Yssen

Welcome to the community! Looking forward to seeing you when the game starts up. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. ^ ^

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Hope to see you in game too! Welcome to the community!

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Greed!... no wait... Wrath!

I think what is needed here is a bit of redirection. I suggest we move on from discussing the results of the poll, and redirect to discussing what solutions are available to in the wake of the polls results. Creating a separate thread my aid in this process a bit, and allow us to focus on coming to a proper compromise.

None of this answers why the relevant NPC information could not be placed under an existing section (such as Literature). The reasons against floating pages were from a largely organizational and coding stand point. They were made by the individual who is largely responsible for building the new wiki for this community. That individual polled the community, and the majority opinion came out not in favor of changing the status quo. A decision was made that the suggested changes would not be worth implementing. Simply put, the minority would have to deal with the status quo because that is majority opinion. What transpired afterward was people making a case for why the minority opinion should be implemented anyway. The result is that a major contributor to the community has decided to no longer contribute. Frankly, after reading some of these posts, I do not blame her in the slightest for her decision. Why volunteer your time and energy if people are just going to question your decisions with out directly contributing. This is all just the situation as it currently. That being said, the actual important question has yet to be answered. As I stated above, I have yet to see any case made for why the wiki hampers people from posting content about NPCs under an existing section, or why it is important that NPCs have their own floating pages. I suggest that we answer or discuss these questions first, before this situation progresses farther. - Yssen

I do not disagree, but the wiki already has sections in existence (the literature section, for instance) for NPC information to be posted in. The issue that was voted on was "Would you use individual pages for your storyline NPCs." The outcome basically used to determine whether NPCs would qualify to have their own individual character pages, just like PCs. The decision Deirdre has made is that NPCs will not be granted such rights. This does not mean that you cannot post up information about NPCs in the wiki, that is not at all what she has said. She has just said that it will not be done in a specific format/section of the wiki. I guess what I am asking here is simply, what is it that people are losing exactly in terms of ability to post content on the wiki by her making this decision? Why is it important to have NPCs listed like PCs when we have the ability to simply utilize another section? -Yssen

30% is still a minority all things considered. While I do think it would be nice read about NPCs of all sorts, I am not sure that they deserve their own wiki pages. The stories we are telling are not about them. They are about our individual characters. For example, I like Ysa. She is interesting to portray, and the crazy as hell head space she lives in is interesting. She does not, however, deserve her own wiki page. I think that the wiki will become a bit cluttered if we were to have pages dedicated to each individual NPC we as players happen to create. I have one exception to this. I think that pages dedicated to NPC organizations or groups that have been created collaboratively and have effects on a significant number of PCs across the community would be fine. (Though this can be accomplished by using the literature section of the current wiki.) The vote is taken and done. We should accept the results as they currently stand. There is nothing really to be gained, but unnecessary division by overreacting simply because the vote did not go the way we as individuals may have liked. -Yssen

Hello! Welcome to the community! Please feel free to ask us more questions, and we will gladly answer them. To answer your first question, no there is not an IC introduction thread, but you should feel free to place your character's information and some player details down in the Player Directory. We also have a wonderful Wiki for you to post up character profiles and details. The link is there at the top. ^ ^ Looking forward to seeing you in ARR, have fun out there! - Yssen

Hiya, welcome to the community!

Welcome! You may keep your bacon... for now.

Hiya, welcome to the community. We do not all hump legs as a form a greeting. Feel free to ask us questions and such, for we are friendly. Just not all of us that friendly. ^ ^

Hi! Welcome to the community! We are always pleased to meet new people, and I totally look forward to seeing you in game. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask away. The people here are friendly and helpful. As you browse around you will see that there is a Skype thing that we all chat in OOC and even and IC chat thing for character interaction. Feel free to send me a PM if you want into either. One side note. The first rule of beta is don't talk about beta (until the NDA gets lifted). Not a huge deal, just mentioning it by means of educating. Have fun out there!

Hello, welcome to the community! Looking forward to seeing you in game!

Welcome back!

Hello! Welcome to the community, feel free to ask questions. We do not bite.

The long and the short of it is that we don't know yet, and we won't until they tell us what is up with the servers. From what they have said so far though we will be able to transfer our characters between the "older" servers, and not to the specifically meant for new players "new" servers. Whether the oft spoken of RP server will be in the category of "old" or "new" remains a mystery. Personally, I hope they are smart enough have the RP server be one of the ones we can freely shift to. Most of our final decisions cannot be made until they give us the full skinny on how stuff is going to work. Still, it is a good thing to have swimming around in our thought stew.

Hi! Welcome to the community! Looking forward to seeing you in game!

Yssen would probably drop your own stuff, likely stuff you did not even know was missing. That and likely a lot of your own gil. ^ ^

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Welcome, welcome!1

Most interested! ^ ^ Ruts happen. So that is no big deal, I get them myself. I <3 your work, and am sure it will be worth the wait. Heck, I'd love to be put on yer list too, but no worries if you feel over loaded. Glad you seem to be back in stride!