[Cops & Robbers] GCPD Headquarters.

[johnhughthom]

Janice pops her head into the office.

Hey guys, just letting you know you'll have another new guy joining today. His name is Mo Fayad, I know you'll make him feel welcome.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Welcome, Mo. :)

[Visor]

Hello Mr. Rocco. :)

[Askthepizzaguy]

Hello Mr. Rocco. :)

May I suggest you patrol in a certain area, until we get orders from the higher-ups?

[Visor]

Tell me more.

[johnhughthom]

Phase over. Write up and pms should be done soon. Depending on how annoying the org decides to be today.

[Renata]

Lieutenant, could I have a word on what I told you about a few chronologically improbable time periods ago?

Please do, though it may be a moot point.

(@ all -- I sent orders for almost everyone last phase alone the lines of what I said in my previous post, since I just didn't have the time to do anything else. If it's not what you wanted to do, I'm sorry.)

[johnhughthom]

Phase nine begins, 48 hours for orders.

[TheFlax]

I found nothing amiss during my patrol of Port Gotham West.

[Skooma Addict]

Unfortunately, our knuckles remain unbloodied from last night's patrol.

[B-Wing]

My search for witnesses to the Winston Hughes mugging was utterly unfruitful, but the victim says they got a good look at him and would be willing to testify in court.

[Chimpyang]

Nothing happened during my patrol. However, we need to get a mechanic to get a look at my car. It did a splutter and die on me.

[Skooma Addict]

Perhaps I should search for foul play?

[Visor]

Nothing happened where I went.

[Chimpyang]

Only if there's nothing else urgent to do.

[Askthepizzaguy]

nada on my end.

Anyone got a plan? Someone come up with a plan. I'll follow it.

[johnhughthom]

Anybody there?

24 hour extension.

[B-Wing]

Rocco, let's go on patrol!

[Askthepizzaguy]

Rocco, let's go on patrol!

I'm already on patrol, send in orders to be my backup.

[Skooma Addict]

Another confession equals less criminals doing bad stuffs, which equals less stuffs for me to analyze. Hey Rocco, mind if I come too? My old gun wants some fresh air.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Another confession equals less criminals doing bad stuffs, which equals less stuffs for me to analyze. Hey Rocco, mind if I come too? My old gun wants some fresh air.

I already have three. I need more officers doing patrols elsewhere.

[B-Wing]

I'll go on my own patrol.

[Visor]

I'll help, if you need it.

[johnhughthom]

I had a plan for this game which would have seen a few boring phases to get people used to the mechanics, then around phase three or four things would have ramped up. This needed new players joining which didn't happen unfortunately so it's kinda meandered with nothing happening really. I have altered things to work with the fewer players I have. I am busy this weekend and was hoping to end this phase now and have a longer phase next. The robbers have a few changes to get used to, and the cops don't really have a plan so I'll extend the phase over the weekend to try to get a bit of discussion going. The game will liven up, I shouldn't have let it go so long without change.

[Seon]

Requesting orders...

[B-Wing]

I'm confused. What exactly do we need to be doing right now? I've already sent in my actions.

[johnhughthom]

I'm confused. What exactly do we need to be doing right now? I've already sent in my actions.

I have less than half the cop orders, and missing some robber orders too. The game really needs as many orders as possible to work.

[Askthepizzaguy]

The cops really need someone who can step up and organize their efforts, like others have done in certain mafia games I won't mention explicitly.

I have said it before, I can't do it this time because I have so much else on my plate. I just dropped from a game at TWC.

Anyone, really, who wants to do organizing en masse for the cops should do so. It might help to look at the list of active cops and the map, and just assign random patrols, then send a PM to everyone involved, separately. That would be enough to at least give the robbers a challenge of some kind. And specific cops with special powers can decide what to do on their own.

It's basic stuff, but it's more work than I can devote presently. Anyone?

[Visor]

Not good at the planning side. I still haven't been told that area I should patrol. :P

[Askthepizzaguy]

Not good at the planning side. I still haven't been told that area I should patrol. :P

When all else fails, send in a default order, to patrol a random area. It could take 5 minutes to go to random.org, enter the list of neighborhoods, get one and then send JHT the order.

Everyone should be doing that every round until they get instructions from the leader.