HOW'S THE GAME?

[paradisamods]

HOW'S THE GAME?

It's been awhile! 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 terraqueous orb (Kayla), end title (Fudgey) or a great fanfare (Jenn). (Though Jenn is on hiatus right now because her laptop is broken, so Kayla or Fudgey would be best for right now!)

Anonymous will be left off for this round (see first section).

Here are the sections that we've come up with. Add your own and we'll edit it into the list.

Anonymous: Why is it turned off?
What do the mods/helpers do, anyways?
How is my activity being monitored?
Activity check changes
Applications/turnover rate
 → Test Drive Comm
Abilities on the application
Villains & Heroes
 → Recent Villain Activity
 → Upcoming Villain Activities/Plots
Death
World Plot/Paradisa Lore
 → Concrete Resolutions, etc.
Canon Updates
Mini-plot Planning
Changes since last HTG
Plots in General
Regular Plots?

How's The Game will now be held quarterly, in order to avoid excessively long stretches in which there is no outlet for discussion.

Comments

Peace Patrol

[cloakand_danger]

I figured now that I'm off work, I ought to put in my two cents on this, since I'm the one with ideas on the Patrol. So let's see what I can add in on the law-enforcement side of things.

- Regular patrols. Part of the reason for implementing this is not just to give the heroes a chance for CR with each other, but also to give the villains a chance to get randomly caught in the act if they like. Currently there's no OOC scheduling because I am making this up as I go.

- I'd actually like to set up some kind of way for people to get in contact with the Patrol in general, OOCly. I think part of the reason it became kind of useless before was that no one in the Patrol really knew what they ought to be finding or doing, and no one outside it really knew how to alert us. I'm open to suggestions on this.

- Actual IC teams and delegation will be coming pretty soon, but I'd like to do some OOC discussing on this as well, to make sure that anyone getting assigned major roles ICly will have the time and energy to keep in contact with their teams. I don't want to make life too difficult for anyone.

/two cents complete, goes back to fifty-billion backtags on Yuan's post

Re: Peace Patrol

[save-the-souls.livejournal.com]

I would love to see required training sessions with the PP, build up some team spirit or something idk :)

Re: Peace Patrol

[cloakand_danger]

I like that a lot, actually. Get people in the same place, interacting outside of a meeting-type setting and give the ones who aren't much for organizing something to do...

[innate.livejournal.com]

I also just want to say here that there were a lot of issues brought up in the last IC Peace Patrol meeting that never actually got addressed, and thus this can make it really difficult for the PP to actually IMPLIMENT changes.

So I'd suggest maybe posting a link and reminding people that backtagging is okay, or maybe doing a mass email with everyone who's participating in the PP currently/or have an AIM chat and discuss what exactly is going on and what's changed/what's continuing.

And I am totally for required training sessions, testing of people's supposed skills, as well as some kind of chain of command, given how losses and people going home is such a constant threat.

[tomatoandbasil.livejournal.com]

Whatever happens with this, you have my full support, as someone who is playing a character who trains and teaches. I'll find ways to be easily and quickly contact-able on times you'd need me most. I'm fully open to switching my schedule to accommodate happy pretendy funtimes now and again.

Basically just throw my dumb ass wherever it needs to go and I'm cool!

[fired-once.livejournal.com]

With the way my work schedule's been, I really haven't had the time or energy to keep on the ball with the Peace Patrol like I should have.

But now that it's summer break, I should have time to help implement these changes. I'll keep an eye on the discussion here, but feel free to hit me up on AIM any time so we can work shit out. :|b