Hobson Fiffledown
So, say Character 1 drops some honeypot chats in general about the location of a gusher. Character 2 stomps out to go harvest said honeypot and gets quickly attacked, killed, and looted by Character 1. Is that fair play or a violation of the ToS? Who decides what "haven't had a chance to learn the game" means? What is tricking? How would an ambush-style attacker tell the difference between a beginning player's character and an experienced player's 1k alt?

Would the planned release in November of the core rulebook mark the end of this policy?

Bob

Decius
Any raiders worth their salt are going to bring a mule or three with them. Meanwhile any counterattack by the holding owners can loot the husk and deposit it directly to the bank.

Good point on the counter-attack, we'll at least make sure that the original owners can't steal everything out in one fell swoop and deposit it back into safety.

Smitty
Didn't Seattle just mandate $15/hr… for interns and pretty much all jobs… (or something along those lines.) I imagine the issue is, if paizo has the funds to hire an intern.. they may as well just look for another permanent position.

Duffy Swiftshadow

Bringslite of Staalgard
I still wonder what kind of possibilities there are for interning up and coming game development students, amateurs and volunteers there might be. There certainly must be some sort of angle to approach that would allow for such development methods.

Negligible to non-existent. For coding 99.999% of fresh interns/amateurs will be some form of net loss for months to years depending on the scope and complexity of your product. That's not a knock on newbies, it's just that while you may get a firm grasp of the basics from schooling or self learning there's so much detail variance between languages, tools, standards, techniques, and even just team processes that anyone who hasn't been spending years working with similar tools or inside similar teams will require guidance and support.

That is normally fine and expected, but with such a limited team and funding that could seriously cut into their ability to make forward progress. Adding a new intern doesn't mean you get 3 people's worth the work when they start. It means you get 1.5 (or less) people's worth the work for some training and up to speed time, then you just over 2+ people's worth of work after a few weeks or months, and then you spend most of a year getting up to that full 3 people's worth of work regularly. Assuming of course the intern works out, if they don't and you need to get a new one you reset the cycle.

They would need enough 'extra' coders redundantly coding that the 'senior' in charge spends less time sorting through their output and picking/fixing the 'best' solutions than if they just did it themselves. I don't think they have the funds or fan base for that.

Bob

Duffy Swiftshadow

You are a Troll
I think the gathering up of bulk from a raided holding should work more like moving stuff on and off a mule, not a character husk. Picking up one piece of bulk wood at a time when there might be 50+ seems like a punishment rather than a reward for raiding.

It would be one stack at a time, so at most there would be maybe 4 stacks?

It's not a full stack at a time, just up to 5 encumbrance (or 1 item at minimum) from 1 stack at a time. For bulk resources, that's basically 5 items from a stack each time.

The idea is to keep the victors from instantly grabbing their spoils and taking off running. Unless the holding already contained tons of bulk resources, the daily output will be around 100 units at most, so the victors could probably just grab all of that in one quick go (perhaps one quick grab per character to spread the weight) and then start running. Double or triple that amount and a good-sized party might still be able to carry everything pretty easily. Slowing the process down just a bit shouldn't make loading up take too long (unless you're talking just 1-2 characters getting lucky and raiding an overloaded vault), though I'm open to argument if it seems more problematic than I'd originally assumed.

Fiery
Of note, tight control of platinum would be nearly, if not more, crippling than black. Much less is used per item, but it is necessary to make a number of things. The resource problem this game has extends far beyond black, even though black is the elephant in the room.