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

[molecules]

+11111111111111111111 everything you said.

Seriously, I don't even know. I know that I'm guilty of overlooking posts - as I'm sure everyone is - and I think that we do look for specific types of posts, even if we're not actively thinking "I want a post that talks about the colour blue". I think that we just need to change the way we think and approach certain posts and be a little more open and willing to tag those who we may not have any CR with. I know I've been trying to tag a few characters I've never interacted with before (and I've only been held back by how much time I have/how serious I'm guilt-tripping myself to get my uni work done). The only thing that constitutes as "interesting" to me is whether or not I can see my character/s gaining any CR from the one who posted. I just try and think of ways my characters can somehow answer/appear in the situation presented in the post. ;/

Speaking as someone from Australia, I feel incredibly discouraged either way. A Sunday for those in America is a Monday for me, and I'm busy at university for the bulk of the day. I think that backtagging also goes hand in hand with this. And I think perhaps some plots might require more figuring out the nuts and bolts of it all so certain players don't feel left out? Perhaps there needs to be a little more effort put into planning out plots when it comes to including everyone and making everyone who is interested feel as though they are contributing and will contribute, regardless of timezones and when they can access their computer?

I backtag like it's nobody's business. I guess I always assumed people were backtag friendly? Hearing this is a big surprise to me. ;/