Automated order processing
The @archivist account will be in attendance throughout the course of the game. The account will be listening during the intervals when players can submit their orders (Monday @ 2000 EDT through Friday @ 2300 EDT). Send all orders to this account via private message and if all is well he will respond to you within five minutes. In the event that the bot does not respond to you for some reason, either PM me directly or @ mention me in the topic for the current turn. In a pinch, I can access the bot’s private messages and confirm your orders for the turn manually.
Now that the game has started, you should plan on checking in to the forum at least once a week on Tuesdays. To enjoy and participate in the role playing that happens, consider checking in more frequently - once or twice a day at least.
As we draw close to the deadline for order submission (2300 EDT every Friday), The Archivist will PM all players that haven’t submitted orders as a friendly reminder.
Known bugs:
- Bugs in order submission are likely during the first turn or two as I work out the kinks in the automation. If you discover what seems like a bug, please PM me directly with your concerns and I will address them as soon as possible.
- Errors on the Discourse side have been known to knock the bot offline in a way that I haven’t yet been able to trap. If you get no response from the bot after 10 minutes, PM me directly and let me know.
- The bot does not currently check faction selections. I hope to have this fixed by next week, but at the moment for choices that involve selecting a faction - the bot will not flag any errors. If you fail to select a faction, a faction will be randomly chosen for you. If I can intuit the faction you intend to select, I will attempt to correct it manually in the meantime.
- In the event that the bot does not respond to you close to the turn deadline, you can always send your orders to me directly via PM and I’ll fold them in when calculating the turns.