Ditto

What's stopping you?! I bet in no time at all we could have you equipped

Cynical

So tempting to subscribe once more ...

OMG, I'm not sure if I'm more disturbed that you were on the toilet together or that Mecha and Sigridz are one and the same!

Hi all,

First I want to say how much fun I had on saturday. It was great to meet you all and put faces to names!

Secondly a huge thanks to Frakel for setting it up

And finally - what great pictures! I will post mine when I get round to it. Hopefully tomorrow I'm lazy and that's the only excuse I have

Esme

Well I had hoped to have something that disguished me as AD, but it turns out that I gave too short a notice So I'll try and look Seedish - will I get through immigration with a large metal spanner do you think?!

Esme

Gordon bennett, if I start posting in this thread, I'm going to have to clean my kitchen too!

Well that's it. I have to come now I'm all booked up!

We're flying to Copenhagen on friday to do some sightseeing and we'll catch the train to Aarhus on saturday where we'll spend the night. We fly back out of Copenhagen on sunday night.

Esme

Add 2 more for the buffet I'm booking flights and hotels now.

Esme

Awww, thanks Feelix!

I played Seed because of the RP. Because you had little control of events, so you always have to come up with a reaction or a solution to the situation. So it was having a story develop all around you and being part of that story that was important. And in my case trying to manipulate things to go the way Esme wanted them to!

As for the tree, I guess I can possibly answer that reasonably well being both player and GM. I don't know how the idea started, but Esme was certainly very vocal about wanting more green in the Tower. Whether the Devs or GMs picked up on it first, I'm not sure, but due to their huge ingame presence I would guess the latter. When I became a GM I discovered that the Devs had a tree ready and the next step was to encourage the community to want and plant a tree. This involved much RP, encouraging players to think about how they could create a tree and even why they would want one - yes I remember the lack of interest from some characters keenly! To be honest there were some nervewracking times for me, and we came close to not getting it there as this was player driven. We (GMs and Devs) may have wanted it badly, but if players had ridiculed the whole idea it simply would not have happened. Thanks to everyone taking part and then Quanto stepping in at the last minute to dedicate his marvellous machines to the sole job of creating it, Esme's Tree was born and saw the light of day. I honestly had tears in my eyes when I saw it

Such things are not complicated programming, but they are intensive in organisation. Maybe having a situation that has two solutions, and the solution that is used is dependent on the way your players interact with the item. The thing I loved about Seed was that some things happened only once. As Norah has already stated, doing the same quests over and over becomes boring so to have a change from time to time is good. In Seed we had repetative elements that were a means to an end. Like in real life, you work to get money, generally repeating set tasks. But what you do next can often have a permanent change, say you buy that book you want. You're not going to buy it twice are you? (Blatenetly ignores the stack of books that she's accidently bougth twice!)

Esme

Haha, I still dont have a clue