If you want FL to benefit from FB then you will need to make it so to play FL al you need is FB. Then your tapping into the community, until then all your doing is trying to fit square pegs into round holes.
FL with a built in chatroom? No thanks. I prefer our multi-tiered approach we currently have with the FB, me being able to CHOOSE MY OWN MUD PLATFORM (Gmud all the way baby).
As for people deleting, I don't care. It gets the point out. The substance will come from the game play. A rise in playerbase is all we need. Deletions are going to happen. The point is to get the message out. Substance is everything else in game. You can quantify quantity, but quantifying quality is difficult at best.
And as I recall, people have multiple FB accounts for certain Zynga games. Like players have multiple characters. Does having multiple characters detract from substance? Does switching between characters detract from substance? Is there a difference between a character not being around for more than few hours a week an entire month and then popping up again next month for several hours a week because a player is switching characters in and out versus someone who puts in time, deletes, and starts a new one? I don't believe so. It's just a different month.
EDIT: With all due respect, I retreat from this thread. Good luck!
I have no idea what you're talking about in regard to your earlier points. It sounds like some sort of psuedo-corporate business-speak, so maybe you can translate that into something I can understand.
Sorry you dont like hearing counterpoints to things you support...but how can you ever improve anything if you treat every critic like they are insulting you.
Shhh man, I don't like the idea myself, I just think you need to take a chill pill.
Lets back up some though your talking temp quests, announcing things on fB
but you still have yet to address one of my earlier points...
Players on facebook already completly set their own rules in regards to information and ooc/ic knowledge
Immortals (staff) here still enforces their own set of rules
whose rules define what this kind of project is capable of?
You have to understand I am a VP who crushes developers ideas every day, they then get mad/defensive or whatever that guy does, and come back with newer sharper ideas. 
I'm not sure what you're asking for. It's not for me to decide how to hash out the rules or perform some kind of project justification, so please refrain from pulling out notes from your corporate leadership retreat, thanks.
Because this is an idea thread, I presented my idea as well as I'm able to, and the Imm staff can take it or leave it. If they take it, and need help implementing, they know how to reach me.
also, if you search for facebook muds there are several attempts and even some muds already doing what I suggested, as well as what Crypti suggested.
so please refrain from pulling out notes from your corporate leadership retreat, thanks.
and here I was told to be nicer? Look down your nose much?
I tend to look at all of the issues surrounding a suggestion..not just suggest it and leave others to worry about the problems.
Sorry man, but when you pop off with "I'm a VP who crushes developers ideas every day, they then get mad/defensive or whatever that guy does", you kind of opened yourself up to a response laced with smug and snark.
I personally like the idea.
Burn it with fire!
Fl is pretty cool... Facebook is pretty cool... seems like a good match to me.
It's a good idea and we should do it.
I do apologize for the way some of the criticism is handled Crypticant but do know that there are some of us here that truly respect your ideas and praise your interest in helping the mud to grow. I truly wish those like you are given a greater position of power to help these ideas become real.
FL spamming FB with whatever? No.
FL having client on FB to play FL? Hell yeah. 
(FL site got java client already)
OMG yes! That would be sweet!
Ok, so I haven't played in months and I have a little to add to this. (Btw ohai gaiz! How's everyone been?)
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I get enough updates as it is, with something ridiculous like 600 friends most of them clowns from high school and college that I don't talk to I already get more than enough notifications and general spam. FL adding more to it, as a vet, would just be annoying...BUT for a new player it would probably be sweet.
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So we would get notifications that an enemy cabal has killed one of our friends, our cabal is under attack, my dog has been kicked. Problem is I would immediately get that on my phone, be able to log in (either through a nearby comp or through iphone apps I have) and fight back. Doesn't that kind of take away the allure of knowing that things are happening in this persistent world that you don't know of because you're not around? Also doesn't it kind of take away from the strategy (and anyone who doesn't say that this is a tactic and strategy is a bold faced liar) of going and attacking when your enemies are in fewer numbers?
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What would this really do? We would want this for advertising purposes, and the game is so deep that most people would see this and be like wtf. We've gotten developers points of view but I wanna throw mine in as a salesman (sales and service of surveillance equipment for a major firm if you guys need anything like that 
). Cold calling doesn't work, the only people who do are desperately fishing for money. This completely unknown thing would be a type of cold call that people wouldn't understand and be angry. We're a rare breed and odds are most people wouldn't be interested, or even know how to mud. There's no way to really turn these into potential leads.
Just a couple of points for this 
4 minutes ago, egreir said:
thread necroooo
Had to one-up yourself, did you?
That being said, I'm surprised this wasn't archived. Almost an eight year necro.