An Annoucement From RMC:Terminal And Algorithm:Black - Chat Log Here.

Whoah...

You guys are incredible: smartest move yet, and I'll definately be there for the chat Sunday.

ha good plan. the Alg:Black last day was really entertaining from the radio point of view. Ill be tuning in ^_^

This sounds excellent.  I'll be tuning in. 

And thus the hand reaches further.

@_@

Well, I just want to congratulate you guys on some successful stuff and wish you the best of luck.

I think it might be a tad ambitious, so just remember, if you can't keep it IC all the time, you can always go to regularly scheduled time slots for radio shows or something.

H'mm. This smacks of theX to me. Just make sure you don't get too ambitious. " /> Good luck with it!

Radio shows, please! Could always talk about real news " />

I remember listening to that one show on RFZ with Zesty-O.. good times.. :-p fun way to start off a morning, lol.

Procurator wrote:

H'mm. This smacks of theX to me. Just make sure you don't get too ambitious. " /> Good luck with it!

You got that feeling, too?

The op to tune in to an RP station has me intrigued. I will definitely look forward to this.

Look, even the banner in the OP reminds me of The X.

ZippyTheSquirrel wrote:

Procurator wrote:

H'mm. This smacks of theX to me. Just make sure you don't get too ambitious. " /> Good luck with it!

You got that feeling, too?

The op to tune in to an RP station has me intrigued. I will definitely look forward to this.

Look, even the banner in the OP reminds me of The X.

Ah, good observation.  Hope this doesn't go the way of The X.

Shadow-SK wrote:

ZippyTheSquirrel wrote:

Procurator wrote:

H'mm. This smacks of theX to me. Just make sure you don't get too ambitious. " /> Good luck with it!

You got that feeling, too?

The op to tune in to an RP station has me intrigued. I will definitely look forward to this.

Look, even the banner in the OP reminds me of The X.

Ah, good observation.  Hope this doesn't go the way of The X.

I don't see Havocide getting hitched and abandoning us anytime soon. Or ever.


=p

I've always wanted to jack in and listen to recent events as heard by bluepills.... Ad's would be great. I hope the IC style lasts.

An awesome idea, I'll look forward to seeing how it works!  ^_^

On a side note:

Awesome sig UnknownShadow! 

Vinia wrote:

I've always wanted to jack in and listen to recent events as heard by bluepills.... Ad's would be great. I hope the IC style lasts.

What she said!

Cool! I hope there will be some broadcast in Europa time to

-MIND-

An awesome idea, I'll look forward to seeing how it works!  ^_^

On a side note:

Awesome sig UnknownShadow!  " width="15" height="15" />

What do we have to do in order to get our ads aired?

Wait, does this mean you won't be able to play any music released past 1999? " />

But no, seriously, good move and looking forward to seeing how it goes.

cloudwolf wrote:

Wait, does this mean you won't be able to play any music released past 1999? ">

But no, seriously, good move and looking forward to seeing how it goes.

That does many plenty of Backstreet Boys and Spice Girls " width="15" height="15"> .


But on a side note will you be integrating "advertising" of a sort for various factions (in subliminal ways I'm guessing)? A good way to help newbies in getting into the game as well as keeping vet's appraised of current events.

-Amaterasu

Amaterasu wrote:

cloudwolf wrote:

Wait, does this mean you won't be able to play any music released past 1999? ">

But no, seriously, good move and looking forward to seeing how it goes.

That does many plenty of Backstreet Boys and Spice Girls " width="15" height="15"> .


But on a side note will you be integrating "advertising" of a sort for various factions (in subliminal ways I'm guessing)? A good way to help newbies in getting into the game as well as keeping vet's appraised of current events.

-Amaterasu

I was thinking about subliminal faction or Org messages in advertisments.. as long as they are subtle, it'd be good to listen to! Hopefully we won't be stuck in the 90's song wise... there is only so much Spice Girls and backstreet boys I can handle! Perhaps payment required for advertisments (fairly high $i and fair approval needed from RMC) this can go toward funding competitions etc.....

That's kind of the idea. Faction ads will be allowed as long as they're subliminal and bluepill friendly. I mean, we wouldn't want something like "Join ____________, we pwn in Mara C" to air.

- Timecode
Algorithm: Black Development

But on a side note will you be integrating "advertising" of a sort for various factions (in subliminal ways I'm guessing)? A good way to help newbies in getting into the game as well as keeping vet's appraised of current events.

-Amaterasu

We'll be offering the chance for all factions to advertise on RMC:Terminal! We'll also have the ads from local businesses. Come join us on the xfire chat on Sunday January 6th at 2:00 pm pacific time to get the full details on how this will work.

cloudwolf wrote:

Wait, does this mean you won't be able to play any music released past 1999?

But no, seriously, good move and looking forward to seeing how it goes.

That would seriously bite if we only had music up to 1999.  Luckily, we're not doing that. We'll have the latest music releases being played along side others. It really just comes down to the DJ's preferences.
 

 Vinia wrote:

So, what do you project the transmission hours to be? I mean I'd love to be able to jack in at any time during the day and listen to the radio, but unless you have dj's from all timezones and perhaps some backups just in case, you wouldn't be able to do it like that would you?

We plan on hiring more DJs, but we also plan to have a DJ bot, which will pick up the feed when our DJs go off the air. The Bot will be choosing and playing music while no other DJ is available.. So when a DJ comes on, they can kick the Bot off the air and take over.  Then when the DJ leaves the DJ Bot will take back over. This will allows us to have music and commercials playing non stop for 24 hours a day. 

But like I said, if you all want the full scoop on what's to come. Come join us on the Xfire chat. It's Sunday January 6th, 2008. At 2:00 pm pacific time. (That's 5:00 pm Eastern, and 10:00pm GMT) If you want to join, send your xfire username to havocide through pm on the forums.

Hope to see you all there!

-Mercio

RMC:Terminal DJ

That would seriously bite if we only had music up to 1999.

I think this is a great idea.  So what will you call it now?

RMC: Algorithm has a nice ring to it.

I think this is a great idea.  So what will you call it now?

RMC: Algorithm has a nice ring to it.

Vinia wrote:

So, what do you project the transmission hours to be? I mean I'd love to be able to jack in at any time during the day and listen to the radio, but unless you have dj's from all timezones and perhaps some backups just in case, you wouldn't be able to do it like that would you?

We plan on hiring more DJs, but we also plan to have a DJ bot, which will pick up the feed when our DJs go off the air. The Bot will be choosing and playing music while no other DJ is available.. So when a DJ comes on, they can kick the Bot off the air and take over.  Then when the DJ leaves the DJ Bot will take back over. This will allows us to have music and commercials playing non stop for 24 hours a day. 

Wait, does this mean you won't be able to play any music released past 1999? " width="15" height="15" />

But no, seriously, good move and looking forward to seeing how it goes.

cloudwolf wrote:

Wait, does this mean you won't be able to play any music released past 1999? " width="15" height="15">

But no, seriously, good move and looking forward to seeing how it goes.

Actually it would be a moot point if you think about it. That LE post that stated that it's always 1999 said that every year the Machines roll time back basically, making everyone think that the things that happened in the previous year actually happened in 1998 and the rest of the years shift accordingly. So, for example, a song that was released in 1999 would now be considered to be released in 1998. New music would still be coming out, but the bluepills would just see it as being released in 1999, so that leaves RMC free to use all new music from a RP standpoint.

Mercio wrote:

Vinia wrote:

So, what do you project the transmission hours to be? I mean I'd love to be able to jack in at any time during the day and listen to the radio, but unless you have dj's from all timezones and perhaps some backups just in case, you wouldn't be able to do it like that would you?

We plan on hiring more DJs, but we also plan to have a DJ bot, which will pick up the feed when our DJs go off the air. The Bot will be choosing and playing music while no other DJ is available.. So when a DJ comes on, they can kick the Bot off the air and take over.  Then when the DJ leaves the DJ Bot will take back over. This will allows us to have music and commercials playing non stop for 24 hours a day. 

Sounds good to me! BTW Timecode, what would the K stand for? I've never understood the American style radio station naming conventions... we have Radio 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,  Radio (insert county here) and a few others (and more on digital)

I can answer you and Procurator on that question since I work in broadcasting.

American radio and television stations use what is known as call letters. Basically, these are identification codes. They're always 4 letters, with the first always being K or W, depending on where they are located, and the last 3 are whatever they decide to use, typically an abbreviation for whatever name they like to call themselves. For example, the TV station I work for calls itself Volunteer TV, and our call letters are WVLT.

The regional breakdown is like this: Any station located west of the Mississippi River uses K as the first letter, anything located east of the Mississippi uses W. Now, back when we were doing EPN Radio, we used to do the RP thing that RMC is going to do, and we called ourselves KEPN, and we chose K based on the fact that Mega City was at least partially based on Chicago so we assumed that any station located in the city would most likely have K as the leading character in their call letters. Now, I know RMC has some of the same DJ's as we had, so they're probably building on that assumption.

Hope that helps

Anyways, this is exciting news. I hope this goes over well. And I hope they do what we tried to do and kind of give the commercials a humorous feel like the radio stations in Grand Theft Auto.

Vinia wrote:

Mercio wrote:

Vinia wrote:

So, what do you project the transmission hours to be? I mean I'd love to be able to jack in at any time during the day and listen to the radio, but unless you have dj's from all timezones and perhaps some backups just in case, you wouldn't be able to do it like that would you?

We plan on hiring more DJs, but we also plan to have a DJ bot, which will pick up the feed when our DJs go off the air. The Bot will be choosing and playing music while no other DJ is available.. So when a DJ comes on, they can kick the Bot off the air and take over.  Then when the DJ leaves the DJ Bot will take back over. This will allows us to have music and commercials playing non stop for 24 hours a day. 

Sounds good to me! BTW Timecode, what would the K stand for? I've never understood the American style radio station naming conventions... we have Radio 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,  Radio (insert county here) and a few others (and more on digital)

I can answer you and Procurator on that question since I work in broadcasting. " />

American radio and television stations use what is known as call letters. Basically, these are identification codes. They're always 4 letters, with the first always being K or W, depending on where they are located, and the last 3 are whatever they decide to use, typically an abbreviation for whatever name they like to call themselves. For example, the TV station I work for calls itself Volunteer TV, and our call letters are WVLT.

The regional breakdown is like this: Any station located west of the Mississippi River uses K as the first letter, anything located east of the Mississippi uses W. Now, back when we were doing EPN Radio, we used to do the RP thing that RMC is going to do, and we called ourselves KEPN, and we chose K based on the fact that Mega City was at least partially based on Chicago so we assumed that any station located in the city would most likely have K as the leading character in their call letters. Now, I know RMC has some of the same DJ's as we had, so they're probably building on that assumption.

Hope that helps " />

Anyways, this is exciting news. I hope this goes over well. And I hope they do what we tried to do and kind of give the commercials a humorous feel like the radio stations in Grand Theft Auto. " />

Archangel wrote:

cloudwolf wrote:

Wait, does this mean you won't be able to play any music released past 1999? " width="15" height="15">

But no, seriously, good move and looking forward to seeing how it goes.

Actually it would be a moot point if you think about it. That LE post that stated that it's always 1999 said that every year the Machines roll time back basically, making everyone think that the things that happened in the previous year actually happened in 1998 and the rest of the years shift accordingly. So, for example, a song that was released in 1999 would now be considered to be released in 1998. New music would still be coming out, but the bluepills would just see it as being released in 1999, so that leaves RMC free to use all new music from a RP standpoint.

I didn't actually mean it that seriously but you do raise an excellent point. This means the station could do stuff like 'the best of 1999' and say things like 'a classic from 199x' and it could be a 200x song. That would be trippy and show a really cool level of detail. ^_^