To answer some questions, the plantsuits are meant to have foot covering built in. It's a full-body suit, including shoes. Kind of like footy pajamas only the foot parts do have soles. Like so: http://i55.tinypic.com/2eggt8o.png
It's normal shoes and normal clothes that are rare and have to be bought from the outside.
All the mods have a group of documents that's essentially a game bible. For anything that isn't in there that they just haven't thought of until someone asked about it, they're supposed to get consensus from the other mods to all be on the same page. The problem is sometimes one mod mis-remembers something or even changes it without telling all the other people that need to know. As plot mod, I'm allowed to answer setting questions, so I do, but sometimes they actually change the details away from what was originally set down and don't tell me. Like initially, translation was supposed to be via little crystal devices in the collars of the plantsuits, hence why the plantsuits had to be reduced to a body-band of some kind if they weren't being used, but then they got changed to translator microbes, only no one told me they'd been changed to translator microbes, so I'd still been going with the translator beads...
The change itself is fine, but not telling everyone who's tasked with answering questions is kind of super bad.
As for engaging with the plot, personally, I'm not a big fan of revealing all of it, but I think the mods really need to set down the limitations of "here's what can and can't be done because of the logistics of actually organizing things oocly" but to do that, they have to agree on what to say, and to agree on what to say, they have to discuss it, and they take forever to discuss things.
Like, it's possible to say "we can't reveal the true nature of the Ohm yet, and you can't mindbork the Daligig to get everything they know because it'd effectively end the game right here and now, due to the actions the crew would likely take in response to the information they get, and oocly, people don't want the game to end yet." This whole "you can't do this but we won't tell you the ooc reasons why" doesn't work. People need to at least know why the boundaries are there.
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It's normal shoes and normal clothes that are rare and have to be bought from the outside.
All the mods have a group of documents that's essentially a game bible. For anything that isn't in there that they just haven't thought of until someone asked about it, they're supposed to get consensus from the other mods to all be on the same page. The problem is sometimes one mod mis-remembers something or even changes it without telling all the other people that need to know. As plot mod, I'm allowed to answer setting questions, so I do, but sometimes they actually change the details away from what was originally set down and don't tell me. Like initially, translation was supposed to be via little crystal devices in the collars of the plantsuits, hence why the plantsuits had to be reduced to a body-band of some kind if they weren't being used, but then they got changed to translator microbes, only no one told me they'd been changed to translator microbes, so I'd still been going with the translator beads...
The change itself is fine, but not telling everyone who's tasked with answering questions is kind of super bad.
As for engaging with the plot, personally, I'm not a big fan of revealing all of it, but I think the mods really need to set down the limitations of "here's what can and can't be done because of the logistics of actually organizing things oocly" but to do that, they have to agree on what to say, and to agree on what to say, they have to discuss it, and they take forever to discuss things.
Like, it's possible to say "we can't reveal the true nature of the Ohm yet, and you can't mindbork the Daligig to get everything they know because it'd effectively end the game right here and now, due to the actions the crew would likely take in response to the information they get, and oocly, people don't want the game to end yet." This whole "you can't do this but we won't tell you the ooc reasons why" doesn't work. People need to at least know why the boundaries are there.