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March 19, 2008 – 8:08 am
Every voice chat server has it’s rules – sometimes unspoken, but sometimes explicitly laid out. This is, I think, a good thing – usually it’s nice to know whether or not you’re going to hear large amounts of profanity through your speakers at any given time, particularly if you have nublets/small-fry/rugrats/sprogs (hi Leafy! I used your word!) in your home.
But sometimes even those rules are unable to give you an adequate picture of what you’ll hear, and whether or not you’ll be comfortable with it.
I’ve participated in the following kinds of ventrilo/teamspeak experiences:
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March 18, 2008 – 6:40 am
Every Tuesday morning we get this little forced break, of sorts, while Blizzard cleans the hamster cages*. The game is down; the servers are down; the forums are probably down (if not, they’re slower than molasses in January); the armory is down. Ok, well the armory is down a lot more often than just Tuesdays, but you get the drift.
Because I usually work afternoons, my mornings are spent taking care of various other things around the apartment and keeping up with the Blog Azeroth folks. So maintenance doesn’t really mean much for me, other than having more people than usual in the Feathermoon IRC channel and the BlogAzeroth chat room, and maybe getting ahead on the blog posts for the week.
I was wondering though – does the weekly maintenance really have much of an effect on you? Sometimes if it runs long and I happen to have the day off, it’s a bit annoying, but I don’t find that it cramps my style too much. Do you have things that you do or don’t do on Tuesday mornings because of the server outage?
Oh – and in case you were wondering… your characters are probably out, enjoying the party.
*since obviously it’s a bunch of hamsters running on squeaky wheels that run the authentication servers lately.
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March 17, 2008 – 8:25 am
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So The Game Dame asked an excellent question in a comment on my previous post: Things You Should Know About Shaman. She writes:
What’s your opinion on whether or not a shaman should be expected to heal himself if he is not the designated healer?
Honestly? It depends. For the most part though, I would say no – with some exceptions.
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March 16, 2008 – 8:00 am
After reading Matticus’ post about the characteristics of a mature guild member and then the Massively article responding to it, I was reminded of the catch-all phrase that TRI uses for our raiding rules.
Don’t be a dick.
While there are a few explained iterations of this (don’t waste people’s time, don’t be a loot whore, don’t autoshot and watch TV), by and large, whenever someone asks what the basic raid rules of TRI are, there is a very simple, direct answer to that question. Makes things easier.
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