What is POSX?

In Groundcrew, "posx" stands for "positive experience". Players accumulate posx points whenever they are involved with someone else having a positive experience—for instance when they give someone an assignment that's appreciated, or participate in an assignment that makes a wish come true. Posx points cannot be "spent"--under normal conditions, a player's posx will only increase as they continue to play. This makes posx a kind of reputation currency, similar to the seller point system on eBay. Groundcrew is a reputation economy or gift economy.

POSX gives players an incentive to be honest and to help each other out. Players with high posx enjoy certain advantages in the community of Groundcrew. First and foremost, any wishes/desires/challenges from high posx players are prioritized when presented to dispatchers to be made real. Secondly, more agents and physical resources become available to high posx players. When a new player is dispatching, they can only see a small subset of the players and objects available on the map. As players gain a track record of generating positive experience, they are allowed to see more and more, including more high value / high risk shared objects like donated automobiles, shared swimming pools, etc, which are not revealed to beginners.

Getting Started with Groundcrew

* Press the SHIFT key while clicking on an agent, either on the bar at the bottom of the screen, or on the map, to select that agent. This way you can send a message to multiple agents.

Other help

See http://groundcrew.us/help.