Wheel of Time MUD

Thanks for answering Elysia! (shame... shame.. ding ding ding)

Blame has been placed. A public shaming will commence.. Game of Thrones Style.

Well, blame the guy who upon announcing it immediately distracted me with a ton of reasons why this is a bad change, so after 5 mins and multiple conversations, it had slipped my mind. :P

[quote=Geoff post_id=130335 time=1633208841 user_id=2616]
It’s fair enough if something isn’t actually intended and is therefore changed, but that wasn’t actually what my posts were about ;) Just trying to minimise the feel-bad moments for people who put the effort to group up.

May I ask what the criteria is for making an announcement ingame vs forums? The former reaches fewer players, doesn’t create a viewable record for whomever isn’t playing at the time, and difference in effort between the two seems minimal.

If there isn’t one and it’s more dependent on each individual imm, that’s fine too - at least the player base knows.
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You got my upvote for that as well as things announced on Discord. Please staff please stop doing this. This is genuine please. I would not even use the forums if I did not have to if everything could go back to in game boards and in-game mail it would be great with me.

There isn't one. Normally I would've posted on bugs, but I was juggling a ton of different things, so I forgot.

It’s fair enough if something isn’t actually intended and is therefore changed, but that wasn’t actually what my posts were about ;) Just trying to minimise the feel-bad moments for people who put the effort to group up.

May I ask what the criteria is for making an announcement ingame vs forums? The former reaches fewer players, doesn’t create a viewable record for whomever isn’t playing at the time, and difference in effort between the two seems minimal.

If there isn’t one and it’s more dependent on each individual imm, that’s fine too - at least the player base knows.

This really wasn't intended. Also, it was announced ingame. ;)

I’m sure there are situations where a “you should’ve known it wasn’t intended” reasoning would be appropriate for a fix not being afforded an announcement, but - given how the ‘unintended’ interaction isn’t clearly contrary to the announcement post of Jehannah as a CTF city (link below: “To makes it switch sides, kill the final smob and scalp.”), and the extended period in which this unintended interaction was possible - this doesn’t appear to be a situation where this reasoning would be appropriate.

https://forums.wotmud.info/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5341&p=40563&hilit=Jehannah#p40563

I’m not of the view that every fix/change needs an announcement - but I am curious what the parameters would be for making such an announcement. I think it would be beneficial for the playerbase in general if they’re afforded the understanding on which kinds of gameplay fixes/changes get announced, so these feel-bad moments can be better avoided.

I think that it should have been clear to all that simply sniping the cityhead to get a whole city to turn, was not as intended :P

Was it a recent fix that killing/scalping cityheads first no longer flips the city, and would it ordinarily be posted on announcements?

It takes a bit of effort getting a group together for a hit, only to be surprised after completion that all the effort was wasted.