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[WolfHawk]

[nitefoll]

Check out yucky's comment on dessum's post about the outage.

http://community.livejournal.com/worldwithoutoil/8119.html

[tim7168]

I like the way this is going, any ARG (especially one with this much hype) that convince many of its players that it is actually 'not-a-game' in the first couple of days is doing pretty well in my opinion!

[xnera]

I figured it was programming issues that that made into an in-game story... and hey, it might still be that. Wouldn't be surprised if it's an actual puzzle, though. i suck at ARG puzzles, so I have no clue where to even start with this, if it IS a puzzle.

[KSG]

Sorry for going back a couple pages with this reply, but the comments can't have been more than a day old, and I don't see another thread for it.


Once again, I support the PMs over popular complaints. A week a day is a bit fast, since sometimes there is a day when real life demands too much attention, yes. They really needed to speed it up a lot, though. When I finally realized that this was going to be a month-long thing, I thought, how the crap are we supposed to fit a proper crisis into that?

The way I picture it, it would take a while for an oil shortage to set in. There wouldn't be looting until there were actual shortages of supplies, and then some more delay would occur as the government implemented and overstated its oil reserves, and possibly solicited a little help from more oil-rich nations. Then the chaos settles in...and then the game is over? How does that let us find solutions?

Rushing through a week a day (though I'll agree that a week every two or three days might be better) lets them get past the lag, and then into and even through the crisis. 31 days or whatever are more than half of a year, if a week passes during each of them. In a real oil crisis, I would imagine that the first month would be pretty useless as far as lifestyle and societal changes. All our entries would just be, 'good thing I fueled up on Sunday' for the first week and then 'oh crap, the power's out and my local grocery store was looted by someone other than me' for the next three. Now, most of them can be about adapting instead of preparing.

[ararejul]

[KSG]

Yeah, it does suck. Though apparently, there are people who consider blogging and writing fiction to be homework, so for them it doesn't. As for characters and plot, I still think they are completely beside the point of the game. I've seen short games with good casts/plots, though.

[RedHatty]

[RedHatty]

A CHALLENGE

[Slyfox]

Extract from wikipedia September 2005 fuel protests

[RedHatty]

[cissmiace]

Re: A CHALLENGE

[RedHatty]

yes. mpathy's entry is kinda vague, but I think it was meant to be to leave the door wide open for ideas, rather than limiting them.

Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for gps users. Participating in a cache hunt is a good way to take advantage of the wonderful features and capability of a gps unit. The basic idea is to have individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find the caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. All the visitor is asked to do is if they get something they should try to leave something for the cache.

[cissmiace]

[Rekidk]

OMG!

I <3 geocaching. I'm very bad at it, but it's very fun.

Er, that's all I had to add. XD