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STATE OF THE GAME #2
STATE OF THE GAME
We hope American players are coming out of their Turkey Day comas and everyone else is only lightly hibernating for the holidays!
As before, we appreciate the feedback received from players and hope to adjust things accordingly to make the game a smoother, stress-free experience for all. We're here for fun and we want to make that as easy to achieve as possible!
This post will highlight the changes we made in November, housekeeping items/reminders, and a list of people who will be swept due to missing AC.
So, without further ado...
As before, we appreciate the feedback received from players and hope to adjust things accordingly to make the game a smoother, stress-free experience for all. We're here for fun and we want to make that as easy to achieve as possible!
This post will highlight the changes we made in November, housekeeping items/reminders, and a list of people who will be swept due to missing AC.
So, without further ado...
UPDATES
While we will mention updates as well on our mod plurk, we're repeating them here for folks who don't have one.
You can check for the
tag on pages to see what we've added or clarified on!
You can check for the
tag on pages to see what we've added or clarified on!- ⁂ After some feedback and re-evaluating the activity reward system, we've made an adjustment to the way it works! Our goal was to incentivize activity, not limit or punish people, and hopefully these changes reflect that. You can see the updates on the activity page under How do bonds work? But for the simple version: players will now be allowed to 'bank' any excess threads to submit in future months to hit the 20 a month bond cap.
⁂ Since we are leaving activity rewards up to players to keep track of and submit, we wanted to highlight how it should be done since a few people now have enough bonds for rewards! Players can simply mention the points they are spending for their reward in that month's activity comment.
For things like extra character slots or setting additions, we'll double-check to make sure but, again, are trusting players to handle this themselves. We'll also give the chance for players to edit accordingly to add bonds, claim rewards, etc. if need be for November until December 4th!
⁂ We will be honest here and say we completely forgot about The King of Misrule crowning from the last event. We apologize for this and have since crowned a winner as well as give consolation prizes to others who participated. We hope everyone enjoys!
⁂ Character tags, as some may have noticed, weren't readily accessible to players. This is because Dreamwidth has a silly thing where administrator entered tags can't be seen by regular members until used at least once... by the administrator. We've added the current tags to the log template post on the logs comm and a private post in the network comm to allow them to be accessible to members going forward. Tags will be added regularly with claims that come in/are processed. If we're missing any or need to correct them, please let us know!
⁂ We will be updating the quest board in December! Since most of the quests were completed and we have some wonderful suggestions for new ones, we'll take the 'downtime' this month to update, fine-tune, and hopefully give people something to look forward to with side quests. We appreciate people's engagement with it and suggestions!
⁂ The calendar has been updated for December! Previous months will be in headers on the page as a 'timeline' of sorts for players to look back on or refresh themselves about happenings in-game. Make sure to utilize this to know what the weather is like or any mini-events that might be coming up!
REMINDERS
Just a few quick reminders from us:
- ⁂ The test drive memes will be once a quarter so the next one isn't until January! After some feedback, we'll also be adding a top-level directory thread going forward since it was something brought to our attention that would be helpful.
⁂ For people wanting to party up, James made a helpful quest plotting post for people to utilize!
⁂ Character claims are always open until we hit the player cap! So, please keep checking back on this post for new players or characters that might be added to ensure everyone receives a warm welcome!
⁂ We do also ask that people make sure they have an invitation extended to them for the game by a current player or moderator if using the mod contact page for an invitation request. While we're glad to have you, we just want to avoid any awkward misunderstandings that might arise from people using invitations without being given explicit permission to.
⁂ Exclusive Quest submissions are limited and will be RNGed with preference given to people who haven't completed any yet!
CLAIMS, WARNING LIST, AND DROPS
NOVEMBER CLAIMS
These characters were claimed during the month of November! Make sure to help them feel welcome!- ⁂ Dirk Strider » Homestuck »
sugar_freed⁂ Kanskje » FFXIV »
blodgjeld⁂ Zenos Galvus » FFXIV »
asheaveniswideNOVEMBER WARNING LIST
These are the characters who did not check-in. Characters claimed within the last few days of the month are exempt and we will let them check-in next month as usual.You have forty-eight (48) hours, barring extenuating circumstances, to contact a moderator or complete your check-in before being removed from the communities.
ecad⁂ Ko Tenjin » Handead Anthem »
exaltruistic⁂ Gara Ukai » Handead Anthem »
shurajodo⁂ Atsuhide Eburi » Handead Anthem »
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