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Mahz's Dev Journal

Regarding co-GMs, in whatever field the GM will use in future to select co-GMs, there should be an option to toggle on and off permissions for co-GMs. This would cater for both GMs who want to share power with the co-GMs and for GMs who only want the co-GMs as labelled helpers and want to retain the power for themselves. An edit-backup needs to be time-based, or at least have a minimum time before clearing the history. This would prevent the rogue co-GM/moderator from simply spamming, say, 10 edits to wipe the edit history. The time also needs to be adequate for the fault to be detected and fixed in time. 24 hours may not be enough, for someone could easily spend a day or two away from the Guild. For the sake of revisions, it may also be useful to store a number of prior edits for a longer period of time (or permanently). However, I'm not sure what kind of a drain this may be on the Guild's database resources. I'm just throwing ideas around here. If you do grant GMs the power over posts in their thread (something which could possibly be abused), then a system which puts the post in a large hider would be safest, for it allows the post to be hidden from view but still available to be read if need be. But a Report button to call a mod to a particular post would be a good idea too. How about give the mods the power to put posts in large hiders? Another tool in their toolbox. -------------------- Oh, in regard to the current discussion on the pages, would a Go To Page # field/button (inside the thread) be too much of a problem? There is no interface option for going to a post in the middle of the thread, and asking users to edit the url is not user friendly. But I agree that we don't really need page numbers from the forum view.

Mahz's Dev Journal

One of the challenges of implementing RP specific features is, I suppose, ensuring that you cater to the very broad number of ways to manage an RP. In regard to co-GMs, I would suppose you could make it such that the thread creator (or a moderator) is able to give the co-GM title to other users. This would provide a little flag in the corner like you have for the OP, and it should also provide the power to edit the first posts, or at least posts which the GM decides. What I could see that being useful for is to allow co-GMs to update things like character lists without the GM's personal intervention. It may be useful for the GM to limit which posts can be edited by the co-GMs (eg. can edit Character tab, but not the IC or OOC), just for security. I suppose the wiki-style OP suggested before may (or may not) fit this role well, with the creator and moderators able to edit permissions, although it should blend with the normal post style (I suppose you could just borrow wiki code, then. But then compatibility with old threads?). Speaking of security, if such a system of shared ownership is implemented, a short-term post backup would be useful, to help restore griefed posts.

Dungeon Keepers (This one's done. Go to The Horde of Evil instead)

Night wore on into day, yet Reginaldus still meditated on his bed, watching the dreaming minds of his kingdom fade away to an faint haze as they awoke. He continued watching into the morning for a number of reasons. Firstly, he had little better to do, for most of the administrative tasks were carried out by others, leaving Reginaldus with only important decisions and subtle manipulations to make. Secondly, this meditative state was not quite as restful as proper sleep, so he needed to do so for longer in order to be completely rested. Finally, not all people in his kingdom follow a diurnal lifestyle, be it for legitimate or not so legitimate reasons, so meditating through the morning meant he could examine those minds too. In the towns, everything seemed normal. The night watchmen were drifting off to sleep, as were the few other people who had worked that night. Reginaldus noticed in the town by the jungle a man's mind running with memories of a small burglary that had been committed that night. He planted a seed of guilt in the mind and planned to send an anonymous tip to the local police. He was almost done sweeping across his kingdom when he noticed a single mind in a deep sleep far from any village or home. This peculiar occurrence prompted his investigation. At first glance the mind seemed to belong to a young girl, but stirring within was something strange, both in thought and in nature. He probed deeper, concentrating his attention on this odd mind, and what he found was most unsettling. In her memories were flashes of an icy wasteland, over-bearing cold and grotesque beings which seemed like the Ice Witches. At first he assumed that this girl had somehow fled from Kythnos in the North, but then the memories continued to a mighty yet, to this mind at least, soothing fire. This fire burned first the Ice Witches and then, later, the entire icy wasteland. Finally the memories revealed reality itself shattering and a sense of great relief and freedom as sunlight and fresh air were encountered for the first time in a long while. Reginaldus was considering how powerful a magician this girl must be when he realised that he was not alone inside this mind. He sensed two other souls residing in this mind, one male and one female, neither were human in the slightest, both were very powerful. This was troubling to him, for he had not ever seen such a powerful individual before. Should she be hostile, she would be a great danger, but so far he could not discern any motive or goal in her. He tried to search more, to find more information about this strange yet powerful girl.

Mahz's Dev Journal

Of course, when you do add deletion to things, make sure that you get it right the first time. Deletion isn't something you want bugging out.

Sanctuary

So, was there going to be more posting, or are we just going to crawl through this dramatic story arc?

Mahz's Dev Journal

With lists, I'd like them to preserve line breaks between items. When you have lists containing a paragraph per bullet point, it becomes a wall of text pretty quickly. Walls of text are not the point of lists.

Dungeon Keepers (This one's done. Go to The Horde of Evil instead)

You know, Dream King could probably notice Emily's mind as she slept, and that'd tip her off about him, which then would lead her to go to the capital and gather information about him.

KabenSaal

Maybe. She probably hasn't thought much about shielding her mind from psychic intrusion, and as she's in a nice, proper sleep she'd probably be subject to Reginaldus' powers. I'll put that into my next post.

Yus.

The 42nd Gecko

OK then. A secret police force for the Cypriots would be a little redundant, considering that Reginaldus is more than capable of assassination and reconnaissance throughout his entire kingdom without mortal agents to mess things up. P.S. In updating the compendium, I just remembered that you have a Rogue Construct, Cav. Don't forget that, too (although meeting a Keeper may take some work). P.P.S. Anyone know where 0011001 has gone?

Dungeon Keepers (This one's done. Go to The Horde of Evil instead)

So, the Secret Police are Laozi/Taote's guys?