Dominions New Player MP Helpdesk

[rdonj]

Say what?

[Trumanator]

I suppose I could try and help a bit. Just no stupid questions :P J/K

Name: Trumanator
Location: America
Method of Contact: Private messaging, email, Dominions IRC channel. PM for email.
Hours: around 10-10 PST (2-2 GMT), though before 6pm it can be sporadic due to class schedule
Languages spoken: English

Edit: Oh and I'm only going to help around 2-3 people at a time max.

[Sombre]

Name: Sombre
Location: UK
Method of Contact: Only IRC or msn. No private messaging, unless you're asking about msn contact details.
Hours: I am usually available between the hours of 18.00-22.00 GMT
Languages spoken: English, mandarin (pinyin only)

[Frozen Lama]

Name: FrozenLama
Location America
Method of contact: IRC mostly. Email and pm also.
Hours: 4-10 PST i think 20-2 GMT
Language: English

[rdonj]

Well, so far it seems we have three helpdesk personnel lined up. One more and I'll make it official and see if we can get the thread stickied for ease of finding. Perhaps unsurprisingly, so far all applicants are frequent IRC visitors and are very helpful to those who ask questions there already.

[Squirrelloid]

Name: Squirrelloid
Location: US (central timezone)
Method of Contact: IRC vastly preferred, PMs possible
Hours: See if I'm on IRC? My schedule isn't especially predictable. Can use PMs to schedule a time.
Language: English

rdonj:
-Might want to specify that Agents should refrain from assisting in detail multiple players in the same game.
-Might also want to specify that players of n00b games should not try to use the helpdesk for anything more than the most cursory of questions - the point of a n00b game is to try things out and figure stuff out for yourself, after all.

[rdonj]

Okay, I'll update the first post with the list of all current members. For now I'll post each person's full profile, but if at some point I reach the character limit I'll replace that with links to each person's profile post.

Squirrel - I'll add a bit about the first one. I'll leave the second one out though... I'd rather leave discretion in the hands of helpdesk personnel. I thought about asking helpdesk people not to help in games that didn't officially sanction our usage, but really, all you have to do is take a stroll over to the IRC channel and you WILL get help. It would be a meaningless restriction.

[13lackGu4rd]

I might as well volunteer to be the first "test subject" of this new very nice and well thought out project. I am 1 of those newbies(not noobs, please correct that term because the term noob has a very negative implication), who is on IRC and already had some chats with all of the above help desk volunteers on IRC. however to get this project going I might as well share my turns and strategy with 1 of the help desk personnel and receive more specific advise.

I have recently started playing in 2 games(from the start, subbing in a few more) however 1 of them is a newbie only game. the other is an all welcome that is still in its very begining(turn 5) the newbie only is not too far ahead of it(turn 15). regarding the newbie only game, I don't want an unfair advantage over the other players, I would appreciate if the help desk volunteer will keep this in mind and not open my eyes too much the other game shouldn't be that problematic as some very experienced players such as Baalz and Zeldor are also in the game...

my expectations from this project, from a newbie's perspective, is mainly to adjust my various strategies(I'm sort of a strategist person) to the dominions battlefield. things that will work, things that probably won't, and reasons of course. potential things that I'm missing, or things that I could have done differently, to keep in mind for future games.

[Gregstrom]

I guess I could go up for this.

Name: Gregstrom
Location: UK
Method of Contact: Private messaging, Dominions IRC channel. Possibly email, I guess.
Hours: Irregular - I'm on when I'm on.
Languages Spoken: English.
Client Limit: 2-3 people at a time max.

[KissBlade]

Name: KissBlade
Location: US (EST)
Method of Contact: IRC, PM, forum post.
Hours: Random =(
Language: English