Bonjour!
There are a lot of misconceptions about the different aspects of LESIG and we were never able to respond to a lot of them because of the secrecy of LESIG. Rarebit did his best at trying to clear some things up but I know there are probably still a lot of questions out there. So, ask away. I will start off by discussing what our regular routine was. Regular, as if!
DWR: Date with Rarebit. This is what we would call our live events. There was a calendar and we would pick the date in the month that we wanted to have our DWR. Rarebit had an outline of the entire chapter and would give specific critical live events he wanted to have happen and which week they would. They would consist of about a sentence and it was up to us to come up with the filler. LESIG would decide which LE Chars to use, where to have everything set up, what to have spawned, etc. Rarebit would look at our idea for the event usually the day of the event and decide whether or not it made sense, fulfilled what it was suppose to, and was realistic of what the LE chars would do. A lot of great ideas got shot down, unfortunately, because they didn’t quite fall into what rarebit wanted for that event and then there wasn’t a lot of time to come up with another plan and things would get rushed. Most groups started to have a backup plan just in case. It would get frustrating waiting for rarebit to get to your dwr plan, especially if you knew there was something questionable in there! Oh well, it sure made life interesting!
Then at the specified time, Rarebit would log on and start to org lock buildings, set up props, pac zones, go afk to deal with issues with the next day's patch, etc. Then he would start talking in crew chat and usually ask something like, "hmmm, what are we doing here today? What am I suppose to say?" hehe. So we would refresh his memory and we would start our roller coaster ride. Behind the scenes was usually chaos. Team and Crew chat were usually going nuts trying to solve unforeseen issues that would come up or try to fix a screw up by one of us. The crew chat was hilarious though. People would say and do the craziest things and we would die at the things rarebit would say. After the event, he would stay on and we would chat for sometimes an hour or more while he was flying around taking screenshots. Good times!
Not every day was a critical event though. For those days, the liaisons would have to plan the entire event themselves with nothing to go on from rarebit. So, you had some freedom, but not much and it all had to be approved. Some liaisons came up with side stories during the rest of the month and used their DWR for a special event and had rarebit come in with a level 70 or something. For example, as Cypherites, we captured a zion crew and held off zion/epn on one DWR and then transported the hostages to agents, which got ambushed by zion/epn on another. Liaisons of opposing organizations worked together a lot. Big rp pvp battles were usually the result of a few liaisons working together to hash out a good storyline that would end up tying into each other.
Anyway, a lot happens behind the closed doors of LESIG. Now you can ask the all the questions you've been curious to know.
Au revoir!
~XIV~ - CYPH // Hydrazine - EPN
Not sure what these new breed of LESIG got, but back in 1.0 Rare refused to give us any spawn tools or any tools that would help our live events, he had to spawn them himself. If you LESIG 2.0-ers got spawn tools then you don't know your bleeding born!
Trax wrote:
We got them about 2 years after LESIG 2.0's inception. So we have hazy memories of being born, at least.
Ya, spawn tools are sorta new (november 08 was it?) and they had to be requested in a thread with their intended purpose.
we also got this in Jan 09:
"The 9.2 update included a new AI spawn setting that lets me give an org alignment to NPCs I spawn during events.
At tonight's Merv event on Vector, for instance, I spawned Merv-aligned Elite Commandos to fight the Machines, and Machine-aligned Machine Captains to fight the Mervs. NPCs spawned with an org alignment will attack any players except those in the org they're aligned with. They don't attack NPCs." -Rarebit
Thats just the bloody cheek, we had to do the Shane Black event through careful co-ordination of jackouts and uniformed items, no spawns there. Its good that they eventually turned up though.
Spawn tools were definitely the best resource we had. We were blowing through them like hotcakes during the Libertas Verus arc. Pity I didn't hold on to some. XD
Garu wrote:
Pity I didn't hold on to some. XD
I might know someone who still has a few.
AbraCadaver wrote:
Garu wrote: Pity I didn't hold on to some. XDI might know someone who still has a few.
No! Bad!
PBlade wrote:
AbraCadaver wrote:Garu wrote: Pity I didn't hold on to some. XDI might know someone who still has a few. No! Bad!
What do you expect? He's a Cypherite :p
Why was Rarebit late to events?
MetaLogic wrote:
He wasn't late usually, he was setting up event related things like NPC spawns and decorations and the like... it just took a while for him to do that.
Edit: Well I can actually remember one or two occasions where he DID get times mixxed up, but... stuff happens :p
Pentothal wrote:
MetaLogic wrote:Why was Rarebit late to events?He wasn't late usually, he was setting up event related things like NPC spawns and decorations and the like... it just took a while for him to do that.
Ahh. I remember one Cypherite event where he played Cryptos, and we were to meet him at one of Cryptos's box. He had this great smoke effect. Any idea on hiw he did that?
Pentothal wrote:MetaLogic wrote:Why was Rarebit late to events?He wasn't late usually, he was setting up event related things like NPC spawns and decorations and the like... it just took a while for him to do that. Ahh. I remember one Cypherite event where he played Cryptos, and we were to meet him at one of Cryptos's box. He had this great smoke effect. Any idea on hiw he did that?
By spawning a smoke effect >>
He used the same effect for other events too.
MetaLogic wrote:Pentothal wrote:MetaLogic wrote:Why was Rarebit late to events?He wasn't late usually, he was setting up event related things like NPC spawns and decorations and the like... it just took a while for him to do that. Ahh. I remember one Cypherite event where he played Cryptos, and we were to meet him at one of Cryptos's box. He had this great smoke effect. Any idea on hiw he did that?By spawning a smoke effect >>He used the same effect for other events too.
It was awesome. Of course the people there made jokes connecting about Cryptos being Jamaican and weed.
Put a dev animation on it, smokecloud or cloudsmoke if I remember correctly. Was funny, it was Rej's idea to do that and Rare had forgot how to do it so one of the other LESIG members had to track it down for him.
