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tushanshu_ooc2014-05-26 08:39 am
ironwood) wrote in tushanshu_ooc2014-05-26 08:39 am
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More Changes! (AC/Endgame)
(I am so sorry to keep filling up the OOC comm with these posts, we're trying to roll the changes out as they're coming up.)
ONE. Effective immediately, we are removing the double activity requirement for applying for a 4th character and changing it to "having passed the last two consecutive ACs with your full roster". This does not include passes gotten by hiatus or by new character exemption. The strike policy (one per character every six months) has not changed. If this goes well, we may consider expanding to larger rosters in the future.
EDITED TO ADD: If you are on hiatus but have passed the previous two ACs before the hiatus, you can still apply for a 4th character. For example, if you passed January and February's AC normally and were on hiatus for the month of March, you could still apply for a 4th character in April.
TWO. Later in June, the modteam will be reviewing the proposed endgame that was put into effect last year, to see whether it still fits with the plan of the game -- specifically, we will be looking at removing it if that seems feasible. As such, we'd like to invite all our players to express their opinions on that potential change in this post.
Thank you!
ONE. Effective immediately, we are removing the double activity requirement for applying for a 4th character and changing it to "having passed the last two consecutive ACs with your full roster". This does not include passes gotten by hiatus or by new character exemption. The strike policy (one per character every six months) has not changed. If this goes well, we may consider expanding to larger rosters in the future.
EDITED TO ADD: If you are on hiatus but have passed the previous two ACs before the hiatus, you can still apply for a 4th character. For example, if you passed January and February's AC normally and were on hiatus for the month of March, you could still apply for a 4th character in April.
TWO. Later in June, the modteam will be reviewing the proposed endgame that was put into effect last year, to see whether it still fits with the plan of the game -- specifically, we will be looking at removing it if that seems feasible. As such, we'd like to invite all our players to express their opinions on that potential change in this post.
Thank you!
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I don't have anything concrete at the moment, but there are a few ideas kind of floating around my head right now.
Like you said, there's the possibility of gardens. Or, assuming that Rations are going into affect once more, people who might be able to focus on things like food and supplies deliveries. It's something even a (capable) child would be able to do. Make them feel important enough that they're actually making a difference, since supplies are essential to any war-field. I know one player had recently suggested a postal service (Akito's mun, I think?), so this would be expanding a little further onto an idea that might have a more pressing need than postal.
There could be some Black Market shenanigans going on as well. Either the gangs of Fire getting restless and/or some For The Greater Good things happening, where people start to negociate less than honorable deals for honorable reasons. This could easily stem off some recent player activities in Fire where character such as Asami, Annabeth, and Zatanna had infiltrated their gang bases and taken down those who were raiding supplies from honest stores. The interesting thing about doing a Black Market as well would be to kind of blur the line between Good and Bad, as tends to happen in a War setting,
Soup kitchens are a possibility, if there are locals who were hit so hard by any recent attacks that their homes and resources were destroyed. Or a food bank of some kind. I recall a long time ago, Damian had made an arrangement with Eshai for the children of the Turtle, where those who were young enough would be absolved from Rations restrictions because THINK OF THE CHILDREN etc etc.
Totally going the Les Mis route here, but what if there was also some kind of future plot where the kedan themselves started to...well, not quite revolt, but verbally stand up for themselves? Like having soapbox rallys in the street or something all Les Miserables Style. I can hear it now:
"ASTI HAS SMILED UPON US THIS DAY/THE FATE OF THE TURTLE IN YOUR HAAAANDS/AND BLESSED BE THE FOREIGNERS/WHO FIGHT WITH ALL THEIR BRAVERY/WHEN ALL OF US SHOULD STAAAAAAND" medlying with a whole "BLAME MALICANT! BLAME MALICANT!"
...sorry, that was South Park, not Les Mis. But you get the idea. :P
Anyways, I would also LOVE to see more being done with the Death and Dreaming realms again, because I remember those events were huge. Especially since they were all about the individual characters themselves, and not just the World Setting. Another character-focused event might be just the thing to motivate the current playerbase, actually, because events like that are so customizable. And increasingly relevant with Malicant's influence.
(Actually, Annabeth's recent tag to Zatanna gave me an idea: what if Malicant's and/or the Dreaming/Death realms' influence were to spread to the characters themselves, even in Keelai? To the point where characters were starting to have Nightmares in their own suits, without crossing the realms? With maybe one or two dreams providing further plot clues or meta information?)
Anyways, like I said, those are just a few ideas off the top of my head.
Feel free to take or dismiss at your leisure~
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As to the ideas, my personal first step (as Kate) is to figure out the best way to go about these ideas in general - how much mods do vs how much players do, how we as mods can encourage/facilitate, etc. So with things like the Black Market and Soup Kitchen, how would you want to see them handled? Would you like the mods to run them? For an NPC affiliated with it but mainly run by players? Entirely run by players?
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The Soup Kitchen and Rations deliveries and minor things like that could be player run, because I think they're so "underground" that they wouldn't affect the plot directly. I actually only have a month left of work, myself, before summer vacation and would be happy to help out with things as a Player on my end, if needed/wanted.
However, something the Black Market idea DOES Have the potential to have long-term consequences over the game as a whole, and I think something like that would be better organized by one of the mods. Especially if Landfalls get involved as well.
So, basically, a mix between the two. Letting Players take charge to a certain degree, but also exerting mod presence for larger events as a continued reassurance that the people in charge are being proactive as well, y'know?
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Do you think there's a way we, as mods, can encourage players to create their own businesses/plots/events? Technically anyone can open a Soup Kitchen right now and it would be IC. Any ideas how we could make it easier, offer more support, or things like that?
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Well, regarding the Events, perhaps something similar to how Mission Credits were rewarded as a partial count towards AC? Like, so many credits towards actually organizing the event, so many credits towards timely IC posts towards the event, etc?
Regarding the creation of businesses...maybe there could be a special page dedicated to "Advertising" each of these businesses, so that the players will feel like they have more than just an invisible presence. Something cute, that either the player or the mods could write up. (Though I'm leaning more towards having the player do it, so that it's more personalized). Like maybe a single image followed by the business name and then a small description. And this page could be advertised each month, the way the game plurk's been doing those Link Roundup posts?
I also recall something that a friend in another game used to do; her character owned a tea shop, and every month would do a Catch-All log for things going on in the tea shop, whether it be holiday celebratory events, the announcement of a new menu item, etc etc. Now, I know something like this would be more on the player than the mod, But if the suggestion were simply put out there, then people might be able to use that as an "excuse" to do more action log posts and garner more AC for themselves and their CR. Or even provide opportunites for new CR! Guaranteed monthly ideas would be a pretty big motivator for some, if you ask me. Especially those less than social characters who might be more inclined to simply bury themselves in their work and have other characters come to them.
(...like how I was able to get some post ideas in the past from Zatanna's magic shop job, for instance.)
I'm not sure exactly on the "support" end, because to me, support just means availability and answering of any questions or concerns, and so far Li has already done that beautifully (at least, from my perspective, but then we talk all the time anyway so I might be a bit biased. :P) And here you are right now, responding to each of my inputs in a timely and respectfully considerate manner, so I say you're already pretty strong in that sense.
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And haha, thanks for the comments on support. We're definitely doing our best, but I know there's always more that can be done. c:
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