UT Parking
Ok, so as some may recall a while back UT sold out the rights to their food management to a company called Aramark. The reason being... well, probably just to make more money.
Anyway, so now it appears that UT has sold their parking management to a company as well. This company will be handling the arrangement and availability of parking spaces. Guess who it is! SOE's Star Wars Galaxies team.
The Galaxies team took a good long hard look at the parking situation as it currently stands and tried to consider two things: A) what should parking be? what does it really mean to people? and 2) What do the users of parking want?
Fortunately the people at SOE Galaxies are wizened and experienced, thus they knew a few things they would do right away to remedy the parking situation:
1) Set it up on a monthly subscription basis, this beats the semester tag payments or the daily parking meter problems.
2) Make sure they can balance the commuter, non-commuter and meter parking options so that they are are equally undesirable.
After a bit they noticed that there were still some discrepancies, the meter parking was too powerful and needed to be nerfed, so when I got down there today I saw that the entire meter parking on Lake Ave. was removed and signs reading "Temporary Tow-away Zone" were littering every post above 5ft in height.
Some time before they decided that since the shuttle system was such a hit in Galaxies, they would implement something like that on the campus as well. Hence we got the "T." To better facilitate adoption of the "T", they removed options against the "T." These included about 40% of the parking meters on campus and especially any that were close to the main campus buildings.
With the nerfs well underway I'm expecting to see a quest system of bring this to this person and kill that person over there that will allow students to unlock their Jedi Parking Permit. This permit will grant them the option of parking anywhere on campus, but doing that when other people are watching will get you a TEF allowing other students to kill you. Fortunately though you may die, you should be able to come back at the closest cloning facility. Unfortunately they still haven't quite worked out the bugs with the cloning system, so students who currently die in student PvP are permanently dead.
A space expansion for the UT campus is due out sometime in the next 50 years.
ME
Anyway, so now it appears that UT has sold their parking management to a company as well. This company will be handling the arrangement and availability of parking spaces. Guess who it is! SOE's Star Wars Galaxies team.
The Galaxies team took a good long hard look at the parking situation as it currently stands and tried to consider two things: A) what should parking be? what does it really mean to people? and 2) What do the users of parking want?
Fortunately the people at SOE Galaxies are wizened and experienced, thus they knew a few things they would do right away to remedy the parking situation:
1) Set it up on a monthly subscription basis, this beats the semester tag payments or the daily parking meter problems.
2) Make sure they can balance the commuter, non-commuter and meter parking options so that they are are equally undesirable.
After a bit they noticed that there were still some discrepancies, the meter parking was too powerful and needed to be nerfed, so when I got down there today I saw that the entire meter parking on Lake Ave. was removed and signs reading "Temporary Tow-away Zone" were littering every post above 5ft in height.
Some time before they decided that since the shuttle system was such a hit in Galaxies, they would implement something like that on the campus as well. Hence we got the "T." To better facilitate adoption of the "T", they removed options against the "T." These included about 40% of the parking meters on campus and especially any that were close to the main campus buildings.
With the nerfs well underway I'm expecting to see a quest system of bring this to this person and kill that person over there that will allow students to unlock their Jedi Parking Permit. This permit will grant them the option of parking anywhere on campus, but doing that when other people are watching will get you a TEF allowing other students to kill you. Fortunately though you may die, you should be able to come back at the closest cloning facility. Unfortunately they still haven't quite worked out the bugs with the cloning system, so students who currently die in student PvP are permanently dead.
A space expansion for the UT campus is due out sometime in the next 50 years.
ME