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