Joined: Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:28 pm Posts: 556 Location: USA
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@Jerrima
Mostly Jenine was simply making a play on words. Comparing working on dropping pellets to the building of Guilds.
I know you said that you've submitted tickets, but have you also tried inviting someone else to your Er'cana to take a look at your oven settings? The sliders can be......touchy at best.
As for myself:
I've stopped dropping pellets for now. As I've stated else where on here, at first it was loads of fun, trying to figure out the right recipe. Then of course there was the point factor, especially once we were able to post them at the Neighborhoods. It felt like a race and was fun.
Then we had the Enviromentalists going on and on about how we were hurting the lake, so it became less fun.
Then Laxman first states that everything is all right, and then the following episode states that spikes in either direction is not good.
That killed the fun completely for me.
Making sure that I log on each day to drop X amount of pellets (X being a moderate amount) was no longer amusing, it became like work. Work that was no longer fun.
I come to MOUL to have fun and escape the drudgery of work. Not give myself more of the same virtually.
As far as the guilds go: I've been helping to do my part.
I attend meetings with the Pre-Maintainers. I've made suggestions, put forth ideas, and even helped get communication going between them and the GoW.
I've had several people that want to make some star maps for the GoC and went and talked to them.
I do not have enough time to attend the meetings of each and every group that is trying to form their guilds. While I'm cheering them on and hope everyone does the best that they can (and more importantly, the hard work that they are doing should be fun and remain FUN), I'm also not going to expect to be dazzled with tons and tons of progress and things put on display.
It seems to me that there have been many postings over here that seem to have the same theme:
"Hello? I'm not seeing anything going on? Have the guilds given up? Come on guys, DO something so I can see progress!"
Progress on a good day is going to be slow at best. Apparently, Cyan/DRC wanted it that way. Cate even said: "Baby Steps."
There have been many, many things going on since the announcement of the first guilds with the Pre-Maintainers:
Pre-Maintainers:
Started discussions on a multitude of subjects.
Has held several meetings to discuss things and get ideas.
Working on a web site that encompasses a multitude of things.
Started a Wiki for the Book of Commentary project.
Did a feature request and talked to ResEngs about a project.
Started dialogs with the GoW about inspecting Fan Ages.
Taken over the "Maintaining" of the Uru Library Manager.
Started to explore and look at some Fan Ages.
As for the other guilds:
My wife applied for, was interviewed, and accepted into the Guild of Greeters. She's been working on what they call Mentoring, and has logged in as often as she can to be at the Greeter's neighborhood to learn, help, and suggest.
The Greeters have a very well established forum and area for people to talk at. They welcome anyone to come and just say hi to them.
The Guild of Cartographers:
They have their own forum located here at Uru Obsession:
Guild Of Cartographers and of course discuss things there. When I approached them with the Star Map idea from my own small Astronomy Guild, they were very warm with their welcome of it.
The Guild of Writers:
They have created their very own forum to discuss things. It can be found here: Guild Of Writers .
They have a very nice forum, which I joined (no you don't have to be a Writer to join) so that I could talk to them about the Maintainers. I was greeted warmly, and they were very open to the idea of the Pre-Maintainers looking at Fan Ages that they are practicing on. They have TONS of stuff that they are talking about.
All one has to do is go there and look.
The Guild of Messengers:
They seemed to have a bumpy start. But they do have places that they are discussing things. I have not been paying much attention to what is going on with them, but I'm sure that they are not standing idle.
If you look, you see some threads of discussion here. But many of the Pre-Guilds (as I'll call them for now) have their own places of discussion that they use:
Maintainers: Assembly of Guilds
Writers: Writers Forum
Cartographers: Cartographers Forum
Greeters: Greeters Home
Messengers: I don't know as I'm not tracking them right now, but I'm sure they have places that they are talking in.
Just because you do not see a whole bunch of discussion going on here, does not mean that it's not going on. It happens all over the place. In the places I've mentioned above and in the Cavern itself.
So if you are wondering what is going on, check the above places out. I'm sure you see a LOT of things going on.
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