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Projekt Exodus is an educational Live Action Role Playing (LARP) game and based off the 2003 version of Battlestar Galactica. February 4th and 5th are preparatory days, February 5th - 7th are game days, and February 8th is reflection day. There are 80 participants (and a fee of about €300 for each participant). The game will be played on a retired German destroyer and is even sponsored partially by the German government. It will even include custom hardware and software. A few more details about the game itself can be found here as a PDF.
The game itself will be private so players can be more free to explore, but there are pictures of some of the work they are doing.
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Battlestar Galactica LARP on Retired German Destroyer
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(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Saturday February 07 2015, @09:43AM
Sounds like the game was over at the time the article made it to the main page... Any chance to get more editors to shorten the time articles are pending in the pipeline? (Or am I missing something and the game is planned for 2016?)
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(Score: 4, Informative) by maxwell demon on Saturday February 07 2015, @10:07AM
From the web page:
So if you happen to be in or near Wilhelmshaven (or can get there tomorrow), you can still visit the site, although not to participate obviously.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 5, Informative) by jbWolf on Saturday February 07 2015, @10:49AM
Submitter here. The game is now, in 2015.
My wife happened to read this yesterday in the German news and told it to me late last night. (Well, it was night time in Germany where I live.) Because it is predominantly German based (the entire LARP is / was being played in German), I immediately looked up all the English information I could find and submitted the article. The editors were very much on top of this. It was a sheer stroke of luck that it even made on Soylent News as there isn't very much German coverage either. You found out about it approximately 12 hours after I did.
I purposely put those dates in the submission because I knew they had already started and I wanted to make it clear what was happening when otherwise the summary would be really confusing.
TL;DR: It's all my fault! Not the editors!
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(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Saturday February 07 2015, @11:12AM
Thanks for the information. It was a bit confusing to read the story as a future story, but that doesn't make the content less interesting.
It was not my intention to blame the editors either; when looking at the funding goal and the current status, I think they are all working voluntarily as the 3000$ soylentnews collected so far is hardly enough to cover the material/hosting costs. Clearly, they deserve our thanks and constructive criticism, but definitely no blame unless doing anything malicious.
Looking at the submission queue [soylentnews.org] however, there seem to be stories in the queue for weeks sometimes, and giving editor-rights to some of our interested regulars might help, even if each of those would only check one article a week. I'd propose requirements like
Basically this would mean everyone part of soylentnews long enough and not obviously trolling would be able to register as an editor (or peer-reviewer). Alternatively it would be interesting, but maybe harder to implement, to have a voting option for the submission pipeline: Those interested could take a look at the pending submissions and vote them up, editors could work through the list based on these votes.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 08 2015, @12:36AM
I'm glad you did, these sort of live action games are awesome and the battlestar universe could work really well if they wind in the idea that anyone could be a cylon.
Personally I think it would be even better if some of the characters were also hallucinating...
(Score: 2) by Fnord666 on Saturday February 07 2015, @04:14PM
Sounds like the game was over at the time the article made it to the main page... Any chance to get more editors to shorten the time articles are pending in the pipeline? (Or am I missing something and the game is planned for 2016?)
I peek at the queue regularly and I have not seen this story there. I must have been submitted very recently, in which case the editors did a good job of getting it to the front page in a timely manner.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 07 2015, @05:05PM
Am I the only one who could not care less for these sci-fi nerd games? Let's purify the site. Leave it on slash.