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[rose]

Can we wait a little while to decide if it is a waste of time or not? I'm not trying to tell anyone what to do, but I think with all ARGs, you sortof have to basically decide to go with the premise and see where it takes you. I've always been taken somewhere I didn't expect, and I've always gotten impatient with what was happening in a game or a story at some point along the way.


I'm not sure I'll post much, but I don't really care about the scores in a game anyway. But I will follow along and add my attempts to do whatever stuff without oil I can think of doing.

[Rekidk]

*whew* I think I've finally found all the important links on the new site.

Personally, I think it's going a little too fast for me, but I like it. We're definitely getting a wide variety of updates and opinions from everyone (players and characters alike), and I think that by the end we're going to have some great ideas floating around.

Anyways, have you all subscribed to the podcast? It was only briefly mentioned in this thread. I was wondering... Is it IG or player-created material? The way it's linked seems IG, but the content seems player-created. Hm.

Also, great job to everyone who's created content so far!

[professoryackle]

Personally, I still think the yanks have got it easy. $4.25 for a gallon of petrol ('gas')? It's around twice that (i.e. £4) for a gallon of petrol in the UK, and has been for some time. True, most of that is tax, which raises a whole other issue: If the oil shock hits us here, how can our Tone justify us paying such a high percentage into his coffers? Will it be time for the UK government to get real?

I realise this is a bit of a side issue to the whole WWO thing, but it's bothering me. I can't get excited about people in the US getting mad about having to pay 4 dollars 25, even though it's bound to have a knock-on effect elsewhere.

Also, it seems that all of the locations are in the US, which is not the only country in the world.

Anyone else outside of America bothered by this apparent exclusion of other countries?

[konamouse]

Isn't the US the world's largest consumer of oil?

[wwoentropy]

I've wondered about that as well. If I wanted to do a game, I'd want it available everywhere. I suppose I could start talking about how this project is being funded by and for U.S. companies … yada yada.

I don't think that's the truth though. I think the truth is that Americans (myself included) suck at geography.

We know our postal system well
Address
City
State
Zipcode

Given that, it's cake for us to have a frame of reference for where someone is in the US.

How does it work in other countries? Does Spain have the same system as the UK. What about South Africa?

I suppose we could just use long lat coordinates, but that feels kinda impersonal, doncha think?


<shrugs> It's just a guess.

[copystar]

[cissmiace]

Ive never fully understood the whole 'our gas is too expensive' thing in America, but only because ours is so stupidly expensive nothing else seems to compare to it.
I mean, I know of some people here that actually drive accross the channel tunnel into Europe to fill up because its still cheaper.

I kinda feel a bit uncomfortable voicing my initial oppinions about this now

[Stax]

[ararejul]

okay first off i'm confused. are we playing like we're already in the second week?

secondly dessum put up this bit yesterday:

Seems the site was knocked offline earlier today. For some minutes. If you are a reasonable person you are thinking, "Oh, it's a server error because of course a whole lot of people are UPSET AS HECK about this crisis and logging on." If you believe in conspiracies, however, you KNOW that this was no accident. YM is on it, folks, we are kicking in the redundancies... we WILL stay online. Stay tuned, keep the faith.


now yuckymuck seemed to backup this hacker idea:

We've had some growing pains with the site, we found some cool people to help out, they have been working double shifts, really dedicated. Dess thought that outage we had a while back was some kind of conspiracy, you know, to knock us out, and I was 'yeah, right Dess, the aliens under my dog house told me that too' but now I have seen the logs, and I'm not so sure. That creepy Bulgarian lady pops into my head. What side is she on? If she's a baddie, I hope she drives a hummer.


I say that it's NOT a coincidence and I mentioned so in one of the posts to them. I saw that Rumpletoe asked for the logs. yay. I'm pretty useless when it comes to network stuff though but that's definitely something we should be looking at...

[ararejul]

sorry to double post but someone mentioned the podcast and i was just wondering if there is any way we could get that added to wwo-watcher.livejournal.com??

[WolfHawk]

[Rekidk]

[jegger]

WWO outage

[xnera]

[ararejul]

thanks jegger. kind of a let down though, i thought they were trying to be sneaky about some more nonplayer plot development.

and thanks xnera i really do love that watcher. it's the best place with everything all assembled for easy reading.



so yeah. doing a week per day? seems kind of insane to me but i've never played an arg before. i thought we'd actually be going at real time.
I guess I just have to get used to it. I noticed that on the website it's marked with W1 and W2... this might get a bit crazy...