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[rose1]

This is great for people that have big teams. But what about my relatively small group and what about the lurker/unaffiliated people?

Even though the Restorers puzzle was relatively easy, I still think that it is more fun for everyone if we share here. And anyone can solve them.

[StercusMaximus]

So what are we going to do with the chat logs we end up with from these group chats? Will those of us Ideltech folks be able to read what happened at the Restorers chat? And to make things even more complicated, should we stay away from the other group's chats? Here at UF we all know when they're planned, but in the game, most of us wouldn't have access to that information.....


any ideas??

SM

[Marduk]

Ya know, it's funny. In the post-pre-game chat there was a lot of talk about in-game/out-of-game and how the less role-playing there is the better and how having IU creates as little role-playing as possible. I can't help but think that doesn't make any sense. Who here thinks that this would be a lot more fun if you didn't have to worry about what's in-game appropriate or juggling two or more seperate, yet necessary, message boards?

I'm just saying it makes a lot more sense to either:
A) stay only on IU, only in your faction's message boards, and solve only your faction's puzzles, or
B) just use UF and act as a collective mind, solving all puzzles, and letting the people drawn to each particular group try to help that in-game group out.

It's just such a pain that, while ARGing, I have to worry about meta-gaming and acting like I only know a small fraction of information while I'm posting on IU when I can actually see the whole picture.

I mean I love AWARE so far, and I'll continue playing, but this just seems like a large obstacle.

[Shelina]

[Varin]

This all hurts my brain

[Yliandra]

I agree with whoevers team it is solving puzzles (man am I glad rose was working on the Thad puzzle at the same time we were in chat ), but I still think we should post logs etc in here. If we only know our little chunk, this game is going to get pretty boring. I don't see any reason we can't seperate what we know in-game from what we know out. I managed not to go, "Yeah right!" when Alecia called and tried to blame the explosion on Thad.

As long as people are careful we should manage. But if we all start clamming up, the guide isn't going to get updated fully, new people entering are going to be really out of the loop, and we might as well stop talking in IMs and non-game chat altogether. Frankly I wouldn't like to sector the community like that.

[Tablesaw]

[Guest]

As to chats, the host (thad, marcus or alecia) can ask people who aren't supposed to be there to leave if that is what they want. Marcus posted his message on the common board which I think is an indication he may want to talk to everyone. I recall that SLake had not trouble asking Mos to leave when he was in a chat after being fired from Ideltech.

I will post whatever puzzles, logs, etc. I have and I think my fellow Restorers ( yes, I am not the only one) would agree with that. And, as I am possibly the worst puzzle solver of all time I need as much help as I can get.

Thank God for my team mates!

[Rose1]

sorry, that was me, Rose.

[Marduk]

I just think that it is unduly burdensome to ask everyone to pretend that they don't know what is going on with the big picture. I mean, isn't knowing the big picture and trying to solve all the puzzles what makes this so much fun? This is approaching an ARG/RPG mix that will just confuse the newcomers and muddy the waters. I have a feeling, if the PMs don't give us some sort of additional structure/instructions, that we'll all be having this exact discussion for the duration of the game.

[Yliandra]

[Marduk]

[Shelina]

[Tablesaw]

I've been thinking a lot about this (and I posted some of my thoughts in the meta forum). My stance would be that it's fine to post puzzles and possibly solutions on the board (depending on what information is included in the solution puzzle, players may not want to broadcast it), but solving puzzles probably shouldn't happen out of game. As I said before, it's really hard to ignore a solution or partial solution when you're supposed to be solving the puzzle.

[Emericana]

Seems quite simple to me. Don't post any team-specific information on UF, it all goes to IU. Then you don't have to worry about anyone slipping up and giving things away.