Monday, August 01, 2005

Beta test dynasty

Hey all.  I think most of the major problems are sorted out at this point, and we can really start thinking about making this Switch happen.

Orson’s excellent idea was to have a little beta-test dynasty running along side the actual game for a while, to make sure the kinks are as ironed out as we think they are.  We can probably start that by the end of this week—- we can just copy over the core ruleset, treat it like a metadynastic interlude, and see what happens.

Anyone who wants to can join us; register for an account over there on your right, and then comment in this thread that you’d like to be an active player.  Anyone who’s an admin now, plus anyone who’s an admin in the actual game, will be adminified so you can get used to the new way of doing your duties.

If you have any questions or suggestions before we start, chime in.  :)

posted by 75th Trombone at 01 Aug 2005 02:26:15 UTC Comments (11)

Comments

Excalabur:

01-08-2005 03:31:41 UTC

Ooh, ooh, pick me!

One comment—we’ll need to either copy over the GNDT to this site or get Kevan to give us another iteration of it.

Shadowclaw:

01-08-2005 10:27:09 UTC

Er, oops, didn’t see this.  I voted in the thread above :)

Ah well, this is my request, or whatever.

Noah:

01-08-2005 16:33:34 UTC

It’d be good to copy over the GNDT to this site and use the existing wiki for new rules, so that the BlogNomic would be self-contained.

I hereby request permission to participate in aforementioned interdynastic interlude.

Josh: Observer he/they

01-08-2005 22:32:30 UTC

Hello, I’m in!

Can I please be Adminifed? Also, is there any way that the Comments bit at the end of posts can have the name of the last commenter, like BackBlog does? Ta!

TAE:

01-08-2005 23:41:32 UTC

Can I get in on the game too?

Excalabur:

02-08-2005 01:31:57 UTC

Re: namey comments: feel free to do it.  I might have a look, or smith or 75th, but once you have admin priveleges you can do it yourself. :)

I’ll add you all in so i can figure out how to do it.

75th Trombone:

02-08-2005 02:01:40 UTC

Re namey comments:

That will actually take a bit of hacking.  I’ll see what I can do.

Excalabur, check out the Switch Guidebook on the wiki on how to adminify people.  :)

75th Trombone:

02-08-2005 02:49:03 UTC

It’s looking like it’s going to take more hacking than I thought.  To wit, I think we’d have to compile our own PHP to get that to work.

The problem is that Dreamhost’s PHP does not allow us to include() URLs.  There’s a very elegant solution we could use if we could do that.

Without that, I don’t know if there’s a solution at all at the moment.  :\

Cosmologicon:

02-08-2005 03:59:47 UTC

I’d like to join. Also, why is there no link to the wiki on the front page? At least, none I can find.

Excalabur:

02-08-2005 04:50:40 UTC

Er.  because nobody thought of it yet? :)
I’ll fix dat now.

Excalabur:

02-08-2005 04:51:48 UTC

or someone else could beat me to it…