Host | Monday, October 09, 2000 - 07:52 am  The first scheduled "Chat" with the available BGs will be held from 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. board time on Tuesday evening. The chat will be held in the regular chat room (not members chat). Anything goes! |
Deedra | Monday, October 09, 2000 - 09:21 am  Okay, now I'm confused. Are we chatting with the BGs? If we are chatting with them, then why even bother to have a private discussion area that they can't see, sence people are going to go in the chat room and tell them everything we've been saying and doing anyway? Help me understand this!
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Host | Monday, October 09, 2000 - 02:33 pm  It's an online game for Gods sake! The private chat in the Members Area is for members to chat only. You have to register at the TVCH to enter that area. Plus, the BGs can't access that area any more, so there's no chance of them sneaking in unsuspected. The scheduled chats with the BGs is just for fun, so they get to talk to each other in "real-time" and we get to chat with them for an hour or less and answer their questions. It will give them a hint of what's going on in the outside. Kind of like a reward. Not all will participate (schedules, etc.) but it will be fun for them and us. |
Wcv63 | Monday, October 09, 2000 - 02:56 pm  Can someone capture the chat log and post on the daily updates area? This would be greatly appreciated from those of us that can't make it to the chat! |
Deedra | Monday, October 09, 2000 - 05:39 pm  Well for Gods sake! I knew I was going to sound stupid for asking the question, but thanks for giving me an answer anyway. It was the scheduled chat that I was refering to in the first place. I didn't mean to step on any toes, sorry.
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Host | Monday, October 09, 2000 - 05:43 pm  No I'm sorry Deedra - I'm really tired, trying to manage The Game... I snapped... sorry!  |
Ocean_Islands | Monday, October 09, 2000 - 06:26 pm  Aaaaa aaa a aaa a aaa aaaaaa aaa aaaa aeeieieaa eeeaia aaa aaahhh! . . . . . . . . . Oops......{Oh, no!}----->I'm sorry! I'm sorry! . . . . .
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Sandyc | Monday, October 09, 2000 - 08:30 pm  Ocean You make me laugh. You are so fun. |
Petunia | Tuesday, October 10, 2000 - 11:17 am  Neil, for the past two days, the chat rooms have been kicking me back to the site's home page when I try to log on. Any advice? |
Whit4you | Tuesday, October 10, 2000 - 11:38 am  Neil, I'm really enjoying this game and how it's turning out - way more realistic then I ever expected. I really hope you reconsider allowing US to chat WITH the BG's - this is the beta test of the game and it's ok to reconcider ideas you've had. I would like you to encourage any/and all non BG's who might be IN the room to not "talk" to the BG's but to simply watch/observe and either write a transcript (alt tab to their word processor) or try screen captures and transcribing it later. I think it's very important for the BG's to be able to "live chat" - having watched how hard they are trying to communicate. But for US to chat with them could really be too much outside information. I guess if it's too late this time to discourage - or get us viewers to just watch and NOT chat - then that's life (sorta like the Brittney thing in BB) but hopefully for future Live chats you can encourage or make those outside the room understand the chat is for BG's only - we should only watch. (obviously the ideal situation would be a chat room where only they are and one moderator screen caputers then transcribes it or of course a way to log the chat.) I'll be there but the only comment I'll make is "I'd like to encourage any non-players to refrain from ANY comments" |
Affinity | Tuesday, October 10, 2000 - 12:08 pm  Which one is the public chat and which one is the members chat? I confused! |
Host | Tuesday, October 10, 2000 - 03:38 pm  Moving to the top. Thanks for your suggestions. We will be providing "chat" time to the Players only for future group challenge rewards. Unfortunately we cannot provide a chat room that only they can post in. Tonight's full chat will be an experiment to see how it goes. Affinity - the public chat is the button on the left. The Members chat is in the Members Area. "Chat with the Players" is in the public chat at 7:00 p.m. tonight - board time. |
Whit4you | Tuesday, October 10, 2000 - 06:10 pm  Ok on my knees begging here, Neil - lol - could you ask the readers here NOT to "chat" with the BG's? You've put a lot of time into this and I'd like you to ask based on THAT - for folks to respect that. I know a few may not SEE this in time to abide by your request, but some will. (Sigh) Ok Maybe nobody gets why this is important to me, but I believe this is really working, these guys really don't know what we are thinking, what we are doing, if we are watching, which banners are real, and how we are seeing this game and on-and-on-and-on. Even a little one-on-one with US will change the whole atmosphere of this game. I know it's too late to really do much about it now - but I'm trying. I guess the best I can hope for is that Neil's seen enough of this to realize how good this game really is and be willing to try it again - if allowing us to chat WITH them causes the changes I think it will. (crossing fingers here hoping enough will see this message and agree with it - that it'll turn out ok - feeling like Big Brother must have felt trying to control the Sky - accept here it's not gonna cost the audience 300 a sentence) Whitney |
Host | Tuesday, October 10, 2000 - 06:52 pm  In 10 minutes!!! |