A FEW ANNOUNCEMENTS, 2 QUESTIONS & MOD APPLICATIONS

[theearth]

Hey, Earthlings! You have no idea how happy I am with our first week. That's what I call an explosive start.

A few announcements, mostly about clean up and clarifications across the game;

• Our FAQ has updated a little to explain a few things. If you think there are questions replied to in the comments that should be on the page proper, tell me and I'll do so. If you have other questions you think should be in there, ask them.

• I have added an expiration to reserves. I personally think it's pretty generous and might shorten it later if it proves to be too much so.

• We now have an info post guide. Take a look, there are some aspects I have made mandatory (but I think everyone in game put them in there anyway).

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A couple questions for yah.

• I want to test the waters on a matter that has been brought to my attention. Specifically, challenge apps. I've never been in a game that allows them (or if they did, I never noticed/have forgotten) and I wanted to ask player opinion of them. At present I'm inclined to allow them once I have other mods to discuss challenges with and only in unreserved applications. Opinions on the issue are most appreciated. I'm not opening a poll on it as such, but I want to see some potential angles I may have missed for or against I might have missed. Thanks!

• As many of you know we have a test drive community, saveyourbrain. It hasn't seen much use yet, but I wanted to see what people thought about having a regular date for a meme to go up to encourage its use and enable people, knowing you lot. I'd probably do it in pairs, an IC meme setting up a scenario of some sort and an OOC meme for asking advice or getting feedback on ideas. Good idea? How often would you like to see it?

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• Speaking of other mods, goddamn my respect for mods has increased at least two million percent just from setting this game up and one week. I am pooped! In a couple of minutes I'm going to open up applications for assistant mods in a separate post so that they can be screened. It'll probably involve an informal interview and everything, because I've gone mad with power. I've been really impressed with player involvement so far, so I doubt I'll be disappointed. At present I am looking for two more mods to ease the workload or a number of deputy mods and there's a good chance that later seasons will require (more) deputy mods to keep this boat afloat, because I promise it's going to go crazy.

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Peace out, Earth.

Comments

[twopercent]

I suspect the reason most games don't use challenge apps because it's a huge shitstorm waiting to happen. At least with the reserve/first-come-first-served system, there's no possibility of bias-whinging.

I'll have to wish you good luck with the mod issue, since although I really want to contribute more, I'm loving the plot so far and I don't want to spoil myself XD; Can I suggest though: putting a day or two (not any more than that though) between OOC plotting posts and the actual initialization of plot might help ease things up a bit and make it not quite so hectic when stuff starts happening. Just a suggestion, though!

[theearth]

You do have a point. I am hopelessly naive and prefer to give the entire DWRP community the benefit of the doubt re: shitstorming but it's a hefty concern.

Anyway, re: plotting posts. I was actually going to mention I planned to be better about that in this post but then decided 'nah, I'm just going to do it.'

[twopercent]

Well and some people have the capacity to weather that kind of thing and not let it affect them. AND this is still a small game with awesome people so it's probably not a concern but... I dunno, if it was me, well, I like things simple. Just my two cents. :>

Heheheheheh. Excellent. I'm super-stoked for all the plot shenanigans to come... I can tell already this game is going to be so sweet.