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Silden: /* Gameplay */

2016-07-27T09:31:19Z

Gameplay

Silden: /* Gameplay */

2016-07-24T21:09:45Z

Gameplay

Maxion: /* Thought */

2016-07-24T00:59:01Z

Thought

Maxion: /* State of the Game */

2016-07-24T00:56:07Z

State of the Game

Dresdor: /* Thought */

2016-06-08T17:00:21Z

Thought

Dresdor: /* Existing Test Improvements and Changes */

2016-06-08T16:55:19Z

Existing Test Improvements and Changes

Dresdor: /* Existing Test Improvements and Changes */

2016-06-08T16:54:59Z

Existing Test Improvements and Changes

Dresdor: /* Fireside Chat Ideas */

2016-06-08T16:48:41Z

Fireside Chat Ideas

Dresdor: /* Test Rebalance For Solo Play Or Consistency */

2016-06-07T17:28:39Z

Test Rebalance For Solo Play Or Consistency

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Dresdor: /* Ideas for New Techs */

2016-06-07T13:22:56Z

Ideas for New Techs

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 * Why can't fertilizer be used to fertilize soil? - Lisanna
 * Can we have add other ways for flavour finding with Vineyards (like Herb pots find aqueduct locations without building aqueduct towers, beer kettles can run yeast tests) [[User:Silden|Silden]] 16:09, 24 July 2016 (EST)
 === Existing Test Improvements and Changes ===

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 === Gameplay ===
 * Why can't fertilizer be used to fertilize soil? - Lisanna
 === Existing Test Improvements and Changes ===

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 * Test of the Tomb of the Immortal: This needs a UI to make it easier to play.
 * Test of the Empty Hand: This is stupidly expensive to build a decent puzzle.  This should also be renamed the Empty Warehouse or something because you cannot reasonably fit those blocks in your hand (I've heard from older players this is the original model/size.  Having joined in T4, I prefered the small puzzles that were everywhere, but I really like empty hand puzzles in general, just not the ginormous models).
-* Hexaglyphs: I don't have experience with these, but I bet they need a new UI.
+* Hexaglyphs: I don't have experience with these, but I bet they need a new UI. (they don't. - Maxion)
 * Test of the Pulse of the People: This is a Harmony test, not a Thought test.  Also, there's no reason you should need a token to play.
 * Riddle of the Sphinx: There are a lot of technical problems with this test.  Making it multiple choice would solve a lot of issues (based off T4 data).

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 * What percentage of active subscriptions are the full-telling subscription purchases? - [[User:Dresdor|Dresdor]]
 * (Nerdy Questions)How are you tracking various work items/doing project management for this (and the other) games?  What system (if any) are you using as a code repository? -[[User:Dresdor|Dresdor]]
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 ====Thought====
 In general, Thought needs some UI improvements.  The various puzzles need an option to pop up a menu or HUD to do the tasks, as well as a better way of finding "recently passed" items for principles than using the Wiki.   Like Art and Music, there's the issue that unless your puzzle is near a CS, you probably won't get as many votes.  Finally, the fact that only those that solve your puzzles get to vote implies that there's incentive to make the puzzles relatively easy, instead of the devilishly hard puzzles this discipline should represent.
-* Principle: I hate this principle.  Either make a Set's ladder not require a Pyramid of the People, or change the goal to another kind of puzzle.  Guess what....not a whole lot of Set's Ladders have passed in the last 60 days, so....how do I get past principles?  There's a reason in every previous telling this was a simple to build puzzle (empty hand before they became the size of a warehouse for some reason) and not something expensive.
+* Principle: I hate this principle.  Either make a Set's ladder not require a Pyramid of the People, or change the goal to another kind of puzzle.  Guess what....not a whole lot of Set's Ladders have passed in the last 60 days, so....how do I get past principles (Answer: you beg or borrow a Set's Ladder, which kinda defeats the purpose of the principle)?  There's a reason in T3 the initiate of thought challenge was changed to a cheaper puzzle, and why a cheaper puzzle stuck around until this telling (there's no good reason to restrict who can pass principles).
 * Test of the Pathmaker: I like pathmakers.  They are cool tests.  They need a UI desperately.
 * Test of the Venery: Well made veneries are very nice, but I think there should be a distance requirement.  E.g. everything has to be in x coords of the venery (or at least show on the venery how far away the furthest item is from the venery start point).
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 * Test of the Constellation: This desperately needs a UI.
 * Test of the Tomb of the Immortal: This needs a UI to make it easier to play.
-* Test of the Empty Hand: This is stupidly expensive to build a decent puzzle.  This should also be renamed the Empty Warehouse or something because you cannot reasonably fit those blocks in your hand.
+* Test of the Empty Hand: This is stupidly expensive to build a decent puzzle.  This should also be renamed the Empty Warehouse or something because you cannot reasonably fit those blocks in your hand (I've heard from older players this is the original model/size.  Having joined in T4, I prefered the small puzzles that were everywhere, but I really like empty hand puzzles in general, just not the ginormous models).
 * Hexaglyphs: I don't have experience with these, but I bet they need a new UI.
 * Test of the Pulse of the People: This is a Harmony test, not a Thought test.  Also, there's no reason you should need a token to play.

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 ::DP Ban powers should not be accessible by the spouse.  We didn't elect them, we elected the DP (and/or make it configurable, but I'm a fan of no ban powers with spouse login)
 ::Restrict/configure access on buildings (e.g. maybe I want my spouse to be able to access guild buildings at my access level, or perhaps I want them to use their own access level on all things.  Maybe be able to toggle certain buildings as spouse inaccessible)
-::Restrict the time they can be logged in as you, or prevent them from spouse logging.  I'm really not that much of a fan of being able to pretend to be someone else, even if its your spouse.
+::Restrict the time they can be logged in as you, or prevent them from spouse logging.  I'm really not that much of a fan of being able to pretend to be someone else, even if its your spouse.  -[[User:Dresdor|Dresdor]]
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 ** Worship - Since each passed test increases the yield by 10 barley, this discipline is pretty much covered. Plus a few tests have an extra benefit given to the passers.
 * Bedouin is the only test where the player is ignorant about how near is the goal when it was not reached. In all the others it is known. That could be fixed saying each day in system the 3 (or 4) top scores: the 2 that advanced and one or two more. - Sabuli
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 = Fireside Chat Ideas =
 I am looking to improve some of the aspects of communicating things to the players.  Several people have suggested the idea of a weekly fireside chat around when I run test passings.  I have created a new Microphone Channel called Fireside for the this purpose.  I will accept suggestions here for topics for each week.  I would like to keep the discussion on topic as much as possible with as many questions submitted here before the event.
 '''Q:''' Why do you want the questions up front and not during the event?

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 * Increased capacity Flax Hammocks and/or Drying Racks, either as an initial build (like Greenhouses) or as an upgrade (like Gins), which allow drying of larger amounts (Structure Reinforcement 3?) ([[User:Silden|Silden]] 10:36, 15 April 2016 (EST))
 * A use for Cocoa, maybe a Chocolate Making Tech, allowing use to make the Chocolates we get from the Snowstorms, OR Better yet new Chocolates that use real world ingredients that we have access to in game; Camel Milk & Cocoa as the base; Royal Jelly, Honey & Indo Honey as a sweetener; Watermelon, Dates, Citrus Fruits & Coconut Meat as Fillers; Grilled Coconut Meat, Peppers, Grilled Peppers, Salt & Logical Herbs (Blueberry Tea Tree, Camelmint, Ginger Root, Ginseng Root, Honey Mint, Ice Mint, Lemondrop, Lemon Grass, Liquorice, Nubian Liquorice, Mountain Mint, Peppermint, Strawberry Tea, Vanilla Tea Tree) as flavorings. It could be set as a static table that gets randomized each tale. Each chocolate would have Cocoa as the base, one sweetener, one filler & one flavoring, with the option to add Camel Milk. - Balthazarr
-* Permanent Excavation or Enduring Excavation: This is a permanent version of a dig hole (so graphic resources can be reused.  Ideally it would have its own graphic to distinguish it as a building).  This building requires some fairly simple resources to build (wood, rope, slate shovels (or perhaps any shovel), and boards).  This building tracks depth.  When used, depth increases slightly, materials are generated, and an endurance timer is started on the avatar.  Resources are dependent on depth of the excavation (depth < 100 only dirt, beyond that, occasional cuttable stone.  At depth > 200 occasional medium stone, with more depth meaning greater chance for either).  Every 100 depth, the excavation "breaks" and requires additional materials to continue excavating (these should be the same materials used in construction).  At some point the excavation becomes unusable (maybe this max depth can be improved through further tech or reinforcing the excavation) (making steam shovels and normal digs more efficient, but requiring more resources or more people respectively).  Excavations should produce pollution, particularly heavy metals, even when not in use.  To remove an excavation, you have to "fill" it with dirt equivalent to the amount removed (plus additional for the stone, bauxite, and gypsum removed at an increased rate).   Removing a permanent excavation refunds no materials, no matter what skills you have.  Potential improvements for this building should be centered around more efficient excavating (2+ depth per use) or deeper maximum depth.
+* Permanent Excavation or Enduring Excavation: This is a permanent version of a dig hole (so graphic resources can be reused.  Ideally it would have its own graphic to distinguish it as a building).  This building requires some fairly simple resources to build (wood, rope, slate shovels (or perhaps any shovel), and boards).  This building tracks depth.  When used, depth increases slightly, materials are generated, and an endurance timer is started on the avatar.  Resources are dependent on depth of the excavation (depth < 100 only dirt, beyond that, occasional cuttable stone.  At depth > 200 occasional medium stone, with more depth meaning greater chance for either).  Every 100 depth, the excavation "breaks" and requires additional materials to continue excavating (these should be the same materials used in construction).  At some point the excavation becomes unusable (maybe this max depth can be improved through further tech or reinforcing the excavation) (making steam shovels and normal digs more efficient, but requiring more resources or more people respectively).  Excavations should produce pollution, particularly heavy metals, even when not in use.  To remove an excavation, you have to "fill" it with dirt equivalent to the amount removed (plus additional for the stone, bauxite, and gypsum removed at an increased rate).   Removing a permanent excavation refunds no materials, no matter what skills you have.  Potential improvements for this building should be centered around more efficient excavating (2+ depth per use) or deeper maximum depth. -[[User:Dresdor|Dresdor]]
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