Peeves made more common from the WL announcements

[srmalloy]

One of the standing peeves I have about people posting GM announcements, made more prevalent with the holiday event:

 

NAKED COORDINATES DON'T TELL ANYONE WHAT ZONE A GM IS IN

 

The coordinate numbers are not zone-specific; the same coordinates could be on or off the map, depending on what zone you're in. Some GMs only appear in one zone -- the Kraken, Jurassik, Deathsurge, the Ghost of Scrapyard -- and don't need a zone in the announcement, but Babbage can be in either Boomtown or Skyway, and Winter Lords or Kronos titans can be in any zone. If you're sending in the Broadcast channel, that's limited to just the zone you're in, so that's zone-specific, but LFG, General, or other channels are server-wide. Flogging LFG with "WL up [2334.34 1142.41 -3317.5]" tells people nothing about what zone you're in. And until the HC staff changes the $loc variable to include the zone with the coordinates, the onus is on you to tell people what zone to go to if you want them to come to you.

 

*sigh* Now that I've got that off my chest...

[Glacier Peak]

You should join us on Indomitable where we hold daily Giant Monster Hunts of all the spawnable GMs across the Hero/Villain/Praetorian zones. Starts at 5:20PM Mountain Time/7:20PM Eastern Time every day. You join the league and get about 120+ Reward Merits and around 30 Unstable Aethers every single day for about 40 minutes of enjoyment. We also handle all the movement between zones and provide follow along messages in LFG chat for those who log in late or only want to participate in parts of it (Hero-only or Villain-only as an example).

[Glacier Peak]

8 minutes ago, srmalloy said:

And until the HC staff changes the $loc variable to include the zone with the coordinates, the onus is on you to tell people what zone to go to if you want them to come to you.

And players can provide their /whereami instead.

[Maagic]

Also, saying you're in "SC" can mean Skyway City, Steel Canyon or Siren's Call, for that matter.