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 left off for this round. Sock journals are allowed, but you will have to request comm access to post with them.

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

➜ HOW'S THE STAFF
➜ POST-DREAMWIDTH MOVE FEEDBACK
➜ ACTIVITY REQUIREMENTS
➜ PLOT TIMING
➜ WHAT KINDS OF PLOTS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE?
➜ PEACE PATROL/JUSTICE SYSTEM/LAW ENFORCEMENT

Comments

[huntersdaughter]

I'm still reading this, but I will say the following things:

I know the mods do have a list of informative posts that they are planning on writing up re: the city and moving into the city. With the amount of people who are moving there - having a list of what sort of buildings are available for residences is important, but with the move to DW I know that it got delayed.

I'm also pretty sure you weren't here for the Christmas plot where everyone did move to the city, but we have in the past tried to flesh out the city and how it works in respect to the castle itself.

Also, when I was a mod I did try to flesh out specific NPC characters that were in the city, but it wasn't met with very even enthusiasm, so most of it was just tossed aside and NPC characters are placed into the city when it's needed for plots or events or other character driven choices.

[unnaturalpause]

I'll let you read this I know it's a lot, and I know I'm probably missing things being new (as I am). I think I heard about that plot though, somewhat, but this is, really rather news to me, I just thought a little more fleshing out of the city would add to ideas people could do.

And I know the information posts got delayed (I remember that being mentioned my first HTG I think? So it's been a while), but I what I was looking for, am looking for, I don't think was ever mentioned? I will admit I'm not the only with this, I had help (somehow I got stuck writing this up), so what little I know is from them helping me figure things out and throwing ideas around (mostly with Kiku). We were mostly looking at certain things in the city itself that could lead to possible plot ideas, as opposed to just, knowing things around the city if you get what I mean? It's one thing to have landmarks another thing to have a group to go to.

And the idea of NPC's was an idea, it doesn't need to happen. It was a thought, as it made sense when asking about things. But there is an interest at least in a small party of people around. And the specific NPC's don't need to be there, it was just a thought, where as perhaps the general feel of the NPC's in the city at large would be more helpful and less work over all.

But over all it's just an idea, using what I know of the castle and game from what I have talked with others and what I've seen.

[huntersdaughter]

Yep, totally understand all those points. I just thought I'd toss out the things that we have done in the past, figuring that other people who read your comment would be able to answer more indepth as to those things. I just wanted to highlight them as I thought of them vs wait to write out a huge long thing, because they are just things that we touched on during those events.

[unnaturalpause]

And I appreciate it! Because I know I lack certain information that older players presently have from being here so long.

[frisky]

I know the mods do have a list of informative posts that they are planning on writing up re: the city and moving into the city. With the amount of people who are moving there - having a list of what sort of buildings are available for residences is important, but with the move to DW I know that it got delayed.

This is the first time I've heard about this?

[huntersdaughter]

Then... I am mis-informed. I had brought it up to Jenn a few times pre-move/pre-her transition down and she said that it was on the to-do list of things to post up and that it would get done eventually.

[superheroine]

My personal to-do list, not everyone's to-do list, ahah :(

[huntersdaughter]

See, these are things that I don't differentiate from LOL. I just know I told someone and that it was going to get done.

I just know that with the amount of posts I see going up where people are talking about moving out of the castle I just figured putting a mention in here couldn't hurt either.

[frisky]

No worries, bro! I can ask about it in any case. :D

[huntersdaughter]

Mmkay! yay! Yeah, as I told Jenn it's just a hot topic right now and I see a lot of posts/conversations about it and I know that before I moved Jo out there, I asked Jenn what sort of residences were out there because I couldn't find anything on it.

I went with what she had told me was out there, since the castle doesn't want people to move out. I just have wanted to direct people who ask how they can move out of the castle to like a page that is official, so that it's not just what I recall from over a year ago.

[superheroine]

I think this is less about citybuilding and more about how residents might go about obtaining housing, who rents to castle residents, how does one pay for lodging in the town, do landlord accept magic money, how does the castle feel about its residents just up and moving out, etc, type stuff, which is something that I intended to write for the wiki months and months and mooonths ago but keep getting delayed on with RL stuff.

[linguistical]

At the very least I don't think it is something you should have to do on your own. Like you said in another comment, I think it'd be a good idea if a group of the players got together or something along those lines and worked on it. You know?