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Activity Check | March 1-31, 2014
- REMINDER: Welcome to the new Activity Check format! As outlined in the State of the Shell update post back in February, we have officially shifted over to an entirely comment-based requirements for reporting monthly activity. We have included a Questions header in the comments section below so please don't hesitate to ask us to clarify anything you need.
This period of AC covers March 1st to March 31st and in order to qualify for this period, the threads in question need to fall on posts or logs started between these dates. Backtagging is fine – the AC has a grace period of seven days in which to continue existing threads up to the 7th in order to make the required comment count. For example, if your thread is standing at 17 comments and the final 3 comments are added between the 31st and the 7th, that's totally acceptable! However starting a thread (for example on the 4th) on a post made from the previous month (on the 28th) would not count.
→ 20 comments by your character
- May be reached in a maximum of four separate threads; IC inboxes do not count.
- Twenty overall comments from your character, not the final total of the thread(s) itself.
- Reaction spam (or icon chain) comments (like 1/4... etc) only count as one reply.
- In the instance of closed logs or locked network posts with no public content, please note that only one thread from these entries qualifies for the AC's overall comment count, including the entry itself.
- EXAMPLE: If you make a log locked to two people that accumulates one thread with 10 comments and a second thread with 10 comments, you can only use one of them rather than the whole post counting as the required 20 comments. However if the same post were to have two people reply but one of the threads hit 20 comments by that character in itself including the entry as a "starter comment", that could be used. This only applies to closed logs/posts that limit the number of participants; multiple threads from public network posts or from open/catch-all logs are exempted from this stipulation.
- If you have used a thread with a single character to meet your entire AC in one month (all 20+ comments), you are NOT ALLOWED to solely use that same character again in the following month for the entire AC.
- EXAMPLE: I'm playing Luke Skywalker and for this month's AC I used a single thread with Han Solo (with 20+ comments) to make my comment AC. That means that next month, I'm not permitted to use only Han again, even if I've done a dozen threads with other characters since. However, 20 comments accumulated across threads with Leia Organa, Yoda AND Han Solo is perfectly acceptable.
Characters accepted in March 2014 or who were on official and approved hiatus for two weeks or more during the activity period are exempt from the Activity Check. Your AC status (exempted/not exempted) is included as part of your hiatus confirmation comment. However, everyone is encouraged to fill it out so that we have a record of your activity, and so we don't accidentally sweep anyone from the game.
If for any reason you have been unable to meet the AC and your character is 'swept' from the game, you may reclaim this character once within a 6-month period if you reply to the Activity Check results. If that particular character lands on the AC again, you will need to re-apply for them, except in the case of extenuating circumstances. Characters who are not reclaimed will be considered dropped and removed from the game.
ADDITIONAL NOTE: For those interested in apping a 4th character at the conclusion of this AC, please be advised we do look for additional activity before approval to app a 4th will be granted. That means we are looking for double AC -- that is, 40 comments per character from your existing three characters.
MISSION CREDITS
You will also notice a subsection in the AC comment form that deals with mission credits. Only use this section if you are claiming any credits for your character(s) for this month, if they participated in player or mod missions. Remember that these are NOT part of your required monthly AC in any way! If you're not claiming any credits, you can leave that section blank or delete it entirely.
Each mission your character undergoes (threaded out with at least ten comments from your character, across any number of subthreads in the mission log) is worth a full credit, and each handwaved mission is worth half a credit. Please note: only missions that you yourself come up with can be handwaved; the 'mod missions' are ones where participation is considered mandatory, as you are filling a limited slot. Credits can be exchanged for IC favours with Evandau or from Eva, with greater rewards being offered for a greater sum of points. (ie: if you log five missions over a five month period, you will have five credits to bank, if you log three missions and handwave two you will have four credits, etc.)
We will strongly consider anything you would like to see for your character at this time! Examples of such rewards might be items with magical properties, monetary compensation or special possessions, access to plot development information, etc. Your credits will be confirmed by the mods and added to a spreadsheet for tracking.
IMPORTANT: Only credits notated and confirmed on the AC posts count, so if you don't include them, they won't count towards your overall tally when you go to claim them. ETA: Credits can be claimed until the close of the AC on the 7th of the month, so threads in the mission logs can be continued until then towards your overall comment tally.
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