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Jan-20-2008 12:48

I've had a couple of friends play through the scripted mystery that I submitted and ask me how to sign up for the site because they want to play more.

Now it's all fine and good if I'm with them at that very moment, and can log in under my name, go to London, and open the mystery from there, but what if I'm not the the area and I'm telling someone about it?

Would it be possible to make certain mysteries available for download as an executable in order to interest people in signing up for a subscription? I know it would make it easier for me to recruit people if I had something to give them, rather than making them sign up on the site and subscribe to play through the mystery.

Jan-23-2008 13:38

As Abraham and I are like one, I say thank you, Breitkat, for the nice words about our(my) language skills. :-)

Also, I thank you for reflecting on the idea of Abraham about limitations :-)
It might be good, or it might be bad, I am not quite sure. Stooby might have a very good point in his opinion too.

But the "mystery teleportation" idea, was not meant as an idea for implementation, rather to show the difficulty or problems in having availiable for unsubbed a mystery in other cities than New York ;-)
Surely, teleportation was not a technology mastered in the 1920's, it's not a technology mastered today either, nearly 100 years later...

Might the thought of Heimlich's request to make the featured mystery availiable to unsubbed players be that it's easier to get someone's attention if you present them with something you have made yourself, so that for Heimlich it would only be interesting to "sell" using his scripted mystery, and for someone else, who had written a scripted mystery, it would be their scripted mystery that would help in the sleuth selling proceess?

If so, (and this is only a thought grabbed from the air, not qualified, might be good, might be bad), would it be possible to get the same result if there was a "personal" account created for each of the scripted mystery, with a password known to the author of that mystery, and a maximum daily case limit of 1 or 2, and a character that would about have the skills needed to solve the mystery, residing in the "correct" city. And, if they wanted to do a selling process using their scripted mystery, they could lead them to that account and let them play while guiding them...?
I guess next step in the process would be guiding them through own character setup, playing the tutorial case, and some of the daily 4 cases for unsubscribed ones, encouraging them to subscribe, because Sleuth IS fun! :-)

Jan-23-2008 14:24

Honestly, I was not offended about what Huglover said. I didn't even realize that I could possibly be offended about it :-)
Anyway, I am thankful to all of you for supporting me. I am happy when we discuss the ideas and weighs pros and cons. As Huglover, I too have experienced that in order to be able to present those ideas that are really good and important, we must be willing to present the 90% other ideas too, that are not good at all ;-)
Therefore I am very thankful that you pick up the ideas, reflect about them, give more facets to the ideas, in a polite way present possible or obvious weaknesses with the ideas, or other thoughts or ideas that some idea triggered. Some times even the most stupid ideas can trigger the really good ones ;-) We never know.