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[spazyak]

I dunno, for me the only real problem with piecewise's games is that he lets too many schmucks in and the updates grind to a near halt.

being forced to wait two weeks to complete an action in a game that updates daily because you werent quite clear enough is a right kick in the pants.
Its a slight exaggeration, but you see my point.

I think i count as one of those smucks so uh if you want i can back out for you.

[MidnightJaguar]

I for one have only played ER, but I have read through Infinite Heavens and Fuck You Dad. The thing that I have liked the most about all of them is the dark humor and the fact that none of them are overly dramatic.

[Devastator]

Dev, you are in a world that isn't of your own devising.  At least, I'm pretty sure I'm not a hallucination of yours.

Well, yes.  But I want something similar from the games I play.  A fixed set of rules, not ones where bad stuff happens only at your permission, and you can always negotiate beneficial events.  Open world games don't have to equate to everything you do ends in success.  A 36% permadeath rate over four years isn't much.  If there was a fixed field of ten players, there would have been 16 characters so far.

[Unholy_Pariah]

I dunno, for me the only real problem with piecewise's games is that he lets too many schmucks in and the updates grind to a near halt.

being forced to wait two weeks to complete an action in a game that updates daily because you werent quite clear enough is a right kick in the pants.
Its a slight exaggeration, but you see my point.

I think i count as one of those smucks so uh if you want i can back out for you.

mere drop in the bucket im afraid.

mightvas well keep playing.

[Gentlefish]

I'd like everyone to be able to get a new batch of missions,

but by god we in M26 will find an idyllic universe even if it kills this one harder.

[Kedly]

My enduring monument to shame and ineptitude (AKA my fourth character) will be in this spot shortly.  It's always nice to break records for incompetence.

Sheet.

Spoiler: sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: N/A
Age: 19
Gender: Female

Appearance:  The first things one notices are the tattoos.  Stylized depictions of the number "4" cover every inch of her lithe body, and unsettlingly even her eyes were not spared the ink.  She often picks at the black numbers and curls her 5' 5" frame as if trying to hide them.  Her closely cropped, black hair does little to help in that regard.

Personal infornation:  A long time ago, she had a name.  That was before her family died, and before the Circle of the Undying took her into their ranks.  At the cost of that useless label that defined her past, they fed her and clothed her, and promised that she was destined for greatness. 

The cultists continued these encouraging words as they applied her tattoos.  To stop the destruction of the universe, a catacylysm seen as imminent by the cult's seers, four sacrifices would be made, they explained.  The first three human lambs went meekly to the slaughter, their screams of pain echoing through the complex, but the scared girl fled.  Though the young woman believed in the cult's vision, believed that her sacrifice was necessary, she was simply too afraid to face death.  As she ran, she reflected that she had essentially ensured the destruction of the entire universe.

Reason to join ARM: After escaping, she figured she should do something good with her life.  ARM service, she felt, was a way to start atoning for her sins before the inevitable end.

Stats
Strength: 0
Dexterity: 0
Endurance: +1
Charisma: -2
Mind: +2
Fate: -1
Intuition: -1

Skills
Handiwork: 0
Conventional Weapons: -2
Unconventional Weapons: -2
Exotic weapons: +1
Auxiliary systems: +2
Medical tech: 0
General Knowledge: 0

Your character is going to have a fun time when the current universe actually ends xD

[Nunzillor]

Yeah, there might be just a bit of guilt there.

[Egan_BW]

Don't worry, everyone who matters will just dodge the apocalypse.
Who needs guilt when you can solve the problem with technology?

[Kedly]

We haven't ruled out that that hissing noise is going to effin murder the hell out of all of us, so don't count our universes before they hatch (or, you know, jinx us)

[Empiricist]

Unrelated but I'm curious: Those of you have played my various games, what is it about them you liked and what did you dislike?

For future reference.

Positives:
Horrible death.
Eldritch/Arcane/Alien fuckery.
Humor.
Skill in conveying how fucked we are.
Negatives:
Balancing is often iffy.
Causes of horrible death may be a bit inconsistent, people have come out of worse things than opening a suspicious door with significantly less horrible death.
Often biting off more than can be chewed.
A bit too willing to ditch the entire planned end game after someone's ex-girlfriend comes knocking on the universe's door.

[Nikitian]

Major points:
Excellent GMing. (This includes the number and consistency of updates, the dedication, the creativity, the quality of writing...)

Loveable sense of humor.

Great attention to details. (For the record: As "bad" as it sounds, this is what ultimately created Tinker and made it what we have learned to enjoy, loathe and fear. This is the first game on my memory that has been self-consistent and in-depth enough to allow such complex interaction with in-world engineering, and on such a serious level to boot. Please, bear this burden with pride, as it is the clearest sign of your greatness.)

Minor gripes:
Occasional level of vagueness (necessity to go out of your way and confirm things are the same across the board with you and the GM); tendency of not replying to certain posts/messages under certain conditions (that appear "out-of-place", or "past the expiration date", or unimportant, or - hell, I still don't know your reasoning; see the above about vagueness and having to ask twice to confirm things).

[Radio Controlled]

Unrelated but I'm curious: Those of you have played my various games, what is it about them you liked and what did you dislike?

For future reference.

Like others have said, this is still a fantastic game and you're a saint for keeping up with it (and with our bullshit). And actually being willing to throw the entire planned plot away is a rare feat. But you did ask for feedback (and repeating all the same positives the others mentioned isn't all that helpful I think), so...

Sometimes you can be a bit lazy/vague in a way that it just leads to more questions and clarifications and time wasted. Like you just shove the work in front of you till it'll take twice the effort to actually solve. And like you said yourself, sometimes there's a lack of planning or really thinking things through, and so we end up with things that sounded nice in concept but where it's apparent 2 seconds in it'll never work out. So, a bit more rigor and planning might help I guess? It was also a bit sad when you let The End is Near die because of 2 non responsive players instead of just soldiering through, though that's a minor gripe at worst.

Others have brought up the game balancing, but you've acknowledged it and made the council to help there, so that's not as big a problem (though also there sometimes the laziness kinda shoots us and you in the foot (like during the new item review where most of the suggestions and questions went ignored after you specifically asked us for it)).
It seems that taking a stand and just saying 'no' sometimes might already help a lot in tinker and other situations.

But all that said, it's still a very fun game and I'm glad I get to play it.

[Ozarck]

How many PW games have I missed? Geez.

I'd like everyone to be able to get a new batch of missions,

but by god we in M26 will find an idyllic universe even if it kills this one harder.

Especially if it breaks this one harder.

[NJW2000]

We all need to piss about with this, its really purty.

I did ER.

http://www.random-art.org/

[NJW2000]

Hoo boy. Looks like there might be a really fitting one coming up in a sec.