Every time someone comments on the Gravatars and how appropriate or whatever they happen to be… I always get curious as to exactly what Gravatars the people involved were using at the time… since they’re always different by the time I get there.
For instance, right now… CM and Ganurath are two different pics of Goblaurence… while Chris is Shanna.
So HR has created self aware AI. Be glad it’s stuck in a computer game, the moment it finds out about the real world it will start playing Global Thermonuclear War.
Almost positive that he didn’t create self-aware AI. He either fully created or linked to another world and is able to “jack-in” people from Sepia World into the minds of the people in Arkerra.
If you discovered that you and everyone you know were characters in a video game, would you have the people housing your computer enter a global thermonuclear war, or would you prefer to take an action that doesn’t severly compromise uptime?
1 – “it will start playing Global Thermonuclear War” – eh, maybe it will learn the only way to win is not to play before obliterating all of sepia world. Is any of these gamers good at tic-tac-toe, by any chance?
2 – I wonder if the game hasn’t already found out about the real world and is busy yelling for attention. When you have NPCs cultists invoking an avatar of the game designer, is it solely due to the designer’s meddling or is the game somehow pushing in this direction as well?
That’s pretty neat, to be honest. But I have to feel a lot of players would find it frustrating. Maybe it’s because I’m a retro gamer, but we’re used to being able to look up a FAQ about a game and have it be reliable…
Yeah, a game where your character keeps leveling up and adventuring while you’re offline sounds good on paper, but in practice it sounds like you’d come back to a completed quest log full of stories you never got to experience, bosses you never got to encounter. It’d suck all the fun out of the game.
Idle games are terrible because they’re boringly repetitive, linear, and have no incentive to keep playing. Now, imagine an Idle RPG where, whenever you come back, you actually have a good mmorpg: good graphics, huge world, smart NPC’s, tailored-cut quests … sure, your character has lived things you didn’t experience, but hey, you still can make your own adventures (or so you think).
And as it has been pointed out by Chrissie during the “Rachel’s death” incident, there are pretty few rp-ists: most players, I gather, don’t even read the quest log when they come back: they see the xp they gained, they look for the nearest big event newly unlocked, and they spend the evening without a worry. It’s actually pretty easy to not care about what’s happened when you were away… as long as it didn’t have negative repercussions.
I don’t know. Missing stories or plots would be annoying. But if the characters just did basic grinding or crafting, that would be cool.
Character: “Hey welcome back. I hope you don’t mind, but while you were away I killed 38 gremlins , recovered 63 pieces of random loot drops (with 2 rares), and made 3 stacks of leather belts.”
Some games do something like that already. In SW:TOR you can send your companions off on missions that take from a few minutes to a few hours and they come back with either some resources or nothing if they fail.
Pretty sure most RPG games are doing that on some level though.
So… who’s the sixth again? my memory is kinda the nonexistent sort. Unless she’s talking about that Hurricane employee that got murdered and dismembered for sacrificial reasons.
Ok, so I know we were talking about Kaye’s weird viewing angle last strip, but artistic license discussion aside have we ever seen Kaye on anything other than a screen at this point? I’m not saying that she’s a hyper-itelligent piece of AI designed to keep tabs on the PCs that are closest to the five, but I’m not saying that she’s NOT. That “romance” questline is probably her just trying to form some sort of relationship with the next most sentient piece of software she can find.
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So that explains things from the Sepia World point of view. Your characters do their thing, and you just have to deal with it.
#DunDUNDUNNNNN
Both your gravatars together make it look like Scip pulled a Dramatic Hamster.
I approve.
Every time someone comments on the Gravatars and how appropriate or whatever they happen to be… I always get curious as to exactly what Gravatars the people involved were using at the time… since they’re always different by the time I get there.
For instance, right now… CM and Ganurath are two different pics of Goblaurence… while Chris is Shanna.
So HR has created self aware AI. Be glad it’s stuck in a computer game, the moment it finds out about the real world it will start playing Global Thermonuclear War.
Almost positive that he didn’t create self-aware AI. He either fully created or linked to another world and is able to “jack-in” people from Sepia World into the minds of the people in Arkerra.
If you discovered that you and everyone you know were characters in a video game, would you have the people housing your computer enter a global thermonuclear war, or would you prefer to take an action that doesn’t severly compromise uptime?
1 – “it will start playing Global Thermonuclear War” – eh, maybe it will learn the only way to win is not to play before obliterating all of sepia world. Is any of these gamers good at tic-tac-toe, by any chance?
2 – I wonder if the game hasn’t already found out about the real world and is busy yelling for attention. When you have NPCs cultists invoking an avatar of the game designer, is it solely due to the designer’s meddling or is the game somehow pushing in this direction as well?
For this level of interaction with the world? I might be willing to put up with it.
That’s pretty neat, to be honest. But I have to feel a lot of players would find it frustrating. Maybe it’s because I’m a retro gamer, but we’re used to being able to look up a FAQ about a game and have it be reliable…
Yeah, a game where your character keeps leveling up and adventuring while you’re offline sounds good on paper, but in practice it sounds like you’d come back to a completed quest log full of stories you never got to experience, bosses you never got to encounter. It’d suck all the fun out of the game.
Games that play themselves are indeed terrible and yet the likes of Farmville and a whole genera of flash based “Idle RPGs” exist.
Idle games are terrible because they’re boringly repetitive, linear, and have no incentive to keep playing. Now, imagine an Idle RPG where, whenever you come back, you actually have a good mmorpg: good graphics, huge world, smart NPC’s, tailored-cut quests … sure, your character has lived things you didn’t experience, but hey, you still can make your own adventures (or so you think).
And as it has been pointed out by Chrissie during the “Rachel’s death” incident, there are pretty few rp-ists: most players, I gather, don’t even read the quest log when they come back: they see the xp they gained, they look for the nearest big event newly unlocked, and they spend the evening without a worry. It’s actually pretty easy to not care about what’s happened when you were away… as long as it didn’t have negative repercussions.
I don’t know. Missing stories or plots would be annoying. But if the characters just did basic grinding or crafting, that would be cool.
Character: “Hey welcome back. I hope you don’t mind, but while you were away I killed 38 gremlins , recovered 63 pieces of random loot drops (with 2 rares), and made 3 stacks of leather belts.”
Some games do something like that already. In SW:TOR you can send your companions off on missions that take from a few minutes to a few hours and they come back with either some resources or nothing if they fail.
Pretty sure most RPG games are doing that on some level though.
True. And then there are the bots that people will sometimes run to grind for them.
Check out Progress Quest.
Reading about it on a log is not the same as playing through it.
So… who’s the sixth again? my memory is kinda the nonexistent sort. Unless she’s talking about that Hurricane employee that got murdered and dismembered for sacrificial reasons.
I think Shanna is talking about him, yeah.
Let’s see. Byron, Frigg, Gravedust, Syr’nj, Best, aaanndd…
Good ol’ Ferris O’Leary. Haven’t seen him for a while, but he was maybe going to be Shanna’s contact about the “Bubble” project.
HR saw him last. They were discussing his severance package.
Yes, and he cut him off at the knees during that negotiation.
totally gold star material here :D
It really was.
Darn it. Ah well, I’ve already got… four gold stars now, I think. I’ll get number five eventually. My own constellation!
First rule of Gold Stars, zero! Same as Fight Club!
HR’s a pretty cool dude. He didn’t want to just cut the guy off.
HR’s a pretty cool dude. He didn’t want to just cut the guy off.
…Huh. Both of those were supposed to be replies to Mujaki. No clue why they ended up as their own thing.
They were both replies to Mujaki. They just happen to be under several other replies.
He gave HR a hand with a few things
Thank you for pointing that one out, I was thinking HR since he tubed himself.
No one but Carol knows about that, though.
Ok, so I know we were talking about Kaye’s weird viewing angle last strip, but artistic license discussion aside have we ever seen Kaye on anything other than a screen at this point? I’m not saying that she’s a hyper-itelligent piece of AI designed to keep tabs on the PCs that are closest to the five, but I’m not saying that she’s NOT. That “romance” questline is probably her just trying to form some sort of relationship with the next most sentient piece of software she can find.
We had a few shits of her from her point if view during the Axemas special where we met these four.
I don’t recall that, but that level of …intimacy seems unwarranted.
embarrassing typos are embarrassing?
This page shows here as a *real* sepia world person: http://guildedage.net/comic/axemas-special-2014-page-2/
And so does this page (with her cat): http://guildedage.net/comic/axemas-special-2014-page-3/
[beat]. . . seven.
Phil, you can’t tell us that KoA Creepypasta exists and then not deliver on it.
The glowing eyes COMMAND THIS.
Fourthed
Oh yes. I want this.
I am tempted to tell them they’re part of a webcomic.
Hey guys, guess what ? Colours DO exist.
Kate is “conveniently” off-screen… I want to see what’s happening to her.
I mean Kaye. Sorry about the typo.