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trans_pilgrims2011-01-30 02:11 pm
cityship) wrote in trans_pilgrims2011-01-30 02:11 pm
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First weekly plot discussion post!
Hey, all! This is the start of a new weekly thing we've devised to help players take a more active role in plot organization and planning.
Basically, here's how it works: These posts will provide a place to discuss upcoming plots, propose plot ideas to your fellow players, and generally just brainstorm and organize for things. You will be allowed to volunteer to help OOCly with plots as well. Note, however, that these threads will not be a place to sign up your characters for plots. Those posts will go up on their own before the plot in question starts.
What you can do:
-Discuss upcoming plots (whose threads will be posted soon after this post goes up) and volunteer to help OOCly
-Propose plot ideas to the game at large. (Use the form from the plot suggestion post to make things easier)
-"Adopt" a plot from the plot suggestion post (linked below). If there is a plot on the plot suggestion post you'd like to see run, start a thread for it in here.
-Propose ongoing setting changes. For example, you can propose a new crew "team" like Starfighter Command and the Outsiders, or perhaps starting a new service for the crew like the blacksmiths and the clothier's shop.
Also, for clarity's sake, in each of these posts we will be including instructions on how to get a plot approved, which have now been simplified.
Getting a plot approved:
-All plots that take place off-ship or involve at least a moderate number of people must go through mod approval first. If you're not sure, email us and see if it would qualify.
-While we'd like you to use these posts to discuss your potential plots with your fellow players, if you'd prefer not to include it in plot discussion posts for any particular reason (for example, particular details of the plot you'd like to keep hidden), posting your plot in the plot discussion posts is not necessary to get a plot approved
-To get a plot approved, use the form listed in the plot suggestion post and email it to transmigration9@gmail.com, along with links to any plot discussion threads you believe have relevant ideas. You will be emailed with an approval once the mods have reviewed it and find it satisfactory. Once you have received an approval, you will be asked to help us determine the best time to run the plot.
Important Links
-Plot Suggestion Post
-Plot Calendar
Edit: Links have been added to the side bar for the Plot Calendar and the tag for these Plot Discussion posts.
Basically, here's how it works: These posts will provide a place to discuss upcoming plots, propose plot ideas to your fellow players, and generally just brainstorm and organize for things. You will be allowed to volunteer to help OOCly with plots as well. Note, however, that these threads will not be a place to sign up your characters for plots. Those posts will go up on their own before the plot in question starts.
What you can do:
-Discuss upcoming plots (whose threads will be posted soon after this post goes up) and volunteer to help OOCly
-Propose plot ideas to the game at large. (Use the form from the plot suggestion post to make things easier)
-"Adopt" a plot from the plot suggestion post (linked below). If there is a plot on the plot suggestion post you'd like to see run, start a thread for it in here.
-Propose ongoing setting changes. For example, you can propose a new crew "team" like Starfighter Command and the Outsiders, or perhaps starting a new service for the crew like the blacksmiths and the clothier's shop.
Also, for clarity's sake, in each of these posts we will be including instructions on how to get a plot approved, which have now been simplified.
Getting a plot approved:
-All plots that take place off-ship or involve at least a moderate number of people must go through mod approval first. If you're not sure, email us and see if it would qualify.
-While we'd like you to use these posts to discuss your potential plots with your fellow players, if you'd prefer not to include it in plot discussion posts for any particular reason (for example, particular details of the plot you'd like to keep hidden), posting your plot in the plot discussion posts is not necessary to get a plot approved
-To get a plot approved, use the form listed in the plot suggestion post and email it to transmigration9@gmail.com, along with links to any plot discussion threads you believe have relevant ideas. You will be emailed with an approval once the mods have reviewed it and find it satisfactory. Once you have received an approval, you will be asked to help us determine the best time to run the plot.
Important Links
-Plot Suggestion Post
-Plot Calendar
Edit: Links have been added to the side bar for the Plot Calendar and the tag for these Plot Discussion posts.
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You're shooting here with worst-case scenarios and giving reasons as to why its redundant, but I'm just not seeing anything as alternatives. It's kinda not fair telling me "Do it, but you have all these problems to deal with" and not go "but here's a few ideas to fix it."
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1) Treating it as more of a chow hall with set daily meals that can be limited (like just one group meal a day with a few meal options if supplies are low) than a restaurant.
2) For the freezer, just changing it to be a magical, high-tech freezer or something, so all the food in there is still good. If it's a normal freezer, it'd all be bad by now, but it can be IDK, some high-tech special, anti-microbial vacuum freezer or something.
3) Shutting down the restaurant whenever there are food shortages.
4) After the freezer runs out, having it so Sasami procures her own food supplies with her own resources on shore leaves so she's not using the communal supplies, so no one can really criticize it, since it was gained with her own resources.
5) Seeing about causing a glitch in the Sensoriums to make it so they permanently can no longer give out real-tasting food for some reasons, and moving towards more reliance on food supplies and actual food services, maybe even farming.
or 6) Doing whatever you want, but understanding people might have IC reservations about it. OOCly, we know they'll have periodic times they can get food supplies. ICly, they don't, and some people might be more finicky about how the food supplies will be used once the freezer runs out because what's grabbed is the ship's communal supply. They might even have reservations about what's used in the freezer, seeing as supplies are running low.
You can do what you want, and I can't stop you--no one but the mods can--but with the setting having been set up a certain way, there might be IC consequences to it, or we might need to change how the setting's set up, that's all I'm saying.
Also, I've been plenty fair. I'm just criticizing an idea, and I'm just doing it as a player, I'm not criticizing you as an individual. And I'm doing it politely. And I gave you all these suggestions in my last post, but you just focused on the problems. There's no need to be defensive or anything, dude, it's just like any IC change or addition: it's got to make sense and fit what's already there, and some people might not see the point or might see ways it could work better or make more sense.
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*facepalms, rubs face*
Stop tl;dring, then! *fistshakes* That's all I could pull out of that. That, and I was sick, so I couldn't BS at the moment. Still can't, but that's another story...
I'll go about seeing what I can do...!
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Anyway, you know, we might want to actually discuss as a game the possibility of crippling the Sensoriums' ability to output food. It could lead to more stuff to do with obtaining supplies, make any other places that provide food more important, and lead to farming stuff like people were talking about. Could be interesting.