Apropos of nothing... (OOC discussion thread about the game)

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 11:17 am

Deadline is the 15th.

Post by **Goatkiller666** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 1:40 am

Four players have submitted turns already. Now is the time for a flurry of public postings so they have to revise their turns based on new information.

And... go!

Post by **Goatkiller666** » Sat Jan 14, 2012 7:50 pm

Okay, lacking a flurry of public postings, turns are still due by Close of Business tomorrow. Those who have not done so, should strongly consider pondering your next moves, putting them in an email, and... you know... emailing them to me.

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 1:27 pm

BOOM!!!!!

Post by **Abdul Alhazred** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 3:21 am

SENT

Also, when would it be acceptable to post stuff about this current turn so that information in said post won't be used against me this current turn? >.>

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 11:48 am

Deadline's past! Everybody wake up! Especially Goat. Time to get processing!

Post by **Goatkiller666** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 3:19 pm

Seven of nine players made it in time. I'll be chasing up the last two shortly.

So... I found some really interesting stuff on Wikipedia the other day. Turns out that my estimate of 1 Million living people in the year 1 AD was off, by a factor of 200 or so. Just because I eventually would like birth, death, and morality of the Firmament to impact the flow of Souls into Hell, I'd always assumed that I'd keep things on actual parity.

However, since I've already twice said "all the souls have been claimed" I can't really get away with adding in this many new Souls right off the bat. So... not yet sure what exactly I'll do to adjust this. Probably just quietly increase everybody's stuff by a factor of 200, and decrease what each Soul provides.

At first blush, it seems like that might disproportionately augment those players who focused on the early land grab. However, I'm guessing that those who didn't grab early will continue to be uninterested in grabbing now that they're divided into smaller pieces.

Also, if it's really a factor of 169, that's 13x13... close enough to the 200, and has a nice Infernal feel to it. (And Wikipedia actually had a range from 170Million to like 450Million, but the median was 200Million.)

Anyway, I'll process turns with the current scale, and then look at adjusting after that's done. So, feel free to pipe in with opinions in the mean time.

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 3:44 pm

7 of 9? How cool is that!

Post by **Abdul Alhazred** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:10 am

Knowing the timeline of this game is 1 AD makes the whole Creator entering hell thing a lot more interesting. There's that whole christian mystery of what Jesus did during the 3 days he was dead...

Post by **Goatkiller666** » Mon Jan 23, 2012 4:24 pm

Dante's Inferno has some backhanded comments about Jesus' presence in Hell. It's not canonical to the Bible, but Dante was never excommunicated for his publication.

Post by **Goatkiller666** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 5:14 am

Okay, so... my deadline to return results was yesterday. Obviously, I missed that. I feel that I can juggle the two remaining papers this week and the rest of turn processing, and have results out by next Sunday evening.

Feb 12th, Midnight. (Turn 7 Results)

Feb 26th, Midnight. (Turn 8 Submissions)
Mar 11th, Midnight. (Turn 8 Results)

This is when I finish my last regular class with papers and whatnot due. After that, I have a single Capstone project due at the end of May.

It should be much more feasible to assume all of my weekends will have at least enough time to process turns, if I commit to two weeks from when you submitted them.

Thanks once again for your patience.

Post by **stonemaybe** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:58 pm

Thanks once again for your patience

Who's letting the side down with patience????

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 12:30 am

I txt him every day with, "WHERE THE FUCK ARE RESULTS!!"

Post by **Goatkiller666** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:39 pm

When I said patience, I was being ironical. Thank you for your gnashing rage and impotence? Is that more literal for you?

(Also, Fist only txt's me about what he's doing in Acropolis, right now. Something about the great song of Shen?)

Post by **stonemaybe** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 3:59 pm

song? He told me he was working on the great love-tree-swing of shen...

Post by **Goatkiller666** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 6:13 pm

Maybe he's got a theme song for it?

Or... like the little jingles they used to have for Ice Cream Trucks... so his little pedoperv self can summon all the children in the area...

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 6:21 pm

Seems to me you could be processing instead of making these clever little posts.

Post by **Goatkiller666** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:33 pm

You underestimate my ability to be a smart-ass. I could do this in my sleep, with no higher brain activity at all.

Also, everybody except you got their results last weekend. I just wanted to see how long I could string you along.

No, I'm kidding. I'm still processing. Don't worry.

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:22 pm

Do you use a Mayan calander? Those things aren't really accurate for 2012. It's now the 13th.

nyuk nyuk

Post by **Goatkiller666** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:05 am

Cryptic Hint: I hate you guys so much, right now. Four-way battles, and massive alteration of the landscape means I have to do a LOT of math and redraw about half the map from scratch.

Unless that process drags out for much longer than I predict, expect results tomorrow.

Kevin's Watch

Kevin's Watch

Apropos of nothing... (OOC discussion thread about the game)