Is this sort of thing worth while putting time into: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko1jGL4InGo? Are people interested in seeing more of these? Is anyone interested in recording their own? Are there artists who are okay with me using their Arm artwork and putting narration over it? I know the audio is crap in this one -- be patient, I'm learning this as I go along.
Sweet. I totally play that person on youtube's online text-based computer game.
Seriously, though, I definitely enjoy hearing about Arm's history, particularly from the staff perspective.
I think it's great.
I am exactly the type of player who adores the "geek-out". Thank you, Sanvean. Carry on, please?
Seeker
This is much awesome.
Yay! It was fun to do, so there will be more.
Whoooooa! I love it and I want to do one!
You are very courageous, Sanvean, it took me about 300 tries and 2 hours to make a 10 seconds happy birthday webcam video to a friend of mine :)
Excellent! I love it.
You have a very soothing voice, too.
I would definitely be interested in seeing more, though I don't really think I've been around long enough to contribute. I certainly love stories (don't we all, or we wouldn't be here).
I especially enjoy hearing the pronunciations from a staff member heh.
I always though of Sanvean pronounce San-vee-an, not San-veen.
And Kuraci as Cur-ah-chi, not Cur-a-ki.
Definately good stuff, look forward to more!
"Yeah, I play this cool game, I'm a Crotchy Outrider!"
This was neat. I think you could produce the Ultimate Guided Meditation, Sanvean.
NERD ALERT
I think I was quite clear about how nerdy it was :)
Quote from: "Sanvean"I think I was quite clear about how nerdy it was :)
Maybe we should have a standard disclaimar "Nerd alert" for all videos with some music!
Amish Overlord 8)
I thought that was really nifty, and the audio was just fine for me. Let's see more.
The audio levels were a bit low, if you ask me. A better microphone or a microphone placed closer for better pickup (just be careful to check your sound levels so that you're not overdriving) or a combination may improve the audio.
Actually, a class I'm in right now is talking about this sort of stuff. Heh, if you were able to get to Minneapolis and wanted something with excellent lighting and superb audio, I could get ahold of some good equipment, but I'm thinking that's a long trip for this sort of thing. :P
Yeah, it's a bit of a road trip, alas. :) Going to try an external mike next time, rather than rely on the webcam one.
This is pretty cool. I thought you were going to say:
"Perhaps you were trying to hook up with that Kuraci for some...steamy mudsex."
I mean...I was there for the spice, I swear.
I enjoyed it. It helps bring a personal, softer image to the staff and gives newer players an insight into some of our colored rollercoaster history. The blog entries also help that as well.
Keep em coming, please. Also, utube video of the APM would be awesome for us folks who can't go to such things anymore.
Added a second one -- I'll try to make this a weekly thing from now on. Be aware there is a slight magic spoiler in this one.
...but where? I am sad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ylfxLcwXtc&mode=user&search=
I definitely giggled at a few points during this one.
I like the earmuffs.
Pretty hawt, aren't they? Very Princess Leia.
Hah! The story of your first character is amusing on several different levels.
One suggestion: if you can, date some of these events you mention, like when you first started playing Arm or when you finally came on staff.
Halaster... the ranger with funny shoes? Wow.
That's great stuff, Sanvean. Keep it coming!
I love you.
These made my day Sanvean.
I will see if I can get the guts and/or idea to make my own little quick vblog about Armageddon.
Sadly as only playing Arm for about a year, I don't have much fun stories to retell and/or they may be IC information.
Keep em coming.
Whoa these are so cool!
More, more!
Those damned Israeli hackers.
got my webcam working! oh noes.
I got a webcam, but I dunno what I would put on it.
i'm going to use a story of one of my first characters.
I'd try to marry you if you weren't allready.
I'm waiting impatiently for episode 3.
Episode 3? Yeah, sure, it'll have a duel in a volcano, but we all already know that Halaster turns to the dark side. That's the funny thing about these prequels that tell us the history... we already know the present.
Cool, Sanvean.
New one up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnjAcWPY4rU
Yes!
Larrath, aren't you glad they let you play? That sounds like it was only months before you and I started playing here! :-)
That's pretty interesting. I'm wondering just how bad the rudeness and favoritism was back then, to reach the point where players would "rebel". And why was the decision made to ban the entire country of Israel? That seems exceedingly drastic. I mean, that probably wouldn't have happened if the hackers were from North America or England.
Well, it's not that the entire player base would rebel, but there were a number of people with substantial chips on their shoulders -- and I suspect accounts of who was responsible for that chip being there would differ. I was not one of the people playing on Quest Days, but I certainly didn't think the hack and other actions were justified.
Re: the whole country -- I'm pretty sure that the handful of people playing from there at the time were all involved in what happened. But I agree, it wouldn't have happened if it were a place that a number of people, rather than just a few, were playing from.
And I think it's hard to convey just how ticked off the staff was -- some truly nasty things were said, a LOT of personal privacy got invaded , and difficulties with both the hosting service and ISCA were created. I think there's still ISCA people who spit at the mention of the mud's name. I don't think the majority of the players who were Arm-less for a couple of months were particularly appreciative of the hackers either.
Quote from: "Greve"I'm wondering just how bad the rudeness and favoritism was back then
I don't know about the favoritism, but using the wish command was pretty dangerous back then. Bite your head off or worse.
For example, I remember one character (not mine) who had received a send from an imm who was running a plot that involved her. When she wished back (all, since the sending imm wasn't visible), another imm got annoyed at her (even though she was only replying) and banned her from wishing.
I started to avoid using it altogether since it mostly led to being ignored or insulted, even when Thanas' suggested formula for wishing up was followed.
Hmm, I also remember that a lot of people resented the gypsies for all of the favorable attention they received. There even was a saying for a while:
"Gypsies: dead today, sparring tomorrow."
to reflect how often they seemed to get resurrected. Nasty bastards just wouldn't stay dead. :lol:
On the other hand, the level of roleplaying was a lot sketchier back then and there was a lot of exchange of IC information going on, on ISCA and wherever else. Powergaming and pure bullshit from a roleplaying perspective. So in a sense, the staff was at war with a lot of the players then, cracking heads together and trying to shape some up.
My personal opinion was that more communication would been preferable to just shooting the miscreants, but then as now there was a major wall of silence between staff and players.
I love these vids.. Any chance of getting other staff members to record some too?
Quote from: "Salt Merchant"Quote from: "Greve"I'm wondering just how bad the rudeness and favoritism was back then
I don't know about the favoritism, but using the wish command was pretty dangerous back then. Bite your head off or worse.
For example, I remember one character (not mine) who had received a send from an imm who was running a plot that involved her. When she wished back (all, since the sending imm wasn't visible), another imm got annoyed at her (even though she was only replying) and banned her from wishing.
I started to avoid using it altogether since it mostly led to being ignored or insulted, even when Thanas' suggested formula for wishing up was followed.
Hmm, I also remember that a lot of people resented the gypsies for all of the favorable attention they received. There even was a saying for a while:
"Gypsies: dead today, sparring tomorrow."
to reflect how often they seemed to get resurrected. Nasty bastards just wouldn't stay dead. :lol:
On the other hand, the level of roleplaying was a lot sketchier back then and there was a lot of exchange of IC information going on, on ISCA and wherever else. Powergaming and pure bullshit from a roleplaying perspective. So in a sense, the staff was at war with a lot of the players then, cracking heads together and trying to shape some up.
My personal opinion was that more communication would been preferable to just shooting the miscreants, but then as now there was a major wall of silence between staff and players.
If you haven't just said everything you would in a web cam, that'd be pretty interesting to hear a players perspective from that time :D
I think the first frame of that episode should be set as the intro page to the Armageddon website.
"Welcome from our staff."
Seeker
I would be kind of interested of viewing that best roleplayer/worst roleplayer list Sanvean mentioned. With her being third on the worst one =P For ummm ... historical purposes ofcourse, yes.
Hmm so any new episodes coming anytime soon :D.
Please make more!
It's only been a week. You crazy people.
Although, I found this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKcNu1VQnE8
For the hell of it I made a video demonstrating RMBT, its nowhere near as interesting as Sanvean's stuff but here it is regardless.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-1lu0zER60
If only I had Sanvean's soothing voice!
I had done a new one, but the sound was crap again, need to redo it sometime this week.
What's the 'TRUST LEVEL' flag mean in the area creation section?
Basically things like marking immortal-only rooms.
Quote from: "mansa"What's the 'TRUST LEVEL' flag mean in the area creation section?
Quote from: "Raesanos"Basically things like marking immortal-only rooms.
Ahhh.
I thought it might be some Trust areas in the game for certain clans. Like a 'no crim zone' inside estates or buildings.
While watching that last video, I caught myself glancing at my watch all the time and thinking about witty questions to ask, to show that I am not sleeping at all. Considering that effect, Raesanos probably has a lot of experience with business presentations.
On a more serious note, good stuff. Excellent idea, Sanvean.
Quote from: "Raesanos"Basically things like marking immortal-only rooms.
Not quite, it's the staff level needed to edit the place. At least that's how it was designed. All world entities (which places are an example of) have a trust level which define what it's permission is as well as what permission it takes to edit it. This is only now getting truly defined, but it's there.
I was just repeating what someone else told me, heh. LIES TERRIBLE LIES
Need... new... videocast!
*cries*
Here you go!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mClUN3YWeqk
first
I'm really learning how to pronounce things.
Yay! Happiness!
And curse my spelling skills and writing an email at 3AM in the morning.
I really love these videocast things.
Quote from: "Sanvean"Re: the whole country -- I'm pretty sure that the handful of people playing from there at the time were all involved in what happened.
There were about 7 players playing from Israel at the time and I was one of them. We were well aware of each other, most of us didn't play with one another in-game except for the three who hacked the machine the MUD was stored on- in fact when Israel got banned those three laughed at the rest of us; they were able to to hack ISCA and Armageddon, you'd think banning Israel would stop them from reaching your MUD?- they'd telnet from an external machine using a false DNS namespace. I unfortunally was unable to connect to my beloved MUD for years :(
P.S. I am not a hacker and was never part of this act, but I am familiar with the whole story from the Israeli point of view; if Sanvean agrees I could share it with you (it's been almost 13 years since then after all).
Quote from: "Sanvean"Re: the whole country -- I'm pretty sure that the handful of people playing from there at the time were all involved in what happened.
I definitely wasn't.
If the Israeli hack was thirteen years ago, I was seven years old at the time.
I put this new one up early, since it's timely. It's about taking on new staff.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yap1SBt0NOk
TripleX, if you want to post about the hack, could you perhaps run the post past me first just so I make sure there's nothing in there that other old staff might object to? Some people are very careful of their privacy and we've had some problems in the past with players stalking staff.
Did you already choose "Behind the Scenes" as the title?
I feel dumb sending in my title suggestion now.
Nope, I taped that last week, before I got your suggestion. ;)
Interesting... so staff are discouraged from creating items for their characters? Why?
I can understand that they shouldn't be making steel swords of doom and armored tunics of invulnerability, but it's a bit surprising if the ban includes innocuous items that are just variations of things already in the game. Where is the harm?
Well, for one thing, we don't do special items for players, so it'd be pretty unfair to them as well as signaling "Staff Character" pretty quick.
This is a policy that's evolved over the years in part because it's a slippery slope. First it's a fancy cloak, then it's a steel knife, then somehow it all ends up in tears and personal laser cannons.
There's 'Tears' as items?
???
Quote from: "Sanvean"Well, for one thing, we don't do special items for players, so it'd be pretty unfair to them as well as signaling "Staff Character" pretty quick.
Wait.. are special orders no longer being accepted by merchants? Special in the sense that the merchant has to submit them to staff to have them made?
Orders are filled from what's available in the database. If something totally new is desired, then you'll need to find a mastercrafter with that specialty, and they are limited in the number of items they can submit, one per month. This became the policy last year.
Edited: Sanvean beat me!
Heh, I was just about to post "What manonfire said, too".
You can make canes?
Canes -- there are some craftable ones in the game -- is that what you're asking?
Quote from: "Sanvean"Canes -- there are some craftable ones in the game -- is that what you're asking?
Right, I was a bit confused, and I'm sure my post was as well.
You answered it though, thanks! :P
Quote from: "Sanvean"TripleX, if you want to post about the hack, could you perhaps run the post past me first just so I make sure there's nothing in there that other old staff might object to? Some people are very careful of their privacy and we've had some problems in the past with players stalking staff.
I was not going to mention any names because my memory about this event which took place about 13 years is vague.
I was just going to write about the event from my (and their) point of view, again without mentioning any Immortal names.
P.S. They did like one particular Immortal at the time, but he wasn't in Armageddon at the time- he had his own MUD (or MUSH). I think it was Morgen or something like that.
I must say this is great, seeing as how I've put many years into playing the game I'm very interested in seeing this project continue and I like hearing the stories as many of you probably do :)
Morgenes was running Aldara. A wonderful MUD that had some really kick-ass features I always hoped he would port to Arm, but never did.
Corpses as a PC "state" and not an "object" kicks ass (along with like two dozen other little details, like no inventory, parsed equipment descriptions, etcetera).
i can has moar videos?
You iz haz more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV565CZBVN8
My life is now complete... until the next video comes.
I am amused :D
I can haz Ethereal to not needz componentz, plz?
plz?
It's nice to know that even Sanvean did twink out every once in a while ;)
I wouldn't call that twinking out really. The spell was just too powerful back then.
Quote from: "manonfire"i can has moar videos?
Not letting you forget about this, San. I <3 it too much.
Quote from: "manonfire"Quote from: "manonfire"i can has moar videos?
Not letting you forget about this, San. I <3 it too much.
I concur to the X 10^8938
Listened to the lord of ash was that one dwarf bow=legged?
Amish Overlord 8)
Is Vessol the only player who has made one?
Quote from: "mansa"There's 'Tears' as items?
???
I think halaster collects them from players. Sweet sweet tears of agony.
Amish Overlord 8)
Isn't it time for a new video? I've never made it to an APM and personally I love these things!
New video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCdNEW9vGvc Happy holidays!
I love the purple-ish/blue hair! As this will be my first Christmas in the game it was neat to hear what could happen. :D The story was very interesting... cool that it's Arm-esque.
Keep 'em coming, Sanvean.
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas too. o<[]:-DBBB <--My attempt at making a Santa smiley.
Awesome! Thanks for the new video. Merry Christmas to you too!
Here's a short one I did a few months ago. I wasn't happy with the sound quality but I never really got around to recording another.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
I must be one of the very few people who listen to that song all the way through when they get 'roll'd'. I actually enjoy it. It's like the rare occurrence of finding a twenty in my pocket.
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on December 08, 2007, 09:29:31 AM
I must be one of the very few people who listen to that song all the way through when they get 'roll'd'. I actually enjoy it. It's like the rare occurrence of finding a twenty in my pocket.
I do too. It's all about the video for me, though. Who can resist those dance moves and cheezy smiles?
Sanvean: Really dug the bedtime story. Happy Holidays!
Quote from: Throttle on December 08, 2007, 03:27:09 AM
Here's a short one I did a few months ago. I wasn't happy with the sound quality but I never really got around to recording another.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
I just want everyone to know that I'm the black dude in Throttle's video. They caught me off-guard after I realized I branched a new skill on my character.
I really liked that story Sanvean, it made me laugh IRL. Never heard about it thanks!
There's a new one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh7jaMmbf3Y
Sanvean, if you're lurking, I have a question about your latest video:
When you say, "Staff cannot build custom items for their avatars," does that extend to ordering custom items from master crafters?
Idle curiousity.
As I sit quietly in the middle of the desert, spam-crafting me some wagons, I was wondering, what exactly makes one a "Master Crafter" ?
Does one have to be in a House to be considered a master crafter?
You have to have a crafting skill maxed.
Quote from: Adiadochokinesis on January 17, 2008, 05:30:45 PM
You have to have a crafting skill maxed.
It's a good thing that I can see when my crafting skills are maxed, then.
I have seen mentioned in previous threads that you are allowed to ask if you are capable of producing custom objects when you think you are ready.
Quote from: Troicha on January 17, 2008, 05:02:22 PM
When you say, "Staff cannot build custom items for their avatars," does that extend to ordering custom items from master crafters?
Staff can order master-crafter items, because that's something players can also do.
If you think you have achieved master crafter type skills with something, subject a request and we'll confirm it or not.
Troicha, I think you're asking whether a character played by a staff member can approach a master crafter run by a non-staff player and commission an item?
I would be fine with that as long as they're not involved with the staff side of the item's production at all, i.e. they're not the person checking. building, or having the item approved.
Once again, good v-blog. :) Keep it up, Sanvean.
Resurrecting this thread because there were lots of good videos in it and I just rediscovered them. I think some new players would be interested in seeing them for the first time.
More please.
Quote from: Malken on December 08, 2007, 02:30:08 PM
Quote from: Throttle on December 08, 2007, 03:27:09 AM
Here's a short one I did a few months ago. I wasn't happy with the sound quality but I never really got around to recording another.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
I just want everyone to know that I'm the black dude in Throttle's video. They caught me off-guard after I realized I branched a new skill on my character.
>:(
Fucking rick rolled a year later...
Priceless.
Sanvean, it would be nifty if you could manage to produce a new video ... love listening to things from a different aspect.