ACTIVITY CHECK

[theearth]

Activity check will remain open until May 6th. Only activity from April 1st onwards will be acceptable. (i know, duh)

Note: Although it is impossible for any character to fail by insufficient activity this round, all players not on hiatus must reply by May 6th or be removed from the game. It is not necessary to fill out the below form. A note simply saying the player name and the character(s) played is acceptable. This would be the ordinary procedure for any character not in the game for less than a month and obviously that is all the characters this time. However, the more full responses we receive the better. The results will be used to gauge player comfort with the proposed requirements. If you do fill out the form, please do so as if your place in the game depended on it, to get more accurate results.


Please fill out the following form and add it in to this post.
Player Section
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<b><u>OOC Information:</u></b> <b>Name:</b> Whatever handle you go by. <b>Contact:</b> Should we feel the need to contact you privately, what is your preferred method?
Activity Section
Paste once per character.
<b>Character:</b> <b>Character Journal:</b> <b>Plot Relevant Action:</b> At least one action a character took that was related to the game's overarching plot. A good rule of thumb is that any event which grants an Echo that was not from canon parallels would count, although other actions (for example investigation, training for combat, organising groups) may also be accepted. If unsure, give several examples. <b>Thread 1:</b> <a href=URL GOES HERE>Thread with character 1</a> <b>Thread 2:</b> <a href=URL GOES HERE>Thread with character 2</a> <b>Thread 3:</b> <a href=URL GOES HERE>Thread with character 3</a> <b>Thread 4:</b> <a href=URL GOES HERE>Thread with character 4</a>
Feedback
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<b>How did you find meeting these requirements?:</b> <b>Would you prefer more clearly defined requirements, or do you like the more open to interpretation system?</b> <b>How quickly would you say it took you to reach the requirements?</b> <b>General thoughts on the activity check:</b>

Thanks for being in the game!

Comments

[redelivers]

OOC Information:
Name: Liv
Contact: PMing any of my character journals would probably be fastest.

Character: Hijikata Toshizou
Character Journal: redelivers
Plot Relevant Action: He fought some werewolves.
Thread 1: Thread with Saitou
Thread 2: Thread with the Hakuouki cast
Thread 3: Thread with the Hakuouki cast reprised
Thread 4: Action log I introduced him with


Character: Euphemia li Britannia
Character Journal: unfearing
Plot Relevant Action: She's been a little network activist and also joined in on werewolf hunting.
Thread 1: Thread with Saitou
Thread 2: Thread with Aaron
Thread 3: Thread with Banagher
Thread 4: Thread with Lelouch

Character: Amaimon
Character Journal: misgives
Plot Relevant Action: He helped Raiden run from the law!!! I'm not sure if this counts, but he got himself mauled by a werewolf. He was also very recently accepted so this is all I've got.
Thread 1: Thread with Raiden
Thread 2: Thread with Aragorn

How did you find meeting these requirements?: Wildly varying in difficulty from character to character. At the moment it seems really hard to do anything with people who aren't inclined to be active on the network. I'm not sure if that's a failing of mine or some mixture of my own shortcomings+the system itself. I'll keep trying at it, though.
Would you prefer more clearly defined requirements, or do you like the more open to interpretation system? I would like more clearly defined requirements personally. In the past I've been at games where making a top post counted for more than simply tagging other people, which I always appreciated because there would be times where I would make plans with other people that would fall through, leaving my characters with nothing to show come AC time. For example, I have Amaimon in three different logs but could only link two of them because one of them was never replied to. That said, I do appreciate that Euphie's 100+ comment top posts actually took care of most of her AC for me because that was a lot of time and effort.
How quickly would you say it took you to reach the requirements? With Euphie it took no time at all, likely less than a week, but with Hijikata it took most of the month for me to even come close.
General thoughts on the activity check: Having to dig up and provide four links per character is a bit of a time sink for me. I started this AC 20 minutes ago and only just finished. I completely understand making players pulling their own weight and staying involved, but I'm concerned about having to keep track of precise plot involvement will start to take away from the actual fun of joining in the fray of these plots. Also it's been extremely difficult to make activity for characters who arent partial to network-style posting or network type systems, and that concerns me a little. I don't want to have to stretch my characterization just to make AC/stay involved, but at this point if the AC stands as it is, I'm not sure what I'll be able to do with Amaimon and Hijikata in the coming months.

[secondcomingof]

I think you make some good points here (so many that I can't really remark upon them all in-depth at the moment), but I'll just say I'm definitely forwarding them along to the other mods for review. People had a lot more to say on this than I anticipated so I think a MODLY DISCUSSION of sorts is definitely in order.