Tempus Tommy

A Dane living in The Netherlands

Thursday, October 24, 2002  

I wonder if my merits in EQ should go in green or red...(now I changed it all into yellow). Well, today I leveled (finally) to 33 with my male Erudite enchanter, Zaxyen (Vazaelle Server). I am in High Hold Keep givving goblins a hard time. During my time there I've been in several groups, and I have been reckoned as one of the better leaders of groups. But today I had to quit (!) for the first time - I was in a group where everybody tried to lead all the time. I might say the leading a group doesn't require much normally - he/she is the one who is allowed to invited people in or kick them out of the group. In High Hold Keep (HHK) there's a little more to it though. The leader has to keep track of a waiting list for people who want to join the group. This is arisen from the fact that there's only room for three groups (a 6 persons), so lists can be long...
Back to my group today - two players shouted for new members, invited whoever they felt like, and ran in and out the group for their alternate characters...which made it REALLY hard for me to keep track of anything. As leading also means inviting it came to a few discussion about who was invited when, and even my own group members yelled at me for not inviting what the group needed - but that's just how it is in HHK. You follow the 'rules' of the zone! No discussion - just play it fair! It all ended with me giving over the leadership to a poor 'green' player, who had no idea what he got himself into (sorry to Obigekonobi, that's what I think his name is). What happened next was the two players screaming to get leadership, and that's where I decided to camp (log out).
I can't wait to move on, which I might do tomorrow - I'm planning on taking a sightseeing in The Commonlands, where I only have been once - then on to Lavastorm Mountains and finally do some levelling in Sol A (aka. Solusek's Eye).
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posted by Tommy on 12:22 AM
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archives:

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links:

game-research.com

gamasutra.com

Susana Tosca (My former advisor)

dutch in dk (A blog: twin blogger - mirrorwise)

Klastrup's Cataclysms (my friend)

Bygballe's blog (my friend)

Louise's thoughts (my friend)

Frank Schaap (a Dutch researcher working in the same area as I)

Nick Yee's Hub (an Online Study in MMORPG)

books on my desk:

Michael Argyle:
"The Psychology of Interpersonal Behavior"

Danii Elkonin:
Legens Psykologi (The Psychology of Play)

Erving Goffman:
"The presentation of Self in Everday Life"

Erving Goffman:
"Behavior in Public Places"

Erving Goffman:
"Frame Analysis"

Lisbeth Klastrup:
"Towards a Poetics of a Virtual World" (not yet in press)

Edward Hall:
"The Hidden Dimension"

update Feb. 23

mail:

tommyblogger@hotmail.com

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