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========== SBURB In Town - An FAQ ==========
========== By SympathyDevil ==========
========== Version 0.1 ==========
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Yeah, that's right. I got better things to do than mess around with ASCII art.
CONTENTS:
1. Disclaimer
2. Overview
3. FAQ
========== DISCLAIMER ==========
This FAQ covers only what I've learned about the SBURB game so far. It may not be
entirely accurate. It may not be accurate at all. The longer I play, the more
you'll get from me, cause I'm talking to a lot of other people right now and trying
to collate everything.
========== OVERVIEW ===========
SBURB is a game for 2-9 players. It's a weird upper cap, because the game works by
connecting each player to two other players in a long chain of computers. Not sure
what happens if you try to connect a tenth player. Maybe it crashes? We're gonna
test that out later.
Once the game installs, you have to pair off into SERVERS and CLIENTS. Clients run
around their house getting things together, and Servers can look into their client's
house somehow and help them out. Or mess with them. Kind of your call on that one.
Each Client also acts as a Server to another player. So that's the 2-9 player loop
that you put together. Don't know what happens if you try to install the game and be
your own server, but I expect it would be, at best, very hard.
Why make a Region 9 FAQ? Well, let's face it, these other FAQs are being made in
places that aren't entirely real anymore. How useful will that be?
========= FAQ ==========
Q) What's with these things dropping all over my house?
A) The game seems to facilitate delivery of quite a lot of advanced machinery almost
instantly. They're used to go further into the game, I think. They are being dropped
all over your house at the request of your Server player, who is using in-game
currency ("build grist") to order things from the SBURB servers.
The first thing that you get on installing is a Cruxtruder, which is some kind of giant
machine that your server player will drop in front of your doorstep (thanks MysticQuest!)
Your first task is to pry the thing open, at which point a countdown timer starts. Mine is
at about six hours, but I just talked to someone who said theirs was only one hour, so I
dunno what's up with that.
Q) So what happens when the countdown ends?
A) I don't know yet. I'll get back to you in an hour.
Q) There are a lot of rats hanging around all of a sudden.
A) Yeah... that's definitely a thing. While I was trying to get my cruxtruder open, I looked
outside and there were, like, a dozen rats just sitting on my front lawn. I went out to ask
them what was up, and one of them told me they were looking for a thief. Didn't specify what
got stolen. Something the rats own, I guess. Then he said that he was very sorry, I guess for
bothering me, and then they all left.
I figured it was just a coincidence, but a bunch more showed up outside MysticQuest's house,
too. So I don't know what's up with that. Maybe they're in tune with the signals the game uses?
Anyway, I wouldn't worry too much. They always leave after a few minutes.
Q) Is this game magic?
A) I doubt it. I mean, yeah, the delivery times are really impressive on this stuff. But that's
just a really efficient postal service. Who would have the time to make an entire magic game, and
why would you bother?
Q) What's with this seizure kernel?
A) Don't stare into the seizure kernel.
(More Q&A to come!)
