News and Rumors Checkup? 03/22/2004 02:01 PM CST
After weeks of nothing at all, one bar now has one rumor.

Are we sure that the whole news and rumor thing is working? Because this is not how it used to work at all.

~Dreamheart
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Re: News and Rumors Checkup? 03/31/2004 09:46 AM CST
The stableboys and mongers won't tell me a darned thing at all,not just no new rumors..NO RUMORS at all.


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Re: News and Rumors Checkup? 03/31/2004 09:51 AM CST

Yeah, the problem with this system is that it needs a GM on top of it ALL the time.

It needs a GM to program in new rumors for real events that may happen.

It needs a GM to sort through all the rumors that people sent in by whispering to the rumormongers.

Fizzled out surprisingly quicker than most times.

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player of Syrath



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Re: News and Rumors Checkup? 03/31/2004 02:47 PM CST
Someone turned on the Rumor faucet again! Hooray, thank you!

~Dreamheart (who would volunteer to manually go through the rumors every day and sort them out if it would help.)
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Re: News and Rumors Checkup? 04/02/2004 09:06 AM CST
Really its all about finding the right person for you. I have a Kaldar trader that I have in Shard I went to every single barkeep (save Undershard) stableperson and pawnshop owner I could think of and in the whole of Ilithi only the barkeep in SteelClaw will talk to me so when you find one you have to stick by the one person in fact my suggestion is to roll up a newbie and stick em there in front of that person who will talk and just sign em in and ask about rumors everytime you log in.
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Re: News and Rumors Checkup? 04/02/2004 11:50 AM CST
>in fact my suggestion is to roll up a newbie and stick em there in front of that person who will talk and just sign em in and ask about rumors everytime you log in.

That's a nice IC way to learn rumors, eh?


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Re: News and Rumors Checkup? 04/02/2004 01:01 PM CST
You went all around Ilithi and didn't even try the mercantile entrance?
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Re: News and Rumors Checkup? 04/02/2004 01:31 PM CST
<<That's a nice IC way to learn rumors, eh?>>


Well not learning about them at all is always a opition. I am not sure what you mean by IC way?


<<You went all around Ilithi and didn't even try the mercantile entrance?>>


I tried every place I could think of from Corik's Wall to that little hidden shop in the oak tree I forget what its called.
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Re: News and Rumors Checkup? 04/02/2004 02:12 PM CST
>Well not learning about them at all is always a opition. I am not sure what you mean by IC way?

Having your character actually learn the rumors, instead of using a "cardboard cutout".


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Re: News and Rumors Checkup? 04/02/2004 07:29 PM CST
<<Having your character actually learn the rumors, instead of using a "cardboard cutout".>>


Shrug to each his own eh?
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Re: News and Rumors Checkup? 04/02/2004 07:37 PM CST
Go to the market tent in Shard (aka the mercantile place), find the monger (in Shard he never leaves his room).

ask monger for rumor

Since you were using a trader, you can ask any other monger for rumor in the other cities.

Pataca
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Re: News and Rumors Checkup? 04/03/2004 08:11 PM CST
<<Really its all about finding the right person for you. I have a Kaldar trader that I have in Shard I went to every single barkeep (save Undershard) stableperson and pawnshop owner I could think of and in the whole of Ilithi only the barkeep in SteelClaw will talk to me so when you find one you have to stick by the one person in fact my suggestion is to roll up a newbie and stick em there in front of that person who will talk and just sign em in and ask about rumors everytime you log in.


That wasn't the issue. It wasn't that people were going to NPCs would wouldn't talk to them, it was that the NPCs had nothing more to say. As in...when you go through the rumors for the day..and get to the end..you get the message about coming back later, because they'll know more then. People were getting that message all the time.

As I said, this system is one that needs to be consistently watched.


Regards,
player of Syrath

"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup."

Kinsmen, Steel, Stone.
http://www.stone-clan.com

RL/IG Calendar 2004 http://www.geocities.com/staanstok/DRCalendar2004.htm
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Re: News and Rumors Checkup? 04/05/2004 10:19 AM CDT
Thank you Syrath. I did say that they had NOTHING to say, not that they wouldn't talk to me. I generally check just the stables and markets.

For a week after they announced that there were new rumors I kept getting told that my usual sources had nothing new to report. Again it is not that they were giving me old rumors, they weren't giving me ANY rumors at all.

Nirveli


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Re: News and Rumors Checkup? 04/05/2004 03:22 PM CDT
You and me, both, Nirveli. I am just glad they are back!

~Dreamheart
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Re: News and Rumors Checkup? 04/09/2004 11:26 PM CDT
I'm getting a few now in Shard. Two I started myself (typos and all), one from Lang several weeks ago and one I started in Shard itself just last week. Perhaps it'll work it's way north soon, not that recent events haven't made it a bit redundant....just good to know that the new one took less then a week to start appearing.

- Tathlenia
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