Puppet Queue

Of course not insinuating that the GM's are lazy or anything, I appreciate the hard work they do having to look up each @note and the file for the npc before each and every puppet, it must be ridiculously hard work.

The aim of this system is to take some of the frustration away from the player's end by giving them a time expectation. It'd work pretty simply:

@puppet

'You're currently xth place in the puppetting queue, there are x admins online'

...

'You're up next in the puppet queue, please enter your .pose or to: to the NPC, IC'

@unpuppet

'You've been removed from the puppet queue.

Could be a logistical issue if it's abused. I'm interested to hear other thoughts on this.

I imagine something like this:

@request-puppet for

You would be able to have say, up to 2 or 3 requests out.

On the admin-side, our tools could show us something of a list of requested puppets for all connected PCs. So I would see something like:

PLAYER

I'm obviously not an admin, but surely it might be a bit of a faff if the relevant @note fort he NPC in question is dug under a couple other notes.

This new system also raises the possibility of NPC's contacting PC's in ways other than standing in a room and talking to them, which could be useful I guess too.

Perhaps the @request-puppet automatically logs the last pose/to: command that the player typed to the NPC in question, so the admins can see what they said to the NPC for example:

.wave to Seven "Hey, you got time to talk about that porn movie we want to shoot?"

@request-puppet

Seven

Arrange directorship of the porn movie he and I discussed.

[Log enters here]

Yep! I covered that.

NPC / Identifer -- Should cover if you don't know an NPCs 'real' name or if you need to contact someone who's name you aren't sure of, or if you have just a grid alias.

And 'how you attempted to contact them' could have something like: I went to three different bars and asked if they knew 'the red ike' and how I could contact him.

Or:

I sent a message on public sic several times throughout the day asking to speak with the manager of Westinghaus Apartments.

That would cover your use cases, yes?

This can be useful.

We know right now we should message about every 10 minutes (5-10) and give info like in https://www.sindome.org/bgbb/game-discussion/game-problems/talking-to-an-npc-195/ but I can see how this option can help out the GM to give them more info &/or heads up about any notes.

Anything to help make their jobs easier is something I'm for.

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As for letting us know where we are in a queue? I've observed sometimes that just may not work if there is something big happening RP-wise (like half the mix exploding, or Gold) and the GM's are working with multiple players.

That said, I've observed and also experienced when they are around that they try to get to you or at least let you know a better time to return. (Yeah, you're expected but they gotta finish handling some shit so come back in thirty, mano.) (blah blah will you please come back in an hour for your interview?) :)