The first in what is hoped to be a series of interviews on "The Making of a Gamer" will be posted in the General Forum soon. I had the honour of being the first interviewer and Zed-F was gracious enough to let himself be the guinea pig ... er ... inaugural interview subject.

The first post will consist of a series of Q&A. Additional questions are welcome; they can be added as posts to the thread. If you think that the question you have might be a sensitive one, then ask it by private message to Zed, and he can decide for himself whether to answer it in public.

The interviews have several objectives. First, there is that question: What makes a Gamer and what brought us all to the Realms Beyond?

The second purpose of these interviews is to let us get a chance to know one another better. While we all love to game, we do come from many different backgrounds. These interviews will let us get a chance to know the 'subjects' better, and the subjects get a chance to talk a bit about themselves. Some of us have been gaming together, in one format or another, for almost 10 years; that is a big chunk of our lives, whether we consider it to be 'real life' or not.

A further purpose of the interviews is to give those of us who participate in only one of the covered games here at Realms Beyond a chance to know people from the other forums. I know I am looking forward to reading about some of you who play Civ or MOO, who I have yet to get a chance to meet in a game.

Best wishes to all of you. I hope you enjoy the read.

The first in what is hoped to be a series of interviews on "The Making of a Gamer" will be posted in the General Forum soon. I had the honour of being the first interviewer and Zed-F was gracious enough to let himself be the guinea pig ... er ... inaugural interview subject.

The first post will consist of a series of Q&A. Additional questions are welcome; they can be added as posts to the thread. If you think that the question you have might be a sensitive one, then ask it by private message to Zed, and he can decide for himself whether to answer it in public.

The interviews have several objectives. First, there is that question: What makes a Gamer and what brought us all to the Realms Beyond?

The second purpose of these interviews is to let us get a chance to know one another better. While we all love to game, we do come from many different backgrounds. These interviews will let us get a chance to know the 'subjects' better, and the subjects get a chance to talk a bit about themselves. Some of us have been gaming together, in one format or another, for almost 10 years; that is a big chunk of our lives, whether we consider it to be 'real life' or not.

A further purpose of the interviews is to give those of us who participate in only one of the covered games here at Realms Beyond a chance to know people from the other forums. I know I am looking forward to reading about some of you who play Civ or MOO, who I have yet to get a chance to meet in a game.

Best wishes to all of you. I hope you enjoy the read.

The first in what is hoped to be a series of interviews on "The Making of a Gamer" will be posted in the General Forum soon. I had the honour of being the first interviewer and Zed-F was gracious enough to let himself be the guinea pig ... er ... inaugural interview subject.

The first post will consist of a series of Q&A. Additional questions are welcome; they can be added as posts to the thread. If you think that the question you have might be a sensitive one, then ask it by private message to Zed, and he can decide for himself whether to answer it in public.

The interviews have several objectives. First, there is that question: What makes a Gamer and what brought us all to the Realms Beyond?

The second purpose of these interviews is to let us get a chance to know one another better. While we all love to game, we do come from many different backgrounds. These interviews will let us get a chance to know the 'subjects' better, and the subjects get a chance to talk a bit about themselves. Some of us have been gaming together, in one format or another, for almost 10 years; that is a big chunk of our lives, whether we consider it to be 'real life' or not.

A further purpose of the interviews is to give those of us who participate in only one of the covered games here at Realms Beyond a chance to know people from the other forums. I know I am looking forward to reading about some of you who play Civ or MOO, who I have yet to get a chance to meet in a game.

Best wishes to all of you. I hope you enjoy the read.

As for me, and I think for others as well, there are some epics that look promising to some people and not so promising to other, and I think it would be great to have an epic twice a month (like GOTM) or even once a month, and since no one has previously created a thread for suggesting ideas, I thought it would be interesting to set one up .

As for ideas, one of mine would simply be ideas from past epics, for there are quite a few of us who have only joined the RBCiv community recently. It would be nice to have a chance to play variations of past variations.

Another idea would be a potluck game, but I realize that takes A LOT of work.

Feel free to contibute ideas, comments, questions and concerns .

~Kodi

http://www.guildwars.com/events/guildemb...fault.html

No spoiler until I see their version

KoP

Let the board-hopping birthday wishes continue!

One question--do you bake your own birthday cake? Or is a lesser artist commissioned for the occasion?

In any case, many happy returns (again)!

Bam-Bam

Hi,

I suffer from some bad luck at the moment - after being sick twice already this year, I now have a painful neck/shoulder injury. :mad: My doctor told me not to use the computer for some time, especially not the keyboard. But since I had to disobey him today anyway to sort out some stuff over the internet, I can post my ideas for the next assignment here as well.


As some kind of follow-up to "memory lane", I had thought about,

"Change"

This could be one picture, but it would also lend itself nicely to a series of pictures.


If this is too abstract or too close to the theme of the last assignment for you, an alternative proposal would be "At Night".


I'd also suggest to set the deadline to the end of March - this feels more natural than the middle of the month (I think Smegged might agree with me here ), and should hopefully give people enough time.

What do you think? I will mostly stay away from the computer during the next days, but will try to participate in this discussion at least. And yes, I still intend to post a picture about "memory lane", however late this might be.

-Kylearan

I read the 1.01 patch notes for the game and found this interesting comment.

Quote:
* On some Huge maps (Sirian's Crossing in particular), setting a very long
movement path that criss-crossed back and forth across the map could cause
a crash.

I found the website for a place near my cottage that I have been intending to visit 'one of these days'.

Here is a link to one very interesting photograph.


http://www.steveirvine.com/analemma.html

In these days of rampant consumerism amongst the young, fostered by all those television ads for the latest/greatest/niftiest new thing, and, I suspect, mostly paid for by the manufacturers of batteries, I have to tell you about a new toy I found for my children.

I purchased it from Lee Valley Tools, which is mainly a vendor of woodworking tools, but also has branched out into a number of other venues (including great gardening stuff). I just had to share this one, as I know many of you have children too, and may be feeling just as jaundiced about toys for kids as I am.



The toy is described here: http://www.leevalley.com/gifts/page.aspx...45481&ap=1

No batteries. Incredibly low price tag. And they work perfectly. The kids love it. Bathtub/washtub/lee of the dock races are forthcoming.

This is the description:



Model Steamboat

These steamboats were first made in the 1800s. The version we are selling dates from 1926.

The boat is powered by the world's simplest steam engine, a small diaphragm connected to two tubes. When the system is filled with water and a tiny candle is put under the diaphragm, it creates steam that expels water from one of the tubes. The steam then condenses, creating a vacuum that draws water from the other tube. Since the water is expelled more quickly than it is taken in, the result is a net propulsive force. One of the most amazing parts of the whole process is that the boat makes a "putting" noise very similar to a small motor boat.

Made from recycled tin plate, these boats are the product of a small cottage industry in India. They are educational, entertaining, inexpensive and function well. The boats are simple (even a bit crude) with just a base coat of paint and some may even have rust spots. They can be used as is or customized with a name or other decoration. Sold individually or as a set of three, each boat comes with operating instructions, a low-quality eyedropper for initial filling, 25 extra candles and instructions for making more candles as required.