Exodus Of The Machine Teaser 1

[x4000]

Probably 90% of our communication is email. And then pairs of us do Skype as needed, very occasionally three. The reason all of this works is that everyone on staff is really self-motivated and can get gray amounts of work done with no supervision, leading to situations where we comminicate on the salient points to coordinate, and then do our own thing. I wind up having he most email discussions and Skype calls by far, naturally, but it's not too overbearing even for me. Most of the time.

Fun fact: Keith and I have a "standard thread #x" gmail chain that we up around every 100 emails in the chain. We are now on #49. This email chain is maybe two thirds (at most) of just our email communication directly between us without other staff involvement. That's 4900 emails in three years, not counting group discussions or specific-meaty-topic discussions with their own threads.

[x4000]

Blue and I Skype about every day or every other day at the moment, yeah. Josh and I do every couple of days at the moment, but often it's every morning. For Zack and I it was weekly for a while. Pablo and I can go months, same with Erik, and these days it's been a few months for you and I, too, Keith. It just depends on what is going on with everyone.

[x4000]

Triple post! Typos brought to you by iPhone.

[keith.lamothe]

Actually that naming convention is misleading because if we go past 100 gmail just starts a new conversation and if we don't specifically change the number it just stays the same.  We're currently 24 emails into our third "#49", for example.  A quick text-grab, regex, and spreadsheet-sum later gives me a total of 5787.

That convention started June 21st, 2011.  This tells me that's 646 days.

So, on average, 9 emails a day, only counting the "standard" threads.  But the actual density varies a lot from day to day.

I'm also the jerk who points out the inconvenient statistical things in the group conversations, in case that wasn't clear.  Someone else handles the more convenient statistical things.

[x4000]

Yeah, I knew it was under shooting it by a fair bit for those reasons, but couldn't be bothered to be quite that precise. Anyhow, fun stats there.

[Coppermantis]

Wow. That's an impressive number.

[Histidine]

This game is love at first sight.

Teaser woman looks very classic anime-ish. This may or may not be a good thing, I guess we'll have to wait and see 

[Aklyon]

AI War universe, Oregon Trail mentions, and finding out that a good portion of Arcen is far closer to me than I'd expected.

THis is an awesome thing so far already.

Also, looking at the teaser woman reminds me of Advance Wars characters, though theres probably a better comparison I'm not thinking of right now.

[PokerChen]

Since dysentery and robots have been mentioned in the same sentence, is there any chance of adding von-Neumann pathogens into the list of dangers? That catastrophic loss of fluid happens to be caused by self-replicating nanomachines.... inside you.

[tigersfan]

...And Josh is really more of a northerner.

According to my girlfriend (who is native to NC), I'll never be anything but a "Yankee".

[Faulty Logic]

Absolutely critical question concerning this game: will it have warheads?

[keith.lamothe]

Absolutely critical question concerning this game: will it have warheads?

Define "warheads".

[Faulty Logic]

Define "warheads".

One-time use objects that explode for massive damage.

[keith.lamothe]

Define "warheads".

One-time use objects that explode for massive damage.

Yep, that's there.  Bear in mind that the setting and gameplay are very different than AIW, and you probably won't get any of these for a while (possibly not the first playthrough at all), but they're in the design.

[Faulty Logic]

Yep, that's there.

Excellent.

Bear in mind that the setting and gameplay are very different than AIW

Good. If it were similar, I would almost certainly just play AIWar instead.