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* 5 supertreats are identified for the year 2019, GEAS volunteers (players) are joining in this game to find solutions. | * 5 supertreats are identified for the year 2019, GEAS volunteers (players) are joining in this game to find solutions. | ||
- | * You can file a report about your 2019 experiences (story) | + | * You can file a report about your 2019 experiences (= a story) |
- | * you can discuss | + | * you can discuss |
- | * you can find new ways to collaborate, | + | * you can find new ways to collaborate, |
== My activities == | == My activities == | ||
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* Joined Urban Gardening initiatives and set up Superstructs for protection of urban gardens from poaching and bio-piracy. | * Joined Urban Gardening initiatives and set up Superstructs for protection of urban gardens from poaching and bio-piracy. | ||
* Set up initiative to connect Urban gardens with green corridors for pollinators. | * Set up initiative to connect Urban gardens with green corridors for pollinators. | ||
- | * Superstruct: | + | * Set up a superstruct to find out what happened to things like Permaculture, |
* Set up 'GEAS volunteers coordination Superstructs' | * Set up 'GEAS volunteers coordination Superstructs' | ||
* Put out call for 'First Aid hacks' among amateur survival engineers. | * Put out call for 'First Aid hacks' among amateur survival engineers. | ||
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* Second medical hack: Nasal purifier can be made from: http:// | * Second medical hack: Nasal purifier can be made from: http:// | ||
* Report: Botanical sanctuaries and national parks are plundered for possible cure against ReDS (a disease in 2019). | * Report: Botanical sanctuaries and national parks are plundered for possible cure against ReDS (a disease in 2019). | ||
+ | * introduced the term Terror Retail, black markets selling dodgy health solutions. | ||
* Report: The Association of European Zoo-s is organizing a quarantine of all primates against ReDS to Gibraltar. | * Report: The Association of European Zoo-s is organizing a quarantine of all primates against ReDS to Gibraltar. | ||
* Joined P2P Medical Care superstruct. | * Joined P2P Medical Care superstruct. | ||
* Report: Fruitfly navigated ReDS reconnaissance ROV, blueprints available for fabbers. | * Report: Fruitfly navigated ReDS reconnaissance ROV, blueprints available for fabbers. | ||
+ | * Discussion: What do we do if the initial excitement of our Superthreats wears of and it just becomes uninspiringly awful? | ||
+ | * the introduction of the term [[Galactus Syndrome]] | ||
== Interesting ideas in the Game == | == Interesting ideas in the Game == | ||
* hacking homo sapience: ways we can exploited our own primate behaviours. | * hacking homo sapience: ways we can exploited our own primate behaviours. | ||
- | * criticism against the prolific use of urban gardening and solarpanels as solutions to all problems everywhere. | + | * criticism against the prolific use of urban gardening and solarpanels as ultimate |
* Cross-species-politics: | * Cross-species-politics: | ||
* Viral sovereignty: | * Viral sovereignty: | ||
- | * Cross-Species Politics: obvious. | + | * A public map of urban wild food sources. |
+ | * [[foxp2]] | ||
+ | * A Distributed Workforce Network, in emergency situations, turn your large company into many small ones. | ||
+ | * Dunbar' | ||
== My observations == | == My observations == | ||
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* Third day of the game the first criticism of ' | * Third day of the game the first criticism of ' | ||
* most activity until day 4 is mainly targeting niche problems or very general philosophy, the organizational stuff looks very Western, with a lot of fabbing, hacking and gardening involved. The stories that are written are very personal, while the strategic things are written rather dry and impersonal. | * most activity until day 4 is mainly targeting niche problems or very general philosophy, the organizational stuff looks very Western, with a lot of fabbing, hacking and gardening involved. The stories that are written are very personal, while the strategic things are written rather dry and impersonal. | ||
- | * The actual superstructing is quite ineffective, | + | * The actual superstructing is quite ineffective, |
+ | * The discussions are not turning up many brilliant new insight yet. Day 8. | ||
+ | * Contact between players is slowly picking up. | ||
+ | * There is a kind of rather vulgar excitement in Superstruct, | ||
+ | * Looking at player profiles I estimate 60% of players is a small sustainable farmer in 2019. | ||
+ | * I get the impression the game is massively dominated by American and European players of a certain age-group, with few specialists like physicians, farmers, etc. This probably makes the forecasting unreliable. | ||
+ | * I've not played for two weeks, but little seems to have developed in the discussions. Somebody made a better website interface called Reconstruct but it has only 40 members. | ||
== Game technical points == | == Game technical points == | ||
- | * player-skills | + | * player-profiles |
- | * the computervoice in the 5 introductions to the game is difficult to understand. | + | * the computervoice in the 5 introductions to the game is too difficult to understand |
* a few too many links are not working on the site | * a few too many links are not working on the site | ||
* any player with a ' | * any player with a ' | ||
- | * early work disappears beneath more recent stuff, so ideas and discussions tend to be repeated. | + | * early work disappears beneath more recent stuff, so ideas and discussions tend to be repeated. |
+ | * Superstruct and Discussion titles are now editable, which helps to improve their efficiency during the evolution of the game. | ||
+ | * On day 9 new features have appeared on the site, live chat, support pages, a more official complaints department, and an announcement of skills search among players. This was sent only to the **335 players** active in more than 1 superstruct. |