HOW'S THE GAME?

[paradisamods]

It's time for another round of Game Discussion, also known as

HOW'S THE GAME?

Here we come together to discuss the game, its plots, the settings, and just about anything we can think of that we'd like to talk about, expand upon, improve, change, etc.

This is not an HMD for players and their characters; this should be about the game's function as a whole and not the people in it. If there is something you feel is absolutely necessary to address that involves a specific person, please IM a mod first to discuss it. We can be reached at valawie (Valerie), fan of todd (TF), or never die ftw (Ashley).

Anonymous will be on for this round. Sock journals are still allowed.

Please feel free to bring up any game-related topic you'd like to discuss. All topics will be linked in the main post.

➜ HOW'S THE STAFF
➜ CHARACTER COMPLAINTS
➜ ACTIVITY CHECK
➜ PLOTTING 101
➜ AGING IN PARADISA

Comments

HOW'S THE STAFF

[paradisamods]

Our current staff includes Valerie valerie, TF teeff, and Ashley frisky as mods, with Jenn superheroine and Ruru plonks as helpers.

How do you feel the staff is faring? As always, we welcome and encourage any questions or comments you may have for us. All feedback will be greatly appreciated!

[(Anonymous)]

I can't claim to know how the workload is divided up behind the scenes, but I am questioning the amount of work I seen done by the mod staff. A lot of the time, it looks like the work is unevenly divided up. Maybe there's more going on behind the scenes, but a few times now I've seen plots meant to be ran by Valerie or Ashley get the ball dropped and TF or other muns having to pick it up - so I can't help but feel like its not just "they're working behind the scenes". A few times, it even killed overall excitement of the plot because people didn't know what was going on or a lot of plot ends got dropped.

So what's the deal? I don't have anything against the mod staff, but this trend seems unfair to me and it hurts the game. I know some of the staff has busy schedules, but surely some arrangements can be made right?

[valerie]

Can I ask which plot(s) I've dropped so that I know what to work on with regards to future plots?

[(Anonymous)]

The Lastlook Expedition with Hope, Nightmare plot (though I think that was partially player fault), and Terre Haute. With Terre Haute we're still not sure what happened with Zeke and Nancy last I heard.

[valerie]

The Lastlook Expedition with Hope and the Nightmare plot were actually tied together. We had an NPC stick around that was captured and if he had been questioned, he would have spilled the details of what happened. Unfortunately, the NPC was captured but no characters actually asked him anything.

The capture is here and there was a post for questioning it here. Many of the threads did not quite make it to the questioning part, unfortunately. We kept a pretty close communication with Odell since it was her post.

We've definitely learned from this, and will be handling how "reveals" or information is handled IC-ly.

With regards to Zeke and Nancy, anyone that spoke with them was able to garner that they weren't budging and they simply stayed behind to clean up the dead. After that, their whereabouts are unknown as residents went home and they went their separate way. Mark made a filter to Nancy later, but she wasn't budging with info. Where they are remains a mystery, but they'll be back again.

I hope this clears things up a little bit! With every plot we definitely learn how to make the next one better.