So are any of the devs actually bronies?
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Posted on: 2012-05-15 18:04 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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There's a lot of planning that goes into building a Community. It's extremely useful to be on the ground, so to speak, early to establish the tools you'll need to do your job effectively. |
Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Now interestingly... no wait... I mean 'now inexplicably'... Cryptic would hire Community Managers for their new projects a full two years before launch. That's right, even during the time when *no information* was being released or published, and during the time they didn't have any press releases, news junkets, or online media, they actually hired and paid full time salaries to be Community Managers.
So, three things Zwill: 1. Are you going to CM that new project? 2. Have they hired anyone to CM that new project? 3. Can they hire me to CM a non-existent community for a full time salary for the next two years? I promise to work really, really hard managing the non-yet-existent community! |
CM's are more than just forum jockey's these days.
As to your questions:
1. I manage the Community aspect of all Paragon Titles
2. Yes, they hired me
3. Depends, how much do you like research and documentation?
Andy Belford
Community Manager
Paragon Studios
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Who?
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Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
This is clearly a hidden message to let a little information slip out to us beneath the radar... Thanks, Zwill!
 We have top men working on it right now to deduce what exactly Zwillinger was telling us through this message. |
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You can run but you can't hide Z.|
Originally Posted by Zwillinger
I know that I'm especially excited as the prospect of building a new Community from the ground up is a challenge I'm looking forward to (I'm not going anywhere, I'm in charge of all of Paragon's Communities
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I love research and documentation. I do it for a living. I've even done it remotely, thanks to the wonders of VPN.|
Originally Posted by Zwillinger
3. Depends, how much do you like research and documentation?
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On the flipside, how good of a CM I'd be before I blow a fuse and tell some troglodytic forumite to take a flying leap... that's open to debate.
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Originally Posted by Stunrunner
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Men.
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Dark_Respite's Farewell Video: "One Last Day"
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
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378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
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So, bi-weekly coffee talks, or an extended running time to cover both titles?
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
I manage the Community aspect of all Paragon Titles
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Originally Posted by Stunrunner
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Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
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@Zethustra
"Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew come out
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
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Clearly, Zwillinger was trying to transmit a binary message encoded in his laugh, and in fact the H's and A's form a four octet binary message with a 01 stop, the exclamation mark emphasizing the stop. That can't be a coincidence. The binary message is 168 213 85 85, which is clearly an IP address, which resolves to an address within the PCS-FLA block, which is assigned to the Pinellas County school system in Florida.|
Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
This is clearly a hidden message to let a little information slip out to us beneath the radar... Thanks, Zwill!
We have top men working on it right now to deduce what exactly Zwillinger was telling us through this message. |
Obviously, Paragon Studios is working on a scholastic MMO where players level students from level K through level 12. Its unclear if it is an archetype-based MMO or a skill-tree based MMO although it does appear to have tiered content with gating and strongly discourages PvP.
I'm not sure its a casual-friendly game, since the website suggests the "vision" is for 100% of all players to reach the level cap in a fixed amount of time, and participation in the end game appears to be almost mandatory. Use of the exemplar system is strongly discouraged.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Clearly, Zwillinger was trying to transmit a binary message encoded in his laugh, and in fact the H's and A's form a four octet binary message with a 01 stop, the exclamation mark emphasizing the stop. That can't be a coincidence. The binary message is 168 213 85 85, which is clearly an IP address, which resolves to an address within the PCS-FLA block, which is assigned to the Pinellas County school system in Florida.
Obviously, Paragon Studios is working on a scholastic MMO where players level students from level K through level 12. Its unclear if it is an archetype-based MMO or a skill-tree based MMO although it does appear to have tiered content with gating and strongly discourages PvP. I'm not sure its a casual-friendly game, since the website suggests the "vision" is for 100% of all players to reach the level cap in a fixed amount of time, and participation in the end game appears to be almost mandatory. Use of the exemplar system is strongly discouraged. |
@Zethustra
"Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew come out
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
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Its possible I had it backwards and the message is actually a right to left stream with a 10 start, in which case the message is an IP address that resolves to a system within the Federal Express core network. But I assumed an MMO based entirely on delivery missions would be too depressing.
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Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
I am questioning your maths...
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Its possible I had it backwards and the message is actually a right to left stream with a 10 start, in which case the message is an IP address that resolves to a system within the Federal Express core network. But I assumed an MMO based entirely on delivery missions would be too depressing.
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But ramming the brown trucks is pretty fun!
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Amazing analogy isn't it?!|
Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel
So they're both ridiculously popular even though they're minor characters and do nothing but bob to music?
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I think you mean http://www.legendsofequestria.com/ both are fangames though. Nothing offical.
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I read the entire post thinking CM meant Clear Mind. |
Originally Posted by Zwillinger
There's a lot of planning that goes into building a Community. It's extremely useful to be on the ground, so to speak, early to establish the tools you'll need to do your job effectively.
CM's are more than just forum jockey's these days. As to your questions: 1. I manage the Community aspect of all Paragon Titles 2. Yes, they hired me 3. Depends, how much do you like research and documentation? |
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I suspect that if there were any dev bronies, we would have had a Pegasus Transformation Travel Power long before now.
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I'd imagine that'd come with a shape-shifting AT instead. And as far as "long before now" goes, cryptic was holding the game back. They'd probably say "it's impossible" even though after they left paragon constantly proves them wrong...
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Originally Posted by Thunder Knight
I suspect that if there were any dev bronies, we would have had a Pegasus Transformation Travel Power long before now.
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As someone who spent several years as an assistant CM for a rather large and active online community, believe me when I say you gotta have a TON of patience. Between regular community concerns, technical issues, trolls, newbies who don't know any better, and community members who straight-up hate you for some reason or another and seek to make your life hell, resisting the urge to push the Big Red Button is sometimes very difficult.|
Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
I love research and documentation. I do it for a living. I've even done it remotely, thanks to the wonders of VPN.
On the flipside, how good of a CM I'd be before I blow a fuse and tell some troglodytic forumite to take a flying leap... that's open to debate. Michelle aka Samuraiko/Dark_Respite |
But it is possible.
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Did you just ask me how much I like research and documentation? |
Originally Posted by Zwillinger
3. Depends, how much do you like research and documentation?
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No, a pegasus power pool. It's really just the flight pool with Afterburner replaced with Sonic Rainboom, though.
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Originally Posted by Thunder Knight
I suspect that if there were any dev bronies, we would have had a Pegasus Transformation Travel Power long before now.
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No, a pegasus power pool. It's really just the flight pool with Afterburner replaced with Sonic Rainboom, though.
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Or you can just mix and match it. Make a macro that turns on Afterburner and changes to a costume with a rainbow trail aura.
Makes me kind of wonder what powersets you would give the main six ponies from the shows.
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