Children of Bahamut OOC

As mentioned before, the SotG post will only go up now when we have things to say. Which, surprise! We do this month after a couple of quiet ones.

As always, 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, updates planned, housekeeping items, and the most recent list of claims, check-in warnings, and drops.

So, without further ado...

ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPDATES

While we will mention updates as well on our mod plurk and Discord server, 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!

⁂ The quest board is going to be revised. While we originally intended for it to be something players used to build up their reputation in the setting to access new areas, the smaller size and pace of the game made it feel more like an obstacle. We don't want it to seem like we're withholding anything from players, so we'll be changing how the quest board works.

Rather than reputation, quests will reward bonds once looked over and adjusted to be fair. That way, we can still proceed with metaplot and world setting updates while players are free to use their bonds to influence the setting and their own reputations.

We hope to have this updated and finalized sometime this month!

⁂ The calendar has been updated for May! 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!

⁂ Also, as you can no doubt see, the updated calendar brings the news that May's event is delayed. While we strive to be prepared and start each month off with something new and fun, April was just not kind to either of your head moderators. Rather than push out an event just to have it done, we wanted to take a bit more time to ensure it was what we were both satisfied with and comfortable bringing to the playerbase.

As of right now, the goal is for the event and plotting post to be up on Monday, May 5th. If this changes, we'll let everyone know ASAP!

REMINDERS

Just a few quick reminders from us:

⁂ The test drive meme is up on the meme comm and still plenty active! Tell your friends! After some feedback, we added a top-level directory thread for new players but current players are still free to top-level and play on the TDM as well!

⁂ Character claims are always open until we hit the player cap!

CLAIMS, WARNING LIST, AND DROPS

Hello and welcome to the month of love! We adore you, dear playerbase, and are glad to be able to continue to bring you fun draconic content!

As always, 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 or updates we made in January, housekeeping items/reminders, and a list of claims, check-in warnings, and drops.

So, without further ado...

UPDATES

While we will mention updates as well on our mod plurk and Discord server, 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!

⁂ The quest board was updated last month! There's also a partner plotting post facilitated by James for the new ones. We're continuing to add all the currently player suggested quests so keep them coming!

⁂ The calendar has been updated for February! 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 meme is up on the meme comm! Tell your friends! After some feedback, we've added a top-level directory thread and a separate section for rockstar profiles to be posted rather than it being baked into the test drive meme itself. (This is subject to change, if people are finding they'd rather have the option for both in their own top-levels- Let us know!)

⁂ Character claims are always open until we hit the player cap! So, please keep checking back on the current plotting post for new players or characters that might be added to ensure everyone receives a warm welcome!

CLAIMS, WARNING LIST, AND DROPS

Hello and welcome to a new year! It's always the year of the dragon here at Children of Bahamut, so may yours be filled with all things scaly and wonderful.

As always, 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 December, housekeeping items/reminders, and a list of claims, sweeps, and drops.

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!

⁂ The quest board has been updated! We've added all the currently player suggested quests and also adjusted reputation earned to help characters earn it more quickly. While originally we wanted new areas to be unlocked with reputation, we're re-configuring that and deciding on what else should be the reward for hitting certain milestones (like 100) so as to not impede metaplot progress planned!

⁂ The calendar has been updated for January! 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!

⁂ Although Chai thought (really hard) that they put this on the activity page already, we've added a small bullet point about what happens with bonds when someone drops. Basically: We still encourage people to hash out/summarize how a thread would have gone when they're informed of someone dropping! If that isn't possible, we'll leave it to the remaining player to decide the best outcome for their character when summarizing for bonds.

REMINDERS

Just a few quick reminders from us:

⁂ The test drive meme is up on the meme comm! Tell your friends! After some feedback, we've added a top-level directory thread and a separate section for rockstar profiles to be posted rather than it being baked into the test drive meme itself.

⁂ 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

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...

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!

⁂ 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

Hooray, we survived the first month of running a game!

Thanks to everyone for their feedback and bearing with our growing pains as we tweak, adjust, and update some things as necessary. This post will serve to outline all that as well as bring up some topics to discuss that have been floated by us.

So, without further ado...

UPDATES

Some of these were already mentioned on our mod plurk but we're repeating them here for folks who don't have one.

Also, you can check for the tag on pages to see what we've added or clarified on!

⁂ We have a profile navigation code now for the mod journal and comms! It was one of the things overlooked initially, but then frustrated Chai when they were trying to click around to do moderator things.

⁂ Character tags have been added to the comms! We also tagged the relevant characters in the mod log and posts we saw up so far! They'll be added regularly going forward with claims that come in/are processed, but we needed a minute to catch up from the initial game opening wave. If we're missing any or need to correct them, please let us know!

⁂ After some discussion about the quest board, we decided to add rolls to clear each quest! We'll still process & acknowledge people who submit for them but wanted people to be able to determine how successful - or not - they were on open quests without having to wait on us.

⁂ Another update to the quest board mechanics is clarification on the time frame. For open quests, we do still ask that people only officially submit for them every seven (7) days. We're happy that people are enjoying them but also want to make sure no one is trying speed run reputation as we want the world to open up in a more gradual, organic process.

However: This is only for officially submitting for a quest on the page. If you want to start a log or thread before you're allowed to submit for an open quest, that's totally fine! The point of them is mostly to be an extra way for players to engage in the setting if an event isn't to their fancy, they want to focus on reputation, etc. Once you're allowed to, you can submit for the quest and link the started thread with your rolls to receive rewards.

⁂ The locations page has been updated! The town of Ich and the Talahee Forest are - as of the event going up - free for players to now travel to and from. While reputation will eventually unlock other areas, this one was planned to be a 'freebie' from the start! We're still discussing the next location to open up to players and will update the quest page accordingly once we do decide.

⁂ The calendar has been updated for November! 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!

⁂ After seeing some people do both a check-in and bond submission, we wanted to clarify you only need to do one or the other. If you turned in activity/bonds, then you don't need to check-in! Alternatively, if you have no bonds to submit you only need to check-in. We provided examples of both simply to show the differences, not indicate that you needed to do both types. We apologize for any confusion!

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!

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