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ACTIVITY CHECK
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.
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Activity Section
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Thanks for being in the game!
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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Activity Section
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Feedback
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Thanks for being in the game!
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Name: Nadia
Contact: PM to either character journal tends to be best.
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: Went with Colette and Audrey to go see the snake statue
Thread 1Thread with Sasame
Thread 2Thread with Lelouch/Brendan
Thread 3Thread with Colette
Thread 4Thread with Lady Une
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: Even though he was just accepted yesterday I went ahead and jumped into the snake statue destruction with him (backdated of course)
Thread 1Thread with Chris/Starscream
Nothing else yet, but he's not even been in the game for 24 hours at this time.
How did you find meeting these requirements?: Not too bad, I thought it would be harder! But it does seem to depend a lot on what is going on as to how easy or hard it is.
Would you prefer more clearly defined requirements, or do you like the more open to interpretation system? I'd like to see something to define better what moderate length is. Everyone is bound to have different definitions and right now that is a bit unclear. It doesn't need a comment count to go with it, just something more clear and to cover things like other person dropping thread before conclusion, etc.
How quickly would you say it took you to reach the requirements? The threads wasn't hard, had that in about a day. The plot activity was a bit more tricky. It would help to see more plots open to a range of different skills so those who haven't regained combat abilities yet can get the chance to do so and those who never had any can have other ways to get involved or eventually learn. I'm sure I'm not alone with having trouble with that part.
General thoughts on the activity check: I appreciate the fact that we're given leeway on how to meet these requirements. While making a network post definitely seems to be the easiest way, if that wouldn't be IC we have other options.
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OOC Information:
Name: Sylver
Contact: Journal PM
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: Werewolf encounter with Anthony or Tearing down the statue
Thread 1Thread with Bakura
Thread 2Thread with Banagher
Thread 3Thread with Steve/Sandy
Thread 4Thread with Jack
How did you find meeting these requirements?: Fairly easy, so far. I think.
Would you prefer more clearly defined requirements, or do you like the more open to interpretation system? I'd like to see at least a ballpark figure on what's considered "moderate length".
How quickly would you say it took you to reach the requirements? A few days for the thread requirement, a couple of weeks for the plot relevant action.
General thoughts on the activity check: My character's threads seem to run under 10 comments per character in the thread (usually around 7 or 8 apiece). They're not just idle chit-chat, but I'm still worried that they might not be long enough. Possibly make an option to link to additional threads if your threads tend to run short?
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OOC Information:
Name: Joysweeper.
Contact:
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action:
Thread 1 Sam
Thread 2 Aaron
Thread 3 Chris
Thread 4 Sandry
and more here. Julien's talked a lot, but hasn't had that much to do with main plot stuff. He's in the snake teardown thread?
Feedback: Not... entirely sure about what counts as main plot stuff. Otherwise it's been covered already.
ETA: I've noticed in the tags that there's a {sakazaki yuuya} and a {yuuya sakazaki}. Can we consolidate those? I'll try and be more proactive about adding his tag!
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OOC Information:
Name: Pearl
Contact:
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: Hasn't really been plot-heavy this cycle, aside from assisting with the emotional clean up of people who went to fight the wolves.
Thread 1Thread with Robb
Thread 2Thread with Lady Une
Thread 3Thread with Littlefinger
Thread 4Thread with Yuuya
How did you find meeting these requirements?: No problem at all with regards to the general thread count, but getting involved with plotty stuff was a bit tricky. I'll be working on that in the foreseeable future!
Would you prefer more clearly defined requirements, or do you like the more open to interpretation system? Definition on how long you'd like the threads to be would be excellent.
How quickly would you say it took you to reach the requirements? Probably within the first couple of days re: the thread requirement, but plot-relevant threads were obviously more difficult due to the nature of the event. Emery wouldn't have gone (and didn't go) on the badly planned werewolf hunt, nor would he feel comfortable with smashing the statue without knowing more about it. So, yes, that was a bit flat this round, but other than that everything is swell. :)
General thoughts on the activity check: I think I've got it covered!
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OOC Information:
Name: Fran
Contact: Plurk or AIM [frandenut]
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: Werewolf hunt
Thread 1Post which included Julien, Davin, Toushirou, Banagher, Hajime (Saitou) & Lyall
Thread 2Thread with character Lucas
Thread 3Thread with character Lyall
Thread 4Thread with character Shen
How did you find meeting these requirements?: Easy.
Would you prefer more clearly defined requirements, or do you like the more open to interpretation system? Umm... to be honest, I don't really recall the requirements past "4 threads and acknowledge the plot"
How quickly would you say it took you to reach the requirements? Took 1 day.
General thoughts on the activity check: Lazier way to paste it in would be nice but I'm just lazy in general :D [and would love to be able to just link in my spreadsheet~]
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OOC Information:
Name: Haley
Contact:
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: Was investigated by the detective.
Thread 1Thread with Colette
Thread 2Thread with Takako
Thread 3Thread with Souji
Thread 4Thread with Elizabeth Bishop/Euphie
How did you find meeting these requirements?: It wasn't bad, actually! RL has gotten in the way for me for a little over a week now, so I was a little worried about AC but I still didn't have trouble passing it since I was so active earlier in the month.
Would you prefer more clearly defined requirements, or do you like the more open to interpretation system? I'd prefer something that's a little more defined? Like maybe "threads with more than 4 comments from your character" or something along those lines.
How quickly would you say it took you to reach the requirements? I don't think it was long. Maybe a week or two?
General thoughts on the activity check: I really like that participating in the plot and interacting with several different characters are requirements. That should hopefully encourage people to do more than slice-of-life stuff, as well as reach out beyond their few favorite people to play.
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Name: Lina
Contact: PM me (or Anduin or Desu can PP me I guess)
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: Statue touching
Thread 1: Thread with Euphemia
Thread 2: Thread with Lightning
Thread 3: Thread with MANY
Thread 4: Thread with Megatron
How did you find meeting these requirements?: Pretty easy.
Would you prefer more clearly defined requirements, or do you like the more open to interpretation system?: Ummm, maybe have a comment count requirement, but I can see where that would be limiting so yeah. This seems pretty good.
How quickly would you say it took you to reach the requirements?: This question is unclear. Do you mean how long did it take me to do all the threads? 'Cause I sure as hell don't know. Otherwise, answering the check was pretty easy.
General thoughts on the activity check: One caveat: character squatters might just spam threads near when the activity check happens to rack up stuff to link. I would suggest including a date for when the thread happened in the "thread with character x" section to make this sorta stuff easier to spot. Maybe also add a section for players to mention whether they went on hiatus at any point during the month to explain possible gaps in activity.
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OOC Information:
Name: Krystal
Contact:
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: Participated in the extraordinarily ill-advised werewolf hunt and helped tear down the snake statue.
Thread 1Thread for snake teardown
Thread 2Thread with Casval
Thread 3Thread with Chris
Thread 4Thread for snake teardown
How did you find meeting these requirements?: I'm really not sure if any of those threads are long enough -- and I wasn't sure from looking at the form what to do for threads with, like, 5+ people in them.
Would you prefer more clearly defined requirements, or do you like the more open to interpretation system? I'd rather they were more clearly defined, so I have a better idea of which threads to use.
How quickly would you say it took you to reach the requirements? Not long, but I'd like it to be clearer what threads count as plot-relevant.
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OOC Information:
Name: Skai
Contact: DW message
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: Confronting General Miller, Werewolf hunt.
Thread 1Thread with Aaron (Aragorn)
Thread 2Thread with Elizabeth (Euphemia)
Thread 3Thread with Kotetsu
Thread 4Thread with Casval (Full Frontal)
How did you find meeting these requirements?: Easy like Sunday morning.
Would you prefer more clearly defined requirements, or do you like the more open to interpretation system? I think it's fine.
How quickly would you say it took you to reach the requirements? Less than a week, but this is the first month. I'd guess a couple weeks in the future. For a plotty game like this I don't think it's too demanding at all.
General thoughts on the activity check: Bless the tagging system for making it easy to find threads.
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Name: Anduin
Contact:
Character: Kallie / Lightning
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: Messing with Vermini, fondling statues, screaming at people in response to people dying... telling off anyone actually trying to be productive re:plot stuff, etc. etc.
Thread 1: Elle Une
Thread 2: Lyall
Thread 3: Casval Mass
Thread 4: Brendan Blake
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Name: Airdra
Contact:
Character: Hajime Aikawa
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: Hajime went werewolf hunting, and he also reacted to Paul's death.
Thread 1: Thread with Colette
Thread 2: Thread with Lucas
Thread 3: Thread with Mordin
Thread 4: Thread with Sasame
How did you find meeting these requirements?: It wasn't bad; I met the requirements and then some without realizing it.
Would you prefer more clearly defined requirements, or do you like the more open to interpretation system? I prefer it more open to interpretation, I think.
How quickly would you say it took you to reach the requirements? I probably hit the "thread with 4 different characters" one within the first day or so. I assume it's going to take longer in the next month now that there's no grand opening flurry of activity. ^^;
General thoughts on the activity check: I rather like plot participation being a requirement, given that this is such a plot-heavy game.
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Name: Sam
Contact:
Character: Hajime Saitou
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: Participation in the werewolf hunt. He was also on the grue hunt, reacted to Paul Ben's death, and tried to put together a newbie guide of sorts.
Thread 1: Thread with Bakura
Thread 2: Thread with Hijikata
Thread 3: Thread with Souji
Thread 4: Thread with Euphie
How did you find meeting these requirements?: Moderate. Tagging into enough things is easy; holding conversations long enough to call the threads "moderate" in length is harder, since Hajime really...isn't that chatty, and tends to just answer a question, make a point, and then shut up. To give some idea - I have about thirty things I tagged into on my AC spreadsheet, I didn't mark anything green until I had at least ten comments, and only about a fifth of my links made it there. (And some of those are multiples with the same character, so they wouldn't both be usable.)
Would you prefer more clearly defined requirements, or do you like the more open to interpretation system? I don't mind an open/flexible system but I do feel that having a range, even if not a specific comment count, would help a lot. The cutoff I gave myself of 10 comments is pretty arbitrary and I'm still not sure if it's what you're looking for or if I need something longer.
How quickly would you say it took you to reach the requirements? I had things covered in about a week, but my pace in getting long enough threads also slowed up considerably after that first week, so it's not the best meterstick.
General thoughts on the activity check: Echoing the comment Kazuma's player made, my threads nearly always run under ten comments and it does have me worried about whether that'll be viable in the future. Being able to link a couple extra to cover my ass if mine are all short would be a nice option. That said, that's my only real concern here, and I think having plot involvement as part of AC is a great move.
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Name: G-man
Contact: Message this journal, please.
Character: Dr. Mordin Solus
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: Mordin participated in the werewolf hunt as the leader of team Alpha.
Thread 1: Thread with Hajime Aikawa
Thread 2: Thread with Randall Lyall
Thread 3: Thread with Sasame "Sam" Iwata
Thread 4: Thread with Kotetsu Kaburagi
How did you find meeting these requirements?: Relatively easy. All I really had to do was follow up on comments to my own introduction post.
Would you prefer more clearly defined requirements, or do you like the more open to interpretation system? I'd prefer more clearly defined requirements, as it's always nice to know exactly how much activity is required. It's not a strong preference, though.
How quickly would you say it took you to reach the requirements? About a week
General thoughts on the activity check: Seems reasonable thus far.
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Name: Kero.
Contact:
Character: Colette Brunel
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: She's going to check out the snake statue with Tamara and Audrey before it gets torn down!
Thread 1: Post 1; several characters tagged
Thread 2: Post 2; several characters tagged
Thread 3: Thread with Julien
Thread 4: Thread with Smelly Baelish
Character: Legretta the Quick
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: Participated in the werewolf log, received an echo from it. Also investigated the snake statue, received an echo from that as well.
Thread 1: Log with Elle
Thread 2: First post, Bakura
Thread 3: Thread with Shendu
Thread 4: Thread with Lyall
How did you find meeting these requirements?: They weren't bad at all! I actually like the fact that posts aren't a requirement, and that threads can progress naturally because people aren't forcing things because of a comment count.
Would you prefer more clearly defined requirements, or do you like the more open to interpretation system? I think the open interpretation system works, especially for characters who are less verbal, like Legretta.
How quickly would you say it took you to reach the requirements? I don't think it took long at all. All of the plot elements have made it really easy to tag things, and the slower pace of the game makes it easy to keep up. :9
General thoughts on the activity check: I'm cool with it~!
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Name: MC
Contact: AIM: iMukubird | Skype: sherbetmelons |
Character: Lucas
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: I can't say he's of much help during the plot, since he's trying to stay out of trouble.
Thread 1: with Hajime Aikawa
Thread 2: with Banagher Links
Thread 3: with Ryou Bakura
Thread 4: with Toushirou Hitsugaya
However the links I posted above are really from his first network post. He's really not doing anything much. Well, aside from another thread with Bakura. But yeah.
How did you find meeting these requirements?: Seems easy enough. The plotting parts would probably vary on my character however.
Would you prefer more clearly defined requirements, or do you like the more open to interpretation system? Either is fine I guess?
How quickly would you say it took you to reach the requirements? I'm not exactly the fastest at tagging, but hey I could manage. Like, in a week.
General thoughts on the activity check: Seems pretty okay to me so far.
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Name: Effing
Contact: PM this journal
Character: Sandy Rugerri/Steve Rogers
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: Got lost trying to find the werewolf hunt and played lookout for the snake demolition crew.
Thread 1: Thread with Kenji
Thread 2: Thread with Julien
Thread 3: Thread with Aaron
Thread 4: Thread with Chris
How did you find meeting these requirements?: The threads part was easy because boy do I yammer, but I've never had event requirements before so that kind of freaked me out. I think I'll be ready when a full AC rolls around, though.
Would you prefer more clearly defined requirements, or do you like the more open to interpretation system? I personally prefer hard numbers, but I wouldn't mind sticking to the current vague system if you provide a few examples of threads that would be up near the line on either side of acceptable so players know what minimums to aim for.
How quickly would you say it took you to reach the requirements? A little over a week, give or take
General thoughts on the activity check: As previously mentioned, kinda vague, but otherwise I think it's right about my speed, since it's easier for me to enjoy a game when I'm not stressing about churning out tags at the same speed as some of my friends. Also I probably should've sat this one out since I've only been here a week, but data!
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Name: TealDeer
Contact: Plurk; lucid_seraph
Character: Christobel Starsky / Starscream
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: Organized a group to tear down the snake statue.
Thread 1: Drinks with Matthew Brillion
Thread 2: Trying to make Bakura Ryou feel better
Thread 3: Alexander Varista
Thread 4: Aaron Strider/Aragorn
How did you find meeting these requirements?: Very annoying. It wasn't hard, just extremely irritating.
Would you prefer more clearly defined requirements, or do you like the more open to interpretation system? blerg whatever I don't really like AC in general
How quickly would you say it took you to reach the requirements? lol idk?
General thoughts on the activity check: I feel like it wasn't quite as hard in this first month because everyone's open and eager to get CR with as many people as they can, but I feel like as the game settles in and we get factions and such (Which is natural, actually!) it's going to get much, much harder (I also know that I'm going to have to go through 1-2 months of very difficult job hunting and moving again soon, so that'll cut my activity, at least). I feel like cutting it to 2 threads with 2 different characters would help in that regard.
In general, I kind of hate the idea that AC has to be like grabbing an achievement or getting your daily quest done in an MMO.
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Name: Mini
Contact: PM/
Character: Alexander Varista
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: Indirectly, the follow-up on the 'werewolf' hunt. Directly, going to Starscream's gathering to tear down the snake statue in the DD.
Thread 1: Post with Starscream, Toushirou, Full, Colette, Jack, Megatron, and Bakura.
Thread 2: Thread with Starscream.
Thread 3: Thread with Lyall and Romsca (wip).
Thread 4: Thread with Kazuma (wip).
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Name: Effy
Contact: PM this journal, or just send me a pp at
Character: Robb Stark
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: Went on the werewolf hunt.
Thread 1: Thread with Emery Ayliff
Thread 2: Thread with Richard Baelish aka Big Dick
and also creeperThread 3: Thread with Casval Mass
Thread 4: Thread with Elle Une
How did you find meeting these requirements?: Somewhat easy, but then it's summer.
Would you prefer more clearly defined requirements, or do you like the more open to interpretation system? I'd actually like more clearly defined requirements, otherwise I'll be worrying if this thread meets AC or not, sob.
How quickly would you say it took you to reach the requirements? Pretty quick.
General thoughts on the activity check: welp idk NONE HERE.
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Name: Robyn
Contact: AIM: piggersvanbaconbreath
Character: Lady Une
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: Werewolf shenanigans
link to all my april threads
Character: Petyr Baelish
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: Watched Paul Ben die
link to all my april threads
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Name: Gail
Contact: PM or email
Character: Randolph Lyall
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: Vermini hunting, police station sniffing, classroom gathering, werewolf hunting, farm visiting....
Thread 1: Thread with Chris/Starscream
Thread 2: Thread with Hajime Aikawa
Thread 3: Thread with Jack/Raiden
Thread 4: Thread with Bakura
How did you find meeting these requirements?: Easy enough, but I'm a very active player in general. I know others have found this harder to meet, and if I had a second character I would probably be more concerned.
Would you prefer more clearly defined requirements, or do you like the more open to interpretation system? I like clearly defined requirements. It's hard to tell what counts as "moderate length" and whether threads can be on the same post or not, and the like.
How quickly would you say it took you to reach the requirements? I probably met the requirements within the first week.
General thoughts on the activity check: Said everything above, I believe ^^
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Name: Kamilah
Contact:
Character: Aeron Penning / Arthur Pendragon
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: None yet, since I just got accepted
Thread 1: Thread with Emery/Merlin
Thread 2: Open post
(Not sure if ic inbox threads will be counted, but throwing that in anyway for now!)
How did you find meeting these requirements?: Haven't met them yet (just accepted, again), but tagging four characters shouldn't be too difficult.
Would you prefer more clearly defined requirements, or do you like the more open to interpretation system? Clearly defined, please!
How quickly would you say it took you to reach the requirements? I'll just make a guess for this one. Maybe about two weeks, depending on what plot things are going on at the time.
General thoughts on the activity check: I think everything's already been mentioned!
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Name: Melon
Contact: PMs or PP on Plurk (iamthemurderer).
Character: Mineva Lao Zabi/Audrey Burne
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: Went with Takako and Colette to see the snake statue. Also went to it's tearing down.
Thread 1: Thread with Takako.
Thread 2: Action thread with Takako and Colette.
Thread 3: Thread with Matthew Brillion/Megatron.
How did you find meeting these requirements?: Pretty easy really. I needed time to go through the network since Audrey was told to reach back through the network in her first post. After that though she jumped in pretty easy.
Would you prefer more clearly defined requirements, or do you like the more open to interpretation system? I would rather have something more defined. I'm used to games with the whole '1 post + 1 log, 2 posts, 1 post/1 log + so many comments, # of comments' when it comes to AC.
Also when it comes to plot, sometimes there just isn't a place for your particular character to fit in. Audrey isn't the fighting type, at least not fists or things like that and self-defense training will only get you so far so things like the werewolf hunt would be beyond her. The snake statue bit was a nice inclusion and if plot is going to be a required part of AC, I'd like to see both fighting/action options and more 'nonviolent' sorts in all of the plots.
How quickly would you say it took you to reach the requirements? Just a few days.
General thoughts on the activity check: Simply more clearly defined rules on what counts as a good thread length, what doesn't, etc.
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Name: Liv
Contact: PMing any of my character journals would probably be fastest.
Character: Hijikata Toshizou
Character Journal:
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:
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:
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.
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Name: Misty
Contact: PM
Character: Toushirou Hitsugaya
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: He investigated the snake statue in the Dead District, and participated in the werewolf hunt.
Thread 1: With Anthony.
Thread 2: With Bakura.
Thread 3: With Kotetsu.
Thread 4: With Colette.
How did you find meeting these requirements?: I found it rather easy to get involved in enough.
Would you prefer more clearly defined requirements, or do you like the more open to interpretation system? I'd kind of prefer more clearly defined requirements; it feels a bit amorphous at this point and tough to judge what's significant enough.
How quickly would you say it took you to reach the requirements? I had it done within a week.
General thoughts on the activity check: I like that we're encouraged to tag around and get CR with multiple characters, but digging up four links for each may be a bit much on those who play multiple characters, which may become more of an issue as the game continues.
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Name: Batty
Contact:
Character: Kotetsu T. Kaburagi
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: Werewolf shenanigans
Thread 1: Thread with Casval
Thread 2: Autocorrect disasters with Hitsugaya
Thread 3: Thread with Jack
Thread 4: Thread with Bakura
How did you find meeting these requirements?: Pretty easy, honestly.
Would you prefer more clearly defined requirements, or do you like the more open to interpretation system?
I both like it and dislike it. On the one hand, I do appreciate the effort to normalize threads with lots of tl;dr but a lower comment count versus a massive commentspam chain. However, "moderate" is something of a confusing term, as others have mentioned. I rather like the concept of a range. Or perhaps it can be something to the effect of "x number of comments OR x number of words"?
How quickly would you say it took you to reach the requirements? In approximately ten days maybe?
General thoughts on the activity check:
A couple things! One: This AC form has a section for plot relevant action, and then the links to four different threads. Does that mean we need four threads PLUS plot-relevant action, or four threads INCLUDING plot-relevant action?
Second, for example, if your plot-relevant action is something like the werewolf-hunting log in which there were multiple people in the thread, how does it count, exactly? In my particular case several of the people in that thread with me were ones I'd had threads of significant length previously, and I was unsure about linking it as a piece of activity itself considering that the characters in it were all characters I linked for the "threads with four different characters" part of the AC.
Third, posts! If you should make a plot-relevant post (i.e. Casval's LET'S GO KILL SOME WEREWOLVES or Chris's BOOYEAH STATUE VANDALISM) which gets many replies from several characters, does that count as both your plot-relevant action and your four threads?
Finally, are we required to link our evidence of plot-relevant action, or is it enough to simply state it? (Mostly I've seen people stating it on this post, but I haven't clicked all the links to be sure)
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Name: Stefan
Contact: PM to journal works.
Character:
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: Helped smash up the snake statue.
Thread 1: Meeting with Une.
Thread 2: Pissing contest with Casval
Thread 3: Drinks with Chris.
Thread 4: Berating Jack for being a drunkard.
How did you find meeting these requirements?: Not exceedinly difficult, I suppose, but I'm not entirely sure what "moderate length" entails.
Would you prefer more clearly defined requirements, or do you like the more open to interpretation system? I do like it being open to interpretation, although specific thread lengths would help. I'm not sure if I like the plot requirement - I understand why it's there, to ensure people stay engaged, but sometimes characters are just working through other things. We'll see how it goes - I'll probably have more feedback for that part after another month or two.
How quickly would you say it took you to reach the requirements? Two-three weeks.
General thoughts on the activity check: Seems to be working, so far.
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Name: Kd7sov
Contact: AIM (kd7sov) preferred; also available in PM and NEW! plurk (kd7sov)
Possibly there's a pattern in my names.
Character: Felix/Fred
Character Journal:
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Name: Rose
Contact: Plurk @ LadyotRings or PMing this journal is fine
Character: Sanosuke Harada
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: Some chatting up with Beta Team and Werewolf ass-kicking with the Betas
Thread 1: Thread with Souji
Thread 2: Thread with Julien
Thread 3: Thread with Chizuru
Thread 4: Posty post
How did you find meeting these requirements?: Not as bad as I initially thought, to be honest!
Would you prefer more clearly defined requirements, or do you like the more open to interpretation system? I think I've seen it mentioned here before, but defining what a "moderate" thread length is would be nice. Maybe not necessarily giving an exact comment number (such as your character needing 15 comments), but I could be down with a thread counting if you hit, say, 10-15. Or whatever the mods say is sufficient enough. I'm pretty easy to please!
How quickly would you say it took you to reach the requirements? Probably about half a month, if that.
General thoughts on the activity check: I made it this time! So hopefully that will speak for the future, as well.
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Name: kou
Contact: pm this journal. ♥
Character: banagher links
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: mostly been keeping his nose out of trouble, but he reacted to paul ben's death, groped the snake statue, and went to investigate the farms.
Thread 1: network post with several threads
Thread 2: thread with casval mass
Thread 3: thread with colette brunel
Thread 4: thread with elizabeth bishop
How did you find meeting these requirements?: easy! though i do take it with a grain of salt, an explosive opening month is a little different from a game that's settling into itself. but as a slower tagger with an unpredictable schedule, the requirements aren't nearly as bad as they seem.
Would you prefer more clearly defined requirements, or do you like the more open to interpretation system? personally i like the open interpretation. it seems like it works well for a plot-heavy game, where it can even out longer commentspam chains or shorter and heftier tags. it doesn't lend itself to needlessly padding threads for the sake of a comment count. i've noticed that several of my own threads end way more naturally here as opposed to other games i've been in in the past.
How quickly would you say it took you to reach the requirements? taking backtagging into account, a couple of days to a week.
General thoughts on the activity check: as of now i'm definitely liking its flexibility.
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Name: Siobhan
Contact: PM, email israfel1030(at)gmail(dot)com
Character: Kurt Waggoner
Character Journal:
As I've been here less than a week, it'd probably be pretty meaningless noise to give concrete opinions, and I'll leave that blank. Looking good so far, though.
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OOC Information:
Name: Deus
Contact: PM this account, or ping me on Plurk at
IC Information:
Character: Full Frontal (Casval Mass), Gundam Unicorn
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: Well, I did start the werewolf log and the message leading up to it, so... all of this should definitely count!
Thread 1: With Une.
Thread 2: With Jack.
Thread 3: With Brendan.
Thread 4: With Banagher.
Plus lots more!
My activity be crazy, yo.How did you find meeting these requirements?: Pretty damn easily. I slowed down once I picked up a job again, but threading isn't usually a problem with me since... well, I like to write. Go figure.
Would you prefer more clearly defined requirements, or do you like the more open to interpretation system? Neutral on this since I've never had an issue meeting AC nor do I anticipate it happening, but general consensus seems to be favoring the former from what I've seen and that's how most games seem to do it, so there you go.
How quickly would you say it took you to reach the requirements? ...within the first few days? I was excited about the game, man, I kinda went balls to the wall with tagging.
General thoughts on the activity check: Not much other than WOW sure was embarrassing for a mod to show up semi-late to this oops.
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Name: Kalyn
Contact: PM or email at ocean.queen.kai@gmail.com
Character: Souji Okita/Souji Sasaoki
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: Prticipated in werewolves
Thread 1: Thread with Hajime
Thread 2: Thread with Casval, Hajime, and Richard
Thread 3: Rickrolling Post
Thread 4: Thread with Toshi
Character: Rei Kurosawa
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: she hasn't done anything yet.
Thread 1: One Post
She was only accepted fairly recently.
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Name: Emi
Contact:
Character:
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: I know it didn't go very far, but there was this thing. Also being one of the first to touch and closely investigate one of the vermini, I guess. As seen here.
Thread 1: Thread with character 1
Thread 2: Thread with character 2
Thread 3: Thread with character 3
Thread 4: Thread with character 4
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Name: Kim
Contact:
Character: Youou (Kurogane) Suwa
Character Journal:
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OOC Information:
Name: Whatever handle you go by.
Contact: Should we feel the need to contact you privately, what is your preferred method?
Character: Anthony | Anthony Janvier
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: Werewolf encounter.
Thread 1: With Bakura
Thread 2: With Colette
Thread 3: With Lyall
Thread 4: With Jack
He's been rather scattered, and I'm sorry for that!
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How did you find meeting these requirements?: April was in general an odd, chaotic month for me - if it hadn't been, I'd say it would've been cake.
Would you prefer more clearly defined requirements, or do you like the more open to interpretation system? I can appreciate openness to interpretation.
How quickly would you say it took you to reach the requirements? *glances uncertainly up at the presented brief threads*
Again, though, I don't think it'd need to take more than a week for someone for whom things are going smoothly!
General thoughts on the activity check: I think I'd like to second Sylver on a person who thinks their threads run short being encouraged to provide an extra proof or two. Other than that, I like the rules - participation in the plot and seeking reasonably wide CR!
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Name: Aki
Contact: PM to this account or aim at kuramal0ver
Character: The Psiioniic
Character Journal: dorkytracksuit
Plot Relevant Action: Fighting the mutated human.
Thread 1: Thread with The Condesce
Thread 2: Thread with character Banage (sp?)
Thread 3: Thread with Raiden
Thread 4: Thread with Redglare 4
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Name: Mawi
Contact: e-mail! taiya118@hotmail.com
Character: Romsca
Character Journal:
Plot Relevant Action: Life in the Dead Zone before getting adopted by Lyall
Thread 1: Thread with Bakura
Thread 2: Thread with Yuuya
Thread 3: Thread with Lyall
Plot Relevant Action: Abandoned farmness. Banagher is a ferret whisperer.
Thread 1: Thread with Lyall and Banagher
Plot Relevant Action: Eavesdropping on Lyall's additions and subractions... ie HE'S GOT DEAD PEOPLE BLOOD WOW
Thread 1: Thread with Lyall and Aaron
How did you find meeting these requirements?:
Would you prefer more clearly defined requirements, or do you like the more open to interpretation system?
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