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trans_pilgrims2012-05-21 05:49 pm
cityship) wrote in trans_pilgrims2012-05-21 05:49 pm
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Special Discussion [PLEASE READ]
It has come to the mods' attention that there is a signficant chunk of players that have concerns about the health of the game and think it's dying. Unfortunately, this means that everyone's in a holding pattern waiting to see what happens and the problem with this is if we collectively do this as a game, we might not make it past rebellion.
So the mods have decided to address the issue head on to discuss it.
For our part, the mods want to encourage people to send in plots, tag around, invite people for June, and put up posts. We'd also like to take suggestions and answer questions and want to try to reassure you that we will do whatever we can on our end to make things fun. Our response times for plots and answering questions about things people can do in the game are down to only a few days (usually 3-5 for complicated issues/questions). Sometimes we can even get a response back the same day or just 1-2 for simple issues. If players want to run plots, we can definitely get an answer back to you very quickly, and in the case of milk runs, you pretty much have free reign to do those whenever or however you want. So now's the time for us to ask the question: what do you need from the mod team to have fun? What things do you want? What things might you want to see?
What things would players like to see from other players? This is also a good place to discuss that. As of right now, close to thirty people have posted for and made AC, which means that there are a good chunk of players that have have at least some interest in continuing to play. (Hopefully that will be reassuring to those of you worried about mass drops.)
At this point, the game is really only what we make it, and while there were a lot of problems over the last year, we are very dedicated to working on the ones that were on the mod end. The game can be made fun again, but now that the backlog of work and mod duties have been caught up, it is definitely something we need to discuss and cooperatively work on and confront head on as a group.
So discuss away, and please plurk and replurk this to your heart's content, point other players you know to it via AIM, etc. It really is something we need as many eyes seeing as possible.
EDIT: Please keep commenting, even if the mods don't respond to each of your individual comments. We're incorporating all the player feedback into our discussions about this in modchat.
EDIT 2, EDITINING: The mods are going to have a big modchat on Friday the 25th to iron everything out and probably have communication go up then or over the weekend.
So the mods have decided to address the issue head on to discuss it.
For our part, the mods want to encourage people to send in plots, tag around, invite people for June, and put up posts. We'd also like to take suggestions and answer questions and want to try to reassure you that we will do whatever we can on our end to make things fun. Our response times for plots and answering questions about things people can do in the game are down to only a few days (usually 3-5 for complicated issues/questions). Sometimes we can even get a response back the same day or just 1-2 for simple issues. If players want to run plots, we can definitely get an answer back to you very quickly, and in the case of milk runs, you pretty much have free reign to do those whenever or however you want. So now's the time for us to ask the question: what do you need from the mod team to have fun? What things do you want? What things might you want to see?
What things would players like to see from other players? This is also a good place to discuss that. As of right now, close to thirty people have posted for and made AC, which means that there are a good chunk of players that have have at least some interest in continuing to play. (Hopefully that will be reassuring to those of you worried about mass drops.)
At this point, the game is really only what we make it, and while there were a lot of problems over the last year, we are very dedicated to working on the ones that were on the mod end. The game can be made fun again, but now that the backlog of work and mod duties have been caught up, it is definitely something we need to discuss and cooperatively work on and confront head on as a group.
So discuss away, and please plurk and replurk this to your heart's content, point other players you know to it via AIM, etc. It really is something we need as many eyes seeing as possible.
EDIT: Please keep commenting, even if the mods don't respond to each of your individual comments. We're incorporating all the player feedback into our discussions about this in modchat.
EDIT 2, EDITINING: The mods are going to have a big modchat on Friday the 25th to iron everything out and probably have communication go up then or over the weekend.
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I think we're in a feedback loop of "it looks bad now" so everyone is hesitant to post thinking "well I don't know if everyone else is still invested or just looking to see if it'll still be alive and kicking." I do think we can continue the game even if it dwindles to only a handful of active players (I'll probably be one of them assuming my RL doesn't act up). That said it's definitely a serious concern. I definitely don't *want* it to dwindle down any more.
Uh, I know we were talking about this on a plurk and while I've been against stricter ACs in the past I'm actually more open to the idea of a once a month open post or two threads type of AC. It makes more sense as we're heading into end game and the plot picks up. I noticed that Fauxbellion was slowly to kick off. I'm guilty in that as I held off with Sirius, thinking I'd have him charge in when things had moved further along because of insert IC reasons here. I think that was partly people being hesitant/slow/not as invested/not checking/whatever and also some confusion over what all would go on (I know after the change in everything I was a little confused about fauxbellion stuff). So my concern is yeah, getting more people posting and progressing mod plot stuff faster.
And in a things we would like to see I was going to do bring this up before, then I got sick, then I went on vacation BUT NOW I AM BACK SO Let candy mountain revive your enthusiasm.
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Is here for discussion.
It's running June-July, will have 8 random people RNG-selected (with me and Kaylin's two characters) and be very npc intensive. I'll actually be doing signups uuuh. Now. XD