I could go on the road again. But I don't think my character is getting anywhere... I'm only carrying about 8 kg, but I seem to be stuck.

I looked up the Capital Rule, having never played CantrII, and it was basically what I expected. All characters played by an individual need to be individual characters with no information cross over. Naming a character after myself does not come close to breaking the rule. I am not sure I could play characters totally separate from each other, which is why in this sort of game I only ever have a single character.

Usually when I start a game, I create a male Timorg character and use them to understand the dynamics, then create a character with a totally different name to play, unfortunately I have become attached to this Timorg, and if characters only live to 100 years, I am going to very upset when he perishes in 180 days.

But I understand the world needs to keep on turning and long lived characters will reduce the vibrancy of the world.

Is vibrancy the right word in that context?

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But this is your game, you make the rules. I really do like where my character is going.

I consider this an edge case - if there were no way for players to communicate outside the game, then naming characters after yourself wouldn't be problematic. But now, we have a character named Timorg, and a player named Timorg, and both are potentionally known to other players. So when one of my characters encounters a "Timorg" character, I (the player) knows it's you, and I can abuse this information (although that would be a Capital Rule breach on my part, too). Part of the Capital Rule in cantrII also says that your character cannot give other characters any personal information about you as the player: you are strictly forbidden to post your username, e-mail, IM ID, and anything else that could allow people to contact you, while playing your character.

I haven't made up my mind about dying of age, but I'm leaning toward "yes". OTOH, characters in cantrII did not die of age (they kind of planned this, but haven't implemented it yet), and this never posed any apparent problems - there were some people who were "very old", but because most players didn't have the stamina to consistently role-play a character for more than half an Earth year, there weren't too many of them. Most characters were abandoned before age 30, and after that, very few proceeded past 60.

If I do implement it, it's not going to be a fixed age, but rather an increasing chance of spontaneously dying, so that dying of age at 40 is extremely unlikely, but living more than, say 120 years, is even more unlikely.

Oh, and in some other news: There is now one dead body in the game. You can't bury it yet, and your characters won't die unless you make me kill them (through SQL).

Yes, I know. A project type search box is an absolute must, and coming soon. The drop-down is just a quick solution for now, so that I can have projects at all. I'm even thinking of adding a detailed wiki-like library of all item and project types in the game, so that you could look up things, e.g. suppose you want to make a small horse carriage, you could search for that in the library, and it would tell you something like:

Small Horse Carriage

Land vehicle.
Weight capacity: 1200 kg
Seats: 3
Travel speed (empty): 60 px/h
Travel speed (fully loaded): 30 px/h

Project required to build: "Assembling a Small Horse Carriage"

And then you could click the project link, and it would tell you what ingredients and tools you need, how long it takes, and what the output is - pretty much what the current "create project" page does, only that from there, you could click further to the library pages of each material, tool, etc.

I will have to think of a new name for my town, fortunately as no one knows my characters name, or the location of Rock Pass.

I will just have to tell them some thing different from Timorg, if anyone ever inquires about what my name is. (Unless a character name change is possible.)

My mother is the only person that uses my real name, so doing that in character, wont be something unique for me.

Something I have been thinking about is funding this project. Paying/donating customers could have more of the pages auto-update regularly, or pages could update more often. That is the only feature that I can think of at the moment, that will not balance the game in the favour of paying customers, but still give a reward to them. I used to pay the $1 a month to tribal wars to not have the adverts.

Although, I am sure you have something in mind to fund this project.

I looked up the Capital Rule, and something about it bothers me. On the site where I found it, here, it has some guidelines under the main description of the rule, and I have a problem with two of them:

It seems to me that you would have to use out of character information, namely your knowledge of your own identity as the player, to follow these guidelines. In-game, the characters may both have good reasons to be in an organization, or to be in the same location. And you'd have to go against role-playing to avoid that.

I don't know how important these guidelines are considered relative to the Capital Rule, though.

You could use ingame paper to keep notes, make a diary or something.

That brings up another thought I used to have about notes. Sometimes they got rather big. Could we get a way to make multi page notes? With navigation like, next, previous, go to page x.

Also now that paper is a measurable resource. Will note size be limited in some way depending on how much paper you have?

Actually, that shouldn't be true. Devices on the network should send packets directly to the router, which should send it directly to the next router in the chain or directly to the receiver (or to bridge devices in between). All packets aren't broadcasted to the entire network.

The Firesheep thread is about unsecured wireless networks, which transmit the network traffic unsecured through the air, which can easily be heard by those listening for it.

Disclaimer: I'm not a networking expert.

I can't dispute that, but the whole point of a router is to route packets. If it's passing them all over the place then I would assume either a cheap (i.e., broken) device or a misconfigurated network.

I suppose a Firefox extension isn't going to care what interface it's listening to, but it was apparently designed with unsecured wireless networks in mind (albeit, I suppose broken wired networks fall under the same category).

Hit Cntrl- a few times to make the font smaller?

Bah, its your fault Trezker, I hadn't noticed it before, but now I am unable to not see it.

Not sure how this is now-a-days, but it used to be quite possible to spoof enough MAC-addresses to force the switches on a network into hub-mode.

It would be nice to get a time estimate on how long a project has until it is complete. Once you've started there doesn't seem to be any way to see how long you have until you're done.