New Player Question...Relaunch ect.

[dryn]

It's a shame how much in-game history has been lost due to people like me not writing enough stuff down on IG notes. I apologise for that, just make sure you don't make my mistake!

That is why I try to maintain diaries for my characters. It doesn't take much effort, generally a few sentences every couple of days. More if something interesting is going on.

[Snickie]

I have one character who started a diary but hasn't written in several years, one who's keeping record of events on travels, and one who wants to start a diary but can't for identity purposes.
Four of my characters don't care.
And the other one can't read "See Spot Run," nevermind write in a diary.

[SumBum]

It's usually only my crazy characters who keep diaries.

[Marian]

It's usually only my more introspective characters that end up starting diaries, though this usually means that even when things aren't even happening they want to write all about their thoughts and plans and hopes and dreams and blah blah blah. And when things do happen they write about that too, plus how they feel about it all. In an extreme case this can add up to multiple paragraphs every single day, and eventually I just burn out or don't have the time to keep up with it.

[dryn]

Yeah, I understand that. I try to keep it to the more important things. Its main utility is keeping me in the mindset and flow of the character. I can look at the dairy and recall what he was up to and what he was planning.

[Oob]

To do with keeping records of events, does anyone know when the 'end of week' happens now? Before the relaunch it was on a Saturday, now I've lost track of what happens when

[EchoMan]

What is end of week?

[mojomuppet]

Is also confused by this. I want answers!

[Oob]

Sorry to confuse everyone. I call it my end of week because it happens once a week (used to be on a Saturday before relaunch) it's when Day Report 3095 appears and Day Report 3089 will be lost. I need to click on Day Report 3089 before it disappears! I do the Day Report click once a week so I don't forget it so easily.

I must admit I haven't really checked but I assumed that day reports contain names etc entered at the time the Day Report icon is clicked, rather than being fixed at the time the icon appears. If they are fixed I guess I could just as easily click them any time rather than wait?

Anyway, it's probably me just being silly.. there's still so much I don't really understand about the game mechanics and little quirks that can be put to use. I just read somewhere in the sugestion forums about easier naming, anything that makes naming and keeping track of what goes on in-game is most welcome by me.. Yes please!

[SekoETC]

End of the week can be any day you want it to be, since events are stored for a week. The way I do it is let them accumulate up to 6 and click on the oldest one. Dynamic names are according to how they are on the moment of clicking, not the moment when the event happened, so if I wait for six days, they're less likely to have unnamed or incorrectly named people.

[Oob]

That is what I do, I was thought it's what happens. Thanks Seko.

Only thing now, when does 3095 end and when will day 3096 start? ... ??:?? GMT

Edit: clicked Day Report 3089.. can't chance it, don't want to lose it!

[Snickie]

I can't do that 'cause I'll forget, or be offline for awhile, or something like that.
Used to until after the hacking, I would stack them to four days and then click one per day, giving me two extra days' leeway. I freaked out about it during the hacking because I didn't know whether it'd be gone or not when I got back, and now I send them until there are no more to send.
I wish I'd done that my first days.
As for naming, if they say or do something, I'll name them. If, after a turn report with that name gets sent, they speak again or I learn their name, I'll put the previous name in parenthesis after the correct name, with the idea that if I ever edit my turn reports on Word or something, I'll be able to replace the old names with the new.

[gejyspa]

Huh.. never realized names were dynamically replaced in the turn reports. But then, I've only ever printed out 3 turn reports in 6 game years, for stuff I wanted to save for personal memory, so I never really looked.