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

[struckout]

Haha I'm glad my five million words at least make things clearer! And I really appreciate you're willing to take a look and think on it- not just with this but with all the stuff that's come up so far in this rather oddball game, fff. :)

The main tag + reply tag sounds fine to me- exsilium does this on their network with a ~ before the character's names so that the reply tags come after the OP's, so maybe something like that? And making sure posts are tagged is something I can definitely do too! Like I said, it's really no prob at all.

ETA: If you decide to go the route of two tags per character and then decide later that you'd prefer just the one, DW does actually allow you to merge two or more tags together! Just a thought.

[shendude]

I really appreciate the appreciation. Having such a supportive playerbase has made this easier.

Beautiful. All things considered it seems a there's no reason not to at least try it out.

Anyway, I like the idea of a symbol instead and having done a little more research it turns out that there's only like 4 characters that go after letters in alphabetical order. So our options are { } | or ~. I'm fond of {character name}. Like our tag system is giving a character a loving cuddle (or has put them in jail).

[struckout]

LOL THAT IS THE CUTEST. Yes, good.

And, I assume you mean {canon: character name}?