Quote from: Eurynomos on June 02, 2024, 07:26:49 AMArmageddonMUD: Death is only the Beginning

The Aetherials from Grim Dawn would like to speak to you pertaining to your car(casse)'s extended warranty. Also, that would be a cool Nilazi idea.

Armageddon

"Stories Scrawled in the Sand"

Much like sand art (or sand mandalas if you prefer), everything can come and go. Every experience in and of Armageddon is transitory and we should never forget it.

"Death, Disaster, and Darkness"

You could theme these by season. Coming back to read up on this season, I noticed there's a LOT of darkness/death suggestions vaguely mixed into events that happened, between the Tablelands, the Grey Forest, and so on until now. Going forward, staff could theme these in a way that's perhaps suggestive of whatever overarching plots they might have been focusing on for the season. Of course that doesn't prevent you from doing anything, but still.

"Apocalyptic Adventures Written in the Moments"

More general and welcoming to new people without much thought. It draws attention to one of the things which MUDs always captured to me and makes it so addictive but Armageddon did a unique job of. Any random moment might be death, but sometimes, because you burned the scrab meat you and another buddy nearly died for, a story exists. Whole stories exist as every moment actively, collaboratively written. Not truly planned, but just experienced and intricate by its very nature.

Whenever Halaster wakes up that day probably.

Quote from: Bast on June 02, 2024, 12:19:19 PM

Quote from: FamousAmos on June 02, 2024, 12:11:28 PMWhat time is it starting?

Week of June 15th its in the new newsletter!https://gdb.armageddon.org/index.php/topic,60419.msg1103559/topicseen.html#msg1103559

June 1st - applications for rolecalls and specapps are open in the request tool
June 7th - Applications close,
June 7th - 10th - Staff make decisions
June 10th to June 13th - Set up of leadership roles
June 13th & 14th - Session Zero for sponsored roles
June 15th - Game launches

Yes, but the actual time the game launches

Quote from: Athapaxis on June 02, 2024, 11:09:49 PMSorry if this has already been answered somewhere - but when does this open?

I couldn't quote the thread, but June 10th

https://gdb.armageddon.org/index.php/topic,60377.0.html

Sorry if this has already been answered somewhere - but when does this open?

Yes, I DID create that thread. I'm pretty cool.

I'm fine with the answers provided, honestly. Its the questions that are in a public discussion board but the poster is clearly only interested in the official staff response.

Do we just leave those be?

Quote from: Riev on June 02, 2024, 09:58:48 PM...If we're going to keep it the way it is (which is fine), maybe we should try and either have specific Staff Q/A threads or keep those questions to the request tool?

I think the current method is okay?

Typically when a staff announcement is made, players (or staff) create a "Q&A" thread about that specific topic.
See:
Sessions Q&A: https://gdb.armageddon.org/index.php/topic,60175.0.html
Q&A for Advanced Start Updates:  https://gdb.armageddon.org/index.php/topic,60351.0.html
Discuss: Change to PK Guidelines:  https://gdb.armageddon.org/index.php/topic,60378.0.html

And the best response thread of all time:
Release Notes Discussion:  https://gdb.armageddon.org/index.php/topic,52143.0.html

A fine and fair justification for its removal, but it seems to have created posts in the reverse. Aimed at staff asking questions, but leaving it open for players to respond.

If we're going to keep it the way it is (which is fine), maybe we should try and either have specific Staff Q/A threads or keep those questions to the request tool?

Rearranging the GDB was one of the last things I helped with when I was on the moderator team.

The Ask-the-Staff channel predates the Request Tool, and it ultimately was replaced by it.

The last few usages of Ask-The-Staff were really statements aimed at playerbase in the form of questions towards the staff at large, in the form of a protest / soapbox forum.  It was also set that the moderators couldn't edit or moderate the content there, so we had to reach out to staff to ping them to edit / delete posts there.  It was just easier for the moderator team to have it removed.