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Yeah, Codenames is definitely on my list of games to bring, and we’ll all benefit from more copies, since it is just the type of thing that seems likely to be in heavy rotation in the game room. I find it interesting that the BGG collection doesn’t seem to have had much added (Pneumatic excepted) beyond the additions to the permanent library, though I expect to add some by this weekend or so.
I’m interested, and @Ladybeard’s +1 🙂
I had signed up on TestFlight at the same time as I posted the question, and just received an email that Cruisemonkey 3.9.1 is available. Time to go apply on the beta page and get this monkey installed! Or maybe I should go replace my Galaxy Nexus with that Moto X I’ve been eyeing first…
Ok, the collection is cleaned up, and is down to 18 games (!!!). Feel free to start adding games you are bringing.
@Oboewan, please take a look and make sure I didn’t accidentally remove anything you had updated (since you and I were really the only ones to update items it seems).No worries, it took me some staring time to figure out the best way to do the clearing without removing valid entries.
As a reminder to everyone else, I will be cleaning out the collection on the jococruisecrazy boardgamegeek account on January 1st, 2014 to make way for the list of games on JCCC4. I will leave anything with a Comment field update of 9/1/2013 or later, so if you have games in there you added last time around and will be bringing again (or even if only by request, as above), feel free to update the comment field so they won’t be removed. Any new games added (with a comment) will not be affected by this, so feel free to add to the collection.The plan I proposed would only drop the items that haven’t been commented on one way or another. I like the idea of ‘if requested’ listings as well, and all the items marked as such will have updated Comment timestamps, so they would stay as well.
Agreed, from a gaming stance at the very least, for all reasons previously listed. I nominate the Crypt (or the Raven as it is on the Independence?) if we need ball pit.
Also, I’ve been trying to reconcile the statement on the The Entertainment page (http://jococruisecrazy.com/the-entertainment/) about the Conference Center being “twice as large as last year’s!” Looking at the deck plans of the Independence, that space looks about the same as on the Freedom deck plans, so I’m thinking that statement must have been left over from the JCCC3 version of the page (wherein ships were changed). Double the space from JCCC3 would not be a bad thing though.The best part of the cruise is that you can say “If you didn’t go to X, you missed out on some really great moments” about most anything that happened. I console myself with the fact that I missed some great moments in order to not miss other great moments.
Agreed on the toughness of Saturday night pack-up. My wife and I thought ahead a bit and sacrificed some extra time before dinner packing everything up and even so, we still had to go back after dinner to finish packing the bags and put them outside the door before the Farewell Party.The live band karaoke was the only one I went to and it was a blast, but standard karaoke isn’t my bag, watching or performing. That said, more karaoke means more free tables in the game room, so I don’t mind!
Hi Shannon! I was worried about JCCC3 being all booked up before it got to open booking (or shortly after), but those fears were unfounded – they had cabins through the end of last year at least. What happened by open booking was that some of the more popular/limited cabin types were already booked out, meaning we had to get an outside balcony instead of an inside window stateroom (my wife needs some relief from feeling like she’s in a box) . I don’t think you;’ll have an issue booking the first day of open booking, despite the feeling that it could be a problem.
I’ll say that JCCC3 was our first cruise and first JCCC and I was worried about meeting folks and such, but everyone was very welcoming and supportive and my wife and I made some great friends on the ship (whom we are already psyched to see again next year)!What I really go on here to say is that I don’t think the other thread (if it is the same one I was reading) was advocating closing future JCCCs to new folks, but more worrying that it could end up that way due to supply and demand and pre-booking for attendees of the prior cruise, similar to another popular cruise group (which I can’t recall and don’t have time to look up right now). The cruise seems to have some room to grow yet and challenges related to that growth to attend to, so hopefully that concern is nothing to worry about for a while yet, as it would be sad for those who haven’t been lucky enough to experience JCCC to be locked out. Hope to see you on board next year!Yes, a non-threaded timeline, ala actual Twitter, with the ability to trackback, would be great. Or at least options for each style. Also, if users were alerted that they had DMs, that would be something (though a little difficult without email notifications maybe). I used DMs the first few days to try to organize with some people (@chetman included) only to find out that they didn’t realize they had any messages. I changed tactics and started putting things directly into the public timeline with @ callouts, but even then things were lost quickly in that stream.
All of my whining aside, what we had, between the Cruise Monkey app and Twit-arrr, was an amazing set of tools for being in an environment that didn’t have any of that available before we arrived or after we left. Thank you and keep up the excellent work code and IT monkeys! Hopefully there will be extra bananas in your rations next year.There is an errant comma at the end of the link. I was able to get to the invite at this address: https://plus.google.com/events/ceq6arqjqb8n1ip9icj5r38d9e0 I use G+ Hangouts a fair amount, but I just create the hangouts on demand, not ahead of time. There is a way to make an “on air event’ but that doesn’t seem to mean it has a hangout, but rather it is a way to make the event publicly viewable but privately modified.