Help: Who to ask
Who to ask, in general
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This help file is a general guide on who to ask about something, whether
it is concerning a bug in the game, or some other issue related to BatMUD.
Often the first thing you should try when looking for help with something
are the 'newbie', 'bat' or 'wanted' channels. Fellow players may be able
to help you more readily than any wizard.
Even if your question is about a bug or other gameplay related issue (unless
the problem is blatantly obvious), you might be best off to first ask other
players. They might already be aware of it, and could be able to advise on
how to deal with it. There are often cases in which something that may seem
like a bug actually is not, or is already a "known feature" among players.
In case other players are no help, you can attempt to contact a wizard.
However, please read 'help when to ask a wizard' before proceeding.
Most of the time wizards are very busy. Even if we may seem to be casually
idling, we may have lot of things going on and most of us would prefer not
to be interrupted every time someone has something to ask. Bugs and typos
should be reported via the reporting system ('help bug report', 'help bug')
and ideas for improvement can be discussed on 'ideas' channel, 'ideas-wanted'
news group or in case of very area/item/NPC etc. specific things sent as
reports through the bug report system.
Areas of responsibilities
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Donates : B.A.T. ry board (see www.bat.org)
HC BatMUD : Moght, Zin
Batclient / Steam : Amarth
Social media : Any Archwizard, Tarken
Wizzing / immorting : Any Archwizard
Lost passwords : See 'help lost password' or failing that,
any level 150+ wizard
Quests : Quests coder or any lvl 150+ wizard
The high-level distribution of responsibilities amongst archwizards is as
follows, and should be used as a guidance on seeking the final authority
in the given area of responsibility:
* Game balance : Zin
Game balance in this context means all issues related to the relative
power of items, monsters, guilds, skills, spells and such.
* Lore : Darol
The responsibility for the overall BatMUD lore, relation of different
parts of the game in terms of thematics, verifying that new things
added to the game are not thematically contradictory, etc.
* Lib-code : Ulath (Favorit, Gore)
The libcode responsibility means overall supervisory role of changes
made in game mechanics, the way certain parts of the game work overall
(such as battlesystem, cities, item generics, etc.).
* Web : Gore
Responsibility for the way BatMUD is presented on the World Wide Web.
* Events and cons : Ulath (Amarth)
Responsibility for organizing, and supporting the organization of,
real life events such as cons, meetings, parties, competitions etc.
SEE ALSO
help when to ask a wizard, help archwizards,
help bug report, help bug