So, Archives of Memoria, my integration, and a selfish post

I guess that's because nothing's happening? I dunno, been feeling the same... Guess I'll just wait until something happens, or the next update.

 

Drifting and wandering kinda tends to lead to this. Find a core group of friends. From your post, these'd likely be a group of like-minded AoM guys. Come up with some ideas with them and run with it; most groups on the server are kinda in a lull right now so waiting for stuff to happen's probably just going to disappoint. Even if it's just you and a few friends doing it, and no one else gets to know, it's probably better than just sitting around waiting and getting wistful.

 

All I can say is, seek others ingame. Find a particular place or faction that resonates with you, and get involved in it by seeking a residence or membership. If not that, then start/build something interesting that will draw players to it. Also, don't be afraid to try making more characters if one of them isn't working out.

I haven't met you in character, so I can't really give any advice beyond that, unfortunately.

 

I feel for you. I"m in a similar lull with my favorite character since every colony and faction she's involved with is on hiatus right now, and I don't really feel like uprooting her and moving on. Pretty much try what Crimson suggested. Applying and showing OOC interest in a group is a good foot in the door to get your character IC'ly involved with them.

Edit: And as painful as it can be, sometimes you just need to wait for others to show up.

 

As another fellow who migrated from AoM, I have this same problem. It's gotten to the point where I don't bother, only really coming on when asked by the other AoM guys. I've had some decent times on this sever, but it feels like at this point i'm just waisting my time. But I suppose that's my issue.

 

Join a faction that actually has objectives and does stuff

 

My advice? Start the shit yourself. Don't wait for others to do it for you. It's what I'm doing right now, actually, so I'll use myself (because I'm an narcissistic asshole like that) as an example.

To begin: my main character is obviously Gamma (despite Crosswell apparently being more well-known or something idk w/e). Gamma is my third ever character in Starbound game-wise. For reference, Crosswell was created in-game after Gamma, so he's my fourth character, etc.

There were two characters before M-Bot 3000c (Gamma): M-Bot 3000 and M-Bot 3000b. I played both of them, and they were both Glitch. This is OOC fact.

M-Bot 3000, nowadays known as Alpha, was my very first character, made the day the Starbound beta came out. He made it to roughly tier 2 before the first wipe. He had a house on a desert planet with an NPC Floran village. His save files were eliminated in the first wipe. This is OOC fact.

M-Bot 3000b, now known as Beta, was my second character. He made it to tier 10, accumulated most of the techs, got some awesome vanity items, purely through the vanilla experience. No cheating, no custom starcheat weapons. I remember bragging on a server that I had a sniper rifle that did 4000 damage per shot... and some were actually impressed. But slowly some modders trickled onto the server, and a hylotl got me interested in base file editing. I created a sword that fired the dragon projectile and practically shit my pants from the sheer awesomeness. And then I attempted to alter Beta's description... and his file was corrupted.

All that hard work, that vanilla bubble boost, that rainbow cloak and full wizard set... gone. Poof. And that was how Beta died. It killed me inside and threw me off Starbound for a good bit, because simply put, I didn't want to do all that over again, having already been at the "top". That, too, is OOC fact.

So what didn't happen OOCly?

-Alpha's armor. He never got the knight's armor, never even reached the point where he could make it.
-Alpha being saved by the Novakid (lol)
-Alpha dying in a fire, saving said Floran NPC village.

-Beta being psychotic/evil. He was actually a pretty swell guy! Gave away weapons and armor for free, even.
-The group of golden armored warriors.
-Various other things that will be revealed in the logs at a later date.

GODDAMN JUST GET TO THE POINT ALREADY (aka TL;DR)

The point in all of this, is that based on the OOC experiences of two former characters and a little creativity, Gamma suddenly has a backstory spanning roughly fifty IC years(!) and his own progressing personal storyline, that culminates in a MASSIVE future server event and a powerful, driven villain in the form of Beta, as well as his personal army.

So my advice is if you want to be involved in something and affect the server in some way... plan it. Figure out what works, what people might be up for, and then go for it. What you can do is only limited by your creativity - that's the beauty of roleplay.

(also make sure you get consent first from all involved parties okay yes nobody likes a sudden unprovoked colony-destroying war)

 

Just to let you know, the USCM is still around. We're still accepting new members, and we're still active. If you want something to do, at least consider joining us, because it sounds like you're having a hard time finding anything else to do.

 

There has been a LOT going on in floran politics on the server recently. New tribes being formed, intentions of full scale war..

 

Yeah I can understand that, but instead of trying to recreate the Grackle and its experiences, why not use its legacy as a springboard? What about the continuity? Did Brandon (iirc that was his name, sorry if I got that completely wrong lmao) have any relatives? What happened to the ship itself? Could someone have found it in a state of disrepair and wondered what happened to the original crew?

I'm not sure how you ended its story outside of the captain dying, but there must be *something* you can exploit, hmm?

 

I've had this problem with other games, and never have found a way to get past it. Great things will happen, but they won't happen all the time. Sometimes it's just "that time" to move on to something else until you feel the call of roleplay or Starbound again. People burn out. Nothing lasts forever. That's just the way things are, I've noticed.

 

Usually a purposeless character is purposeless because they don't have a set purpose to begin with. There's a difference between making a character strictly just for pure interaction, and a character who has goals that wants to do things.

The first character I made for Starbound roleplaying purposes, Vector, is a good example of mixing both together. He has a job he needs to do (haul trash), and he meets others while hauling his trash and traveling through space and the like. You can't sit around and wait for the action to come to you: Sometimes you gotta make the action happen. This goes deeper and also applies to their personality: Their purpose isn't the end-all or be-all, but it's something that keeps them driven that's a part of them, and how that meshes with the rest of their traits as a whole to create an actual person.

Naturally, this is easier said than done, but if you manage to think up a decent idea, it'll usually have good backing from other roleplayers.