Doctor Archive
Thread: Correspondence from the Devs
I mentioned early on that I would pass along any informationI recieved from the Devs as a Correspondent for all of you Doctors out there, as long as such correspondence was not directly labeled as not to be repeated (and I have had nothing like that). So here is the one I recieved on Friday (sorry I didn't post it sooner, but I can't read my work email where these are getting sent to from home soI didn't see it until this morning.) Remember that this is, in effect, a personal email and Xahn mentions in it that he wanted to make a more polished version to post on the forums. So please take it in that light and nothing should be taken too literally, only conversationally.
As I expected it looks like the Devs will be at least trying to provide some responses directly on the forums for us, so at least i won't have to cut-and-paste emails like this too much (I hope).
Also note that they are likely expecting the cycle to change to monthly, instead of weekly for issues. So I guess that we will, in effect, hold off doing a weekly Top 5 and stick to a Top 5 upon request. (Just my personal guess, there, as you know as much about when they want it as I do based on the couple of email's I've passed along).
At any rate.
Xahn wrote to me on 8/8/03 at 4:56PM CDT:
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Zarlor,
This is an update on the current state of correspondents and should let you in on what is happening from your help. You should know me as Xahn from the boards, I'm currently one of the community representatives for Star Wars Galaxies. I've been working with our community for about 2 years and 8 months, so I've been there since we've opened the boards.
The reason we opened the correspondent positions up is because we've felt that we've been failing on getting the major issues for the professions from the community to the designers. I know at this point it's been somewhat of a disappointment because you haven't seen any progress. This should be changing very shortly. Next week you should see a post in your profession that outlines all the issues you've brought up from your first week (we're probably only going to get through one list a month) and the answers that were given from our design meetings with your questions and suggestions.
I want to thank you for putting in all the effort you have so far, and also for your patience. This has not been easy for you, and we're working as hard as we can to get the feedback that you deserve. The coming posts should answer your questions that you've brought up, and they should also start changes in motion regarding those questions and comments. I can't promise they will come right away. Some will come quickly, others will have to take a back seat as we work on our fixes/updates/promised features. At the least, you'll get the opinion from what the designer of your specific profession thinks about that issue. I think you'll be very please with this result.
We've accomplished a lot this week, and I think you're going to be really pleased with the results. I can't stress to you enough how much we appreciate your work. Many of these issues would not have been brought to light without you.
Forgive me for making this somewhat of a form letter, but I've just flown back from Austin today, and I'm dead tired. I just wanted to update you guys on what's going on. I figure even though I'm dead, you deserve to know what's happening and the changes you've started. 
Look for more next week, I'm going to be compiling the list from the design meetings we've had into a more postable format and get those out to your boards as soon as Ican.
Thanks
Oh.
You just threw me for a loop with pwnz. Never saw that phrase before. What's it mean?
it is dood speak for owns.
the word 'own' being used in modern slang, and particularly in internet jargon, as being powerful, more powerful than most, or very very good.
so pwnz == owns
It probably first came from first person shooters after a frag, someone might say "I just owned you"
Early FPS gamers might be able to shed more light on the roots of pwned; but that is it in a nutshell.
And it gets used a lot on the GAT, a place where Xahn can usually be found...along with the rest of the Hand of Mod
