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well that's a change
Jul. 23rd, 2011 07:30 pmI['ve never been much of a "gamer" - at least not electronic ones. I don't have the hand-eye coordination for most console games, and I get frustrated easily. I liked the Myst games because they were "find stuff out" games. I didn't have a fast enough connection to get on board with WoW when it first hit, and LotR Online was kind of fun but I didn't play often enough to justify paying for it.
I really enjoyed Echo Bazaar, and even played 2 different character of very different types to explore different aspects. But I'm not going to pay for the extra access and I've gone about as far as I can on that basis.
Which is why it's very strange for me to be referred to as "one of our top players" on Map Of The Floating City.
It's the browser-based game that's leading up to Thomas Dolby's new releases, and has a distinctly Steampunk/Deiselpunk feel to the design. It was a little hard to work out the mechanics at first, but I'm really enjoying it. I'm pretty active on the forums - helping out occasionally with research on some of the puzzles, helping out newbies, etc. I also really like the "patenting" process - where you make up an 'unvention' from the items in your cargo and submit a patent application describing what your invention does. Many years of Warner Brothers cartoons stand me in good stead there!
One of the metrics you can have it "reputation", and I have been priding myself on regularly ranking in the top 15 in our "tribe" (tribes are assigned geographically based on location of IP address - Poison City is the upper midwest and northeast US). Last time I checked I was #7.
There was a change in game dynamics last week when 3 of the tribes (mostly from Asia and Australia) formed a continent-wide alliance. Immediately everyone started talking about making alliances - and we consistently have the highest score on our "Continent". So the other two groups on our continent want to ally with us, and we were wondering about that, or maybe allying with the strongest tribe on the other remaining continent - 17 Hills, mostly centered around San Francisco. Debate has raged heavily on the tribe's private forum, and I've actually changed my mind about the idea.
But it was getting annoying, so I actually floated an idea of The UnAllied Alliance, where we and 17Hills would agree not to ally with ANYONE for at least 10 days, so we could get back to, you know, playing the game? (Look at me being all leader-shippy there) So then people started messaging me about it, and on the forums. Then I got a message from our #1 player where he "wanted to get an idea of how the top players in the tribe really feel about things".
*blink blink*
"Me?"
still feels weird...
I really enjoyed Echo Bazaar, and even played 2 different character of very different types to explore different aspects. But I'm not going to pay for the extra access and I've gone about as far as I can on that basis.
Which is why it's very strange for me to be referred to as "one of our top players" on Map Of The Floating City.
It's the browser-based game that's leading up to Thomas Dolby's new releases, and has a distinctly Steampunk/Deiselpunk feel to the design. It was a little hard to work out the mechanics at first, but I'm really enjoying it. I'm pretty active on the forums - helping out occasionally with research on some of the puzzles, helping out newbies, etc. I also really like the "patenting" process - where you make up an 'unvention' from the items in your cargo and submit a patent application describing what your invention does. Many years of Warner Brothers cartoons stand me in good stead there!
One of the metrics you can have it "reputation", and I have been priding myself on regularly ranking in the top 15 in our "tribe" (tribes are assigned geographically based on location of IP address - Poison City is the upper midwest and northeast US). Last time I checked I was #7.
There was a change in game dynamics last week when 3 of the tribes (mostly from Asia and Australia) formed a continent-wide alliance. Immediately everyone started talking about making alliances - and we consistently have the highest score on our "Continent". So the other two groups on our continent want to ally with us, and we were wondering about that, or maybe allying with the strongest tribe on the other remaining continent - 17 Hills, mostly centered around San Francisco. Debate has raged heavily on the tribe's private forum, and I've actually changed my mind about the idea.
But it was getting annoying, so I actually floated an idea of The UnAllied Alliance, where we and 17Hills would agree not to ally with ANYONE for at least 10 days, so we could get back to, you know, playing the game? (Look at me being all leader-shippy there) So then people started messaging me about it, and on the forums. Then I got a message from our #1 player where he "wanted to get an idea of how the top players in the tribe really feel about things".
*blink blink*
"Me?"
still feels weird...
