Opinions on Starmourn?

Saran · May 2016

@Xeria, yeah pretty much. But also like, I really like the idea of wandering around the world like that because someone perceiving AR could see like... Han and Chewie having a chat with someones specially crafted net avatar, but turning that off has the pair talking to themselves.

Kinda like dreamweaving except it's generally pretty easy to perceive the dreambodies (and you can customise the dreambody), with a Nirvana like area for most major cities that actually can affect things in "meatspace"

Luce · May 2016

Seeking crew for a Lightningbug class ship called Tranquility.

Shaddus · May 2016

Luce said:

Seeking crew for a Lightningbug class ship called Tranquility.

I'll be in my bunk.

Hoaracle · May 2016

/hopes for the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood or some sort of Octavia Butler alien realness.

Luce · May 2016

I'm hoping at least one of the races is furry-bait. I like my fuzz-butts, and a lot of sci-fi settings have spacekitties if nothing else.

Tekora · May 2016

Gimme my bird-people winged race and I'll be in on Day 1.

Thul · May 2016

Wookie with the serial numbers filed off.

Xenthos · May 2016

Thul said:

Wookie with the serial numbers filed off.

1) I would not want to be the person whose job it is to stamp a serial number onto a Woooie.
2) I really would not want to be the person whose job it is to file a serial number off of a Wookie.

Enyalida · May 2016

Dunno, they might like it.

Phoebus · May 2016

Gimme something weird and properly alien, where the females are monstrous and don't default to "hot chick, but blue." I wanna be ugly by design. And I don't mean like that green chick on the site. Like ok, she has a weird face, but it's slapped on top the body of a human female supermodel (but green!) Nuh uh. Not a solution. [-(

Daraius · May 2016

I would also accept artificially intelligent robot furries.

Ileein · May 2016

Daraius said:

I would also accept artificially intelligent robot furries.

I have already come to terms with the fact that this will inevitably be a thing in the future.

Tridemon · May 2016

Daraius said:

I would also accept artificially intelligent robot furries.

Robot furries that are nearly the last remnant of an ancient race of sentients. The ancient race was wiped out long ago, so the Theriandroids explore the galaxy to figure out what the hell actually happened to them.

Luce · May 2016

I'll have what he's having.

Ghaloaire · May 2016

New Starmourn info from Newsletter #1: A "holocord transcription" has been released.

http://www.starmourn.com/humans.html

Ghaloaire · May 2016

More info from Newsletter 2, about one of the races in the game.

http://www.starmourn.com/amaians.html

Luce · May 2016

Oh, there's an interesting bit. One of the races outright prefers polyamorous relationships. Wonder if there's going to be a family/house system, and if that will have some method of taking polyamory into account.

Saran · May 2016

Seriously can't wait for this to be out, the detail for this one is amazing, hoping they'll slip some system/skill stuff soon

Ghaloaire · May 2016

Info on the Shen race has been released: http://www.starmourn.com/shen.html

If light travels so fast, how come it's never caught a ninja?

Saran · May 2016

The female Shen makes me think we'll see some kinda psionics and the government stuff makes me wonder if there will be family based governments, but now I'm curious as to how orgs are actually going to work cause I don't think we'd get what... eleven different orgs.

Maybe alliances or the like...

Ngh, I really want forums and more info :'(

EDIT: Also I hope the Fatar are playable and next up for some info >_>

Riluna · May 2016

I find the inclusion of lifespans in the racial descriptions interesting. I don't recall any of the other IREs ever doing so. It probably doesn't mean anything, but it would be neat if it was actually relevant somehow.

It could open up a few doors if everybody isn't immortal. Though permadeath itself is unlikely to be popular, compromises like rez for combat deaths could easily be found even if a character does truly die from old age. Maybe once that happens, you can reroll a new char with all your credits/lessons to try out a new class, or continue as one of your own kids in a sort of dynasty. Variety is nice.

/randomspeculation

Luce · May 2016

This page looks newish http://starmourn.com/what-is-kith/

Looks like this will be a low-magic game. Or at least as low magic as, say, Sword of Truth was pre-Richard. It also looks like it mentions another race we haven't seen yet, the Lha Ti, as well as the Y'saari, Rek, and Utan Mir previously mentioned. Though some of those may be extinct.

Saran · June 2016

I'm really really hoping that the low magic will be complimented by high tech. Like the tek trinity of Mektek (mechanical), bitek (bilogical), and psitek (psionics) from "A Confusion of Princes" by Garth Nix or the Mass Effect trinity.

Luce · June 2016

Looks like Kith is divided into Voidkith and Starkith, which is sort of like Yang and Yin, Entropy and Chaos, destruction and creation. It MAY end up as Starmourn's psionics. I'm hoping not though. I'd love to see cybernetics and augments in place of IRE enchantments, Tattoos, etc.

Saran · June 2016

It was more hoping that, we'd have like robots, guns, cybernetics, and cyberspace (mechanical technology). Mixed with like biological tech such as mutations, implanted organs (perhaps something that produces strong pheremones or the like rather than psionic emotional control). With the Kith being the more "supernatural" elements.

Then you get the intersections between them, mutations to make you stronger and faster while wielding a blade, Starkith enhanced ammunition that's faster or more explosive. I'd also possibly place psionics in a intersection of biology and kith, using the kith to enhance dormant or low level psionic traits to usable levels.

In that concept, tattoos could be biological improvements or cybernetic improvements with the possibility of creating exclusive options for either side.

Luce · June 2016

Hmm...almost looks like spaceships are going to be more like a core feature than the bonusy thing they are in Lusternia. Definitely not like Aetherships.

Saran · June 2016

My expectation is that they're going to be our primary way of moving between content (planets) and because they'll be in there from the start a lot of basic systems will be set up with their existence in mind (trading for example), from memory when ToP was shelved on of the reasons cited was the space system and the need for it to be good for this genre.

Aetherships can't quite do that because they were added on later.

Saran · June 2016

Three new things today:

Natl-El

Technology

F.A.Q

The faq is mostly about space ships which was released last week, though kinda bummed that space is going to be 2d

I'm hoping that mindsims might lead towards a hacking/cyberspace option in the game, though the lack of a mention of such may mean that it won't be.

Twytch · June 2016

I don't mind the 2D space much. There is a balance that needs to be struck between complexity and viability, especially in a MUD.

Tremula · June 2016

I like how they explain the new bodies after dying. It reminds me very much of the Hyperion New-U from Borderlands 2, and every time I rez I will be thinking of a snarky computer voice, saying something along the lines of, "Hyperion New-U wishes you luck in exacting your revenge on whatever it is that killed you, unless of course, you were killed by an employee of Hyperion."

Mindsims

Today, most beings are 'chipped' in a number of ways to make life easier. The chief among these is the almost universally-used mindsim. This is your personal datastore, your connection to the commsphere, and your all-around assistant, all running off a tiny chip inserted in your head when you were a child. They use uncrackable quantum encryption whose private key is the neural structure of your brain to stay secure, and they operate off the electrical energy your body generates.

Your mindsim is also key to your continued existence, because it is continually 'backing up' your encrypted neural state to a private d-vault in the commsphere so that, in case of untimely death, you can be resurrected into a body cloned from your cells and your memory up to the moment of death restored.

Opinions on Starmourn?

Comments

Mindsims

Howdy, Stranger!

Categories

In this Discussion