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Silmarien Aldalome 01-30-05, 04:35 AM	Hi there everyone. This is the first in our polls. There are seven polls that seek responses the the questions you formulated at MetaThread for the period covering the Christmas 2004 to January 2005 period. Polls 6 & 7 are additional questions that need to be asked before writing the rules. The five threads are: 1. Portal Concepts for the Inter-Foundation Games 2. PC Concepts 3. Frameworks for Overarching Rules 4. Black Operations 5. Newcomers, Recruits and Managing Level Variation 6. Roles, Hierarchies and In-Game Promotion Opportunities 7. Game Rewards & Penalties This Poll is Portal Concepts for the Inter-Foundation Games and it is comprised of three groups of questions. The first two questions ask you about whether or not you want portals. Questions 3 to 5 want to know about how important you think Portals should be for the Inter-Foundation Games, and questions 6 to 9 want to know what kinds of portals you would like. Questions 6 to 9 are especially interested in how much control over portal destination you would think would make the game interesting and engaging. The last 19 questions, ask you about the kind of flavour concepts (fluff) and activation concepts - the crunch - that you think would make the portals most interesting. Feel free to post comments onto the thread, and don't forget to PM or post us your URLs for your top five or so MetaThread Posts. Those URLs are a chance for you to tell us what is most important for you in the Inter-Foundation Games. Regards stav
BronzeBeard 01-30-05, 05:01 AM	Oops...
king_of_evil007 01-30-05, 09:10 PM	Most of those should be determined by the foundation . . . regardless, I voted for a few things, but I barely voted. I feel most of those should be available, and each Foundation/Guild chooses how much 'security' it wants.
grimclaw 01-30-05, 10:13 PM	Most of those should be determined by the foundation . . . regardless, I voted for a few things, but I barely voted. I feel most of those should be available, and each Foundation/Guild chooses how much 'security' it wants. i agree
Silmarien Aldalome 01-31-05, 01:34 AM	Most of those should be determined by the foundation . . . regardless, I voted for a few things, but I barely voted. I feel most of those should be available, and each Foundation/Guild chooses how much 'security' it wants. I'm not impartial to your idea. My main problem with an "individual Foundation" approach is that it would need a "flavour" rationale that made sense. Don't forget - the portals were made by another race in another time. That said, I can foresee Portals where the architects built in an option to control the portal in the way you would like. I am absorbing your comments - and possibly, we could put a subsidiary poll together, to tie that issue us: "I would like my Foundation to determine the mode of usage" Regards stav
Lady Rolindin 02-02-05, 12:30 AM	yes the guild should have some say over what kind of portal was left , give the guild a few choise and let the guild tell you what they want . such as touch the second symbol on the left, and say the word (tezbor). then it opens. I was plannin on opening up a teleportation portal, it 's an Netheril spel in the floating city back to Torel, the forgotten realms and smy arch mage is goning to set the action or word or stone maybe all three to open the portal . I think the spellis in the archmages libray already. just need to make a housing and then make it permanet. the guilds should be able to choise and give them a list of combinations to choise from. set 1 1. touch a certain ruin and say () 2. have a ward stone and stand on a certain rock. 3. make an certain action and have ward stone. set 2. 1. say a certain spell like read magic to open 2. have the portal open in certain hours or Blank a day times. 3. have the portal tied in to a god and have to say name and have ward stone. these 2 set of choise would make an good way to narrow it down. then ask eack guild member what they want, and take the highest number for that action and then use it for the guild. Majority still decides smost issues.like it or not.
jagggar 02-02-05, 12:38 AM	Don't forget - the portals were made by another race in another time. All of them are? That's not what I thought I was saying when I was talking about portals. I thought we were going to have portals which belonged to each guild which connected the "Tyranor face" of the guild to another location operated by the guild. AND we would have portals which we would discover and learn more about as the game continued.