Weekly updates and Language Discussion
This weeks weather forecast is as follows:
Today/Tuesday was listed last week as clearing up after all that rain :)
Wednesday
Clear, sunny, comfortable temperatures around the 70s. Low wind.
Thursday
Clear, sunny, comfortable temperatures hanging around 70s and might even spike to almost 80 midday. Humidity feels like it is going up again. Low wind.
Friday
Clear, excessive sunshine, excessive heat. Temperatures between 85-90. Not even a breeze of wind today. High humidity.
Saturday
Clear, excessive sunshine, excessive heat. Temperatures between 90-almost 100. Very very mild breeze. High humidity; you guys will be sweating and it will not evaporate. Ew, smelly trainers!
Sunday
Clear, excessive sunshine, excessive heat. Temperatures between 80-85. Light 5MPH wind is going, so at least there's a chance of evaporating all that smelly sweat. High humidity, but nearing nightfall there will be dark clouds rolling in, and most wild Pokemon will be harder to find as they're preparing their shelters :)
Monday
Barely after midnight, a nasty thunderstorm is cracking into high gear, dropping buckets of water. Once the sun comes up, that rain is turning into golf ball sized hail, so best to take some shelter! It will remain a mixture of hail and rain throughout the day and for the rest of the night.
High 20MPH winds whip that water and ice around like nobodys business, and no wild Pokemon would be caught out in this weather so fat chance you guys will find anything unless its joining you in a cave.
Humidity is dropping steadily though so it's easier to dry off. Temperatures range in the low 60s, possibly dropping to 55.
Tuesday
The hail dissipates overnight and it remains raining hard, thunder cracking and lightning zapping through the air. Electric types will certainly like this weather, and water types will enjoy the rain.
Rain will linger all day at a steady pace, and slowly dwindle into drizzling as night arrives. Super low humidity, wind has dropped down to a mild 10MPH that comes in breezes, temperatures hanging around the low 60s.
Notes: Your characters may purchase umbrellas at the Cherrygrove store starting on Tuesday /o/ they are P100 and don't really break unless you try attacking someone with it (you wouldn't, would you?). Uhhh, there was something else but Okami is brainfarting and can't remember what it was fffffffffffffff IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE WEATHER, please feel free to hit her up! (She picked it! Also, PMing her personal journal would be preferred to asking here as we are having a big discussion below.)
Weekly Friend Add/Remove
Please copy the following into the Admin Console.
friend add aboveyourlights
friend add become_tang
friend add berrydelightful
friend add bravegreen
friend add derangedhen
friend add draconicfury
friend add easyshot
friend add extremeaniki
friend add fauxsavior
friend add flamelikes
friend add heatherusedrage
friend add heavenlyacid
friend add hiddenhyena
friend add icyempiricism
friend add lolitation
friend add lone_holmcross
friend add maocontent
friend add memeticpigtails
friend add notintheballs
friend add philanthrotaku
friend add playingyou
friend add qtip_boom
friend add rancherjohn
friend add redyoungster
friend add restardom
friend add revivifies
friend add seasalttwilight
friend add shieldofjustice
friend add snowtastic
friend add starcharmsketch
friend add stealinghats
friend add summonerbanshee
friend add tarteaumatons
friend add used_nightshade
friend add usedprotect
friend add usedrage
friend add useflamethrower
friend add walkineventflag
friend add wontyoubewithme
friend remove the_strongerest
friend remove thatfuckingrckt
friend remove is_speshul
friend remove shirou_machi
Language Discussion!
As for the language discussion, we've decided to ask the players for input before making a complete decision, seeing as this will affect the game as a whole. We would appreciate that you speak to us here, or on AIM, or continue using the questions/concerns and the F.A.Q., rather than jumping to anoncomm for every other circumstance.
First and foremost, we were both disappointed when we heard from a plethora of players that they had not known about the language barrier, when it had been part of the game since the start. To hear that people had not read it is very discouraging to us, but seeing as the game is still new and we are both forgiving people, we would like to ask that you be sure to read these things next time!
Now, for the subject at hand, we've received a handful of suggestions on how to appease the language barrier.
Suggestion 1: Remove the language barrier.
This seems like the one most of the anonymous comments have been suggesting. Rather than mess with the technical issues, just erase it.
[+] It would be easier to continue with "ignoring" the barrier and pretending it was never there.
[-] It dampens the fact that this is a "jamjar" game. They were summoned into Johto using technology, not magic. It would be illogical to have them suddenly speaking the same language without reason.
Suggestion 2: Keep the language barrier make but make PokéGear usage easier.
Instead of having the robot voice, have something sounding similar to the character to keep the inflection and feeling of the character speaking.
[+] The message and feeling of the speaking would travel through to the other characters.
[-] Face-to-face communications might be tricky, depending on how this is fully set up.
Suggestion 3: Keep the language barrier but have subtitles.
The character's voice would still be their native tongue, but their words would translate to the language of the receiving character's PokéGear.
[+] The inflection would not be changed. The meanings would get across directly.
[-] Face-to-face communications may be awkward, seeing as you would have to use your PokéGear to understand them.
Out of all of the suggestions, those were the ones we figured could clear things up the best. If there are other ones, or if we missed some, feel free to tell us here as well. Here's your chance for everyone to talk to us and each other and we can all figure out something that will work best for all of us.
Today/Tuesday was listed last week as clearing up after all that rain :)
Wednesday
Clear, sunny, comfortable temperatures around the 70s. Low wind.
Thursday
Clear, sunny, comfortable temperatures hanging around 70s and might even spike to almost 80 midday. Humidity feels like it is going up again. Low wind.
Friday
Clear, excessive sunshine, excessive heat. Temperatures between 85-90. Not even a breeze of wind today. High humidity.
Saturday
Clear, excessive sunshine, excessive heat. Temperatures between 90-almost 100. Very very mild breeze. High humidity; you guys will be sweating and it will not evaporate. Ew, smelly trainers!
Sunday
Clear, excessive sunshine, excessive heat. Temperatures between 80-85. Light 5MPH wind is going, so at least there's a chance of evaporating all that smelly sweat. High humidity, but nearing nightfall there will be dark clouds rolling in, and most wild Pokemon will be harder to find as they're preparing their shelters :)
Monday
Barely after midnight, a nasty thunderstorm is cracking into high gear, dropping buckets of water. Once the sun comes up, that rain is turning into golf ball sized hail, so best to take some shelter! It will remain a mixture of hail and rain throughout the day and for the rest of the night.
High 20MPH winds whip that water and ice around like nobodys business, and no wild Pokemon would be caught out in this weather so fat chance you guys will find anything unless its joining you in a cave.
Humidity is dropping steadily though so it's easier to dry off. Temperatures range in the low 60s, possibly dropping to 55.
Tuesday
The hail dissipates overnight and it remains raining hard, thunder cracking and lightning zapping through the air. Electric types will certainly like this weather, and water types will enjoy the rain.
Rain will linger all day at a steady pace, and slowly dwindle into drizzling as night arrives. Super low humidity, wind has dropped down to a mild 10MPH that comes in breezes, temperatures hanging around the low 60s.
Notes: Your characters may purchase umbrellas at the Cherrygrove store starting on Tuesday /o/ they are P100 and don't really break unless you try attacking someone with it (you wouldn't, would you?). Uhhh, there was something else but Okami is brainfarting and can't remember what it was fffffffffffffff IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE WEATHER, please feel free to hit her up! (She picked it! Also, PMing her personal journal would be preferred to asking here as we are having a big discussion below.)
Weekly Friend Add/Remove
Please copy the following into the Admin Console.
friend add aboveyourlights
friend add become_tang
friend add berrydelightful
friend add bravegreen
friend add derangedhen
friend add draconicfury
friend add easyshot
friend add extremeaniki
friend add fauxsavior
friend add flamelikes
friend add heatherusedrage
friend add heavenlyacid
friend add hiddenhyena
friend add icyempiricism
friend add lolitation
friend add lone_holmcross
friend add maocontent
friend add memeticpigtails
friend add notintheballs
friend add philanthrotaku
friend add playingyou
friend add qtip_boom
friend add rancherjohn
friend add redyoungster
friend add restardom
friend add revivifies
friend add seasalttwilight
friend add shieldofjustice
friend add snowtastic
friend add starcharmsketch
friend add stealinghats
friend add summonerbanshee
friend add tarteaumatons
friend add used_nightshade
friend add usedprotect
friend add usedrage
friend add useflamethrower
friend add walkineventflag
friend add wontyoubewithme
friend remove the_strongerest
friend remove thatfuckingrckt
friend remove is_speshul
friend remove shirou_machi
Language Discussion!
As for the language discussion, we've decided to ask the players for input before making a complete decision, seeing as this will affect the game as a whole. We would appreciate that you speak to us here, or on AIM, or continue using the questions/concerns and the F.A.Q., rather than jumping to anoncomm for every other circumstance.
First and foremost, we were both disappointed when we heard from a plethora of players that they had not known about the language barrier, when it had been part of the game since the start. To hear that people had not read it is very discouraging to us, but seeing as the game is still new and we are both forgiving people, we would like to ask that you be sure to read these things next time!
Now, for the subject at hand, we've received a handful of suggestions on how to appease the language barrier.
Suggestion 1: Remove the language barrier.
This seems like the one most of the anonymous comments have been suggesting. Rather than mess with the technical issues, just erase it.
[+] It would be easier to continue with "ignoring" the barrier and pretending it was never there.
[-] It dampens the fact that this is a "jamjar" game. They were summoned into Johto using technology, not magic. It would be illogical to have them suddenly speaking the same language without reason.
Suggestion 2: Keep the language barrier make but make PokéGear usage easier.
Instead of having the robot voice, have something sounding similar to the character to keep the inflection and feeling of the character speaking.
[+] The message and feeling of the speaking would travel through to the other characters.
[-] Face-to-face communications might be tricky, depending on how this is fully set up.
Suggestion 3: Keep the language barrier but have subtitles.
The character's voice would still be their native tongue, but their words would translate to the language of the receiving character's PokéGear.
[+] The inflection would not be changed. The meanings would get across directly.
[-] Face-to-face communications may be awkward, seeing as you would have to use your PokéGear to understand them.
Out of all of the suggestions, those were the ones we figured could clear things up the best. If there are other ones, or if we missed some, feel free to tell us here as well. Here's your chance for everyone to talk to us and each other and we can all figure out something that will work best for all of us.