Activity Check Results

[lucetimods]

The results for the Activity Check are in. Please note that the following characters were either inactive, didn't post to the activity check, or failed to speak to a moderator about their activity. Also added were characters who have dropped, for your convenience.

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A number of you passed the activity check, but barely. (You know who you are.) Try to pick things up, as it's no fun to character-squat.

If there are any mistakes here, please let us know! Additionally, if your character was removed and you're still active, feel free to appeal to one of us about keeping your character. However, please remember next time to stay active and post to the Activity Check. Thank you!

And as always:

HMD

How's My Driving?

This is a crit post for both the community and game and for your characters. If you have something you'd like to see us improve upon with the game, PLEASE TELL US HERE! Anon commenting is on, but if anything gets really nasty there will be warnings and thread-freezing. This isn't required but everyone is encouraged to take advantage of the advice of your fellow players!

Just some pointers: no taking cheap shots, no dragging personal issues into things and for the love of all that is wise and great, please double check your replies and comments before posting them. Sometimes a change in phrasing can make all the difference between a helpful tone and a condescending one.

ALSO ALSO: We'd like to clarify that HMD means HMD- which means it's okay to have both good and bad crit. Some people have expressed concerns about posting good/bad crit when a character already has bad/good crit posted. We'd like to encourage you guys to do it anyway! You can drive well or badly, and even good drivers make mistakes. So give it a try \o

Comments

Re: Luceti / Luceti Mods

[awakenedchaos]

And I can see that, but... honestly, it's hard to find a different system people are fine with. At the moment, the draft system is comparable to waiting in a line at an amusement park: it can take quite some time until it's your turn, but once it is, you're free to line up again immediately. It's a disadvantage to people on hiatus as well as players - or even simply characters - that join at a later date, but that's how it is with queues. And I know what it's like to have to wait for the next draft (Nu here missed out on the first draft, and I'm actually among the ones waiting for a newly-apped character to be chosen as well), but... well, sometimes, you have to be a little patient, I guess. And that patience does pay off, doesn't it?

I'm not taking it that way, don't worry! I'm certain that's not what anon intended. But I'm not sure a limit is the way to go, simply because... well, that can cause issues too. Let's say there's another more plot-heavy draft like the one in December, and someone can't have their character go simply because they were previously drafted two - maybe three - times in a row. Assuming this is someone who hasn't had a chance to involve their character much in the plot, how do you think they would feel to be left out for something like that? Not happy, I'd imagine. It's one way to deal with the issue of characters who get drafted frequently, yes, but... I'm not certain if it's the best possible solution.

But, um... Anon? The only time I've had Nu here comment to another character on the recruitment post was before the first time she was drafted (which was the second draft), and that was because Masa, Nuke, Triad and I specifically wished for Goroh, Litchi, Yellow 13 and her to go together that time. The past two times I've signed her up, I haven't had her respond to anyone - and if I remember right, I took a while to sign her up again after the first time, which is why the fact that she got to go for the third draft caught me by surprise.

And for this time... well. I seem to remember Nu being on page 4 when I signed her up again once the list was cleared, which would've meant that she wouldn't get to go next draft, unless it was one where a lot of characters would get to go. And then dropped characters were cleared out, and... now she's sitting on page 2. That honestly caught me by surprise, and like I said, if it weren't for someone close to her going, I'd most likely have declined for her this time around. Just to clarify a little.

I'm all for giving newer muns - or people who don't get to go as often - a chance to participate! I'm just not certain if changing the system for that is a good idea. This is kind of striking me as a lose-lose situation: keep the draft system as is, and newer players (or characters newly signed up for the draft) are at a disadvantage. Change it, and there's inevitably going to be other people who will complain. That's the main issue here, I'd say.

A-apologies if that didn't make much sense - I literally just woke up, and it's still very early over here. :|;

Re: Luceti / Luceti Mods

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry, I apologize if I've gotten your comments mixed up! I was sure I'd seen you tag onto other characters multiple times, if I'm wrong then that's a fault on my behalf.

If someone has been considering bringing this up for a while, then I'm sure it's not just the two of us with this issue. If you can think of another suggestion to make things fair, so that more characters get the chance to take part in drafts instead of the same players over and over, then it would be a big help to hear. Idealy, it would be great if we could find something that all players can agree with.

Just a suggestion...

[cryptgirl.livejournal.com]

After reading everything, I would agree that it's not a good idea to thrust newer characters into a battle before they even get to settle into the village.

However, if they have castmates that have been in here for a while, they can reply directly to said castmates' comment in the recruitment post, to ensure that they get drafted together.

Again, it's just a suggestion, although I'm inclined to agree that this is one of those lose-lose situations...

Re: Luceti / Luceti Mods

[awakenedchaos]

Don't worry about it! Mix-ups like that happen. Like I said, I did do that once - before the second draft, for the reason mentioned in my previous comment - so you weren't completely off. It's just not something I've done multiple times. ♪

As I said in my reply to the above anon, it looks like the mods already found a way to deal with the issue themselves to some extent - with the current draft being bigger, and now the additional list of draftees (although these do come with a handicap on the first day, but since we get to choose what it is, I'd say this is pretty fair - in fact, I'd even go so far as to say it might just make things more fun for some characters!), the queue's getting cleared a lot faster; at the moment, the only characters who responded to the recruitment post and haven't listed are the ones on page 5, and quite a few characters on that page signed up after the current draft went up. This will probably go a long way toward making things more fair.

If I can think of another suggestion to improve things further, though, I'll make sure to bring it up! A-although I can't make any promises that I'll actually be able to think of something. I have a really bad habit of overthinking the cons for this sort of thing, a-ahem. I think what the mods did with that extra list of draftees should already help a lot, though. :|b