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

[foolreversed]

While I don't have too much of an issue meeting activity right now, I do have to admit that it gets pretty daunting trying to think of at least two post ideas a month that are interesting enough that people will tag them. One post is usually easy enough but two proves to be a bit of trouble. On the flip side though, it's really easy for me to tag around with a character like Adachi, since he's so talkative and likes to lurk and be nosy about other people's business.

But not everyone is the same as me. Every player is different. Some have no problem coming up with two new and interesting posts each month. Some don't like to keep track of all their threads, where as some like me do. Some players vastly prefer the logging experience. This is why I feel things should be more flexible, so that as many players as possible can be satisfied. Tack/Tatsuya-mun's suggestion is a really good one and one that I feel would work really well. I've seen a similar system of flexibility work really well in a previous game I was in and I never once had a problem meeting activity (save for when I began to lose interest which was followed by me dropping the game altogether but that's another story).

It might also help with the tagging issue that is being brought up in another thread. Tbh I kinda feel like the current AC requirements might be part of the problem there? If all you have to do is make two posts for AC why bother tagging around, you know? I'm sure no one honestly thinks that but I could see how it might be easy to subconsciously fall into that sort of playstyle. Not to mention just keeping up with two posts can take a lot out of some players' time and energy. If there's a bit more focus on tagging around to make AC then we might see more people doing exactly that? Idk that's just what I've been thinking about this situation.