Yes I realize that it can by no stretch of the word be deemed as spring anymore, but it was the most evocative title I could come up with.  I’ve been going through a good deal of “cleaning” in real life, trying to get the house in order and backyard in a state that is [...]

As you all noticed, I did not manage to get a blog post up yesterday.  For some reason it seems to often be Thursday that I massively fail at getting one out the door.  Around here it was fairly busy, and I was furiously working on something that caused me to not even pop my [...]

Well once again its a Wednesday, which is quickly becoming my favorite day of the week.  Why you might ask?  For the last few weeks we have been running 10 man Ulduar on Wednesday nights, and there is a certain package of hope when confronting a fresh instance.  For me, the 10 man dynamic makes [...]

I was talking to a good friend of mine this morning about “alting”, or the playing of characters other than your primary focus.  She was talking about her inability to seriously play any character other than her “main”, and that when she has alted before, it was more a shift of focus and that the [...]

Last Friday I had a blog post featured on Wow.com.  Granted this is not the first time my blog has been mentioned, in the past It was just a minor link.  This time however they did a pretty flattering write-up on my GroupCraft series of posts from the last few weeks.  I have to say [...]

It’s amazing how phenomenally boring it is when everyone in your department is on vacation.  I went from being so busy I could barely see straight, to essentially sitting here babysitting an install process where I am communicating with a third party over email.  I am sitting back at my desk now after a quick [...]

You can tell that you live in a connected society when opening your inbox on a day like today, you are assaulted with dozens of automated messages from the various sites you have signed up on before…  all wishing you the most sincere Happy Birthday.  So apart from my wife, the first birthday greetings came [...]

Over the last few days I have made a series of posts titled GroupCraft.  It is my attempt to create a general guide on how to get groups going in the World of Warcraft.  In my guild this has been an issue, with players simply not sure how best to approach the process of pulling [...]

Previous Sections GroupCraft:  Networking (Preamble) GroupCraft:  Communication (Part One) Assembly In the previous two sections I have covered a basic theory of networking in online games, and some pointers in how to better communicate your needs and intentions to your fellow players.  Each of these lays the key groundwork for grouping, but has little to [...]

Previous Sections GroupCraft:  Preamble Communication Last week I stated that the first step in building successful groups was to build a pool of players.  You cannot build a group without the players, and in order to get those players you need a solid network.  However, without good communication skills you cannot build your network. This [...]