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Art!

I've done a few drawings so far based on mine and my friends' characters. I wondered if anyone else had done any SM related art?
Here are mine! They are Orrin (me), Clover and Ronan.

Orrin - https://ibb.co/CMGPC0R
Clover - https://ibb.co/0DfcY3Q
Ronan - https://ibb.co/nfR1bH6

Orrin

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Re: Music Thread? Music Thread.

What the shit is this thread? I didn't come across the galaxy to listen to a bunch of damned weeaboo beep boop bullshit, I came here to ROCK!!!

This is my friend Marissa, and she'll melt your face off:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpWUqTRAW9U

Some space themed ROCK:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7J2J_pRoiA

I feel like you could just make this song a characters backstory, and it's one of my favorite live performances:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jShMQw2H2cM

Revelin

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Re: Announcements post #59: June Artifacts, Bushraki and the Wheel.

The primary intention for those two artifacts (Life Support, Muscular Augments) was for PvE...in my head. That did not translate well into what I put into the game and that is a problem. As per Updates 210, this will be rectified and those two artifacts will get to be more in line with what I had envisioned:

- Muscular Augments : Your crash is no longer uninterruptible by denizens (this does not apply to faction guards)
- Emergency Life Support : Whenever you take fatal damage, you will heal for 25% of your maximum health ( 1 hour cooldown).

I appreciate everyone's feedback on this matter and I apologize for this incident!

Ilyos

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Re: PVE for each class

Sweet! You guys rock. I am currently a Nano so sounds like I'm not in a bad spot, but maybe Engineer is worth a try down the road. We'll see! Look forward to seeing you guys around in game

Zhe

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Slicer Tools - Hacking Suite for Nexus

Okay this is probably my last Nexus package for awhile. I’ve been sitting on this one for some time, but I finally got around to some last tuneups.

Introducing Slicer Tools! This is a complete hacking suite with a bunch of tools to help defeat ICE, check the current password hint against a dictionary of 370,000 words, collect and manage a database of terminals, know exactly when they’ll be ready to hack again and receive notices, and easily pathfind back to them! It is also fairly user friendly, with its various settings and syntax completely accessible from the front-end.

When you encounter a terminal (excluding Cosmpiercer terminals by default), SLT will add it to its database of terminals. SLT DISPLAY <ALL|NEARBY/HERE|level|level_range|area> [READY] will let you search the database. After awhile, you’ll have something that looks like this.

Hacking timers will be tracked and you’ll be notified when one is ready again. You can link backdoor terminals so they’re on the same timer and are gagged from the display. You can click on the vNum to pathfind! If you have my Nexus pathfinder installed, the pathfinding works whereever you happen to be. If you don’t, it will just try to use in-game WALK TO <vnum>, which won’t work unless you’re in the same area. So, yeah, install my pathfinder.

Inside the commsphere, SLT will auto-attack ICE by default. You can SLT SET AUTOHACK FALSE if you don’t want this (or the shorthand AUTH to toggle autohacking on and off). It uses a target priority which you can view (SLT ICE) and modify (SLT ICEPRIO <ice> <integer>). SLT uses a threat formula to determine whether the room is too threatening to initiate attacking. You can change the threshold with SLT SET THREAT_THRESHOLD <integer>. The formula looks like this:

threat = ( ( aggros + ( replicating * 1.5 ) ) * ( 1 + glitches ) ) * ( 1 + ( ( scanners * 2 ) + honeypots ) )

If you want to use autohacking but don’t have overwrite yet, SLT SET USE_OVERWRITE FALSE. Check PASS to lookup the current password hint in the dictionary.

There are a bunch of other commands which I won’t cover here. Use “SLT” for a full list.

RocketCat

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Re: Newbie Here

I'll mainly comment on the RP scene here - it very much exists. In every other IRE game I've played I've mostly stuck to myself and only RPd sporatically because I'd get nervous randomly approaching people, where here I don't have to make much effort at all to get involved in RP. In fact, at this point, it takes effort for me to do anything else - I realized a couple days ago that for a week the entirety of my time logged in was spent engaging with other players' characters.

In all other regards, I may be a bit biased, but generally I just absolutely love this game. I started out focused solely on grinding levels and once I reached the current max switched my focus to hacking and space stuff. It's super fun and, one of my favourite parts, things are so accessible. It's not like other games where having a ship/aethership/housing is prohibitively expensive and out of reach.

Slander

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Re: Newbie Here

It's a lot easier to get into aspects of the game that are a lot more daunting in Achaea (such as pvp). You don't need a 'system' to cure or attack for you, or track stuff. Some clever echoing of information is helpful but not necessary. Skill/Ability requirements are a lot lower.

So if you're considering Starmourn for roleplay, consider the idea that roleplay can be richer when you're able to participate in ALL aspects of the game, hacking, economy, ship warfare, pve, pvp etc without there being a massive time or monetary investment making you question "is that aspect of the game important enough for me to go to that effort?"

I personally think that is a major draw to this game. Some of my most memorable RP moments have been linked to pvp in some way, whether RPed fueding or the consequences of random mistakes like riding my camel into the Enorian public bath-house after fighting in a war.

Regarding class choice
Fury: stance driven, attack until they die
Beast: attack until they die, with some AoE (this class needs a bit of work tbh)
Scoundrel: faster, shooting, ability to control the environment to a degree
Engineer: not a pet class, despite BOTS. Bots simply enable active attacks. But turrets can be used for room/environment control. Slower, with plenty of group-desireable utility
Nanoseer: bit of everything.

Indi

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Re: Announcements post #57: Faction Engagement Missions.

Thank you all for the suggestions! We will be making some tweaks to this system soon

Ilyos

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Re: Help choose our next "Big Thing"

Faction Arenas...maybe down the road. Indeed, there might be cases when you're waiting in line for the Omni Arena to free up, but with our current population, it's not that big of an issue. I'd rather expand the functionality of the arena so that you might spectate the fight inside (which we will do soon) and add more PvP games to the arena before giving factions the option to have their own. Oh, also, when that happens, factions will have to buy them. And they'll be expensive.

Ilyos

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Re: Help choose our next "Big Thing"

Jerom said:

Another thing I'd also like but isn't in this poll are faction arenas. I want a Celestine arena, goddammit. I can already picture it in my mind, full of splendor and over-the-top bling. A testament to badly-spent wealth.

Your friendly local Storyteller is your direct line on that kind of thing. I can't make any promises about it being 'the next big thing in CA', but I can definitely take inspiration where it's appropriate.

Tallulah

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