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▶ CHECK IN

For our first month, in lieu of an Activity Check, we would like you to check in and register your continued interest in Systemwide! You do not have to provide proof of your activity, but it is compulsary that you comment and fill out the below form. This will ensure all administration things are in order.

We also have a field that asks for game feedback. This part is optional, but would be highly useful as we continue to develop and grow our game!

Characters that are not checked in will be swept, as per Activity Check rules. Please comment before midnight EST, March 31.

▼ COMMENT FORM

Just comment with the below form, filled out.

<b>Your name:</b> <b>Character's name:</b> <b>Character's journal:</b> <b>Character's canon:</b> Please confirm you have done the following: <b>Taken list:</b> <B>Player contact:</b> <b>CR Meme:</b> (Optional.) <b>Recruitment Page:</b> (Optional.) <b>Joined all communities:</b> <b>Feedback:</b> (Optional.)

Comments

[repetitio]

Your name: Tona
Character's name: Rita Vrataski
Character's journal: repetitio
Character's canon: Edge of Tomorrow

Please confirm you have done the following:

Taken list: ✓
Player contact: ✓
CR Meme: (Optional.) ✓
Recruitment Page: (Optional.) ✓
Joined all communities: ✓

Feedback: (Optional.) I have no feedback other than that I like how hands-on the mod team has been thus far! u guys get bloody kisses

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[onyourfeet]

Your name: Samm
Character's name: William Cage
Character's journal: onyourfeet
Character's canon: Edge of Tomorrow

Please confirm you have done the following:

Taken list: Yep.
Player contact: Roger that.
CR Meme: You bet.
Recruitment Page: In progress.
Joined all communities: Boom done.

Feedback: I work here.

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[sfoils]

Your name: Mao
Character's name: Wedge Antilles
Character's journal: sfoils
Character's canon: Star Wars

Please confirm you have done the following:

Taken list: Yes.
Player contact: Si.
CR Meme: Oui.
Recruitment Page: Ja.
Joined all communities: Hai.

Feedback: Can I rename my ship, Mommy?

+ addition on time ratio

[sfoils]

I'd actually prefer for the game's time ratio to stay at a 1:1. As Amber stated, the game's current speed isn't conductive to a 1:1 ratio, but I'd admit I'm biased for it to stay as it is: I have dyscalculia, which makes it incredibly hard for me to play in games with skewed time ratios.

[systemwizard]

Your name: Dray
Character's name: Zee Captain
Character's journal: systemwizard
Character's canon: Romantically Apocalyptic

Please confirm you have done the following:

Taken list: Done!
Player contact: Done!
CR Meme: here
Recruitment Page: n/a
Joined all communities: Yep!

Feedback: I've been pretty quiet because I'm not sure if Captain's really great for this game, despite the fact that I love SW's concept. I think I may eventually switch out for a character more in keeping with what everyone else is playing, but I'm checking in because I haven't decided yet.

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[nightride]

Your name: a ghost
Character's name: Driver
Character's journal: nightride
Character's canon: Drive

Please confirm you have done the following:

Taken list: yes
Player contact: yes
CR Meme: yes
Recruitment Page: not yet
Joined all communities: yes

Feedback: let's ride

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[mithrarin]

Your name: Dragon
Character's name: Dust
Character's journal: mithrarin
Character's canon: Dust: An Elysian Tail

Character's name: Maria Cyphert
Character's journal: antiochattitude
Character's canon: Freeborn OC

Please confirm you have done the following:

Taken list: Yes
Player contact: Yes
CR Meme: Yes.
Recruitment Page: Yes.
Joined all communities: Yes.

Feedback: I'm looking forward to more missions, especially ones in the various Matrices!

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[servomotor]

Your name: China
Character's name: Tony Spark Stark
Character's journal: servomotor
Character's canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe

Please confirm you have done the following:

Taken list: Y
Player contact: Y
CR Meme: Y
Recruitment Page: N
Joined all communities: I'm everywhere

Feedback: You guys should be doing a better job.

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[emptychamber]

Your name: Ammmy
Character's name: Emily Finch
Character's journal: emptychamber
Character's canon: Original Character

Please confirm you have done the following:

Taken list: yes
Player contact: yes
CR Meme: yes
Recruitment Page: not yet, plans to do so in the next month or two
Joined all communities: yes

Feedback: I am enjoying myself thus far! Trying not to get 100% left behind due to slowtags (the struggle is real), but still.

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[dissent]

Your name: Amber.

Character's name: Anders
Character's journal: dissent
Character's canon: Dragon Age

Please confirm you have done the following:
Taken list: ☑
Player contact: ☑
CR Meme: (Optional.) ☑
Recruitment Page: (Optional.)
Joined all communities: ☑


Character's name: Natasha Romanoff
Character's journal: spins
Character's canon: Marvel Cinematic

Please confirm you have done the following:
Taken list: ☑
Player contact: ☑
CR Meme: (Optional.) ☑
Recruitment Page: (Optional.)
Joined all communities: ☑


Feedback: I feel like since the mods are both on my plurk you've seen my enthusiasm about your hands-on GM style of modding and the amazing concept of the game itself. It seems like a lot of work and you guys are so on top of everything and I am just really impressed in general.

I'd kind of like more information about daily life in one consolidated place, since right now the informational focus seems to be on the ZDG, but I may hit up the FAQ with my specific questions about furniture and room size and food availability and stores/markets and clothing. It's not urgent tho!

I also feel confident that going forward there will be more opportunities to use the cool Matrix setting and AU characters into other fictional worlds but I still wanna mention it here, since it's a big part of the draw for a lot of people.

Finally, something else I've talked about on plurk, the 1:1 time ratio doesn't feel conducive to the low AC and collection of very slow taggers (including myself! and basically everyone I've threaded with! this isn't meant to be a condemnation) combined with a setting that by necessity has a lot going on. Obviously in this universe there's a lot of missions and extractions to pull out new characters, as well as political machinations and whatever else you guys have in store, and I'm concerned that rolling those events out in a believable timeframe in a 1:1 ratio will result in that thing where people are still backttagging one event and feel they either have to handwave the thread or choose not to participate in the new thing. I'm not suggesting people speed up their tagging or that the gameworld slow down, so the controllable variable is obviously how time passes.
Of course, there are pitfalls of abandoning the 1:1 ratio, not the least that controlling how time passes is more work for you guys, but I mostly wanted to suggest it early as someone who gets really frustrated by handwaving-heavy games where the majority of interactions and development and plot don't get threaded out because the world pace is faster than the majority of the playerbase can keep up with tagging.

Anyway, take all this with a heavy handful of salt, I love the game and have confidence in you guys and the work you do, and I understand that the game is still very much in development and settling into itself.

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Thank you for your feedback!

We all appreciate your enthusiasm and will take all of what you have said onboard going forward. Your notes on including more details about daily life and opening up Matrix opportunities are things we wholeheartedly agree with and will continue to work on and make available soon.

Time ratio is a tricky thing to grapple with, especially when we really want to be able to include both intensive GMing style plots that can't realistically be finished in the time they take up IC, as well as the day to day living of individual character stories.

We project that at least for the next while, we will be sticking to the 1:1 ratio for the sake of easy structure, but we shall be looking into tactics to reduce time disparities, such as post/backdating, information packages (while trying not to steal away all spontaneity and initial excitement), and pacing out our plots so that dedicated focus on them only lasts certain spans of time, as well as encouraging player-made plots. Some of our players will have/already have expressed ideas we shall be heeding.

We definitely do not want to give the impression of being too hand-wave heavy, and will be keeping an eye on this balance. Thank you for bringing it to our attention and offering your experiences so far!

[scission]

Your name: Koke
Character's name: Deucalion
Character's journal: scission
Character's canon: Teen Wolf

Please confirm you have done the following:

Taken list: Y
Player contact: Y
CR Meme: Y
Recruitment Page: N(ot yet)
Joined all communities: Y

Feedback: My only concerns so far have really been about the opening event, or at least the more plot-intensive aspect of it. Having an opening mingle is fantastic for generating CR, and I do really admire the hands-on GMing and NPC elements you've incorporated! But the plot-intensive aspect of the event has been really closed off and dependent on characters who already had their feet under them in one respect or another. I feel it's left a lot of players who either couldn't get involved due to the status of their characters or didn't get involved due to their confidence in the game/setting quite adrift, with plot going on in a pretty removed bubble while others twiddle their thumbs and wait.

I know you plan to do a plot closing post to bring everyone up to speed, and I don't want to assume on what your plans are, but I would really love to see something IC about it that everyone can access (like a network post). I would also agree with Amber's notes about more day-to-day setting details, extended maybe to a couple more mod-run mingle type logs to try and support more general confidence in playing in the setting.

I am in general really excited about this game and the passion you guys have expressed regarding it. The Matrix has been a long, long love of mine, and I am really really interested in seeing more of the plot you have planned here unfold and getting to play with all the cool ideas you've built.

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Thank you for your feedback about our event!

As you've expressed, there's definitely a settling/learning curve period as we figure out what information and access players need to get into plot events, so this is valuable input. Your suggestion about bringing in updates in an IC avenue is a great one, and we intend to do just this very soon, and hopefully broaden interaction with the plotting we've begun.

We've also talked about what kind of mass mingle logs or even themed logs we can start posting, and our sim stations device will be one such tool, so hopefully that will answer some of your feedback too as we continue on.

Your enthusiasm is invaluable and so are your suggestions! Thank you again for both.

[hacker]

Your name: Tiffany
Character's name: Skye
Character's journal: insurges
Character's canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe: Agents of SHIELD

Please confirm you have done the following:

Taken list: Yes
Player contact: Yes
CR Meme: Yes
Recruitment Page: No
Joined all communities: Yes

Feedback:

Mod team has been AWESOME about being a.) super communicative, b.) super on top of stuff, c.) really fun and exciting events, d.) interactivity. You guys are so involved and well-organized and have clearly fleshed all of this out extensively. It's very exciting to see. Please consider all of the below suggestions for improvement rather than criticism; I'm in love with everything you're doing and everything this game chooses to be!

General Accessibility:
That said, the OOC comm could really do with some aggressive use of tags. OOC intro tags, mod post tags, etc. And I'd really like to see them in a sidebar below the nav stuff. Trying to go back to the mod plot info has been a real headache sifting through the 900 character intros. ... I now see that the sticky post at the top of the OOC comm in fact has a link to the event post BUT it would still be nice to use tags so that as the game progresses, we could easily track mod posts, AC posts, event posts, OOC intros, etc.

Event:
I felt the plot post itself was lacking, in that it described the inciting incident of the event ("the celebrations are cut short when a hovercraft returns from what was a simple scouting mission with news that Sentinels attacked and destroyed four ships, a massive blow to the Zion Defense Grid") and the requirements for sign-up, but did not give an explanation of what those sign-ups would be doing or anything for people who weren't actively doing those threads to know what to poke at. It made it hard to access the event if you weren't in a position to sign up for those spots or actively involved in those threads. There was also a comment in the post "staying home in Zion will carry equally important opportunities" that I never saw follow-up on. It's not impossible that I simply missed follow-up, but it definitely wasn't presented centrally in the OOC comm or anything, so that was disappointing.

Especially with an event that happens in the beginning of the month like this, I think it's important to be clear about a.) what people should be aware of, b.) how people can be interacting with those actual storylines, because otherwise, people wind up paralyzed in what they can do while other people who are directly involved can just backthread the even itself. It really limits indirect involvement through reactions.

Daily Life:
Seconding Amber's comments about wishing I knew more about daily life in Zion! It seems very scattered. Some general cultural, resource, living conditions, etc. notes would be very nice in the "Real" section beyond what's there. A lot of the game seems to push towards people signing up for the ZDG, with promises of more to come for the Zion civilian side but little in the way of details there to actually pull on.

Matrix:
Seconding Amber's comments about access to missions and stuff in the Matrix also!

Timeline:
Just to weigh in one this: I've almost never seen skewed time ratios work well. But if you're planning on having an event per month, you could say that each "month" takes place over the length that event takes, and allow people to thread within the month for that span, and then next month we move on to the duration of the next story movement, etc. That depends on if you're ready to post the event info at the beginning of the month every month, though, like you did this month. Idk, food for thought! The setting lends itself towards interesting downtime, but it seems like you guys are very story-focused, so that might be an option you want to consider.

NPCs:
It'd be nice to have a centralized way to request NPC interaction! Since many of them are just generally around, etc. Like Amber already said, they are definitely one of the game's biggest strengths, I think, and I'd like to see them get more play-time!

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Hi!

You've given us a wide range of suggestions and thoughts, and we don't doubt for a moment that it's in our best interests, so no worries. The OOC comm definitely needed some aggressive tagging so that's now done, and your comments about daily life info and Matrixness in our Matrix game will be worked on also.

Thank you also for going into detail about what you felt was missing from our plot handling. This gives us notions for the future about accessibility and information that we'll look to implement.

We also recognise that our promises regarding Zion-based interaction haven't come into fruition yet. That will be rectified very soon as we wrap up the search and rescue portion of the plot, and we had hoped to do it earlier -- we apologise for the lack of transparency around that.

As mentioned in our reply to Amber, we will likely be staying with the 1:1 time ratio for the time being, and exploring ways to lessen problems surrounding time disparity. As we do want people to enjoy exploring downtime, we'll need to find a balance between regular events and room for downtime CR/individual storybuilding, but you present an interesting option. We shall continue to explore tactics along this vein and make changes as necessary.

NPC accessibility is something we want to cultivate, so we'll be looking at what we have so far and develop this further so that people feel confident about hailing them. We'll touch on this in our upcoming State of the Game.

Thanks again for your words!

[roboticist]

Your name: Dana
Character's name: Saphir Wyon Gneiss
Character's journal: roboticist
Character's canon: Tales of the Abyss

Please confirm you have done the following:

Taken list: yes!
Player contact: also yes!
CR Meme: indeed c:
Recruitment Page: not yet
Joined all communities: yes!

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[familybusiness]

Your name: Ashley
Character's name: Sam Winchester
Character's journal: familybusiness
Character's canon: Supernatural

Please confirm you have done the following:

Taken list: Yes
Player contact: Yes
CR Meme: Yes
Recruitment Page: Not Yet
Joined all communities: Yes

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[knowdeathknowglory]

Your name: Zack
Character's name: Jay Zimin
Character's journal: knowdeathknowglory
Character's canon: Original Character

Please confirm you have done the following:

Taken list: Yup!
Player contact: Yes!
CR Meme: Yes!
Recruitment Page: (Optional.)
Joined all communities: Yup

Feedback: You're doing wonderfully so far and I'm glad I joined.

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[dostoevsky]

Your name: MJ
Character's name: Stephen Bloom
Character's journal: dostoevsky
Character's canon: The Brothers Bloom

Please confirm you have done the following:

Taken list: Yes
Player contact: Yes
CR Meme: Yes
Recruitment Page:
Joined all communities: Yes

Feedback: Your list mod needs to update stuff faster.

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[ex_paragon697]

Your name: Jeeps
Character's name: Steve Rogers
Character's journal: paragon
Character's canon: MCU

Please confirm you have done the following:

Taken list: Check.
Player contact: Check.
CR Meme: Check.
Recruitment Page: Eventually.
Joined all communities: Check.

Feedback: You guys continually impress me. I think my only thing I want to bring up is dittoing what the others have said about fleshing out daily living more. And in that vein I think I'd like to see plot posts balanced out with more day in the life posts in the next couple months, because it helps me, in general, to figure out my character's routine and how very eventful plots might disrupt that. You guys have given great plot so far and I'm super enjoying it, but I also don't want anyone to get burnt out or not get to explore what this world is like during quieter times.

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Thanks for the feedback!

We agree on balance between plots and lower key events, as we tried to reflect this some with the Truce Week vs the emergency, but obviously, Truce Week is ICly a special occasion and the emergency plot has run on longer, so in the future, we'll seek a better balance. We have some notions about giving mingle logs and themed logs for day to day, not just metaplot, so we'll be definitely put this into practice based off the feedback we're hearing!

And as mentioned, we'll also see about fleshing out some details about the day to day so that people feel more confident with independent RP.

Thanks for sticking with us, we're enjoying you too!

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Your name: Alex
Character's name: Ellie
Character's journal: punned
Character's canon: The Last Of Us

Please confirm you have done the following:

Taken list: y
Player contact: y
CR Meme: y
Recruitment Page: not yet, still trying to figure out where ellie would fit best
Joined all communities: y

Feedback: Going to echo Koke's comments about the opening event and the accessibility of the plot. I felt it was catered more for characters IC'ly very established in the game than it was for characters not as IC'ly established. Playing a character nowhere near as IC'ly established in game, I felt at a bit of a loss as to how to incorporate my character into the plot beyond her just hanging around twiddling her thumbs. I know this is not necessarily any reflection in how the game will pan out from this point forward, and you've already expressed in response to other people's feedback that you're still working out how to handle this kind of thing, which is awesome! But I do feel, particularly with how slow the game has started out to be and thus the slowness of establishing CR, that there might need to be some more mingle logs that cater for everyone across the board while the game is still in such early stages and while people are still trying to work out the dynamics of how their character fits into the setting as well as the dynamics of pre-established CR.

Also going to echo some more information on the daily life in Zion. I feel having a more solid picture of how life generally runs in Zion will make it easier for people to get more involved. It's possible the pace of the game may even pick up a bit more once people feel more familiar with the setting and where their character fits in with everything/everyone.

Outside of these issues, I think it's a great concept for a game and I'm enjoying the easy, slow pace. The mods have put a lot of thought and effort into the game and it really shows. Looking forward to seeing what you guys have in store for this game!

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Thanks for the feedback!

We kicked off the game with a plot that was very much geared towards established, Real combat situations, and we want to assure you that future opportunities will be more diverse in nature, with different levels of accessibility and necessary character experience. As we let Tifa know, we had intended for more Zion-based RP branching off the plot earlier than it will be, so we'll be moving forward with that and will keep these timing/accessibility issues in mind going forward!

In our upcoming State of the Game, we'll discuss a little on how our Mission Control page will work, which may help address some of these concerns. And we'll look into fleshing out the setting of Zion, too, so watch this space.

Thank you again for your words, they are very helpful in letting us know where we should be putting our efforts.

[lostsoldier]

Your name: Jenni
Character's name: Bucky Barnes
Character's journal: lostsoldier
Character's canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe

Please confirm you have done the following:

Taken list: Done!
Player contact: Yep!
CR Meme: Taken care of.
Recruitment Page: Nnnot yet but maybe soon.
Joined all communities: I'm in.

Feedback: I love everything so much!! People have given some really good feedback already, but I would definitely also be excited to see more setting info that addresses day-to-day life. Technology level & availability is something I've particularly puzzled over recently, for example what accessing the network even looks like, are we all using smart phones or nineties desktop computers here or what, etc. But just having more concrete setting information to turn to would be great, as others have said much more eloquently.

One specific suggestion though: I was really excited to see the Mission Control page go up, and I know it's still under construction. Low-Clearance Mission sounds like a great mechanic for giving players some direction without requiring so much mod GMing, and I'm excited to see where that goes. But it made me wonder if something similar couldn't be established for non-ZDG "missions" too, to create more opportunities for non-ZDG rp and help players feel more comfortable engaging with the setting as a whole. For example, something like the Job Board at Juncture in ye olden days of yore, which provided a brief, basic structure for a "side-quest" that utilized the setting and minor NPCs without requiring much mod involvement, aside from an info-dump PM'd to one or more of the players who signed up for each quest.

Personally, that's something I found incredibly helpful (or potentially helpful, anyway) both for kicking off new/unexpected CR and for getting a clear, concise sense of the setting without that "oh god oh god what am I doing" feeling of making things up completely on my own, and without needing to rely solely on the mods either. It might even be cool to have a screened "drop box" post for players to submit ideas, so not all of the world-building has to come from the mods, and players who do feel comfortable in the setting can stretch their world-building legs a little with enough mod oversight to maintain consistency. Just a thought! And forgive me if that's, y'know, exactly what y'all were already planning for Low-Clearance Missions, in which case I'm just here to radiate excitement. o_o

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Thank you for your feedback!

You guessed it -- that is pretty much how we intend to use the Low-Clearance Missions section, but you've helped offer a narrower focus for us when we set about filling it up, so no forgiveness needed! They won't all be 100% ZDG, and we'll specify what is what and perhaps try to offer a variety of "ins" that aren't necessarily via direct Council or Command order.

I also appreciate the notion of opening up world building, and I've given thought also to maybe allowing comments section in relevant pages to act as player-edited content, such as NPCs, locations, and so on. We'll need to put more thought into that, but it might help with the fleshing out, like you suggest, along with having those world details consolidated somewhere.

Thanks for taking the time to give your perception!

[retrofire]

Your name: Melissa
Character's name: Peter Quill
Character's journal: retrofire
Character's canon: MCU

Please confirm you have done the following:

Taken list: Yup
Player contact: Yup
CR Meme: Yup
Recruitment Page: Nope
Joined all communities: Yup

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[grounderpounder]

Your name: trace
Character's name: octavia blake
Character's journal: this one
Character's canon: the 100

Please confirm you have done the following:

Taken list: Y
Player contact: Y
CR Meme: Y
Recruitment Page: N
Joined all communities: Y

Feedback: I already joined the wave of people +1ing setting details, because I feel like that's the thing that has stopped me up the most this month. It's kind of felt like a few of the ship-geared people have zoomed off in awesome plot and the rest of us barely even quite know what is and isn't kosher to RP in their day to day life.

Another thought: I know this is a mission-based game, but since not everyone can go on every mission for various reasons, it might be nice to see some lesser shit happening in Zion itself? Like 'a giant fistfight breaks out over X in Y public area' in which maybe they're disagreeing over something plot-relevant even if it's kind of a one-off. Basically, for people who are like "well... my dude's not on a mission, now what?" Something at least to kind of babysit the rest of us while the missions are going down. I've seen a few different people say the new less-established people were kind of left drifting with this plot and I agree to a point - and it could've been fixed super easily if there were even a 'hey, occupy yourselves with this if you're stuck at home!' Am I making sense?

Just something to think over, I'm obviously just one person so if it doesn't work out for the game then no sweat at all. You guys still continuously impress me with how fuckin' badass all the HTML is and how thorough and ugh.

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Thank you for your feedback!

Your +1 has been noted, and it's definitely good for us to know that individuals are not alone in their thoughts. It helps us prioritize our time and attention to know what seems to be our weakest spots. We also appreciate how incredibly appreciative and invested people are in setting, and the caution you're all taking in not writing anything out of concern it will later contradict theme. We'll have more up on that soon!

We definitely intend to continue to post social logs, in the interest of balancing mission and home-life. You will certainly see more of those. We are also working on encouraging players to submit plots as well, as the time comes-- which hopefully will foster not just 'lesser shit' but greater shit as well.

Again, thanks for your feedback! We're glad you like the HTML.

[impermanentmarker]

Your name: QV
Character's name: Isaac Clarke
Character's journal: impermanentmarker
Character's canon: Dead Space

Please confirm you have done the following:

Taken list: Yes
Player contact: Yes
CR Meme: (Optional.) Yes
Recruitment Page: (Optional.) Not yet
Joined all communities: Yes

Feedback: I have a little trouble keeping up with what's going on and where Isaac is allowed or not allowed to be occasionally, but I'm pretty sure that's due in part to how busy I was all this month making it hard for me to keep up. Other than that I don't have any complaints at all.

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Thank you for your feedback!

Do feel free to PM us any time if you have queries about your character's in game access and permissions, or if you want any advice about the current status of the game. We will be posting a monthly State of the Game which will hopefully be of assistance too in bringing people up to speed.

[echopraxia]

Your name: libby!
Character's name: Benevenuta Crispo & Seoraj Allaway
Character's journal: echopraxia & ironwork
Character's canon: Original (highlander & native respectively)

Please confirm you have done the following:

Taken list: Y.
Player contact: Y.
CR Meme: Y.
Recruitment Page: Y.
Joined all communities: Y.

Feedback: i appreciate that you have managed to start this game off with the kind of atmosphere when you put in a feedback segment, people are actually engaging with it and taking advantage of it and being thoughtfully responded to.

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[unwrit]

Your name: Cee!

Character's name: Johanna Mason
Character's journal: axeyou
Character's canon: Hunger Games

Please confirm you have done the following:

Taken list: y
Player contact: y
CR Meme: y
Recruitment Page: joined a crew but not via this page oops
Joined all communities: y

Character's name: Bloom
Character's journal: unwrit
Character's canon: The Bros. Bloom

Please confirm you have done the following:

Taken list: y
Player contact: y
CR Meme: y
Recruitment Page: n/a (wimp)
Joined all communities: y


Feedback:
everything I had thought to say has already been said very eloquently. I could hop around marking down +1 on stuff but generally I just want to throw out a big general +1 to pretty much everything Amber (and other people) said (which you responded to and I read it & appreciated it).

really I think the big thing for me would be to specifically echo the sentiments on day to day life to help regular ol' joes who aren't on crews get established. I purposefully apped one character to be crew active (Johanna) and one to be more daily life oriented (Bloom), and I've definitely felt the same lack of grounding for the latter of my two, just based on distribution of my comments this month. but again, I've read your responses (so nice! so thorough! so positive!) and feel confident that you've got stuff in mind.

also thank you for being so approachable, hands-on, and excited! it makes me excited about the game and all of the opportunities that are to come. you guys have put in a lot of work here and it shows. thanks for being great!

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Thank you for your feedback!

As you've noted in our responses, we will certainly be concentrating on grounding those aspects so that non-crew, non-plot-monopolised characters have better footing to roleplay via more Reality details in the coming weeks.

We are very glad you are excited! We hope to continue fanning these excitement flames for all kinds of characters.

[goesdown]

Your name: Lauren
Character's name: Crowley
Character's journal: goesdown
Character's canon: Supernatural

Please confirm you have done the following:

Taken list: yes
Player contact: yes
CR Meme: yes
Recruitment Page: n/a
Joined all communities: yes

Feedback: I'm having a lot of fun so far! I think you guys are doing a great job of fleshing out this environment and getting it off the ground and I am seeing so many cool ideas.

One thing I've noticed is that there hasn't been much for characters to react to if they weren't involved in that first mission. Having started up a game from scratch myself, I know it can be hard to get the ball rolling on regular posts and regular activity at first. I think maybe if we had a few small things for our characters to react to or interact with, it could help get the ball rolling more and build up some momentum, because I know that once the momentum is there, it can usually sustain itself well, but it's definitely a challenge to get it there. Maybe it could be something political or even just something that's sort of background to the setting, but allows for either interaction or reaction, because I haven't seen a lot of posts going up through the month and while I know that everyone is still tagging things from earlier, I think that if outside players glance at the game, they won't see that and it's important for a game to look a little more reliably active to appeal to new players.

I also think that the pace has been a little slow for 1:1. Whether you eventually decide on a day ratio or something else, I do think that something needs adjusting in that regard, even if it's just in the way information is relayed or things are posted, because it feels like threads are being resolved a little too slowly for 1:1 with the current set-up. I think right now, I've only finished one thread from the intro log. While these threads aren't necessarily plot- or action-packed, I'm a little concerned about how this will go when I do have threads with important outcomes if those take a month+ to resolve and it's also a month ICly.

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Thank you for your feedback!

We share you feelings about keeping the game more obviously active -- the big Truce mingle log and then the more exclusive logs diverted a lot of focus, and we feel confident that in the coming month, we can encourage activity to be more spread out. We will also be providing some more mingle logs with different hooks, which may assist in that all important momentum.

The time and ratio of action will be something we will keep an eye on and see what can be adjusted to better make up the difference. We have been given a few suggestions by players, and will bear this potential problem in mind when we go to provide more plot missions and see if we can't mitigate it without having to toy with time ratio.

Thanks again!

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Feedback: I have 0 opinion on the time ratio, tbh. Every game I've ever been in pretty much back or forward dated / fudged it to suit their purposes and yet be accurate.

Aside from that, great modding, well done, steaks all around.

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