TMW Summer Meeting -- 9th july 8pm GMT
TMW Summer Meeting -- 9th july 8pm GMT
We talked about doing a meeting to point out "what is the current situation of TMW, what should we do and how".
I've been pretty busy lately with IRL work, but things might apparently go better pretty soon.
I wanted to wait to be sure of a date to be back here before to announce anything, but there is a rather understandable desire from the community for clarification and update on the current status of the project.
I am proposing Sunday 9th July, around 20 GMT.
If you can not be there remember that a resume will be uploaded here on the forum, although, this is not a static date, feel free to propose another one!
Also, I understand that the NULL communication we set was bad but understand that it was not wished.
I said that I would remain active on the forum until further notice, which I am, sadly all I do is banning people and removing flame posts recently .
Remember: Nobody is employed by TMW here, we are all doing this on our free time and dealing with trolls and flame posts is nothing but pleasant, even more when it consumes my only free time that I can allocate!
I've been pretty busy lately with IRL work, but things might apparently go better pretty soon.
I wanted to wait to be sure of a date to be back here before to announce anything, but there is a rather understandable desire from the community for clarification and update on the current status of the project.
I am proposing Sunday 9th July, around 20 GMT.
If you can not be there remember that a resume will be uploaded here on the forum, although, this is not a static date, feel free to propose another one!
Also, I understand that the NULL communication we set was bad but understand that it was not wished.
I said that I would remain active on the forum until further notice, which I am, sadly all I do is banning people and removing flame posts recently .
Remember: Nobody is employed by TMW here, we are all doing this on our free time and dealing with trolls and flame posts is nothing but pleasant, even more when it consumes my only free time that I can allocate!
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
-- Ford Prefect
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I will be there. You said everything that needed to be said, I will just add that yes, the bills are being paid. For some strange reason there seems to have been a payment going through for a 6-month renweal instead of the usual monthly one. I'm not sure why this happened, but I guess it makes sense to just let it run until expiration (November 2017). I will post a treasurer summary soon.
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this payment, because no one payed bills and server was shutdown. after wushin payed for 6 months...
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I was hoping it would run for a few extra days, that week (last week of May) I was being kicked out of my flat and had to move to a new place. Thanks for handling the situation quickly. I went back to pay as soon as I could but the 6-month renweal had already started.
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I suspect the decay of the forums goes hand in hand with the decay of the community as a whole. I expressed concern to Gumi quite some time ago that the big fanfair over the "new" server before the new server was ready was dangerous: it discouraged many active players from working on building their chars and completing quests on the existing server, yet they didn't have anywhere else to go. So people stopped logging in - or at least logged in less and less just waiting to see when the new game would be viable.Reid wrote:Also, I understand that the NULL communication we set was bad but understand that it was not wished.
I said that I would remain active on the forum until further notice, which I am, sadly all I do is banning people and removing flame posts recently :) .
I was worried this halting of the community momentum would leave nothing left of the player community by the time the new game was actually ready - and that's when it sounded like the new game might be ready within months - that was almost a year ago.
I don't mean this as a critique ... well, ok I do, but not as a snarky one - I love this game and this community, but I'm saddened by what I see ever time I log in now. I generally just log in, look around a bit, sigh, and leave. Our community is on life-support (that may even be optimistic). Working on the software is great - but efforts need to be put in to keeping the community going otherwise there will be no one left to use that software when it is ready.
I don't know what exactly can should be done to maintain the community - but something is needed. And it need not be elaborate. We don't need fancy events with rare-item give aways, we just need activity. I actually suspect there may are enough players still around to keep a healthy community, but I think we are often not on at the same time, so from each of our individual perspectives it can feel a bit hopeless. Perhaps we just need some coordination: getting many of the current players on at the same time may do it.
Perhaps our guilds (CRC, MAF, anyone else) can get back to filling their role: we can have scheduled times for some quest or battle (a few rounds of Cindy or Candor) and as long as those are announced ahead of time, players can plan to come online and join in. Hopefully this will get some of the momentum back so that players come online and have fun, rather than come online only to lose hope.
Great! This is in game on the "old" server, right? And you mean 20 as in 8PM GMT/server-time right?Reid wrote:I am proposing Sunday 9th July, around 20 GMT.
If you can not be there remember that a resume will be uploaded here on the forum, although, this is not a static date, feel free to propose another one!
After that meeting/discussion/whatever, I'll host a few Candors or Cindy battles ... or Crypt battles if people prefer. Or if for any reason that meeting doesn't happen, lets all still meet up around Hurns at that time for some battles.
EDIT: and don't be discouraged by forum trolls who can't even seem to spell an anonymous name correctly.
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@Amarynthus: you are right in many points, we assumed that we could fusion most essential stuff within months but reality did not follow.
I believe what we have to do now is to speed up the fusion, even if it doesn't suit what we planned in the first time. We will discuss all of this then, I have some ideas to fix things up.
And yes I meant 8pm GMT.
As to forum trolls, I don't take seriously comments from people hiding behind tor and a fake mail. I would just like to invest that time into something more creative than pressing the ban button.
I believe what we have to do now is to speed up the fusion, even if it doesn't suit what we planned in the first time. We will discuss all of this then, I have some ideas to fix things up.
And yes I meant 8pm GMT.
As to forum trolls, I don't take seriously comments from people hiding behind tor and a fake mail. I would just like to invest that time into something more creative than pressing the ban button.
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I do believe we will settle for this date then, let's see you at 8pm GMT in game!
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Re: TMW Summer Meeting -- 9th july 8pm GMT
Not urging anyone, just wondering if these can be uploaded by someone? I'm curious and the meeting is being (passively, with merge-purpose-gfx) referenced on the forums.Reid wrote:...
If you can not be there remember that a resume will be uploaded here on the forum ...
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i just think this must be there https://pastebin.com/sB7fekRy
ty for some who were
ty for some who were
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Thank skozlojops for the logs! Here's an extract of the important things written during the meeting. (I removed noise such as funny comments and unresolved or unrelated discussions.)
There was also a proposal to use construction cones to limit access to unfinished areas. Self-explanatory thread is here.
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Thanks for the links, skozlojops and Tirifto. Sorry I wasn't there, and normally can't be due to my location in this little planet. I will comment on the post some time after reading the rest of these points in this thread.skozlojops wrote:i just think this must be there https://pastebin.com/sB7fekRy
ty for some who were
...edit...er, so apparently, this was the second-last post, so I've read them all.lol
I am concerned regarding the little bit I can put in, and also I am lost as to where I am meant to be as a player. It seems that I should be keeping my char on the current server (yes?), and waiting for the change to happen, and one day, it will be the new server. Is this correct?
Also, I maintain my ability to help with the wiki, but I am lost with where to start regarding the new game. I don't have the ability to practice or look at the source to work out what is meant to happen. I will only be helpful really when ingame, due to my lack of experience in this part. I am happy to play around on the old wiki, but even there, there are major limits to what can be done due to this time barrier, whereas I live in Australia, as well as format of templates etc.
I also think the barriers are a good idea, as they were many years back when I first came on game, preventing the North Tulimshar entry, and the East Tuli ones (if my memory serves me right).
Re: TMW Summer Meeting -- 9th july 8pm GMT
Players don't really have to do much, they can continue playing on the Legacy server and when it is ready they will have access to the new server, with an account already reserved for them with their name. At this point they can start using the new account if they wish to do so.
You can see some of the things that will be in the new server by visiting the test server.
You can see some of the things that will be in the new server by visiting the test server.
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Okay, thanks for the info.