Re: dragonZone
Posted: 23 April 14 4:23 pm
So do clandestine activities gain you points?
Hmmm, I'd hoped for higher standards.caughtatwork wrote:Honourable? Have you read Game of Thrones? That's what the 4 clans are like. Beheadings everywhere (or so I hope)nutwood wrote:Thanks for that. I've got a cache location that's been under consideration for some time now. If there's any further strategical considerations, I'll post them in the Griffin section of this forum as I presume that other clans are sufficiently honourable not to peek.
Only if you find a moveable, steal it to your zone and bulk it up with your own clan points.spatialriq wrote:So do clandestine activities gain you points?
There is no query at the moment that can do this. For me, personally, I am using the MyQuery, then running my eye down the screen list to see which ones don't belong to my clan. Not the best I agree. I didn't really think about it.blossom* wrote:A question on My Query and dZones - can we make a query that singles out caches controlled (or not controlled) by a particular clan?
ie how do I list the caches not controlled by my clan (with various other attributes) so i can capture them?
I'm a bit concerned that my simple concern has been taken way further than intended. This is a Dragon Zone forum and my comment was directed towards the game at hand. It was not directed at GCA caching in general. If it was to be extrapolated to cover other areas, those areas would be caching games, not caching in general. I'm more than happy with the GCA philosophy, indeed I reckon I'm in a fairly small group where my GCA finds outnumber my GC finds by about three to one. The question I'm putting is not about GCA caching but about Dragon Zone specifically.caughtatwork wrote:This is a larger question than just the dragonZone game in what's to stop you doing almost anything you like?
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So, please continue to conversation.
Don't be concerned. I read your point in the wrong way.nutwood wrote:I'm a bit concerned that my simple concern has been taken way further than intended. This is a Dragon Zone forum and my comment was directed towards the game at hand. It was not directed at GCA caching in general. If it was to be extrapolated to cover other areas, those areas would be caching games, not caching in general. I'm more than happy with the GCA philosophy, indeed I reckon I'm in a fairly small group where my GCA finds outnumber my GC finds by about three to one. The question I'm putting is not about GCA caching but about Dragon Zone specifically.caughtatwork wrote:This is a larger question than just the dragonZone game in what's to stop you doing almost anything you like?
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So, please continue to conversation.
You've cited Game of Thrones as the guiding philosophy for the four clans. Game of Thrones is basically: "When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground".
On that basis, "community / peer pressure" is irrelevant. Anything you can do to advance your clan should be applauded by your clan. If there are no rules, you need not abide by any. That means multiple finds, dodgy hides, muggling the opposition caches, etc, etc. That actually sounds like a lot of fun but I wonder how many cachers would want to go there?
If we don't want to go there, some guidelines are needed. Rules of the game are not a restriction of freedom, or something requiring hundreds of hours policing, they are simply something on which players can base a strategy and engage in. If players choose to ignore them, then the peer group pressure bit can kick in. Personally I would like a clear opinion on re-finding caches. General caching philosophy is that once you find a cache, that's the end of the story. This seems like a waste of resource. If DZ cleaned the slate, what a shake up for caches that have hardly been touched for years!
As it stand at the moment, even though there are no rules, no one will re-find caches because it's against the rules?!
What I really meant is we can't stop (or we can, but there's a lot of manual work involved) one clan reading another clans forum posts. My GoT analogy was only regarding their probable lack of restraint in peeking into another clan thread, checking up on their movements and stealing their ideas and strategies. It was not meant as a general comment about the game at large.nutwood wrote:Hmmm, I'd hoped for higher standards.caughtatwork wrote:Honourable? Have you read Game of Thrones? That's what the 4 clans are like. Beheadings everywhere (or so I hope)nutwood wrote:Thanks for that. I've got a cache location that's been under consideration for some time now. If there's any further strategical considerations, I'll post them in the Griffin section of this forum as I presume that other clans are sufficiently honourable not to peek.
Murdering opponents is far more honourable than reading their private correspondence!
I never said thatnutwood wrote:<snip> we're not actually allowed to be-head our opposing clan members. I can work with that!