Suggestion cutoff for next episode.Update probably sometime tonight.
Couple responses:
If it isn't too conspicuous, we ought to wear the helmet,
Sold it in Episode 36.
its hard to figure out exactly what level of detail you want in our suggestion. Either its to broad
and fluffy or too specific. I was hoping you would add the necessary fluff as you saw fit
Well, I do prefer
reading lengthier suggestion posts, but I do admit that sometimes it's not practical to implement complicated suggestion exactly as written.. Simple/flexible suggestions are easier to work with. For example if somebody says "gather alchemy stuff" that's easily compatible with both suggestions "go to Seyda Neen" and "go adventuring." It's easy to do one while doing the other. Wheres if somebody says specifically "take the silt strider to X, then walk to Y, and hunt for specifically reagents A B and C" that's certainly more interesting for me to read, but it's more difficult to write an update that incorporates those elements unless lots of people agree with it. On the other hand, I'm probably less likely to hand out great results for generic, one-line suggestions. So, sorry if that's not a very clear answer, but that's how it is. As to fluff, fluff is fine...and obviously we've spent a lot of time on purely flavor-text, but I think we'd all like Michael to be successful in his endeavors, and as interesting as it might be to read about getting raped by orc women, and the construction methods of dunmer, and so forth...those things don't really advance the story much. I admit I get a bit frustrated when episodes consist of nothing but wandering around talking to people. The most fun I've had is when you guys come up with solutions that I hadn't thought of. From my point of view, talking to Vivec was a good idea. It was entertaining to write, and it advanced the story. From my point of view joining the Legion was terrible. It was a lot of effort to write, it didn't advance the story until I got so bored that I decided to have Dagoth Ur start blowing up towns to prompt you guys to act, and like I pointed out several pages ago...I've been monitoring the view count on images...and we seriously lost like a third of our readers during the time you spent in the Legion. I think a lot of peeople other than me got bored with that.
I do have a strong preference for player consensus, for three reasons. First, I like to feel like you guys are the ones playing the game rather than me simply writing about whatever. Second, sometimes it's just impractical to implement things that disagree with each other. For example, if one person said to go to Seyda Neen, somebody else said to go to Sadrith mora, and somebody else says to go questing on Dagon Fel...it's difficult to work all three of those things together into one post. Plus, at the moment Michael has limited funds, and I suspect that if he did go to Dagon Fel, for example, the people saying to go to Seyda Neen wouldn't want to blow half his gold to pay for travel fare immediately afterwards. And third, sometimes suggestions are by nature mutually exclusive or have long term consequences. I dislike making permanent game-altering decisions based on agreement from only a few people. For example...hypothetically imagine if two people said to murder Caius, one said to go grind alchemy one said to go ask people questions, and one said to go adventuring. The "most votes" would be to murdur Caius, but it would be a minority of people saying to do it. It would potentially have a huge affect on the entire rest of the game, whereas the other suggestions would be very unlikely to "break" anything. Consider when you joined the Legion. That had major, game-altering implications, and Michel wouldn't have done something like that if there were only a couple people in favor. It's not that I dislike major decisions...major game-changing decisions are fine...I just don't want to have only 2 people decide the game for everyone else.
Is there a local Legion barracks?
Fort Moonmoth is within walking distance of Balmora,
We haven't actually rented the room yet, have we? LordBucket listed as a reason
we have less money now, but I don't think we've actually signed and paid for it yet.
Correct you have not rented a room. As to why, money was a factor, yes...but I don't think I've seen anyone say to go ahead and rent the room since Nileno showed you the room you'd actually be getting for the 250/month. I kind of just assumed that people expected something bigger and/or with furnishings and didn't want to pay that much for what she was offering.
As for places to crash, bear in mind we can sleep in any guard barracks.
Sleeping space isn't really the issue that storage is. Two reasons: First, Caius said that he has a cover to maintain, and having large quantities of expensive treasure and adventuring gear is not consistent with his cover. Legion armor especially so. Second, for a long time lots of you have wanted to do alchemy, and the gear is simply too bulky to carry. The pack guar suggestion might be viable if you can find one, but even that is not without complication. Barring a "third option" kind of solution, it looks like finding/establishing some sort of long term "base of operations" will be necessary to do alchemy.
Camona Tong
Let's not make them our enemy, they'll kill us in our sleep if we go near Balmora.
I m neither advocating nor discouraging making enemies of the Camona Tong, but as for Balmora in particular, remember that according to Larrius Varro, Awesomicus killed the entire Balmora chapter.