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Geeky Game Design and Automated Character Audits

By GoW | Published: September 5, 2008
My guild fell in love with be.imba and wowheroes a while back. Look, they have gear scores! Trum­pets played through­out the geeky core of the guild: “Finally! A way to grade and com­mu­ni­cate to peo­ple their rel­a­tive progress in the endgame!” For exam­ple: “Hey, you’re not ready for X because you don’t have Y score. [...]
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Fools, Silence, and Damage Reporting–supplemental

By GoW | Published: April 28, 2008
(Pre­vi­ous article) While it’s a bad idea to link your dam­age meters over a com­mon chat chan­nel, it’s a very bad idea to link your dam­age report if you’re a dam­age dealer and you’re that one dps’er who con­sis­tently does less dam­age than the tank. What you’re try­ing to say is that you out­per­form the [...]
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Fools, Silence, and Damage Reporting

By GoW | Published: April 28, 2008
I healed through Magister’s Ter­race this week­end to get a cou­ple of friendly guildies ready for MrT heroic. My wife, in the next room, said “What’s wrong?” I hadn’t even real­ized I sighed. “This new recruit just spammed his dam­age meters after our first wipe.” I had for­got­ten about this lit­tle slice of the game. Of [...]
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