AC Results / HMD

[lucetimods]

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HMD

How's My Driving?

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Comments

[semper_cogitans]

Again, not really critique here, because I'd like to second all these opinions (and I think Charles and Triad put forth some really good ideas) - I think you guys are definitely doing a great job, but there are things I'd like to see more of. I don't know how feasible it is within the game and the setting, but it would be interesting to shake the game up a bit.

Firstly, I'm definitely also interested in seeing more plots that concern the actual enclosure as it stands - being able to learn more solid information about Luceti, rather than patchwork guesses, would be really interesting and could kickstart more interactive ideas between the villagers, as well as spark new ideas for plots. I know much of this is probably mun headcanon - and thus I am not certain about how safely large pieces of information could be supplanted into the established canon of Luceti - but I'd like to be able to get more concrete information about processes at work within Luceti, too.

One thing that has always been a little discouraging for me, speaking as a mun of a character who does a lot of research and whose primary strength is in the intellect, is that almost all the plots in Luceti focus on physical strength over mental strength. I realize that this is partially because of the limitations of the game and the setting - the Malnosso obviously would try to force characters not to learn much - but it is frustrating both ICly and OOCly when a character tries to find information out only to be thwarted at every turn. There are many geniuses in Luceti and I think it would be nice if some plots could have options for them to exercise their intellectual ability over their physical - for example, I've seen in some earlier plots that hacking Malnosso computers was an option. Maybe bring this back in a suitable draft location? Or maybe the ability to collect and keep samples during missions? Or something else like this? It's obviously constrained by what you want to keep a secret in-game, but it would be nice if it could happen.

Seconding Charles' idea about slowly refocusing the idea of Luceti and the renegade Malnosso groups - I'm one of the players who had expressed ideas in regards to anti-droid procedurals, and while I don't know how feasible this would be in concept, I'd definitely love to do something to learn more about the droids and how they function. That's one important piece of information that there already exists an IC method of kickstarting plots for... and it could be a stepping stone to other pieces.

In addition, the idea of the Malnosso shifting from being outright abominable to being simply unscrupulous and prone to unethical decisions seems to say (to me) that it might be a chance for characters to make proper, functional bonds with Malnosso. I understand that playing out NPCs is time-consuming and difficult with how many people there are in the village, and that threading it out every time could be tedious, but even some kind of assumed... correspondence could be interesting. I know in my case that I was trying to establish a connection with Molly, and I know other characters have rapports with Bil - something like that?

... In conclusion though, I do have to say that I really like the implementation of things like the missions - I do think they've definitely helped out by giving less-traumatic ways to opt out of things, as well as potentially expand the functionality of both the game's plot (in terms of learning information) and the game itself (in terms of rewards possibly earned via missions).

Thank you for all the work you guys do, and thanks for reading all this tl;dr!

[saltprince]

You know there's two big posts there about the Malnosso and conflict and then there's this, and I think I would second the idea of the Malnosso being unethical and build towards making choices with them. Honestly, I'd really like to see the villagers here (because we're a notably important group in this enclosure) do things like get mixed up in the direct nature of inter-Organization politics (in-fighting factions), or perhaps even select individuals or select groups being taken in for internship type positions.

Like... one admittedly long off idea I had in mind is the ethical issue of what if some person or body of player-characters was put in charge of or played a role in picking what experiments are put onto another enclosure (say, #7 or #8) and they are obligated (either through administrative hoo-hah, defense of their own enclosure, or perhaps some garble like Natural Shifts would ravage them without habitual manmade ones) to do so.

Have the Malnosso Organization take up the role of shady big brother and play it straight-er than it is now.

[semper_cogitans]

Oh, I actually really like that idea. It would be such a fascinating thing to thread out! And all the polarizing decisions that would have to be made... it'd just be awesome, I think.

I don't think playing the Malnosso as "good guys" alone makes sense for the setting or... even for the general impression they give off. I mean, yes, they do a lot of good things, and strictly speaking from a black-and-white perspective they come up as "good guys" when compared to the Third Party. But on their own they're still pretty shady, and I love the idea of them being more... I don't know. Big Brotheresque is a good term for it.

... This is especially relevant to me because my character comes from a world of a Big Brotheresque-government, so it strikes close to home for him.