Alexis Kennedy
Posts: 1374
12/2/2013
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By a startling coincidence, we've just sent an email out. You do indeed get it if you
(i) have an email address linked
(ii) have 'message me with announcements' ticked
(iii) have never clicked 'unsubscribe' on an email (it's one-click perma-optout)
For reference, we mostly use these channels to announce stuff:
- Twitter
- Facebook
- newsfeed on Messages page
- forum posts
- in-content announcements
- Failbetter blog
- mailouts
(+ Sunless Sea KS and blog)
....that's roughly from most to least frequent, which in turn is roughly from least to most hassle, since we could easily spend more time announcing changes than implementing them.
People always miss stuff, so the more channels you follow, the better! If you follow other unofficial fan channels too like wiki announcements or SN's tumblr, better still. No one channel is reliably followed by every player, so we like to get people signed up to as many as possible.
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Alexis Kennedy
Posts: 1374
12/2/2013
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Theus wrote:
There are costs and risks associated with email communication that do not exist for Facebook/Twitter.
This. It takes us sixty seconds to send a message via FB/Twitter, it takes considerable faff to do a nice mailshot, it costs us some quids and we never do it more than twice a month (usually only once a month) because people complain.
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Playersideblog
Posts: 397
12/2/2013
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I'm wondering--we'll have to see in the future, but methinks there could be some sort of pattern to the gifts, unless they're just doing a "go 'round and cover the bases" for various things in FL.
But I am curious--so far, the gifts seem to relate to getting favors from organizations in Fallen London, simply on a story basis. It's only two data points thus far, though. We'll see if Day 3 holds up...and if so, one wonders where the gift-trail will end up...
Also, I'm enjoying the word amalgamations in the codes.
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Fhoenix
Posts: 602
12/2/2013
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Hm, it seems I never linked my email to my main account. I WAS getting messages by mail from the game a long time ago (but I think it was via Twitter). And yes getting "Once again, a masked figure drops a tiny brown package" every day was annoying. Then it stopped. Did I stop it? Don't remember. Will setup everything again and see what happens.
Writing on Twitter sure is easier. That's why there are so many messages on it. Wish there was some built in way to create feeds there (like circles in Google Plus)
Did not know it cost you money to send out mail.
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amaresu
Posts: 209
12/2/2013
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Fhoenix wrote:
And while FL's tweets are fun to read, reading them in a timely fashion is a problem. I get a ton of tweets on my Twitter, half the time I can't manage to read them all. So unless I go specifically to FL's twitter (which I do, but only once in a while to catch up), I often miss those tweets.
I have my Twitter set to send me a text message of the tweet everytime the Echo Bazaar account posts. Haven't missed one yet.
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babelfishwars
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12/2/2013
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Fhoenix wrote:
And yes getting "Once again, a masked figure drops a tiny brown package" every day was annoying. ... weekly, surely? Or that'd be a bug.
Unless it was the first K&C, and I never got to do that. :-(
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Fhoenix
Posts: 602
12/2/2013
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You were getting Iron Tokens every day, when the Bronze League just started.The pace in the beginning was insane. I both miss it and at the same time glad that I don't have to wake up to five people piling up on me, while I slept. 
Second K&C. I never played the first.
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Fhoenix wrote:
And while FL's tweets are fun to read, reading them in a timely fashion is a problem. I get a ton of tweets on my Twitter, half the time I can't manage to read them all. So unless I go specifically to FL's twitter (which I do, but only once in a while to catch up), I often miss those tweets.
I have my Twitter set to send me a text message of the tweet everytime the Echo Bazaar account posts. Haven't missed one yet. Where did you set it, if you don't mind me asking?
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Miss Perative
Posts: 46
12/2/2013
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Fhoenix wrote:
Writing on Twitter sure is easier. That's why there are so many messages on it. Wish there was some built in way to create feeds there (like circles in Google Plus)
There is! I have a small list of people whose tweets I don't want to miss and I keep the Bazaar on that one. I use tweetdeck, but it's easy enough to access your list from web Twitter or your phone.
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amaresu
Posts: 209
12/3/2013
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Fhoenix wrote:
You were getting Iron Tokens every day, when the Bronze League just started.The pace in the beginning was insane. I both miss it and at the same time glad that I don't have to wake up to five people piling up on me, while I slept.
Second K&C. I never played the first.
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Fhoenix wrote:
And while FL's tweets are fun to read, reading them in a timely fashion is a problem. I get a ton of tweets on my Twitter, half the time I can't manage to read them all. So unless I go specifically to FL's twitter (which I do, but only once in a while to catch up), I often miss those tweets.
I have my Twitter set to send me a text message of the tweet everytime the Echo Bazaar account posts. Haven't missed one yet. Where did you set it, if you don't mind me asking?
You just go to their Twitter profile and turn on mobile notifications. You can do it for any Twitter account. You do need to let Twitter know your cell number, but that's probably not a big issue.
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Please no cats or Trailing Affluent Photographers; everything else is fair game.
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Spacemarine9
Posts: 2234
12/3/2013
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And now the next advent code is up! How eggciting.
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Ratgames
FL lore/mechanics questions and answers
#FallenLondon IRC (irc.synirc.net) Channel! Click to join via Mibbit.
#SunlessSea IRC channel! Like the above, but zee-ier.
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Diptych
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Posts: 3493
12/3/2013
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Oh, man - I've already got one of those, and I can't sell it. Now I'll have an unnecessary spare. #fallenworldproblems
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Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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circe
Posts: 435
12/3/2013
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How sweet - a friend for my friend, I wonder if they are a breeding pair
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Adding no Suppers without prior arrangement, with only 5 Free Evenings a week and being a Patron I can't accept them all.
No Affluent Photographer, Sharing Research with Another Scholar or Boxed Cats accepted. I will send Boxed Cats though. All other social actions welcome. Will help menaces, please be reasonable.
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Richard
Posts: 304
12/3/2013
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Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook wrote:
#fallenworldproblems New meme, right there.
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Inky Petrel
Posts: 370
12/3/2013
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I've never seen this thing before, and I am such a collector of oddities, I'm thrilled with it!  Best gift yet! *cradles it gently and gazes at it* ...*clock ticks*
...ok, bored now. I'll just leave it here on the bookcase with the correspondence research and see what happens :p
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Cocytus
Posts: 187
12/3/2013
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Well, that's a lovely saving in Collated Research. Cheers to our Neathy benefactors!
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Cocytus, the Avuncular Wordsmith, a river outside a box.
Stock Titus, a rapturous individual ahead of its time. (Dormant)
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deadcrystal
Posts: 125
12/3/2013
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No kidding, I had been grinding for the necessary books, and this will rather save me the trouble...assuming the particular method of acquiring it doesn't prevent the living story from triggering.
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A determined Dolphin - Alexis
Great Grind Empress, and Knife and Candle Queen
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NinjaComedian
Posts: 202
12/3/2013
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I had no idea that there was the option to breed new ravens by feeding them things. I think I've got a new item on the to do list now.
At least this one - which is rather expensive - is taken care of for me now. Yay!
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Gillsing
Posts: 1203
12/3/2013
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deadcrystal wrote:
...assuming the particular method of acquiring it doesn't prevent the living story from triggering. Oh. Living story. Yeah... Since I didn't get a message that one was started, I'm going to assume that one wasn't started, and won't be started unless it's started by the usual method. Which would require the usual investment.
Then again, the game did act slightly different this time. I open codes in a new tab, where I get to see the login screen with the initial text and image, and then switch to my already open tab and reload it to see the screen that reports what I received. But this time there was no such report screen, and when I logged in through the other tab it said that I had already used the code. And I found the report among the messages. So maybe there was a living story started, and it prevented the usual report screen from appearing?
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Alexis Kennedy
Posts: 1374
12/3/2013
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Stick around, folks. There's an alternate way to get the Egg started which you'll happen across with luck.
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babelfishwars
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Posts: 1152
12/3/2013
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My raven collection:
Egg (from this)
Dazed
Dreamy
Philosophical
Mystical
Wary
Devious
I feel I'm missing a black raven one, but can't work out how I'd get it.
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