Back to collectionCount the Costs, Then Tell the DAG Stories
Background: The internal debate entered its second session with the previous day's disagreement over building a chain still unresolved. Today: The debate ended with "wait a little longer and calculate the costs first." Impact and next steps: The technical conversation shifted from competing positions to calculating costs, while the community task gave players a way to talk about characters instead of prices.
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Background: The internal debate entered its second session with the previous day's disagreement over building a chain still unresolved. Meanwhile, the operations team needed a community activity that anyone could join that week. Both the technical accounts and the player stories needed someone to make an abstract question concrete.
Today: The debate ended with "wait a little longer and calculate the costs first." The team left the technical route undecided and continued checking engineering, staffing, and maintenance costs. On the same day, the official community task for the week became "Introduce Your DAG," inviting everyone to write a backstory for their own DAG. To lead off, someone posted a character who had come from a wizard school and had to gather all the fragments and reach an obelisk before evolving into its final form.
Impact and next steps: The technical conversation shifted from competing positions to calculating costs, while the community task gave players a way to talk about characters instead of prices. The operations team planned to see how people described their DAGs and consider which stories made the characters more distinct. The chain choice and the players' response both remained open.