I recently dropped but I do hope to be back soon, so I hope it's OK that I give my 2c!
In general, I would have liked more detail on everything we were allowed/not allowed to do. Like mentioned above, the escape rooms -- what exactly can be done, etc. Since we are dealing with a sort of fantastical setting and many of these things are purely of the mods' own creation, I think there's a lot of trepidation re: stepping on the mods' feet because we don't want to fuck up and make a mistake, and if the write-up is at all vague that just gives people more hesitation.
In regards to Discord, I'd just like to give a dissenting opinion that I prefer keeping Discords to game chatter only without plotting. (I actually prefer Plurk alone, since it's not time-relevant and therefore easier to keep up with, but that's a whole other thing.) If you don't have the time or energy to dedicate to being on the Discord often, you feel like you fall behind, and it's easy for people to feel left out when those who do have the time/energy dominate the Discord and therefore dominate the plotting. This is not an attack or judgment on anyone who is active on the Discord at all, just an observation I've made from various Discords I've been in. I can't speak on any of the other Discord issues mentioned because I haven't experienced them myself.
You guys make OOC plotting posts, which I love, but very few people seem to be making use of them. I don't know if mere mod encouragement would be enough incentive for players to utilize them, but I have definitely found OOC plotting posts to be successful in my old games that did not use Discord for plotting. For each event log, they basically reiterated the information given in the log in a bullet-point format so players could easily reference it and say what they were going to do. It's possible the playerbase just isn't right for that plotting format, but I feel like we, the players, haven't given it a real try.
Despite all these paragraphs above lmao, y'all have a really interesting and unique game going so please don't be discouraged by any bumps in the road.
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In general, I would have liked more detail on everything we were allowed/not allowed to do. Like mentioned above, the escape rooms -- what exactly can be done, etc. Since we are dealing with a sort of fantastical setting and many of these things are purely of the mods' own creation, I think there's a lot of trepidation re: stepping on the mods' feet because we don't want to fuck up and make a mistake, and if the write-up is at all vague that just gives people more hesitation.
In regards to Discord, I'd just like to give a dissenting opinion that I prefer keeping Discords to game chatter only without plotting. (I actually prefer Plurk alone, since it's not time-relevant and therefore easier to keep up with, but that's a whole other thing.) If you don't have the time or energy to dedicate to being on the Discord often, you feel like you fall behind, and it's easy for people to feel left out when those who do have the time/energy dominate the Discord and therefore dominate the plotting. This is not an attack or judgment on anyone who is active on the Discord at all, just an observation I've made from various Discords I've been in. I can't speak on any of the other Discord issues mentioned because I haven't experienced them myself.
You guys make OOC plotting posts, which I love, but very few people seem to be making use of them. I don't know if mere mod encouragement would be enough incentive for players to utilize them, but I have definitely found OOC plotting posts to be successful in my old games that did not use Discord for plotting. For each event log, they basically reiterated the information given in the log in a bullet-point format so players could easily reference it and say what they were going to do. It's possible the playerbase just isn't right for that plotting format, but I feel like we, the players, haven't given it a real try.
Despite all these paragraphs above lmao, y'all have a really interesting and unique game going so please don't be discouraged by any bumps in the road.