Day 5 - Locked in Battle, Spirit World, Points of Interest

[NikaZaslavsky]

I know, I'm sorry.

[thatnewguy]

So, I submitted the action to capture hex 002 last round and it seems that it didn't take affect. Can this be fixed, or did I make an error in my actions?

[kirchj33]

Incidentally I think the recommended actions for the day are in the wrong order and thus illegal.

i think they were meant as in general and not in that order.. obviously capture first than move.. or just move.. or do w/e else you want.

Not quite so obvious since I made this mistake once already.  I r WoE noob.  It's good for kev to point this out so others don't make the same mistake.

[Scaredgirl]

I haven't seen this battle table before, but I have to disagree with it. You basically just need to be inactive if there's a good chance you'll lose to prevent having to discard! At least, that's how it looks like to me, just be inactive and you'll be certain not to get a penalty >:| Any chance active person gets a compensation for both not getting salvage and losing an extra turn?

Main issue is that sometimes players will have to take the auto-loss because of real life or whatever, and it would be lame if they were penalized a lot for something they cannot really control. 48 hours is not a long time to find the opponent and fight. Like Essence said, having to spend on Day in Spirit World is no joke. Time is very important in WoE, and everything that means less time to perform actions, will be a penalty itself.

I know this could potentially be used for exploiting, but we will look for all kinds of suspicious behavior and take action if needed. But of course we could maybe have some kind of 50% discard rule or whatever.

Incidentally I think the recommended actions for the day are in the wrong order and thus illegal.

Thanks. Fixed. I just added the two actions without really thinking about it.

Are we supposed to be in a city/town to trade? I accidentally traded in the last day, and I wasn't in the city. Would it be okay if I moved to my city this turn and do nothing else to make up for that?

Since SG didn't reply, I did it anyway. SG, please don't accuse me of cheating, I forgot about it when I was submitting actions.

It's fine. We're all still learning and what you did is no big deal.

So, I submitted the action to capture hex 002 last round and it seems that it didn't take affect. Can this be fixed, or did I make an error in my actions?

I'll take a look at the actions and correct it if a mistake was done.

[Rastafla]

I want to be replaced by someone else in WoE. Will continue to move around and capture hexes as to not put air behind any more than it already is.

[Jappert]

I don't mind days taking more then 24h that much.

But if there's a deadline I'd like it to be a strict one. Nothing has happened! No information. Especially in the weekends I'm dying to see the next round/day posted.

Keep us informed!

[Pineapple]

I want to be replaced by someone else in WoE.

This.

[bored_ninja777]

so... been a while? when do we move on?

[YoungSot]

Hmm I'm getting a weird deja vu feeling about this. I wonder why.

[Captain Scibra]

Don't worry; SG mentioned there was just a lot of time consuming parts of the revenue system, than technical difficulties.  Word is that she will finish it tonight.

[the dictator]

Just trowing it here:

SG, if you have some easy tasks that need to be done, you can always ask for volunteers in chat, I'm pretty sure there will be someone willing to help (like Jappert and I did today in counting the revenue for rounds 3-5). If you don't have to do all the small stuff that can easily be done by someone else, I'm sure it will improve the speed of all events.

[Scaredgirl]

Just trowing it here:

SG, if you have some easy tasks that need to be done, you can always ask for volunteers in chat, I'm pretty sure there will be someone willing to help (like Jappert and I did today in counting the revenue for rounds 3-5). If you don't have to do all the small stuff that can easily be done by someone else, I'm sure it will improve the speed of all events.

Problem is that there are not that many easy jobs that don't require technical knowledge and/or access to place where players are not supposed to get access.

And one other thing. During this WoE process, I have found that very often, after delegating a task, I end up doing it myself in the end. I've wasted tons of time for useless talks and planning. If I do something myself, even though it takes a bit longer, I know for a fact that it gets done in the end. It doesn't of course happen every single time, but I can safely say that I have wasted at least 100 hours delegating things.

With smaller tasks the problem usually is that during the time it takes to explain the task and correct errors, I would have done it myself. Lets take you and Jappert counting the revenue for rounds 3-5 as an example. I appreciate the help, but the problem is that your numbers didn't match. In 3-4 elements, you had different numbers, meaning someone made a mistake, and I have to go back and check those numbers. Now if we add that time to the time it took me to explain the task in chat, I could have probably done the whole thing myself. Then again I would have probably made some errors myself, and now that I have two other versions as well, all I need to do is find two numbers that match, and I can be pretty sure that it is correct.


For people with advanced Google spreadsheet skills, I would have tons of tasks. Next big project is building a system that outputs battles for that Day. There are some technical issues that might turn out to be a bit of a problem.

A new action posting tool is also something we should consider building at some point. We need something more user friendly and simple than the current one.



Btw.. after this initial work has been done, there will be many WoE staff titles available, so anyone who wants to help will get a chance to do so, with or without coding skills.