Activity Check Results / HMD

[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 recently, 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

[(Anonymous)]

I'm really glad to see the plot coordination post go up, and so quickly as well. Thank you for listening to your players, mods!

I would personally like to see more coordination amongst the different mods in general, as well, especially when it comes to interpretation of the rules. And I might also suggest that solid clarification with regard to the rules for keeping memories for re-apped characters would also be very helpful at this point in time?

And last of all, I have to bring up consistency in application processing again-- I've seen some good apps forced to do rewrites apparently on a mod's whim while really blatantly terrible apps were passed by the same mod. It's really discouraging as a player when you feel like you're being unfairly picked on, and I had a couple of friends I'd encouraged to app drop because they felt that was the case. I personally think it would help to have an official second-opinion system for canons the mods aren't familiar with, since that would also take some of the stress off the mods who have to rapidly research an entire canon in order to judge an app. I've been in games before where they did that and it seemed to work well.

Just two cents, nitpicky because I have very few nits to pick with you guys. You do awesome work, keep it up.

[(Anonymous)]

And I might also suggest that solid clarification with regard to the rules for keeping memories for re-apped characters would also be very helpful at this point in time?

Agreed with this, and also on the point of changes to history and character and when a reset would be needed because the changes are too vast with characters currently in play along with reapps. This way everyone can be on the same page with that.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with the clarification here, though I'd like to say in my opinion siding with allowing players to keep some sense of history even in the face of resets / drops after some time or multiple characters is better. I think since we're all here to have fun, it would be kindest to make our rules work out so that players can have fun doing what they want to do, not force people to re-do their CR when they'd rather not.

da

[(Anonymous)]

i disagree. we had someone forced to lose their memories last cycle because of a change in age. and that wasn't even an intentional change on the player's part but new canon information contradicting their old guess.

if someone had to wipe their character's luceti memories that recently, it wouldn't be fair to say that now it's suddenly ok to keep luceti memories (vague or not) even in the face of changes in the character's history if those changes contradict their old app.

i agree that clarification on this in the rules would be nice though. afaik there were mod statements about this before but they're scattered about and hard to find. even mentioning this in the faq would already help.

dda

[(Anonymous)]

While I agree that wasn't fair to the mun who had to reset, but I also agree with the other anon who'd like to see some sense of history kept.

Personally I would like to see than no one else has to again, rather than force everyone who wants to make minor changes in the future have to do the same thing as well.

It's important to be fair to the entire player base, and a part of that is making changes to rules as needed. Why not just clear up the rules, cut back on a few to make them more reasonable, and have them be fairer for everyone from here on out?

[lucetimods]

We're discussing the rest of this and we'll get to that soon, but I do want to clarify one thing here. The mun in question approached me about this issue. I gave the option to retcon the character's age to fit with the new established canon. However the mun chose not to do so, due to some IC weirdness that would result from the change in age. So they opted to do a restart instead.