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Awesome. Having recently done a large chunk of Microcorruption, I think I get what they are going for here. Super excited. But also a little nervous as to the

by dcw303 11y ago

Awesome. Having recently done a large chunk of Microcorruption, I think I get what they are going for here. Super excited. But also a little nervous as to the timing. Like others have said, if this releases before xmas, my level of interaction with the real world may have a real impact on the most wonderful time of the year, family togetherness, etc, etc. I'd love it if one of the founders could tell me if there's any PVP element to the low-level tech tree? What I'm really asking is if I put off playing this until some time in January, have I put myself at a disadvantage?

patio11 11y ago
What I'm really asking is if I put off playing this until some time in January, have I put myself at a disadvantage? Nope.
- kbenson 11y ago
  That's good to know, since with $dayjob, $consulting, and $family, I imagine the times that I'm able to muster enough brain cells to play this in which my time isn't already spoken for will be fleeting, but it looks awesome. Actually, that's a sort of separate question than the GP. Are there penalties for going through it slowly and/or playing in bursts interspersed with downtime? Depending on the metrics you are looking at, that might be very hard to correctly account for.
  - patio11 11y ago
    Are there penalties for going through it slowly and/or playing in bursts interspersed with downtime? No! That's part of the beauty of it -- the game is on 24 hours a day (well, after we get past the roaring pyroclasm I expect on the servers immediately post-launch), 365 days a year, and hundreds of simulated bots are waiting with bated breath on a hard drive somewhere on AWS for when 'kbenson (or anyone else) has 45 free minutes in the schedule. All three of us are working parents who are familiar with the juggling that goes on. Believe me, we didn't make something you'd have to be an unemployed 22 year old to get through. (In addition to that being a poor decision from a product perspective that would be a really poor decision from a "identify as many of the best engineers in the world that we possibly can" perspective because our working hypothesis is that y'all are presumably pretty busy.)
tptacek 11y ago
No. We're releasing something for people to play with before we release the actual CTF levels, to try to level the playing field a bit.
- dvanduzer 11y ago
  Is it too early to ask for a writeup of the connection between Real and Game economies? If there isn't a strong tether to "real data" than this question is moot, but if that's a key part of this experiment, then I and many others will start drooling at y'alls feet pretty soon here.
  - patio11 11y ago
    I'm not going to write about our economic simulation at all, but it may be reverse-engineerable. Mad props, and infinite amounts of fake Interney money, to anyone who figures it out.
    - grayclhn 11y ago
      "Fake Internety money" of course actually translates into real job opportunities in this case.

by dcw303 11y ago

patio11 11y ago

What I'm really asking is if I put off playing this until some time in January, have I put myself at a disadvantage? Nope.

kbenson 11y ago
That's good to know, since with $dayjob, $consulting, and $family, I imagine the times that I'm able to muster enough brain cells to play this in which my time isn't already spoken for will be fleeting, but it looks awesome. Actually, that's a sort of separate question than the GP. Are there penalties for going through it slowly and/or playing in bursts interspersed with downtime? Depending on the metrics you are looking at, that might be very hard to correctly account for.
- patio11 11y ago
  Are there penalties for going through it slowly and/or playing in bursts interspersed with downtime? No! That's part of the beauty of it -- the game is on 24 hours a day (well, after we get past the roaring pyroclasm I expect on the servers immediately post-launch), 365 days a year, and hundreds of simulated bots are waiting with bated breath on a hard drive somewhere on AWS for when 'kbenson (or anyone else) has 45 free minutes in the schedule. All three of us are working parents who are familiar with the juggling that goes on. Believe me, we didn't make something you'd have to be an unemployed 22 year old to get through. (In addition to that being a poor decision from a product perspective that would be a really poor decision from a "identify as many of the best engineers in the world that we possibly can" perspective because our working hypothesis is that y'all are presumably pretty busy.)

tptacek 11y ago

No. We're releasing something for people to play with before we release the actual CTF levels, to try to level the playing field a bit.

dvanduzer 11y ago
Is it too early to ask for a writeup of the connection between Real and Game economies? If there isn't a strong tether to "real data" than this question is moot, but if that's a key part of this experiment, then I and many others will start drooling at y'alls feet pretty soon here.
- patio11 11y ago
  I'm not going to write about our economic simulation at all, but it may be reverse-engineerable. Mad props, and infinite amounts of fake Interney money, to anyone who figures it out.
  - grayclhn 11y ago
    "Fake Internety money" of course actually translates into real job opportunities in this case.