theearth: (Oh. Okay.)
Save the Earth Mods ([personal profile] theearth) wrote in [community profile] saveyourselves2013-04-07 08:29 pm
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A FEW ANNOUNCEMENTS, 2 QUESTIONS & MOD APPLICATIONS

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).




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, [community profile] 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?




• 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.




Peace out, Earth.
shendude: (Don't have no eyebrows to raise.)

[personal profile] shendude 2013-04-08 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Some more good points. Collecting as many as possible is very useful for making my decision.

Mmmhmm, the basic reason I chose to have a community for it was because of that fact that it takes a couple steps more than other games and trying out a few things beforehand is always a good choice. It was Mayfield and one other, I think, that had a community for testing that had no memes at all and I liked that idea so I stole it. But, since it seems out of fashion now test drive memes have become common a best of both is fine by me.

On your query- This. I never intended it to be used that way but it's as good a place as any for memes to go. I'm not going to penalise anyone for using it that way and I'll just let that do as it will for now.

Thanks. The appreciation is much...appreciated. I need a thesaurus.