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YOUTUBE A TALE IN THE DESERT SERIES

In the second Telling, the events team created a character named Malaki.

A flood of laws to control the situation arrive at the voting booth, and calm returns within a couple weeks. At one point, 3450 trees out of a total of around 15300 are clearcut. Massive deforestation of some regions results. The skill allowed players to gather large amounts of wood per tree harvested, but resulted in long delays, multiple days, before the tree was restocked with harvestable wood.

An example of a Stranger skill that caused drama throughout Egypt, was the 'Clear Cutting' skill introduced in September 2003.

This will become an ongoing choice for all succeeding Tellings. For all the Tellings, players are challenged to decide between their personal benefit and the NPC and player nation's benefit. This social dynamic of some win/most lose became a basic social standard of the game. These 'Stranger' skills, named after the game's primary antagonist, have often caused a great stir.

Throughout the Tellings, skills have been released which provide a positive benefit to the user, and a detriment to everyone else.Additionally, in the first Telling, the developers brought in a character named Khepry, whose actions indirectly led to pollution and depleted resources.After one of those other players damaged a public facility by removing a vital resource, the character, Mafia, was banned. In the first Telling, a player named Knightmare and two others created a character to attempt to force players to use the legal system more responsibly.

Some examples include: A Tale In The Desert Cost Because, in the legal system, players can implement punishments or bans against others, the effect is most often caused by characters played by eGenesis staff. The Test most characteristic of this is that of Festivals, which requires 100 players to act in unison within one hour, on a global basis.īecause of the social aspect of A Tale in the Desert, players tend to react more heavily to events which break or strain social mores, even when these events are introduced by the developers rather than rogue players.

The Worship discipline is centered on the need to please various deities, often through an organized group of players working in unison.

Among those puzzles available are logic mazes and a modification on the popular Rush Hour.

The Thought discipline is centered on the creation of numerous puzzles: the goal here is to make said puzzles simple enough that they can be effectively solved, but difficult enough to be challenging for the majority of players.

Other tests include a Survivor-like game between 12 people, or the formation of a bureaucracy. One of the tests in Leadership, the Test of the Demi-Pharaoh, requires the player to be elected among all their peers the reward, accordingly, is the ability to ban seven players from the game.

The Leadership discipline is much like the Harmony discipline in that the participant is required to know his or her fellow players, but rather than predicting their actions, one must influence them positively.

They include Marriage, where a player gives reciprocal access to their account and goods to another, as well as Mentorship, which requires players to enter the mentoring island and assist someone in becoming a citizen.

The Harmony discipline, new to the third Telling, is generally focused around knowing one's fellow players many of these were based on a discussion at the Ludium game developer conference.

These games, such as variants on checkers and euchre, are now played in weekly or biweekly tournaments.

YOUTUBE A TALE IN THE DESERT SERIES

The now-defunct Conflict discipline, removed in the third Telling to make way for Harmony, was centered on the pursuit of excellence in a series of games, generally with perfect information.Some of the challenges within involve finding 35 different varieties of mushroom, or deducing the locations of cicadas hidden by other players. The Body Discipline is focused around surveying the land, both socially and geographically, to determine where various resources are.The Art Discipline is primarily based around creative expression in a limited framework, with players building mosaics, breeding scarabs for colour and pattern, forming fireworks out of basic materials, or creating detailed sculptures.The secondary goal of Architecture is to complete these projects as simply and efficiently as possible, which can require substantial planning, trading, and cooperation. The Architecture Discipline is based around building large and potentially ornate structures, such as a useful aqueduct or an exceptional burial temple.Beyond those initiations, seven challenges exist for each discipline, arranged into themes: Of these, the first in each group is a trivial request, intended to introduce players to the discipline - the group that challenge is in. The majority of ATITD challenges take the form of 56 defined 'Tests', separated into several groups.