Discussion | Activity Requirements & Hiatus Exemption

[ironwood]

So, Tu Shanshu has been open for three and a half months now, and you know what that means? It means we're starting to go through and refine some of our policies and rules, just to make sure that everybody's still on the same page and that everything is still working for our playerbase!

The first thing coming under scrutiny is our ACTIVITY REQUIREMENT. As it currently stands, Tushan requires two pieces of activity – a post and ten comments in someone else's post. This is to ensure that there are both things to reply to and people replying to them!

But we've come far enough now and the pace of the game has settled somewhat. It's time to re-evaluate the current AC requirements and we're opening the floor to discussion.

There are several options as to how we could do AC in the future. Here's a few:

1. We start an either/or system. One post or twenty comments spread across a maximum of four threads in the AC period.
   
2. We continue with the current system of one post and ten comments spread across a maximum of two threads in the AC period.
   
3. We increase or decrease the number of posts, comments, or threads required to make AC.

Here's where you, the players, come in! What are your throughts on AC? Do you have any suggestions as to how we could refine it?

As a side note, any changes made to AC will impact the AC check for November 2012.

The second thing we're looking at is the HIATUS EXEMPTION, which currently stands at a character being exempt from AC for a month if they were on hiatus for three weeks within that month. Currently, we're looking at dropping that to a two week period, but would love any thoughts you might have on the topic!

Intro

[assworthsaving]

Hi, it's nice to meet you all! Newbie here and terrible with introductions so I'll keep this short- my name's Orphen and I'm bringing with me Nathan Drake from the PS3/Vita series Uncharted. He'll be your resident treasure hunter and lovable rogue for the duration of his stay. All around he's a pretty nice guy, history buff, but he can be a bit of a jerk if things rub him the wrong way.

I'm really excited to be here and nervous, so I'll be taking a few days to kinda look around a little and get situated. I have a plurk, twilightelegy, but can be easily reached via PMs as well. :)

and then roy was a bad plotmod

[ironwood]

Just a head's up - the Mausoleum is filled with human bodies, not kedan. This information was supposed to go into the write-up for the landfall event, and somehow I just completely managed to... not actually include it. Because I'm a genius, a genius is me.

BUT THERE YOU HAVE IT. Better late than never, right?


I guess this is a good place to also have a 'do you have any other questions about what's going on during Landfall' type post, if anyone has anything they'd like to ask.