Time for a little update.
Professionals
The process of bringing in new players to fill the empty seats has started, and I hope to have everybody in by the end of the week. Some basic discussions about the program has been started, and as soon as everybody's ready, we'll focus on profession issues.
Part of the invitation e-mail, to show what the program is about:
If anybody has any questions about the program, feel free to contact me.The Professionals is a program started to provide profession feedback from the Anarchy Online players to the AO dev team, and to ensure that the most important profession issues get looked into.
The players involved in this program will participate in discussions with each other and the Funcom Community Team, and together decide on the most pressing matters with professions in Anarchy Online. Each of the Professionals is expected to participate actively, and maturely, in the discussions on behalf of their profession. Funcom is expected to start discussions, fuel them when needed, and to provide answers on the most pressing matters. At least 3 answers to specific questions should be provided from Funcom each week, but this is an absolute minimum.
The participants should be known and respected by their profession community to such a degree that the community will trust them to do their part well, and of course have a genuine interest in speaking on their profession's behalf.
Patches and Notum Wars
I have been extremely busy with patches and preparations for Notum Wars launch lately. Some of this work you don't see a lot of, but it takes quite a bit of time. What you have seen is probably the patch notes, which I now have the responsibility of writing, based on the patch info I get from the dev team and QA. If you have any feedback or questions regarding patch notes, let me know.
I also have a short description of the new in-game voices to write up before Notum Wars launch on Thursday, so that's gonna take some time tomorrow.
Bulletin board and IRC
My activity on the bulletin board varies with how much other work I need to do. IRC usually ends up as lowest priority. Even though I often log in, I seldom have time for much chatting.
The bulletin board has my almost undivided attention on patch days, and the days after, putting most other tasks aside. This means I often have to forget about the bulletin board for days afterwards, to catch up on other stuff. I still browse it, and have people notify me of important issues. I just don't have much time for replying (takes more time than many people think).
I'm considering setting up a specific day of the week for IRC, like a community chat day or something. This way people would have a day they would be sure to find me there, and be sure I have nothing else that has higher priority at the time. I'll think some more about it, and see whether it could develop into bringing along a designer once in a while.
E-mails
Just for clarification; the community@anarchy-online.com e-mail goes to me too. Not directly to my inbox, but I check it as often as I can. I read every single e-mail, and sort them into folders for safekeeping (no, not the trash bin), but unfortunately do not have time to reply to all of them. I'm checking into having the address simply forwarded to my inbox, as I can't really see any reason not to.
Playing the game
Yes, I do, in fact!Just thought I'd let you know that.
I have characters of all professions now, but I'm no more than a noob in some of them. I play to have fun though (I beta tested and played AO before getting a job here), and not primarily as part of my job, so I focus on playing one character. I switch that one character now and then though.
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That's it for now. Take care folks, and be nice, even when being bad.
Originally Posted by Silirrion
Sorry about that.
