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[SPEC/META] The Axons And Their Point

[Kaziel]

Okay, first off I see nothing speculative about your post save that you don't think we will get this set done. IMO it should have been along the lines of what DorkMaster wrote which is [META] Rant:

Next is, since you are an Australian, you can't really help out, other than finding the locations, and putting the wav files together. For this I am very sorry. It sucks, and the PMs should probably place phones outside the nation, but they aren't.

As for being tired of it, maybe I'm alone in this, but so far, I've taken the time out of my days to ride around Washington DC on a bicycle, going to points, twice. I can say that I like it, and it's a thrill... first off, there's the thrill of trying to get to a point on time... sometimes I have plenty of time to spare, but sometimes I don't. Then when I arrive to a site, I need to look around, find the phone. If I'm lucky, there's only one phone in the location, if not there could be a lot. Sometimes the challenge comes from the phone being in an odd location, like the current 11:01 PDT phone is down in a subway station. And once I settle on a phone or a set of phones there is the waiting... while it's kinda boring, if I'm not absolutely sure (i.e. I haven't been to this location before), I'll be standing by the phone, heart pounding, hand shaking, as I wait for the clock to count down to the minute, and wait for the phone to ring, praying nothing very loud happens so that I don't hear the ring. Assuming I get lucky and it rings, I pick up the recieve and wait for the voice to click in, and pray, once again, that nothing loud will happen, so I can hear whether Melissa will ask for real name or nickname.

In the end, this can be exiciting, but only for those who can get to phones. To me that's the only fault with it, that not everyone who's playing can be part of the action. While this is interesting, it is a bit unthoughtout that it excludes non-american players.

[Platonix]

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[Astald]

The only axons that were cancelled were payphones that were either impossible to get to, or didn't exist. As far as I know, we've only had one cancelled axon so far, and that was added to the bar at the top. But all other unanswered axons were just archived and unadded. I personally am getting kind of bored with the payphone thing too, mainly because there aren't any points close to me, and the closest ones are all at times when I can't get there. I do think we will have trouble maintaining morale for answering these phones, especially if they keep staying in the same areas. If they move the axons around, or just find some new way of activating axons, like us calling Melissa, then it might start to get interesting again.

[Shad0]

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