It is Monday. 6300 ranks just jumped off a cliff.

Stunning.

Sanguious

Correction. Make that 13900 ranks. I posted prematurely.

Sanguious

would it be possible to also get the number of characters caught each week?

>>would it be possible to also get the number of characters caught each week?

No. I can certainly get a total on the number of warns for the week, but have no intention to say how many characters are involved in these incidents.

To give that answer ahead of time, 22 warnings under the unattended gains rule were made in the past 7 days.

Sanguious

>>If the GM doing the check hadn't put some things in all caps I would have failed and was sitting right there chatting in whispers.

IIRC, the initial nudges are semi-IC, but the ones you get before an actual caution/warning/whatever are pretty much all caps blocks of text saying "ARE YOU THERE WAKE UP"

I had a busty barmaid run by and give me a glance once. In the middle of gryphons. It got my attention. Anyway, yeah.

-Mr. Glemm

<<I almost got nailed last week because the check was so vague that I mistook it for stuff I usually don't bother reading.>>

And because you responded, the check didn't escalate to the "no way you'll miss this" stage.

You passed, so there was obviously no reason to go further. You wouldn't have missed the "last chance" portion.


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<<Glemm, let's be honest here. Any girl who glanced at you would have gotten your attention, even if she was flat chested and had a five o'clock shadow.>>

Fair enough. :/


-Mr. Glemm

I feel the need to say that most script checks, while totally unmissable by the end, do NOT end in yellow text. So don't figure if you don't see yellow you can't be busted, and don't try and use that as an excuse when you do get busted.

-Raesh

<<You wouldn't have missed the "last chance" portion.

A friend just recently had a script check. They went through the logs and did not find any 'last chance' messaging. It was only the same one-line message repeated over and over, in a room of 12+ critters and 3 people hunting, until they were yanked away. An email received later stated that Simu does at least 100 messages on 'busy' rooms, my friend received 54 (in a room that had hundreds of lines flying by). What got their attention was the bright yellow text they got -after- they were pulled up.

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Necromancy brings out the Stupid in us all. -Armifer

I'm merely using it as an example to counter your statement that "You wouldn't have missed the "last chance" portion" as there is not always a 'last chance' portion.

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Necromancy brings out the Stupid in us all. -Armifer

>>I'm merely using it as an example to counter your statement that "You wouldn't have missed the "last chance" portion" as there is not always a 'last chance' portion.

That's because the actual mechanics of script checks are pretty nebulous, while the guidelines say it needs to build from whatever it starts at to fairly unmissable.

I ended up getting spammed with a single, OOC, obviously out-of-place line when I was in a room with 8 critters and one other hunter about 45 times before I responded (as the line simply got more frequent instead of more interesting).

I tend to just watch for my highlights and definitely don't pay attention to combat text -- or anything paced relatively similarly to combat text -- so it would be easy to miss something that's not breaking the usual pattern of what is going on in the room.

I'm not saying colored text is a must, but at least hitting something that would be highlighted by someone who is prepared to be responsive to their environment would do a lot for actually testing whether someone is responsive to the environment, and not if they're glutton enough to read every line of text. Like 'says.' Or 'waves.'

We can tell what you're trying to do in those circumstances even if you're in a weird state.

-Z