Resident Evil 2: DISCUSSION THREAD

[Askthepizzaguy]

Since this is the edge of the city, and from what I've been reading here, I'm assuming that most of these buildings are not (aside from special buildings) more than three stories. These aren't apartment towers or skyscrapers - right?

This is true. Southgate is one of the larger (fictional) cities in Montana, and I don't know much about Montana, but they're not known for having big cities.

These will be buildings that have no Elevators, except for perhaps the City Hall, Police Station, and perhaps one or two office buildings.

In other words, it's possible to jump from the roof and survive. Just won't be a pleasant experience.

[Double A]

Actually, every public or commercial building will have to have elevators because of those equal access laws. Wheelchairs are people too.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Actually, every public or commercial building will have to have elevators because of those equal access laws. Wheelchairs are people too.

Well they're all broken.

Rocks fall, the power went out.

[Askthepizzaguy]

We're down to just 5 no-orders or incompletes. At least 2 of which have sent partial orders which I can process, leaving them without information for certain categories which I will default to whatever is the least useful thing for them to be doing at the time. (Because you didn't tell me what to do....)

For example, if you get into a combat situation, I'll have you searching if you didn't specify, that leaves you vulnerable with no bonuses to combat.

If you don't, I'll have you defending, deliberately wasting your turn.

Definitely tell me what you plan on doing.

If you tell me to do something and you don't move, and don't specify anything else, you'll flee when you take damage and you won't move otherwise.

So, complete orders are essential to your success.

Thanks to the 46 players now fully participating, and the 2 others who have attempted to send in orders which I can process!

[Askthepizzaguy]

TheLastDays has been offline for about a month and may be our first drop out.

Standby, replacement players.

[El Barto]

I had to replace him in my game, too.

Btw it's stand by when you use it a a verb. :D

[Zack]

I had to replace him in my game, too.

Btw it's stand by when you use it a a verb. :D

Btw it's stand by when you use it a a verb. :D

use it a a verb.

a a verb.

a a verb.

In this round, Zack slays the Grammar Nazi.

[Askthepizzaguy]

1. How do you become allies? Both PM to you?
2. How do you complete a trade? Both PM to you?
3. Is a trade completed at the beginning of the interactive round? I.e. if trade trade a weapon in round 1 and get attacked in the same round, can I use this weapon?

1) Yes
2) Unless you're simply handing someone an item, yes.
3) It is completed after ambushes, but before other forms of combat.

Ambushes are always the first thing that happens in any round. It is the ultimate First Strike.

Also, orders and all other PMs go to Resident Evil, unless they're simply questions like these. I like to handle these ASAP.

[Askthepizzaguy]

BEGIN INTERACTIVE PHASE ONE




You have 2 days and about 5 and a half hours to discuss, and send in your orders.

Due date for ON TIME ORDERS: Monday the 9th of December at Midnight

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Late orders: Tuesday the 10th of December (will receive the usual score penalty, will not accept orders past this date. If I am done with my tasks, I won't accept the order.)

[Askthepizzaguy]

In case it's easy to skip over, your present location is at the top of your result PM, next to your name, above the part where it says "Results of the Round".

It's small yet important information you obviously need to know, especially if it is not mentioned elsewhere in your result.

[Askthepizzaguy]

If you sent a question to Askthepizzaguy's inbox, it should have been answered by now. If you have not gotten an answer, swat me on the head and please re-send it.

[Askthepizzaguy]

I'm having a devil of a time tracking down information about alliances. Does anybody remember whether making one is a free action, and what the benefits of one are?

You can form an alliance at any time.

All involved PM me your consent to it. It's done.

Basically, you know where the other person is even if they choose to hide within your zone of control, unless they betray you, you fight together and automatically do not target the other person unless you specifically tell me to.

Grenades like flash and hand grenade do not affect this person.

If this person is non-human, you still do not target them when attacking non-humans.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Addendum to the Interactive Phase Tutorial:

Combat is possible during the Interactive Phases.

Unfortunately that means you would have to include MovementPhase-like battle instructions for your battle behavior to be any different this Interactive Phase than from the previous phase.

Otherwise I'll accept your Movement Phase battle instructions as being the same.

This is an oversight on my part- battles during the Interactive phase will be rarer, I'd assume, but that was an assumption on my part.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Thanks for your queries. This game is complicated enough where your questions help me define the rules if they haven't been written out ahead of time.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Just a quick note for you patient peoples: This game is not dead. The delay, is all on you people.

You people with your tax refund money. You people with your first of the month government check money. You people with your new years eve / day celebrations. You football fans. You party goers. You drunks who can't be bothered to drive all the way to a restaurant and order real food, because it's cold, and rainy, or snowy.

It's all your fault. I just did the equivalent of 4 super bowl sundays in a row at my job.

I am understaffed. I am tired. I am dirty. But I am done.

4 more hours to do tomorrow, and then I can resume my tasks. And I have at least 2 days off after that.

Those who have been patiently waiting, I apologize. We're going to not have such holiday- and new-year- related delays again.

Those who have been impatiently waiting, el Gigante says roar.

[Makrell]

Where do i go to apply to a work for your establishment mister pizza
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[El Barto]

You football fans.

NO U!

Those who have been patiently waiting, I apologize. We're going to not have such holiday- and new-year- related delays again.

Until the next holiday and/or New Year.

Where do i go to apply to a work for your establishment mister pizza
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To the only place where you can be exploited like that: 'Merica, the land of the free.

[Double A]

My family almost never orders pizza.

[Jolt]

Phew, I had forgot about the game for days, thinking I was coming back to an ended round.

Oh well, we all knew that the game was going to take a while, so it's no problem ATPG.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Hello everyone.

Okay, so here's what's been going down in pizzaland.

After a holiday season where many of my days off were gobbled up, our latest bungee boss left for greener pastures, making my request to work only 4 days a week a joke, and limiting my days off to once in a while, and by themselves.

Worse, this status change doesn't appear to be going away anytime soon, and I've had neither the energy nor the time to update squat, forcing me to contemplate the future of the game in progress, progress being nonexistent of course.

Delays like this can't keep happening because we'll be at this game all year long. Nobody signed up for that, not even me.

On the one hand, after all the prep work and assembling of a large crew of gamers, letting the game die would probably mean that I'll never try something like this again. Which I don't like to think about.

On the other hand, the last time I did this, I had the necessary 30+ hours a week to host it. Sure we'd have delays but not for weeks.

Anyway- I'm all right, but my time on here or really anywhere is fairly curtailed. I might have a couple hours before I fall asleep each night but that's nowhere near enough to keep any kind of schedule.

So, the decision I'm forced to make is this:

If you guys want to keep going, you will get a standard number of days to get your orders in, and then, the hosting will commence. Depending on what's going on, it may be a few days or a week to get a turn done. I'll also probably be forced to ask my co-hosts for additional help, and if they're not available, I'll get it done.

If you don't want to continue, with a schedule like that, fire me off a PM letting me know you're dropping due to the schedule change. I'm fine with that. We'll make do as best we can.

You should also know that the game was on hiatus during the holidays, I didn't expect to work on it until close to January, and that's when the issues at work snowballed. There will be no such thing as a month-long delay in the future.

-Askthepizzaguy

[El Barto]

Vote: Askthepizzaguy.

I'll just use the insta-win ability, I wanted to try playing it but I'd better remove one obnoxious player from the game.

[Choxorn]

I may want to keep playing this game, but if you're so overworked you're collapsing on the floor, maybe continuing to host isn't such a great idea.

[ihcjay]

I'm in for the long haul, but I don't want you to feel obligated to do it. I'm in as long as you are but don't blame you if you want to stop or even put it on pause for a while.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Alright.

Plenty of folks have shown a lot of support and are willing to be flexible about the time, even willing to adjourn the game and come back when it's possible to continue. That's good news.

The issue is that we're approaching Super Bowl week, and not just that one day, but the days leading up to it and even afterward are much busier than usual. Every day is like two days worth of business. And I'll be working long days, most of the week.

So nothing can possibly be done until after that's done. After that, I'll request again to my boss that my schedule get restored to what it was prior to Christmas, so it will leave me at least a day or two a week to devote purely to this game.

If you guys can humor me until then, we'll give this one more shot. If I can't make it happen then, it will be a real pity, but I think we all knew I was crazy to try this while holding down a full time job anyway, so at least it wasn't a total surprise.

Fingers crossed this gets resolved soon.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Greetings everyone.




UPDATE and conclusion:

With each passing week I held out some kind of hope that things would improve.

After assistant manager lady quit around Super Bowl time, we lost a ton of drivers, followed by another manager, followed by a third manager, and we're about to lose a fourth manager at the beginning of April. All of these managers were replacements from out of town, and simply could not hack it. As a result of the massive lack of help at work, and the fact that I'm one of the few who seems to continue to show up to work, my off days have been rare and I've usually been too exhausted to do a damned thing when I get home.

The bad news is that this is only going to get worse.

It is now a distinct possibility that I am about to get a promotion at work. One which will move me from hourly to salary, and force me to take on a minimum number of hours and days at work.

This means that I either turn down the promotion (which, tbh, I am considering. I'm exhausted) or I accept, and if I do, that pretty much ends my ability to host games of any kind... ever.

My days will be 10-11 hours long, and I'll be even more exhausted than I already am.

It will never again be possible for me to host a game of this type, and hosting even regular, ordinary mafia game will be pretty much out of the question, unless I'm on vacation. And I can't run a game in 7 days.

Unless the winds of fate change rather dramatically in the next few weeks, I will need to retire completely from being a game host, and also cut back radically on mafia gaming in general.

With a heavy heart, I must give this long-delayed game its resolution. I did not anticipate any of this, I've worked at this place for several years and I've never seen the sort of business we've been getting, or the horrendous staffing and management problems.

Even if I decline the promotion, my hours aren't going to drop. There's just no way out for me.

I regret very much that I am unable to put this game back in gear. Fortunately we didn't get too far in, and its been on pause for a while, so I doubt very many of you will have missed out on too much, except what might have been. This game was supposed to be something grand and it just cannot be.

I'm sorry for all of this, but I want to end on a positive note.

Thank you all, my many friends, most of you have been players in games of mine (and vice versa) for several years, and to the newcomers as well. Thank you for signing up and thank you for participating, and chewing through all those rules and getting those orders in. Thank you to my co-hosts who volunteered to give me some help with gathering stuff together and getting it ready for me, and so on and so forth.

If, and this is a big if, my situation drastically changes, I have all of the game information, map, story, and so forth, all that data is saved. If it is ever possible for me to actually host this thing, I will absolutely invite back everyone who is interested in playing it out. I don't know when that will be, if at all. But it will always be a thing at the back of my mind that I wanted to see played out.

I realize this is just a game but it's rather heartbreaking for me to have to do this. I'm sorry if I haven't responded to PMs about the game. It's been frankly depressing that I couldn't do anything about this game I worked so hard on, and contemplating its early death has been quite saddening to me.

That's all I can really say about that. Thanks for everything, my friends.

[Jolt]

Well, it was good while it lasted. Good luck on your real life ATPG. ;)

[Gregoshi]

Thanks for everything pizza. I hope that whatever the outcome is at work, it will turn out best for you.

Oh, and don't be a stranger around here.

[Montmorency]

Go not gentle into that good night...

[El Barto]

Also, in Monolith Games' Blood, the word 'Montana' is the cheatcode for having lotsa lotsa guns.

[naut]

Actually, every public or commercial building will have to have elevators because of those equal access laws. Wheelchairs are people too.

Ramps. Ramps everywhere.