outsidersooc | announcements + game HMD

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

We know that not all players here are familiar with the Mass Effect universe. While we’ve done our best to explain everything, it’s hard for us to judge how much or how little information we have since we already know it. Please let us know if there are things you are confused by, and we’ll add things to the game pages from there.

While I am familiar with the setting myself, I think a rough map of Omega station would be good. A side view with highlighted areas like they show in the ME2 loading/travel scenes with just a few labels for various districts and where they are in conjunction with each other. This would help with figuring out how far Mordin's Clinic or Aria's club is from Zeta District, etc, etc.

Seconding this; I'm canon-blind and I'm handwaving a lot of details since I just don't really know stuff like the layout of the station or what things look and feel like on a civilian level. What sort of shop NPCs are there? What's the spread of races or race relations? Are some races more prevalent in some areas than others? How big and populated is Zeta district?

I like that there was a link to a video of a relevant part of the playthrough to show the adjutants for the event, and I think it would be helpful if the settings pages had links to videos that also show that kind of stuff. I'm leaning a lot on the ME wikia and hoping I'll get lucky finding the right clips on youtube, but without being familiar with the setting, it's hard to know what I'm looking for.

Thank you both for the suggestions! We'll see about making the immediate playing area more accessible, as well as give a reference for the station as a whole. We'll also provide links to videos that give a better idea.

This will probably require us to build another info page, so please bear with us as we get everything pulled together.

I'm not sure if this should go under Plot or Setting, but I'll put it under here. A quick reference of all of the capabilities of an omni-tool or a description more thorough than the one provided by the ME Wikia would be really helpful. I believe a mod answered an inquiry that a map of Omega is provided and accessible on the omni-tool, but many characters may not know about it. It's been awhile since I've played through the games, so I've forgotten most of the other features it may have (or more thorough descriptions than the list.) Since the omni-tool is such a large part of the character's life while on Omega, it may be beneficial to do a write-up on it.

I'm curious about the potential for military-style modifications to character omni-tools and if this would be a possibility in the future. (Such as omni-blades and the class variations along those lines.)

Also, there have are some (so to speak) player-created locations. For the sake of things overlapping and being more connected, I suggest having a place where these can be provided and listing characters important to these locations (such as workers). For example, with Kengo's job approval, Ariake Technologies is now an active business and Kengo will be working there as an assistant technician.

Regarding omni-tools: this was something we meant to have done, but it got lost in the shuffle of many to-do lists. Thank you for the reminder, and we'll be sure to make this information available.

As far as locations go, we definitely want the players to be a part of the worldbuilding process. Omega may be a setting taken from an existing game, but there are a lot of little details missing that allow us to flesh things out. In the short term, we could have a page for players to post locations and organizations their characters are involved with to more easily foster CR and development. We'll work on this for sure.

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