Nahkh!7BHo7QtR6I 2011/02/18(Fri)19:09 No. 31376 ID: c44286
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Right, I do have something I need people's input on.
As you may or may not know, I have a metric shit-ton of quests currently on hiatus. I've recently had people ask when I'm going to continue them. The ones most asked about are Mu's Journey, Tales of the Fae and Fursecution.

I've currently been updating Tiffany the Necromancer about once a day. Now, I'm thinking of running one other quest alongside it, as the current pace isn't very time-consuming. All three mentioned here are quests that I have interest in running. I'd like to do a little survey on how much interest there is in seeing those quests return to the active roster.

While we're on the topic, do you have any feedback on those three? How do they compare to Tiffany? Or each other? Was something better in the old ones?

If someone's been following my quests for a longer time, could someone tell me if I'm actually improving in doing this?

Oh and if someone's wondering why I only update once a day, it's because I'm on a rather funky timezone, not much goes on /quest/ during my actually free hours.

So... Hmm... Whatcha think of the magic ability testing system in Tiffany? Too complicated?


Oh, and I'm a horrible person for hiding my cat's favorite toy in my shoe, and I feel bad. Yes.

>>341176
I'm Phrix.

Mixed feelings about the test. It's nice to know her relative ability, but the skillpoint allocation thing kinda bugs me. I'd personally prefer that her skills developed in a more organic way.

Never read your other quests, I'll put them on the list. I absolutely love Tiffany, though.

>>341176
Just wanted to say, Mu interested me a good bit. Would likely be posting in that if it were still running.

I liked all three of the quests you mentioned. Personally I was kind of wondering where Tales of the Fae in particular was going to go.

Is 30 Pieces of Silver going to continue updating as well? Sort of interested in seeing what happens with that one.

>>341176
>any feedback on those three
I liked the setting from Tales of the Fae; the bit with the troll was done well in particular. Of the three you mention, Mu's Journey was by far the best in my opinion- the combat system gave it a unique spin, and the characterization and setting were pretty good, with an obvious objective for us to follow but the open-ended way of accomplishing it leaving us free to come up with decent ideas. It was the only one that I would care to see continued or redone in any form, given that your total quest time is limited.

>How do they compare to Tiffany?
Tiffany runs on flavor and mood. I don't think any of your other quests, or for that matter many other quests on the board, have successfully managed that. Right from the beginning, Tiffany has had strong themes of desolation, loneliness, and desperation- frantic grasping at power in spite of ignorance as everything crumbles around us. Those have been attenuated somewhat as it's gone on, I think, but they're still present enough to keep it compelling.

Few other quests run on that. Mostly it's "what cool thing can we do next", "single-mindedly drive towards an arbitrary objective set by the author" or "solve this mystery". Those are weaker, more bland drivers for an engaging story, although they can certainly be fun. Your other quests pretty much all run on this.

>So... Hmm... Whatcha think of the magic ability testing system in Tiffany? Too complicated?
Eh, not complicated at all, but... not terribly flavorful, in my opinion. I liked it way back when we got updates on Tiffany's status with italic messages, like Tiffany is now a novice ritualist and Tiffany's loneliness has increased slightly. It gave the whole quest a rather detached and somewhat surreal mood while simultaneously giving us a solid idea of what we could and could not reasonably expect. The testing bit feels a lot more like a stat block from a video game, in my opinion. I'm not sure if that's what you're going for, but I don't consider it a good thing.

Tiffany is great, completely unaware of everything else you've mentioned.

>>341183
Yea, it will. ^^ I had the next update half written, then writer's block struck, along with exhaustion. Now it's BSOD. Yay. It will be updated, and hopefully soon, I just can't say when for certain. Depends on if Nahkh will lemme use his comp.

Perhaps it was a misstep to have a test like that. The points you got to allocate weren't meant as a "DING, Tiffany is now better at such and such", it was more of a "I think this more accurately reflects Tiffany's abilities". Oh well. I'll see how it goes.

All right, will probably be bringing either Mu or TotF back, as I kinda like the setting in both. I kinda bogged Mu down with the latest events, not really thinking straight, and TotF suffers from characters not being that well fleshed out. I'll think about it and see if I can think of a remedy for either one.

>>341183
Thirty pieces of silver isn't my quest, that'd be Hecate's. I'm just doing the art. Incidentally the next update's art is already done, blame her for being too lazy to update.
Also, her computer kinda blew up and took a while to fix. It's mostly done now, no quest notes were lost, so she should be updating it soon. And I'm free to update Tiffany. Yay.

>>341215
Too lazy to find that quest's discussion thread and figured I'd be just as likely to get a response in here. :3c

But, nice to know.

>>341219
Yeah I figured you did, just wanted to make extra sure I wasn't stealing credit (or blame) for that quest.





Hey what do you guys think of the idea of me making a bunch of icons for the main characters so I could use them instead of >name: in dialogues? Obviously I'd have to make em easily identifiable for that to work, but I think I could pull that off.

>I kinda bogged Mu down with the latest events
Speaking of which, there is a gap in the archives referenced on the wiki. Any chance that could be filled in? Can't find the missing thread/part of thread/whatever the hell isn't there.

>>341256
Your current method works fine, in my opinion. Icons would work, but I don't know how much of a step up they'd be. I'd recommend using different fonts to represent different speakers, but I've read enough Golem Quest to know how ridiculous that gets and know that it should be avoided here.

Howdy!

I haven't read your quests that aren't Tiffany. Except I think I read Fursection a little and then dropped it because it seemed stupid to me. Or I could be thinking of a similarly themed quest by someone else, I know there's been more than one anti-furry quest around here.

>If someone's been following my quests for a longer time, could someone tell me if I'm actually improving in doing this?
Sure! even within Tiffany, there's been improvement.

>So... Hmm... Whatcha think of the magic ability testing system in Tiffany? Too complicated?
Seems good to me. Just five straightforward stats. The functional difference between Spark and Synchronicity should be clearer. That's about it.

>>341256
It's an idea that I don't care for in its usual implementation, quite honestly. A big wall of identical faces is likely to not do anything helpful. More stylized and iconic images could alleviate the primary issue here(and they should be smaller than the default maximum, I think). The problem with that is making them all recognizable, both representing the characters, and not being too visually similar to each other.
Or I GUESS you could do it vidya style with little icons that show a handful of different expressions. But I personally think that's likely to 1. look bad and 2. undercut the graphical style of the main update image. The more of these you make, the smaller the problem of them being too similar gets, but there's still the problem that it's a bunch of icon boxes with lines of text next to them, which is not a huge deal but just looks sort of bad.
Just my thoughts on the matter; I'm sure whichever way you choose to go about it will work. And I think the way you're doing it now is fine.

Thanks for the feedback guys, I'll put it to good use.

Moving on; What keeps bringing you back to /quest/? Community? A few quests you follow? Love for the medium? Ponies?

For me, it's a mix of loving the medium and the people, you guys are great.

>>341503
>Moving on; What keeps bringing you back to /quest/?
This place is rife with horrible faggotry and I am a horrible faggot. So
>Community?
Yeah, that.
>A few quests you follow?
Oh, and that too I guess.
>Love for the medium?
I guess this too, since it has advantages not really replicated elsewhere.
>Ponies?
We have one pony thread and it gets like two posts a week.

>>341503
>Moving on; What keeps bringing you back to /quest/?
Addiction I suppose, if forms a nice little island of predictable activity in a sea of Internets.

>Community?
On occasion, some of you are pretty cool, some I would like to break their fingers.

A> few quests you follow?
Yes, I should read a few more actually, I keep meaning to read Sammy for instance.

>Love for the medium?
See the 'addiction' part. It's like playing a tabletop RPG, with the game sessions preserved in amber, also, some of you are pretty damn decent artists.

>Ponies?
No

Upon additional consideration, I quite enjoy things that are /quest/-related but not directly the quests. Things like designing spells in Tiffany, or planning advancement in EDF, or drawing on paper dolls in everything. Also those things that are somewhere between the quests and the community, like Ass Day and Tiny Deer escalation.

I guess I'm just bored here and this place is a cool place to screw around, trollin, relaxin' all cool, shooting some b-ball outside the school.
Some people here are pretty cool yeah

>>341503
Mostly I come here for the two or three quests running at a time that I actually like. The host of mediocre ones are just timewasters, and I don't really pay that much attention to the community except insofar as quests and closely related things (dis threads, etc.) are concerned. For the most part the people are decent enough, but not exceptionally so as online communities go.

I do rather like the medium, when it works. Of course, by that standard it's easy to like any medium, so perhaps that's a poor way of putting it. I mostly prefer quests as run on /tg/ to here, but the good ones here tend to be better.

>>341503
It's definitely NOT the community for me.

I guess it's more a love for the medium and participating in quests that actually keep me around.

Hiding quests Nahkh!7BHo7QtR6I 2011/02/26(Sat)04:30 No. 32135 ID: c44286
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What do you think of the hide button?

On one hand, it makes the board easier to navigate. On the other it makes it impossible for the quest to ever win you over.
What do you think? Is hiding wrong?


As a side note, have you ever seen a quest when it was starting, decided you didn't want to read it, then run across it later and think "holy shit what are all this cool things going on in here I gotta read this thing"?


Also, dicks
haha dicks

>>341935
I rarely ever use the hide button.
I simply see no reason to, as most quests are decent enough that I can simply ignore them if I am not interested.

Spontaneously hiding a thread based on vague first impressions is a notion I don't understand all that much.

The only quest I've hidden so far is BlakeQuest, which has managed to press ALL of the WRONG buttons for me.
I am also considering hiding ANOTHER quest (Not mentioning any names, but it's a new one), which so far seems to be consistently shit.

>>341935
The hide button is good.

The only quest I've hidden is Golem, and that's because it's a solid wall of WORDSWORDSWORDS between the top of the page and every other quest on the board.
Even if it could have somehow 'won me over', the time investment would would make the potential gains a poor use of time.

There have been several quests that I ignored at the start and later went back to read, but since they didn't get in the way of using the quest board I like I never saw a reason to hide them.

>>341935
I use the hide button for about three threads.

Like I said in that other thread, it's not out of spite; I just don't read Golem Quest and have no plans to, and it takes up a lot of space when not hidden.

>>341935
Oh, and with regard to the other thing:

It's not exactly the same, but sometimes I have missed the beginning of quests and then found them later and been all "man how did I miss this."

>>341935
I think it i silly to hide. It's not like you can't just scroll past something that you aren't interested in at a given moment. And then there's the potential that the quest will catch your interest and you may very much enjoy it. That may not happen often, but an extra 20th of a second scrolling is not a huge price to pay for that possibility.