TIME TO MAKE FRIENDS.

[wastemods]

FRENEMIES ARE IN.

Welcome to our newest CR meme!

We've wrapped up our first event and are currently in an interlude, so you guys can explore the ruins at your leisure (so this is a great time to enable your friends, wink wonk). We likely won't have another TDM until August and will probably stick to something of a bimonthly schedule for them.

Additionally, we have a comment at the top of this post for feedback, if you have any you'd like to provide.

If you have any questions, please direct them to our FAQ!

CR MEME FORM:
<span style="font: bold 1em sans-serif;">PLAYER.</span> <span style="font: bold 1em sans-serif;">HANDLE:</span> <span style="font: bold 1em sans-serif;">CONTACT:</span> <span style="font: bold 1em sans-serif;">TAGGING:</span> Time zone, speed, and/or any other habits you want people to know. <span style="font: bold 1em sans-serif;">INTERESTS:</span> What kind of things do you like? Anything you talk about a lot on Plurk, etc? <span style="font: bold 1em sans-serif;">CHARACTER.</span> <span style="font: bold 1em sans-serif;">NAME:</span> <span style="font: bold 1em sans-serif;">CANON:</span> <span style="font: bold 1em sans-serif;">LANGUAGE:</span> <span style="font: bold 1em sans-serif;">TL;DR:</span> Sum up your character in a couple sentences! <span style="font: bold 1em sans-serif;">RUNDOWN:</span> What have they been up to? Any plans? Recent open posts or threads? <span style="font: bold 1em sans-serif;">OFFERED CR:</span> Who can your character can be to other characters? <span style="font: bold 1em sans-serif;">DESIRED CR:</span> Who does your character mesh with? Or, if antagonism is the goal, the opposite. <span style="font: bold 1em sans-serif;">ETC:</span> Anything else!

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NAVIGATION.

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WORLD
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MOD CONTACT
SETTING INBOX
CODEBOOK

Comments

[snikthatch]

I hope it's ok to +1 this, because I feel the same way about pretty much all of it.

I know balancing a Discord can be really tricky modwise and I sympathise with that as someone who has had to do it myself a few times. There are always going to be people who are more comfortable and less comfortable participating with the community in that environment, but the same can also be said for Plurk and OOC comms as well, and as long as there's no particular requirement for any of them I don't see the issue with allowing it to continue.

I honestly feel the same as Pytho in this -- a lot of my energy for the game was coming from the Discord chat and all the plotting going on in there, and when it was sort of shut down out of nowhere (the deletion of most of the channels and the updated rules to say we can't post plot in there), it felt like getting a bucket of cold water dumped on my excitement. I feel a little like we're being blamed or punished for something, which, idk? If that's how it's supposed to be? So now every time I load up the Discord all I can think is that I need to be careful not to annoy anyone, which sucks.

But yeah, if there's a reason why I've sort of drifted away a little bit, that's what it is. I also have some comments about the plot in general which I'll stick in a separate comment to keep things ~on track.

[wastemods]

Hey! You can find some of our thoughts in reply to Pytho, but we'd like to address your specific concerns here as well.

The updated rules about plotting on the Discord server are specifically about accessibility to the game plot as a whole; it's something we intended to establish before the game even opened and we apologize for not making that clear. We have no issue with players plotting with each other for one-on-one content, in the same way you might use Plurk. Basically, we just want players to remember not to unintentionally hoard segments of the game plot or discuss it exclusively in a place where other players might not see it.

As for the deletion of channels, this has absolutely nothing to do with player conduct and was actually us cleaning up our own mess. We cut down on channels that were superficial in nature (comics, tunes, Pel's tarot channel that was really meant as a joke, and spreadsheets), because they could easily be folded into the general or memes channels. Having as many channels as we did felt unwieldy and, since most of them were in the spam category, it seemed unnecessary to distinguish between them. It's not a punishment or meant to single out any player in the game, but rather us realizing some of the channels weren't even used and we should neaten the place up a bit. It's just easier for us and, we hope, players to keep track of fewer channels.

That said, we can see how the suddenness of the change could be alarming and we apologize. While it's doubtful we'll need do anything like that again, it's something we'll certainly keep in mind in the future.