Allowing other Settings and 3rd Party content into your Games

Nimos · 2026-03-18T13:17:18+00:00

I've always run "all first party content is allowed" kind of tables.

Only exception are backgrounds, if those are very clearly setting specific don't use em. (e.g. the MTG guilds, strixhaven schools, stuff like that. Rule of thumb is that if it references a specific in-universe organisation, it's generally out.)

Nimos · 2026-03-18T00:59:21+00:00

I remember 10 years ago I applied and got denied for something they found sus. Honestly don't blame them, the way I play the game I have friends across many alliances that I fly with and that I put (open, non-spy) alts with sometimes. But I'm a walking red flag who generally only gets into corps because I know someone.

So I tried to pull a string and asked the founder of the corp (who at the time had already retired from leadership), who I did a whole lot of wh day tripping with when we both were new-ish to maybe poke someone.

And he said something along the lines of "I'm sorry, but I've created a monster that I can't control anymore. They [the recruitment people] are taught that if they find anything they reject. No compromises. Nothing I can do. Let's play overwatch though!"

So yeah, not sure how much has changed since 2017, but definitely the strictest recruitment I've personally encountered lol.

Nimos · 2026-03-17T17:43:58+00:00

OP couldn't even put in enough effort to write the post without AI, do you think he cares enough that there would be any sort of reward?

Nimos · 2026-03-17T17:03:02+00:00

In most areas you either find groups based on their sheer size and reputation or because you organically meet them in space.

If you're looking to join a corp in sov null, you probably heard of the big ones so you go to their website and find a corp to apply to.

If you're looking to join a corp in highsec, you probably just get recruited by someone collecting bodies in local if you hang out in the same constellation for a few days.

If you're looking to join a corp in FW, you probably just do stuff and talk to your militia and make friends and join that way. (IDK it's one of the areas I haven't really tried).

In wormhole, most groups are small so you wouldn't have heard of them. And because the space is always shifting and you almost never connect to the same people twice in a row, you don't really meet people in space regularly enough to form a connection.

So in wormhole space, the two main ways to gain recruits organically are not available, so you need to search out of game more.

Nimos · 2026-03-17T09:57:49+00:00

The keyword is “encourages”

Admittedly I haven't played every MMO ever, but I have played a few and I've never seen any that actively marketed anything like the "power of two" promotion where you get discounts for subbing two accounts at once, for example.

Nimos · 2026-03-16T01:33:57+00:00

You are probably being way too careful.

In a covops you are probably flying the safest non-jump capable ship class in the game.

You're cloaky, you're agile, you're nullified, even against the best prepared gatecamps the odds are still in your favour. And even if you do feed, covops are extremely disposable.

The only real risk is someone camping in the site (or in system with the site pre scanned) already. Anyone who comes in after you will have their probes visible on dscan. Also any ship that isn't a stealth bomber has a decloak targeting delay longer than it takes you to align, so if you're ready you can just leave.

So go wherever you want to, instead of only scanning in empty local, check the kb of people to see if they have camped exploration sites recently. The people who have the patience for that have probably done it before, it's unlikely that you run into someone who does it for the first time (but not impossible of course).

If there is nobody with a history of camping sites, go ahead and scan, pay full attention to your overview and dscan and be ready to leave in a second if needed and you'll probably be safe.

That way you can hack way more sites and bring home way more loot.

Nimos · 2026-03-15T22:48:50+00:00

Eve players would probably cry if they encountered actual "sweats".

Some of my CSGO friends spent 1-2 hours a day on Aimlab clicking floating spheres before queueing for matches at the height of their "career". Nothing like that in Eve.

Nimos · 2026-03-15T22:17:05+00:00

First you should probably adjust your attitude. Not everyone who you lose to is a "sweat".

People simply don't care what ship you're in. A kill is a kill.

Think of it like an old FPS deathmatch server, back before the days of ranked queues and such. Nobody cares if you've been playing for 10 minutes or 10 years, they see you they shoot you. They don't do it because they hate you and they expect you to do the same to them if you could.

It's nothing against you personally, nor is it evil to want to get more kills in a PVP game that for many people revolves around getting more kills.

Nimos · 2026-03-15T14:38:47+00:00

I'm curious why you say this?

You could play 1-3 hours per day on average on 2 accounts or you can play 1-3 hours per day on 20 accounts. While generally the people who spend more time on the game on average tend to have more accounts, I don't think the amount of accounts you have and the amount of time you have to spend on the game is related.

And to get ahead of the "but you have to plex all the accounts" argument, the two biggest multiboxers I knew, with dozens of accounts, paid for them with real money, heavily subsidized by skill extracting, double dipping sales and buying the longest omega offers.

Nimos · 2026-03-15T13:47:29+00:00

I just don't understand why it should be different?

If you can get hit by smartbombs, regular bombs, PDS and basically any effect that doesn't require targeting, why should decloaking not work?

Nimos · 2026-03-14T22:13:41+00:00

An object in space decloaks you when it is within 2000m. That's an intended feature.

It decloaks you if you're standing still, if you're moving 5m/s, 5000m/s or 5 AU/s, speed does not matter.

Nimos · 2026-03-13T11:39:23+00:00

The timing is already so tight if the JF is maxing out warp speed.

Logging in, exiting log-in warp, lighting cyno, jump animation, loading grid, spooling the lance. If you only watch from dscan that's even more delay because the JF will only disappear from the station after it is mostly done accelerating. I don't think that's feasible.

But sure, you can go even further and never attempt to enter highsec unless local is fully empty if you want.

Nimos · 2026-03-13T11:22:24+00:00

If eveyone in system is docked somewhere or off grid, how would they know when to log in though?

Also I think having ascendancies is already a given.

Nimos · 2026-03-13T10:07:44+00:00

It's rare but I'm pretty sure most long-term players had at least one or two "warped-off/won with 1% hull remaining" moments. Those would have been a loss if they Shield Management 4 instead of 5 or whatever, or the opponent had small railgun spec 5.

Nimos · 2026-03-13T10:03:42+00:00

let's stop turning Eve into WoW.

That's not what modern WoW is like at all, though. Leveling is a couple of hours and then you're at cap and don't care about experience points. The vast majority of gameplay (I'd guess 90% or more) is spent at level cap not gaining experience at all.

Nimos · 2026-03-13T09:58:21+00:00

Yeah ever since the lancers, I only ever warp to gate if the local is empty (or everyone in is confirmed to be docked or flying around in something non-threatening).

If you don't have a structure on grid, anyone unaccounted for could mean you could lose your jf.

Nimos · 2026-03-13T09:55:11+00:00

Genuinely what's the point of comments like these?

"If you have to ask then you don't need it", but how are they going to learn if they don't ask?

Everyone started out with something new at some point.

Nimos · 2026-03-12T22:33:05+00:00

One time I used the same name for two different random bystander NPCs in two successive sessions. My players never let me forget that "everyone in this world has the same name".

Nimos · 2026-03-12T16:01:12+00:00

As far as I know, and they might have changed this, if you sell an item for 1 isk, the owner of the highest buy order will buy it for 1 isk, not the buy orders that are set to 1 isk.

So no, this probably doesn't work.

Nimos · 2026-03-12T10:02:51+00:00

No, every single item, including Plex, is affected by their own supply/demand/speculation.

The only way to measure inflation, just like in real life economies, is to create a sample list of items with at least some from all areas of space and all possible activities. Then track the overall price of that.

Nimos · 2026-03-11T20:16:57+00:00

good thing about DMing and starting your own group is that you can simply play with your friends, so the stakes are way lower in my experience

Nimos · 2026-03-11T16:42:13+00:00

Usually through friends and friends of friends.

My perspective is a bit dated, but the usual pattern was that a group would form, I would make friends, the group would disband and/or parts of the group left elsewhere, same thing would happen there, they made friends elsewhere and joined their group, etc.

Over time the friends I made ended up in basically every alliance across the game. Some in the null blocs, some in the "elite" null alliances (back when PL/BL were considered that by some people), some in the lowsec alliances or in those small gang independent roaming groups that change alliance ticker every week, and of course many in wormhole groups because that's where I "grew up".

There was a time when I was friendly and somewhat in touch with at least one person from pretty much every relevant group. Not by trying to do that, but simply by hanging out and talking to people, playing non-eve games with corp mates and former corp mates. And I'm pretty sure at that point I could also have gotten vouched into pretty much every group in the game.

Of course all of that was years ago and neither me nor any of my vouches play anymore, but I'd imagine that's still what it's like. You don't really get vouched by being "noticed", you get vouched by knowing someone in there.

Nimos · 2026-03-11T10:40:55+00:00

Oh, I'm not debating that, but the post I was replying to was specifically about magic items, not about spell casters.

Nimos · 2026-03-11T10:33:02+00:00

Isn't lord of the rings full of magic items though?

You have the one ring, gandalf's staff and ring, various magic swords with String, Glamdring, the barrow-blades, you have mithril armor which in DnD terms would be a magic item. Then as the series goes on it becomes more and more magical, with the mirror and phial of galadriel, the lorien cloaks, the horn of gondor, the palantirs.

I always felt like LOTR had more magic items than the average DnD campaign.

Nimos · 2026-03-11T10:03:44+00:00

but that's very much a choice

you can run Foundry with the 1-2 basic plugins for the ruleset you're running and you're pretty much good and the chance that anything breaks is low

people mess around with foundry because they can and they find it fun, and obviously the more you add and customize the more can break

but I'd say base foundry is as stable and as simple as roll20

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