, guys?” at something that was OOC, in comparison to both versions of Mage and both versions of Changeling, which I’ve also staffed.