WF Actors
{Nguvu-dhibiti|DM} His question was essentially: what happens when WF actors in the major faction are challenged. I answered that: that won't happen for awhile and when it does, well, I don't know. But there's going to be a balance of sorts in AT between player influence and company influence.
{korak} company and FRIENDS.
korak winks at Serafina
{poq} hullo, serafina
{Serafina} interesting posts
{korak} Serafina- hehe, I'm holding so much back from posting 8)
korak does the evil grin and dance
{turg} that freaking thread is a monster...gives me a headache

Not Secret Police
{Serafina} What interests me is that fact that everyone thinks they won't have an affect on the world because Actors are playing in it.
{korak} well, I don't think you are up to the challange
{Serafina} The whole notion of a secret police cracks me up too. When did I say they would be secret police?
{korak} how many times have you posted in the faction forum, or showed up to an illfated faction meeting Serafina?
{Jahmbo} i want to be an actor, with a big stick called 'jahmbos big stick of instant death' so i can go around beating on people with it
{Serafina} They are in the world to shake things up and make it more dynamic. They will be playing their characters according to the personality of the character. They are NOT god characterse.
{korak} how many times have you asked, or commented on how your faction will do?
{Herok} what cracks me about is that they want Top-down rulesets but don't want the devs to see what's going on firsthand through actors etc.
{Serafina} Nor do the actors have access to god controls at all... none at all.
{korak} if you can't post on a message board, you cannot carry out complex or simple actions
{korak} some would say god characters could be based on the knowledge of the player
{Nguvu-dhibiti|DM} Aye Serafina, I gathered that. But the actors will be agents of sorts. (That's something they've deduced. They read ALOT into posts.)
{korak} If I know the way things work, I therefore can exploit them to my advantage. I am god.
{Herok} well, maybe not korak, but the person in the example :)
{Serafina} korak... but an Actor won't have some Customer Service database sitting there to check up on someone.
{Serafina} They will only be story characters.

Special Abilities
{turg} the actor won't be a god character, but will the actor have some special abilities (some that a DM might have in a P&P game) to create and run little activities and dynamic quests for players
{Serafina} quests, yes... but they don't need anything special for that
{Serafina} What that actors have that other players don't is knowledge.
{korak} a wise man once said, "Knowledge is power."
{turg} so they won't have the ability to spawn items or anything for rewards? (i know spawn is a nasty word)
{Serafina} turg... no, they won't.
{Serafina} They will have to get an approval for an item.
{Serafina} and then have it added to the game.
{Serafina} It is true that when a quest or something like that is approved, then the item will automatically pop into their inventory, etc.
{Serafina} but they won't just make something from nothing... it doesn't work like that
{Nguvu-dhibiti|DM} Serafina, so WF wouldn't try to keep the unarra faction around with some actors?
{Serafina} Nguvu-dhibiti|DM... of course they would.
{Serafina} But trying doesn't mean succeeding.
{korak} exactly, where does it stop/begin? When do you know to succeed in a battle, and when do you know to fail?
{Serafina} The leader of the Unarra could be over taken and someone else take over the faction.
{korak} could prove interesting for some, very negative to others
{Serafina} unlikely... muhahahahaha
{Synon|FoA} like Cronos?
{Serafina} Cronos?

For Instance
{Nguvu-dhibiti|DM} Even if the actors work against each other, what will happen when say.. the Unarra faction is attacked by a player faction that looks like it can possibly beat the Unarra faction?
{Serafina} Then the Unarra faction better fight back or get its butt kicked.
{Serafina} Then it will have to come back fighting again.
{korak} Serafina- how do you know this?
{Nguvu-dhibiti|DM} Serafina, say some faction takes over a continent.. wipes out the Unarra faction. Would you have actors in this new player-run faction.. to sort've make sure there's some genuine, alien, rp'd influence in the faction?
Xaltaer falls asleep.
{Xaltaer} Faction aka KE
{Serafina} Nguvu-dhibiti|DM... first of all... no player or group is going to take over an entire continent.
{Serafina} It is too big... not gonna happen
{Serafina} hehe.. I think I just issued a challenge
{Sarvas} weve taken over whole cities in UO before
{turg} i'm going to be bent over and whipped into a bloody pulp...poor independants
{Synon|FoA} thats nice Sai|DAOC|Merlin
{Synon|FoA} Sarvas
{Nguvu-dhibiti|DM} Serafina, well okay, if that isn't feasible. What about a large region of a continent? Will you have actors in a player-faction?
{Synon|FoA} good thing this isnt UO
{Hunter} Sy suffers the alttabbers curse
{poqoid} i wonder if atriarch will have support for management of large groups of people and/or territories
{Serafina} You won't know :-)
{turg} spooky
{Serafina} The biggest thing that will affect the Actors will be economics... as in what that cost is per player

Geography Lesson
{Xaltaer} Serafina, is the Tyrusin continent at the "North" and the Eshlar continent at the "South", or visa versa?
{Serafina} Xaltaer... Tyrusin is at the North pole.
{Xaltaer} Serafina, where in the world are all of the tropical islands at?
{Sarvas} in the tropics
{Xaltaer} heh
{Serafina} uh... south of the equator
{Serafina} *grin* ?
{Nguvu-dhibiti|DM} Synon, you meant Zeus and Cronos?
{Jahmbo} tropics are, by definition, located between the 2 'tropics'
{Xaltaer} ok, I guess so
{Jahmbo} there is a tropic in each of the northern and southern hemispheres
Xaltaer blinks.
{Serafina} Tropic of Cancer and Trop of Capricorn
{Jahmbo} on earth they are known as the tropic of cance and the tropic of capricorn
{Serafina} Tropic

Getting Attention
{Iroko} Serafina, did you see my cornerstone idea? (or any of the land ownership threads, for that matter)
{Herok} http://www.atwatcher.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=128&forum=1&4 :)
{Serafina} Iroko... how about you send all the really good links and I"ll be sure to read through them at some point
{Serafina} Better yet... send them to Herok :-)
{Iroko} Herok linked it above...
{Iroko} But I'll e-mail them to you, if you want...
{korak} herok@atwatcher.com
{Synon|FoA} Herok has read them, they are on his boards ;)
{Herok} poq, that's easy
{Serafina} yes, but he'll make sure that I get a copy
{korak} give herok all your information, then give herok all the privilages to post that informations. rinse and repeat with me.
{poq} ok!!
Herok blinks and goes back to taking care of his daughter

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