announcements + game HMD

[ceoqueen]

Hello, Outsiders! We’ve been open just over a month now, and I hope everyone’s enjoying the game so far! There’s still plenty we can improve on, though, and this post is the place to let us know about it.

First, a couple of announcements:

φ We’re going to have our first AC this weekend! Don’t worry -- we’re not checking for activity yet! All you have to do for this AC is link to your acceptance notice, Of course, if you already have activity that meets the requirements, feel free to link that too. We’re just using this as a headcount and to get an idea of how the game pace fits in with our AC requirements.

φ We’ll have a player HMD near the end of the month. We plan on running these every other month or so, but we’ll let you know the exact dates as we get closer. As we require all players to have a HMD post in the journal of each character they play, this isn’t a mandatory HMD -- though we certainly encourage it!

φ Look out for a test drive meme next week! Again, these will likely happen every couple of months, depending on interest.

GAME HMD

We’re still a new game, and we’re definitely still going through growing pains. We’ve set up the game in the ways that made the most sense to us, but just because we have it one way doesn’t mean we can’t do it another way. We want you guys to have fun here, after all, and we’re very open to feedback.

We’ve set up a couple of threads below with topics we’d like feedback on, but feel free to post something else if you have it!

If you’re not comfortable leaving it here, feel free to use the mod contact post to leave us feedback, or contact a mod privately. Otherwise, please use the comments below to let us know what you think.

Comments

APPLICATIONS

[ceoqueen]

We are definitely still ironing out our app process, and we know it’s caused some confusion among prospective players. We recently added a note to the setting portion of the app to try and make things clearer, but we’d really like to hear what you guys think. Our goal is to make the app process as straightforward as possible.

Re: APPLICATIONS

[millenia]

I am having difficulty understanding why ME OCs are kosher, but OCs from other canons are not. I freely admit I have not played ME, so maybe there is a difference I'm unaware of, but it seems to me like crafting a ME OC is not unlike crafting a D&D character. Or probably closer, another MMO character from a character creation screen. You are given a world to work in, you make your character and then you go make your place in the story - big or small.

I totally get the restrictions you put on ME OCs (not related to canon characters, etc) and why they are needed. So why can't you just subject other canons to those stipulations?

Can you please explain?

[ceoqueen]

This is actually something we've discussed about implementing. It's not something we wanted to open up the game with, since we wanted to take some time to figure out our application processing, but now that we've got a few rounds under our belt it's something we're looking at more. We started with Mass Effect OCs since we're obviously familiar with the canon and setting, but as you said, we can extend this to other canons. Of course, if we're not familiar with the canon at all, it's a lot harder to judge an OC, so we'd like to take the time to figure out how it'll work on our end before implementing it.

[millenia]

Ahhh. Okay, that all makes sense. I figured it was something to the effect of "we are a new game, and this is what we know." I just wanted to be sure I wasn't missing some other point. And I'm glad to hear you're seriously considering expanding it!

Though one thing: y'all allow straight-up OCs, right? I would argue that you definitely don't know those "canons", and unlike a canon-based OC, there's not any info you could look up really quick in order to get a general feel, so wouldn't that make them even harder to judge?

[ceoqueen]

Yep! That was the exact discussion we had when we talked about it. So we're definitely taking it into consideration, and we'll let you guys know when things change up.