This is excellent feedback, thank you! You confirmed some suspicions we've had about players experience here, so this is very valuable for us.
We're definitely going to work harder to make things clearer in the future; it's become a major priority in light of the last two logs. Please feel free to give us more feedback on this as we move forward, especially since that's the only way to tell if what we're doing is working! We've tried to err in favor of giving you guys less to read for events so far, but we definitely believe it's helped contribute to this lack of clarity.
Likewise, the Discord issue is one we've been thinking about, especially since we never intended for Discord to become important to playing in the game. Consequently, we would rather deemphasize its importance, especially since not everyone uses Discord. While players are free to use game chat much the same way as Plurk, we don't want anyone to lose out on game content. This is why we've posted a public speculation page for the Alpelbet on the OOC community, for example, and generally push for players to ask questions or post important content (like Dove's player quest) in places accessible to all players. However, while we don't want to unintentionally foster an exclusive atmosphere, not giving better access to our Discord could have the same effect, so we'll include a link on our navigation page!
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We're definitely going to work harder to make things clearer in the future; it's become a major priority in light of the last two logs. Please feel free to give us more feedback on this as we move forward, especially since that's the only way to tell if what we're doing is working! We've tried to err in favor of giving you guys less to read for events so far, but we definitely believe it's helped contribute to this lack of clarity.
Likewise, the Discord issue is one we've been thinking about, especially since we never intended for Discord to become important to playing in the game. Consequently, we would rather deemphasize its importance, especially since not everyone uses Discord. While players are free to use game chat much the same way as Plurk, we don't want anyone to lose out on game content. This is why we've posted a public speculation page for the Alpelbet on the OOC community, for example, and generally push for players to ask questions or post important content (like Dove's player quest) in places accessible to all players. However, while we don't want to unintentionally foster an exclusive atmosphere, not giving better access to our Discord could have the same effect, so we'll include a link on our navigation page!