The Friend Manual: How to make friends when you're bad at it

So, the next thing to look at with the experience map is to view it through time.

So, we took the map, and then separated it into bands.

Next, we take those bands and on each level we show the total time spent at that number or higher. So, if I am looking at the “0” band, the band is shaded for all of the time spent in the neutral to positive space (0, +1, +2, and +3).

If I re-label the vertical axis, then it starts to have more meaning.

I have changed the numbers as follows:

• +3 = Exciting!
• +2 = Fun!
• +1 = Happy!
• 0 = Neutral
• -1 = Slight irritation
• -2 = Managed frustration
• -3 = Accepts all outcomes regardless of feelings

So, if I look at the “0” axis again, now named “Neutral”, then the shading indicates all of the time I spent either in the neutral, happy, fun, and exciting state.

What does this mean?

I have more thoughts I’ll share in the next post!

To be continued….