Are there any special writings going on which deal with Operation Pitchfork contingencies?
TL;DROperation Pitchfork's timing is still a long way off; the narrative is being built around giving players options and seeing how their collective actions affect the universe, with no specific writings detailed.
Oh, about when that's going to go down and the effects of that? We are still quite a ways away. And it's been fun watching the Pitchfork community develop and change and grow over my time here and thinking about how that's bundled into all the ways that we look at how our players are going to be able to affect the game universe on a larger scale. Outside of their individual actions, when groups of players band together, what kind of change can they expect to effect, on the economy, on resources, on military action. And so as we're building out the narrative for the persistent universe, we think of it not like a linear story, but we give these options on what might happen and then we see how the players might react to it. Recently we just had a Tevarin run for Senate for the first time. So taking that as an example, if we applied it to the PU, it would be like, how can we let the players influence an election like that? Would they be cutting off reserves to one side or the other? If crime goes one way, does that affect the candidate somehow if there's all these outlaws performing in the system? And how does that all tie into the awesome procedural managers that Tony Z and his team are building out in Subsumption? So there's a lot of fun, complicated discussions happening.