m4gill4 Wrote:As a lurker relying on the team's threads to see what is going on in this game, I find it is often difficult to get a feel for the overall situation. This is especially bad in the Pitboss 1 game where the land is more filled out and the situation is always in flux. I even have a hard time figuring out what the current date (or turn number) is at any time. This is compounded by the fact that some teams are more inclined to post regular screenshots than others.It's been discussed already upthread, and some (one?) summaries have been written. I agree though that a separate lurker thread that just contains the turn summaries would be nice.
I wonder if, if not for this game then for future PB games, it would be possible to set up periodic summaries specifically for the lurkers with overall (world) map screenshots and turn numbers posted in a lurkers only thread?
It seems like it would take some effort but the result would be a more coherent experience/narrative for the lurkers. Having never played one, I have no idea if the mechanics of a pitboss game could be conducive to such a proposal. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
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novice Wrote:It's been discussed already upthread, and some (one?) summaries have been written. I agree though that a separate lurker thread that just contains the turn summaries would be nice. Oh I didn't see that. I think something as simple as a global screenshot every 10 turns or so would suffice to give a better narrative, but I'm not sure how that could be accomplished unless an admin is able to log into the game and take a screenshot with no "fog". Like I said it may or may not be possible, but it would sure be cool!
If there was an easy and safe mechanic that allowed it, that would be cool. It would also be neat, as a lurker, just to be able to see what was in the darken shrouds, but that would probably make spoiler comments even more likely.
dazedroyalty Wrote:If there was an easy and safe mechanic that allowed it, that would be cool. It would also be neat, as a lurker, just to be able to see what was in the darken shrouds, but that would probably make spoiler comments even more likely. Well, as it stands now, we can all see what the bare map looks like in the old "map creation" thread, but it seems I'm not the first to think about this and I suppose if there was a convenient way to do it then it would already have been done. I suppose it's best saved for another game's planning thread.
Here is Swiss Pauli's ancient era review:
http://realmsbeyond.net/forums/showthrea...#post47831 But it doesn't actually say what turn it is..  For RBP1, the map maker published global defogged screenshots for the lurkers before the game started, and for RBP2, the world builder file was even uploaded in the map making thread. So the terrain information at least is available (but not that easy to find). EDIT: Crosspost.
As my wife would tell you, I'm really bad at finding things. I did a quick search for said map but didn't find it. Anyone have a link to it they can post?
dazedroyalty Wrote:As my wife would tell you, I'm really bad at finding things. I did a quick search for said map but didn't find it. Anyone have a link to it they can post? I can't find in now either, it must have been deleted. It did exist at one time though. Lurkers were invited to give input into the map making process. Olodune Wrote:The map is here. Nearly 60 people have downloaded the thing Thanks, I'm gonna check it out tonight. I was away while all the planning went on and never saw this! |
