>>Not many people got warned, no repeat business and no one got sent to me to stay. Good!

If no one gets sent to you in any given day, what do you do?

Personally, I'd do the Safety Dance.

~Mike/player of Gulphphunger

Id make the leaning tower of pisa out of toothpicks.


Got Body Parts?

<<If no one gets sent to you in any given day, what do you do?>>

Fair question. Just because no one got locked out of DR doesn't mean there aren't issues in the other four running games and some issues for Hero's Journey have also been dicussed already. On top of that, all dealings with account and character theft and credit card misuse/fraud come to me. There are also a number of other issues I deal with to fill up my day.

Yes, I do have a character over in TF I fiddle with from time to time, that helps me keep a bearing on how systems are working so I can see if something is getting weird and let the GM staff know. It also keeps fresh in my mind what a script check looks like so I can compare it to some decent scrolling which my character over their generates just fine. Those are things that help me keep grounded to do my job.

That's the short version.

--Sanguious

<<Yes, I do have a character over in TF I fiddle with from time to time, that helps me keep a bearing on how systems are working so I can see if something is getting weird and let the GM staff know>>

admit it, its also a way to unwind and have fun without worrying about the rules, too. :-)


"Word on the street is, ya been lookin' out for the best interests of the Guild."

>>(I mean, how the heck can you possibly get locked out of Heroes' Journey already?!)

Annoying PvP-ing HJ Gamemasters?

;-)

Maybe he actually got asked to write their policy? ::Shudders::


GameMaster Acanthor.

SEND[Jhala] ...what is wrong with you?

IF I WERE WRITING IT, IT WOULD BE IN ALL CAPS.

I'd throw annoying little random patches of fog in in specific isolated areas in the game, like this room but not that room. The fog would pop up at random and mess up scripts. I would also have back ground noise that included the most common triggers used by most afk scriptors. Then, I would have that noise also change from time to time.

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Mists and Magic, Ocean Breezes, Deep Rivers Under the Sea, Trails Between the Stars: Where nothing is as it seems.

>lol...all the ideas I ever see on the boards are just things that would screw up the scripts of people who don't know how to properly script. It would stop only the true scripting novices from having their scripts work properly.

>Fifteen seconds of work for anyone good at scripting to get around.

Exactly. The only way to screw up an advanced script is to fake game messages exactly. And at that point, you'd screw up an honest ATK player as well. It can be done, but the solution would be worse than the problem itself is.

I mean, come on, random fog? Even wizard scripts can deal with that, match blahblah ...wait We already have fog, lets not waste CPU time to slow people down intentionally! Sheesh.

>Even then it doesn't stop people who are really good at scripting (See: GMs mimicing the exact shadowling message and then just adding "You better cough." to the end of it)

I didn't mean in the context of script checking, I was referring to the idea of random messages to mess a script up.

Missing a script check used to be my greatest fear as well until I switched to TF.

I'm hoping you are referring to novice AFK scripters as opposed to scripts ATK. If you start messing with people's utility scripts that just minimizes repetitive actions then those novice scripters who are trying to make things a little easier on them. There's no point in aggravating a guy for making a script to forage or fight a critter so they don't have to type each command. as long as they are able to respond to the environment in a timely fashion then let them save some typing.

Calissa's player