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[Phaedra]

[karathephantom]

Is it just me, or is this game making anyone else want to get ready for oil to disappear? Maybe that's the point of the game, but it makes me want to go out and spend large amounts of money on emergency supplies. (Money I don't have.)

Anyways, I was just wondering if this game is making anyone else think like it's making me think.

[Rogi Ocnorb]

We're a month out from launch and I'm already overwhelmed by the number of blogs we'll need to monitor (I stopped positng my finds till that all settles down, some, as several of them are either player creations or haven't had a good TINAG check done yet). I'm struck at how much more encompassing this whole thing could become given all the technological possibilities.

It looks like our main characters will be representing fairly strict archetypes (Like Illiana_Speedster, who is into motorsports and Chuckles, our survivalist), so I'm guessing we'll have ample opportunities to break out into workgroups based on our interests.

This last round of price hikes doesn't seem to have a lot driving it. My assumption is that big oil is passing the costs for their increased interest in alternative solutions on to us in a pretty direct fashion. It kind of pains me to think that whatever solutions we might come up with, unless the government steps in to subsidize, will be implemented by the same people who are running the oil industry, now.

Maybe we'll set new precedents for patents awarded to groups collaborating on the internet.

Summer is right around the corner, so we'll be seeing the normal jump in prices very soon.

[Ancheta]

Ironically, a radio-cast I heard in passing last night (flipping through stations) mentioned something about Oil and April 30th. Very interesting.

Hate to say it to some of you but: I told ya this was already off the launch pad.

I've been fairly busy lately, not alot of new finds. I have noticed that Mpathytest seems to be somewhat absent from AIM alot lately, at least when I'm around.

[thebruce]

At this point, I'm all for tracking our known friends - the 10 we know of - and taking anything else that pops up with a grain of salt. heck, it hasn't even launched yet, I don't see why loads of other arg-related sites would be popping up. Right now all we know is there's the launch site and a number of people chatting (building hype) in their blogs about what's going down April 30th. Beyond that, unless specifically referred to... *shrug*

[Rekidk]

Keeping Track of Everything

[enaxor]

Re: Keeping Track of Everything

[LouMac]

When this game gets it own sub-forum, that post should definitely be stickied!

Great job, rekidk!

[thebruce]

also located at http://oilless.info/Characters for wiki referencing

[OrangeForAHead]

[Crimsyn]

Re: Keeping Track of Everything

[xnera]

Thanks Rekidk for putting that list together!

Since a good portion of the activity seems to be happening on LiveJournal, and because I like having only a few places to check for updates, I've gone and created a "watching journal" on LiveJournal. It's here:

http://wwo-watcher.livejournal.com/friends

It has all of the characters and communities friended. I've also created LJ syndicated accounts for every RSS feed that I could find, so that you can see updates just by viewing the various friends filters. There might be a delay before the LJ syn account sees an update, but it should catch them all.

The links for the various Friends filters are in the top white heading box, and are divided into the following categories:

• LiveJournal Blogs
  
• Vox Blogs
  
• Photo Feeds (Vox Photo feeds, Flickr feeds)
  
• del.icio.us feeds
  
• Other Feeds (Story So Far blog, mPathytest's 43 Things)
  
• ALL updates (shows all of the above on one page)
  

I also included a link list on the right-hand side with all of the links that Rekidk found. The AIM screennames should be clickable, depending on your browser/IM program. My combo of Firefox/Gaim isn't letting me click them, but I've used such links before so I'm pretty sure they'll work.

For those who have their own LiveJournals and wish to add the syndicated accounts to their friends list, these are the ones I set up:

wwo_vox_posts - Vox blog posts
wwo_vox_photos - Vox photo posts
wwo_vox_audio - Vox audio posts
wwo_vox_vids - Vox video posts
wwo_vox_books - Vox book posts
wwo_vox_coll - Vox Collection posts

wwo_del_gra - Gracesmom's del.icio.us
wwo_del_ils - Illiana Speedster's del.icio.us
wwo_del_chu - Chuckles' del.icio.us

wwo_flickr_ils - Illiana Speedster's Flickr
wwo_43_mpathy - mPathytest's 43 Things
wwo_story - Story So Far blog

The Vox feeds actually watch the neighborhood of wwowatcher, a WWO watcher blog I set up on Vox. I might tweak its layout so it has all the links, too, but I don't know Vox as well as I know LJ. Mostly I set it up because it was the only way to get feeds to use for LJ syndicated accounts.

I may do some more tweaking of colors or layout. Let me know if there's anything you'd like to see added or if you have any other suggestions. Hopefully this will make it easier to follow the game for those of you who don't have LJs or don't wish to get one.

[Rekidk]

Thank you, Xnera! Now we can keep actually keep track of the bazillion links we compiled. I love feeds.

[thebruce]

Ok, we've got a lot of player-created resources now... let's make sure we don't duplicate each other's efforts. Each resource has its strength, so I think we've got a good collection of stuff now, and there's still a month before launch... let's calm down a bit

that said, good work and good effort everyone. At least we know we've got loads of people who are already invested in this ARG

[cissmiace]

Wow theres so many links already! Looks like its going to be a good one!
I dont have anything valuable to add to this, just remember when your talking to a charecter you dont keep refering to it as an arg or a game, thats really bad form.

Im on vox now: http://cissmiace.vox.com/
And Ellyjay: http://operation-filth.livejournal.com/