Post by Sam on Nov 5, 2005 7:32:16 GMT -5
12/2 The Official Format Sheet is almost completed. It's so huge it takes nearly 2 complete posts to fit it. One thing I'd like to mention is that I've become a little uneasy with the amount of times I had to write "to be decided during the game," even though this is not that many times and I painstakingly thought, envisioned, and wrote about as much as I could. In addition, when I could I wrote out many, many theoretical events or cases and wrote what should happen in each case. Hopefully I caught most of them, but I can't be sure. If something needs to be decided in the game, I think I will decide it up to a week before the event takes place so I don't unconsciously base it on what's currently happening in the game. The game is incredibly free-form and very hard to quantify in terms of twists. All I can offer is guidelines and what to do in certain situations.
Second, things are coming along well in terms of production which I'm glad about. Need to do some busy work. I need a picture from all applicants before starting the game, so I guess I'll go through pictures tomorrow to double check and e-mail the ones I'm missing. To do confessionals I think I will have each person have their own category which is locked to admin and them as a single person member group, and a seperate category for the tribe forum and invisible to all but the tribe member group. Does that sound like it would work security-wise, and is that what is usually done for confessionals? It might look ugly for me with like a million seperate categories but I guess that is okay.
What else... just little things I want to say now so 1,000 rules don't get thrown at you all at once. =) When Immunity Challenge Results are presented, extra tribes with fictitious scores will probably be added. This is to prevent you from figuring out the # of tribes. =) Don't worry they won't win Immunity though. <3
Things are looking soooooo good. More later when I think of it. #grouphug1#
I'm going to keep editing this post with a bunch of little things I think of as time goes on, so keep checking back here regularly.
11/20: I changed the emoticons cause the default ones sucked. However, it only let me change existing things into other ones, so I think it screwed up emoticons that have already been posted (and then swapped). Does anybody know if it's possible to add more?
11/6: The background picture is not a map of Asteria, it's just there for decoration purposes.
11/5: I have a whole bunch of ideas for challenges, the twists, etc written in my notebook. But I haven't typed them up yet which is why there are no posts in the admin parts. Actually maybe I'll save myself some time and just write all the challenges in the notebook. =)
11/5: I'm new to ProBoards which means I'm not 100% familiar with everything it can do. Though, surprisingly it isn't that difficult. If you have any tips or neat fixes or little things I can do to make things prettier or easier, I'd love it if you would tell me. =) Also, since this is new I'm going to try and make sure everything is secure as best as I can. But if I screw up please notify me that certain places are accessible ASAP so I can fix it.
Also it seems as if I can like lock down the whole board while I update it... I like that a lot, I was wishing for a feature like that on EZboard.
Second, things are coming along well in terms of production which I'm glad about. Need to do some busy work. I need a picture from all applicants before starting the game, so I guess I'll go through pictures tomorrow to double check and e-mail the ones I'm missing. To do confessionals I think I will have each person have their own category which is locked to admin and them as a single person member group, and a seperate category for the tribe forum and invisible to all but the tribe member group. Does that sound like it would work security-wise, and is that what is usually done for confessionals? It might look ugly for me with like a million seperate categories but I guess that is okay.
What else... just little things I want to say now so 1,000 rules don't get thrown at you all at once. =) When Immunity Challenge Results are presented, extra tribes with fictitious scores will probably be added. This is to prevent you from figuring out the # of tribes. =) Don't worry they won't win Immunity though. <3
Things are looking soooooo good. More later when I think of it. #grouphug1#
I'm going to keep editing this post with a bunch of little things I think of as time goes on, so keep checking back here regularly.
11/20: I changed the emoticons cause the default ones sucked. However, it only let me change existing things into other ones, so I think it screwed up emoticons that have already been posted (and then swapped). Does anybody know if it's possible to add more?
11/6: The background picture is not a map of Asteria, it's just there for decoration purposes.
11/5: I have a whole bunch of ideas for challenges, the twists, etc written in my notebook. But I haven't typed them up yet which is why there are no posts in the admin parts. Actually maybe I'll save myself some time and just write all the challenges in the notebook. =)
11/5: I'm new to ProBoards which means I'm not 100% familiar with everything it can do. Though, surprisingly it isn't that difficult. If you have any tips or neat fixes or little things I can do to make things prettier or easier, I'd love it if you would tell me. =) Also, since this is new I'm going to try and make sure everything is secure as best as I can. But if I screw up please notify me that certain places are accessible ASAP so I can fix it.
Also it seems as if I can like lock down the whole board while I update it... I like that a lot, I was wishing for a feature like that on EZboard.
lol
