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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">In general, MIT is getting less and less good for interestingly connected spaces as they update older buildings.
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<div>Patrol is still in 36-1; as you noticed, the old "patrol control room" is now off limits, which makes the two diagonal classrooms less interesting because they now only have one entrance. The other side of the floor is actually slightly more interesting
than it used to be, due to the tiny hallway that connects to back entrances of those three rooms.</div>
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<div>Aside from that, 34-3 has the two pairs of connected classrooms, but suffers from more NPC traffic through the lobby than we like (sometimes you'll get people dancing in 36-3 lobby, for example). </div>
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<div>38-1 lost the front one of the pair of classrooms, so now it just has the hallway, one classroom with only one entrance, and the little stairs down to the dead-end basement, so it is much less interesting than it used to be when there were two classrooms
that were connected.</div>
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<div>26 still has interesting classrooms, but there's a facilities person there who hates us, making it an unfortunate place for games that land on her shift (she called the cops on us repeatedly for things like using chalk on a chalkboard in a room we had
reserved...)</div>
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<div>The one nice thing that is new since your time is basement-32; it is just hallways, but it has a loop, some interesting cover, and connects to basement 26, so it is often used for "boss fight space"; you do various plots to unlock your way to 36 basement,
then 26 basement, then 32 basement, then you have a fairly nice space for a final fight/challenge.</div>
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<div>Even with those negative changes, 34/36/38 (sometimes plus 24, 26, basement-32, and/or the third floors of 35/37/37) is still the primary one-night space, as it is more connected than the rest of campus. The work in 2 and 4 has made them much nicer, but
also less connected and most of the rooms are locked, making 2/4/6 much less interesting; similarly 13/5 now have fewer classrooms making them less interesting. 12 was torn down recently, and is being replaced by something that is going to be locked down,
so there won't be any usable rooms there (and it won't even be open to walk through, so no more getting from 24 to 26 by going through 12 and 8....</div>
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<div>So, your best bet is to found a tech company that becomes the next google, and use your billions to build the guild its own off-campus gamespace :)</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 04, 2018 1:20 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [generic] Commonly-used one-day game areas?<br>
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<div dir="ltr">You might have more luck on <a href="mailto:assassin-discuss@mit.edu" target="_blank">
assassin-discuss@mit.edu</a>, since few current undergrads are on generic.
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<div>But at least for Patrol, 36-1 is still being used as the main space. 36/34/38-{1,2,3,4} is traditional one-night space, but it doesn't have as many nice multiple paths other than the stairwells.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 12:21 PM Mike Hammond <<a href="mailto:jmikehammond@gmail.com" target="_blank">jmikehammond@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I have this idea for an arbitrarily-rerunnable one-day game. It'd look kind of like Patrol, mostly, but with a few smaller competitions, events, skills, puzzles, etc. embedded into it. (Apologies if there have already been many games like this
- I sort of hope this isn't any kind of original idea in the slightest - but I hope to tie them together in a new and interesting way that's robust to being replayed over and over. But I digress.)<br>
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<div>So a couple days ago I was in Cambridge and decided to wander around the building 36 area to see how my decades-old understanding of the old physical space needed to change. Not only did I get to see the impossibly legendary Emergency Backup Toilet Paper
Storage Room - from the inside! - photos attached! - but I discovered that a large number of connections between hallways and areas in the 36/34/26 neighborhood have been blocked or re-designed away. In particular, a lot of rooms and hallways and spaces that
used to have two or more approaches now only have one. That won't work for what I'm picturing.<br>
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<div>Where do you kids these days play Patrol and your one-day games that depend on there being multiple paths to get from place to place?</div>
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<div>Thanks very much!</div>
<div> --JMike (J. Michael Hammond '87)</div>
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