Road Map Update

With the new release, the web forum side is marginally usable.  I'm 
dogfooding that right now, so after I get a better feel for it I'll have 
more to do on it.

Meanwhile, however, I'm turning my primary attention to the email side, 
because as long as the Firehawk version is still doing its email, Gamehawk 
is somewhat limited.  I've turned on mail distribution, which means that 
Gamehawk will be sending out posts to all its subscribers... which 
hopefully is no one but me just now.  However, if people start to receive 
doubled list posts, let me know.

Shortly, I'll be asking for volunteers to subscribe to Gamehawk directly, 
and after that all works I'll move lists over.  (Current subscribers won't 
have to resubscribe, and won't notice much of a change if we do everything 
right.)

The roadmap, if you've forgotten or are new:

http://www.phoenyx.net/stakeholders/2006/03/msg00007.html

You'll notice that the next step after this will drop Firehawk from the 
loop altogether (it's been with us a long time, so we'll have a wake, I 
think) and after that... things start to get *fun*.

-- 
Karen J. Cravens  silver@phoenyx.net

Road Map Update

Karen,
  Any idea when we'll be able to switch between identities?   I've had a 
bit of a revelation about the nature of the campaign the Realms is 
mutating into, in terms of storyline and format but to pull it off 
properly I need to be able to switch between quite a few different 
identities (ideally with no sign of "who" is the ghost inside the 
character so to speak) - the ultimate goal is to have the players unsure 
who exactly is in their group and who is a NPC by me.  It's pretty 
critical for building the suspense of the plot I have in mind (it's a 
bit of a "whodunit").

Mike

Karen J. Cravens wrote:

>With the new release, the web forum side is marginally usable.  I'm 
>dogfooding that right now, so after I get a better feel for it I'll have 
>more to do on it.
>
>Meanwhile, however, I'm turning my primary attention to the email side, 
>because as long as the Firehawk version is still doing its email, Gamehawk 
>is somewhat limited.  I've turned on mail distribution, which means that 
>Gamehawk will be sending out posts to all its subscribers... which 
>hopefully is no one but me just now.  However, if people start to receive 
>doubled list posts, let me know.
>
>Shortly, I'll be asking for volunteers to subscribe to Gamehawk directly, 
>and after that all works I'll move lists over.  (Current subscribers won't 
>have to resubscribe, and won't notice much of a change if we do everything 
>right.)
>
>The roadmap, if you've forgotten or are new:
>
>http://www.phoenyx.net/stakeholders/2006/03/msg00007.html
>
>You'll notice that the next step after this will drop Firehawk from the 
>loop altogether (it's been with us a long time, so we'll have a wake, I 
>think) and after that... things start to get *fun*.
>
>  
>

Road Map Update

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, MJ Harnish wrote:

MH>Karen,
MH>  Any idea when we'll be able to switch between identities?   I've had a 
MH>bit of a revelation about the nature of the campaign the Realms is 
MH>mutating into, in terms of storyline and format but to pull it off 
MH>properly I need to be able to switch between quite a few different 
MH>identities (ideally with no sign of "who" is the ghost inside the 
MH>character so to speak) - the ultimate goal is to have the players unsure 
MH>who exactly is in their group and who is a NPC by me.  It's pretty 
MH>critical for building the suspense of the plot I have in mind (it's a 
MH>bit of a "whodunit").

Good question.  [id]entities are kind of pointless right now, since 
Firehawk is still managing email distribution and it leaves the email 
address there for all to see.  Gamehawk will be distributing messages with 
phoenyx.net From: lines (which will eliminate a huge amount of false 
positives on recipients' spam filters).  However, as tentatively set up, 
it will be something like "From: Karen Cravens 
".  Now, the name part is from the 
entity, but the KarenCravens is my username here.

I suppose there's no reason not to just put the entity id there, which 
would currently leave me with four:

+-----------------------------------------------+
| entity                                        |
+-----------------------------------------------+
| Karen Cravens           |
| Karen Cravens         |
| Karen J. Cravens      |
| KarenCravens.6171458  |
+-----------------------------------------------+

The system knows that entities 1, 196, 281, and 345 all belong to username 
KarenCravens.

Of course, this assumes that we have a way to either hide entities 
(presently if you look at 
http://www.phoenyx.net/wirebird/KarenCravens/profile.html you'll see those 
four names) or that your players can be trusted not to go look at your 
profile.

I sort of like the latter case better, since that way interested lurkers 
can look at the profile for an omniscient view, but there's no compelling 
technological reason not to be able to have "private" entities.

-- 
Karen J. Cravens  silver@phoenyx.net

Road Map Update

What I've come up with is a somewhat intricate plot that involves 
weaving NPCs into and out of the story - it's not critical that the 
players are completely naive as to who is a NPC and who is a player but 
it would help with the suspension of reality and helps me pass 
information along to the party without them knowing that it's "god" 
speaking to them.   I could probably live with the "posts just show 
entity" option although ideally it would be great if there was an option 
to turn off the option to see all my identities. 

Karen J. Cravens wrote:

>Good question.  [id]entities are kind of pointless right now, since 
>Firehawk is still managing email distribution and it leaves the email 
>address there for all to see.  Gamehawk will be distributing messages with 
>phoenyx.net From: lines (which will eliminate a huge amount of false 
>positives on recipients' spam filters).  However, as tentatively set up, 
>it will be something like "From: Karen Cravens 
>".  Now, the name part is from the 
>entity, but the KarenCravens is my username here.
>
>I suppose there's no reason not to just put the entity id there, which 
>would currently leave me with four:
>
>+-----------------------------------------------+
>| entity                                        |
>+-----------------------------------------------+
>| Karen Cravens           |
>| Karen Cravens         |
>| Karen J. Cravens      |
>| KarenCravens.6171458  |
>+-----------------------------------------------+
>
>The system knows that entities 1, 196, 281, and 345 all belong to username 
>KarenCravens.
>
>Of course, this assumes that we have a way to either hide entities 
>(presently if you look at 
>http://www.phoenyx.net/wirebird/KarenCravens/profile.html you'll see those 
>four names) or that your players can be trusted not to go look at your 
>profile.
>
>I sort of like the latter case better, since that way interested lurkers 
>can look at the profile for an omniscient view, but there's no compelling 
>technological reason not to be able to have "private" entities.
>
>  
>