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[Rival Max]

Same, I still have PXR as one of my first bookmarks. But yeah, Discord and forums are very different from each other and quite frankly, I've always preferred forums over messengers even if Discord has more features than Skype or AIM ever did. With all the Discords I'm in, there's very few actual events and activities and it's mostly just chat, chat, and more chat with some artwork sharing. Gets a little tiring after a while.

I miss hosting Stalkers RPG as well. It was fun despite it being quite of bit of work to put together. Looking back, it would have been better and easier to manage with shorter and fewer Stalker routes, less filler stuff, and give it more of a short and sweet kind of feel than have these complex things going on (Season 2 Sin Purge Ritual was insane and Season 5's map was gigantic when it didn't need to be). Better to have it too short and have people asking for more rather than having everyone wonder "are we there yet" and drift off to other things before the end.

But yeah, all the little horror subplots for each Stalker and subplots at some of the locations were fun to create. And man, Aglome Oen posts were such a guilty pleasure. xD

I feel like that about GCEA. sooo much work but when it was good it was pretty fun.

oh hiiiiii.....poking my head back in.

[Bulbasaur]

PXR remains one of bookmarks on my new tab page so I open it reflexively often enough, if nothing else. I poke around on occassion, but I've always been a lurker even when the forum was active. Discord's cool or whatever but man it's got nothin on forums (besides the fact that they're apples and oranges).

(Man, I've been missing the ASB lately.)

I miss the ASB as well.

[Elbub]

PXR remains one of bookmarks on my new tab page so I open it reflexively often enough, if nothing else. I poke around on occassion, but I've always been a lurker even when the forum was active. Discord's cool or whatever but man it's got nothin on forums (besides the fact that they're apples and oranges).

(Man, I've been missing the ASB lately.)

I miss the ASB as well.

I do too, and I feel bad for taking it offline for a refurb that never completed quite often, particularly when I'm on here :(

[Neo Emolga]

I do too, and I feel bad for taking it offline for a refurb that never completed quite often, particularly when I'm on here :(

Trust me, I feel bad for every Stalker RPG season that never finished as well. A few did finish (some were given a shortened duration) but there were a couple where the burnout just got too hard for both the players (many silently dropped out) and for me. It was like "oh crap, we've been at this for four months now and they still have a ways to go..."

Given, I wish I discovered the formula for Stalkers RPG way back when during earlier times (many ideas of mine crashed and died prior to it). I would have liked to get more successful millage out of it and start it back in like 2006 rather than 2016 (instead of writing a ton of meh fan fiction that I'd probably never revisit). There were a lot of members of the PE2K community that came and left that never experienced it and I think they would have liked it.

But yeah, events and ideas like these... impossible to run on Discord. With forums essentially dead, I'd have to get an idea like that programmed into an actual fan game with menu interfaces and graphics and all that stuff (and I'm not a programmer). That's a HUGE undertaking. And the reward for being successful and famous with something like that is you get copyright strikes from Nintendo.

It was good fun while it lasted, though. It at least beats the reality that it was possible I could have never tried this idea and it wouldn't have happened at all. So I'm glad it had a good few solid years to shine and people enjoyed it for the most part.

[Bulbasaur]

I do too, and I feel bad for taking it offline for a refurb that never completed quite often, particularly when I'm on here :(

It's all good! I'm not sure how much longer it would have been active anyway, given the forum decline.

[[Desolate Divine]]

Trust me, I feel bad for every Stalker RPG season that never finished as well. A few did finish (some were given a shortened duration) but there were a couple where the burnout just got too hard for both the players (many silently dropped out) and for me. It was like "oh crap, we've been at this for four months now and they still have a ways to go..."

Given, I wish I discovered the formula for Stalkers RPG way back when during earlier times (many ideas of mine crashed and died prior to it). I would have liked to get more successful millage out of it and start it back in like 2006 rather than 2016 (instead of writing a ton of meh fan fiction that I'd probably never revisit). There were a lot of members of the PE2K community that came and left that never experienced it and I think they would have liked it.

But yeah, events and ideas like these... impossible to run on Discord. With forums essentially dead, I'd have to get an idea like that programmed into an actual fan game with menu interfaces and graphics and all that stuff (and I'm not a programmer). That's a HUGE undertaking. And the reward for being successful and famous with something like that is you get copyright strikes from Nintendo.

It was good fun while it lasted, though. It at least beats the reality that it was possible I could have never tried this idea and it wouldn't have happened at all. So I'm glad it had a good few solid years to shine and people enjoyed it for the most part.

Honestly I've done some discord programming and making bots. The next few months are gonna be 50+ hour work weeks but after that if you have any ideas for games running on discord let me know

[sammy0295]

A few did finish (some were given a shortened duration) but there were a couple where the burnout just got too hard for both the players (many silently dropped out) and for me.

oh it me... I never made it to the end of a Stalkers season even though they were super cool :(
(I did come back to read the end though)

It's all good! I'm not sure how much longer it would have been active anyway, given the forum decline.

Agreed.

[Bulbasaur]

It's nice to see everyone doing well. Looks like I haven't posted in over three years, jeez! I hope your non-PXR lives have been treating you well.

[Neo Emolga]

Honestly I've done some discord programming and making bots. The next few months are gonna be 50+ hour work weeks but after that if you have any ideas for games running on discord let me know

Yeah, I'm drawing a blank as far as that goes. Something like Stalkers RPG would need an entire Discord server of its own and even then I think it would be hard to manage everything with its format. With the way Discord is, things just get buried way too fast in a sea of chat and having to resort to references or update stats is just really hard. And that's the thing, Stalkers RPG main character stats was a pretty huge page. Same with the list of all the civilians interviewed and locations searched. Certain things like that would have to be linked to a Google document or something along those lines and that's a lot for a player to have to fumble around with. Forums just make it easy for things to be linked up and cross referenced which helps the players and myself find stuff that happened in the past.

As for Pikachu Survivor Game and Devolution Battle Royale, they just don't work simply because no one has signatures in Discord and avatars can't be changed by the admin. Those games relied heavily on me goofing around with those and without it, it's just not the same. Not to mention DBR's battle system was a broken, hot mess.

oh it me... I never made it to the end of a Stalkers season even though they were super cool :(
(I did come back to read the end though)

Hey, I'm glad you still enjoyed them. No worries about dropping out early, those campaigns got really complex sometimes. My ambition and inspiration got carried away too often. xD

Though there's only a few people left here, if I had four or more interested peeps, I could host a mini version of Stalkers. Like 15 civilians, 3 of them are Stalkers, and it takes place in a creepy, secluded village where you have 5 days to eliminate the three Stalkers. Could totally work!

It's nice to see everyone doing well. Looks like I haven't posted in over three years, jeez! I hope your non-PXR lives have been treating you well.

Three years, dang. Hope things have been well with you, too.

These days have been all art and comics for me. Stuff on DeviantArt and ComicFury for the most part while taking part in Art Fight and stuff like that.

[Chakramaster]

Yeah it's still nice being able to come back here. I may have missed out on the glory days of PE2K and even got here to PXR a little into its lifespan, but it's been fun! Glad to see the forum still here either way.

Sure many of us may be mainly on Discord, but this place will always be great and full of memories too.