Fyrd Argentus

You can't get a book published these days, no matter how good, unless you're already known on the national stage - corrupt politician, whistle blower, axe murderer, etc. The publishers want to see their money turn around in a ridiculously short time - like a week or two from when it hits the stands. I imagine selling a movie concept is similar - you have to pack the theatre on the opening night based on the buzz, and not risk anything on the quality of the movie ie. long term sustainability. Hence, offering a rehash of a known plot will get people in the seats, and their job is done.

Oh, I see. Ever the optimist here... Sorry.

Chewett, or anybody, I am happy to be a test debugger. I am pretty good at it, IMHO. Don't have the energy or background to even conceive of an overhaul, but don't mind being yanked over for some quick assistance, or to offer another perspective.

Had 15 full devices, bounty said I got two more. They do not appear. Number seems capped at 15. Shouldn't say I can get them if I can't. Just sayin'.

Acoustic Remains, April 20 Challenge Element Stories. Clair de lune won but deferred to klawdees, who is thus the official winner! AR April 20 Challenge Elements.docx

Acoustic Remains, April 19 Yarn Spin-Doctoring -- Winner is Nepgear! AR April 19 Yarn Spin.docx

Things that had me stuck, for what it's worth: No idea that mining gave many different things - especially the rare but vital crystal. No idea how the balloon worked, once I made it (still don't know). It didn't seem to let me get to the odd object either. When I found the rope, the message I got flashing on the screen made me think it was something else, until I checked my inventory. No idea why there was a place to heat memory stones up... perhaps to do with the balloon? 3 days? Come on! Bore-ing. In the end, I solved the puzzle based way out... Took awhile to catch on that loading ingredients, making the mix, and getting the results later can all be different operations. Some hints on operational details would have helped me, anyway.

For festival duration, if you can't find me I'll either be at the other end of the MDA portal link, or camping at or around Wind's Sanctuary in Marind's Bell to grow some land loyalty - and more pickles! Always happy to help develop a role, for this or any other purpose. Or a quest, or event, or document, or... whatever.

It doesn't seem to work. Did not actually reboot chrome, as I don't want to lose my jigsaw... did you mean that? NOW IT WORKS, THANKS!

Acoustic remains, Riddle Night, April 17 Event - Ungod wins! AR Event April 17 2021.docx

Okay, Mago is talking about extra info. Chewett is talking about streamlining the transfer of many, many common objects like piles of resources. My "ugh" refers to the stack being NOT optional, as I want to retain the ability to move just one of a common item. I don't like stacks in that they are all or nothing. I want control.

Ugh. Only if it's optional. I want to be able to give ONE common something, even if it means having to do it 12 times for a dozen.

A few suggestions: 1) Give MP4 attacking upwards some big advantage like -- random defense rituals for the MP5+ with zero vitality. 2a) Only let MP3's go to MP4 in groups/classes, then graduate to MP5 as a group. If the group withers on the vine, the ones left might slide back to MP3. 2b) Perhaps have an assigned/volunteer leader to guide the group -- sort of a cross between alliance & den mother. These "teachers" might have special abilities to help them train the MP4's like pulled punches and extra first aid. 3) Recruit people to run MP4 alts part time, like you do LHO's etc. Make it a badge of honor, with perks and tools.

If you slowly mouse down through the list, Quest - QDoc - Navigate - etc. most spaces between menu items are inert. However, the spaces between the last three menu items are wonky. Passing over the space between Wishshop and Items sets the menu into a whirly frenzy. The space between Items and Shop does the same, with the addition that you can lose the menu completely. If you hope for people to spend things in the shops, you do NOT want to discourage them from using these menus!

I have one item that shows up as a favorite, but pressing the [Favorite] button on other items won't make them favorite too. My one favorite item's button says [Unfavorite] so it is a command, not a tag. I see no functionality like this if you go into the inventory page, only the panel on right.

Acoustic Remains Punday, April 16, Event - Dracoloth wins! AR Punday April 16.docx

In-game messages, if the message is very very long, the buttons at the bottom are not accessible by scrolling. Only see the tops and have to guess what they are (reply is left-most). I am using an older iMac, running Chrome.

Chewett is setting up a movement link to the MDA each day -- the viscosity is thick up this way. If you want people much before my bit, you need to touch base with him about timing of it, and tell folks. My bit can and will run for a specific amount of time then be stopped, so we should end that promptly at 2200.

In shop, roleplaying items: Sentence at top reads "Even drops of your on blood..." should read OWN.

Many of my papers fit side-to-side in the window provided when clicked. Most have vertical scroll bars along the right-hand edge. However, my "comments on self" page is too wide to fit in the window. The right-hand edge is clipped off, and conceals the vertical scroll bar. It takes some experimentation to find that you can scroll using mouse click and hold, in both directions, exposing the vertical scroll bar. There is no horizontal scroll bar, even at the bottom of the page. Note: I probably pasted a word doc into the existing editor, but there is no way to set document width that I see in the editor.

The button doesn't fit in the space allotted, and the right-hand bit is shifted to the "next line" of the column.