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EACHDRAIDH RP ([personal profile] fairyfoes) wrote2014-06-25 09:29 am
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∞ . . . GAMEPLAY SUGGESTIONS

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Interested in making ED better for one and all? All for one? Here's where you can help your Awkward Tree-house! The Locations & Bestiary suggestion post is for what it says on the tin, and the FAQ deals with any general fly-by questions, with any long-term suggestions popped here for consideration by at least four-to-six of the main gameplay-orientated mods.

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You're all our fairybros and we love to help! Post as many suggestions as you like, but please do number them clearly so we can respond in kind and keep from muddling up replies once everything has been processed.

Have at thee, EDwardians!
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[personal profile] fairyfoes 2014-10-05 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
Please don't shut up, and thank you so much for bringing this to the game's attention! The whole modteam will confer for a few days on this idea (we're a rather thin bunch spread across dramatically different time zones, else it might be swifter), and in the meantime encourage other players with ideas along this line to pitch them in this thread!

An anon player recently gifted the modteam a paid account (and a huge, grateful shout out to them!) so we may implement its polling feature about a few options for a mechanic like the one you've made mention of.
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[personal profile] curser 2014-10-05 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Polling is a great idea to get game feedback and I'd love to see it put forward so that not only do you as mods know what the majority of the game want, but the players feel like they have a way to contribute or have a voice in some of the potential changes or how things are gone about. I've seen it make for a healthier and happier game in the long run and I think it's a great idea =)

(also glad you guys got gifted a paid, that is so nice of whomever did that)
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[personal profile] fairyfoes 2014-10-06 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Hello there! Just wanted to let you know that we're presently in preliminary talks regarding the originally posted idea. Would you be able to potentially link us to existing examples of a mechanic like this in existing games? We're gathering references and ideas to compare options and take notes.
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[personal profile] teenyoda 2014-10-06 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Haha, it seems I can't. I could have sworn I'd seen something similar, but what I had in mind seems to be not easy to find anywhere. What I can do is outline my idea more. I was thinking along the lines of a monthly post that has the mods putting up what the NPCs have been doing and what effects its had on the game with side mentions of interactions with other characters. Though, I do need to stress there should be a clear divide in place on what is IC knowledge and what is OOC knowledge and how characters can know what to share. This extends to what the players would put up so that there's as little confusion over what their char would know about and how their char could find out this info if they wanted. A basic format for the player's form could be something along the lines of:

Character:
Series:
Court:
General overview of what your character has been up to recently:
Who have they been involved with in this time period?:
What can characters ICly know about your character?:
What information is limited to specific CR?:
What information is OOC and has to be worked at to be found out?:

Obviously you guys can change that to whatever you want or take/add to it, but it would be something that gave a broader view and could hopefully give people a quick update on "oh, so (C) has been doing this with (D) and (S). I wondered where they'd been this month" and it lets them know what they can and can't logically find out through their character. (I hope)
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[personal profile] fairyfoes 2014-10-07 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
So essentially, a more detailed and formal CR meme which is mod-posted seems like what you're after!

The only issue this may cause is described with one line, 'lets them know what they can and can't logically find out through their character.' A great deal of plotting from the modteam has been designed with a relatively organic dissemination of information by characters in mind (friends tell friends who tell other friends, until common concepts percolate throughout the game). This prevents characters from collaborating to solve puzzles too quickly, and helps to give the metaplot mods a bit of breathing space!
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[personal profile] curser 2014-10-07 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
Well, the CR/friending meme is both friending and to find new cr, whereas this would be an info post to let people know what's happened 'up to this point'. It also doesn't have to be monthly, since we're a bimonthly app game.

I think a possible solution for having things be figured too quickly is being able to redact certain parts that are plot specific. example:

"Reynard went and did this and this and this with this char and the result was [REDACTED]."

That would, hopefully, let the players know that there are just certain things that the mods aren't spilling past the players that do know via pms and playing for the good of the overall plot. As I said, it's up to you how much you guys want to put on the information of the mod's part and please conform it to fit with what is more comfortable for you guys and causes less work in the long run.
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[personal profile] fairyfoes 2014-10-07 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
All excellent thoughts! There's absolutely some mechanic we can use to think through the issue. Would you be opposed to us sending you a PM to look over what we build and make any last suggestions? We don't have a solid ETA for completion yet, but you've been a world of help.
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[personal profile] teenyoda 2014-10-07 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course. =) I'm happy to help in any way, but at the end of the day, it's going to be your guys' thing. It should work best for you, but I don't mind giving it a peek.

[personal profile] dragonring 2014-12-12 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
I'm just... gonna use this thread instead of starting a new one since it's all related. ;) I wanted to suggest a line for the meme if that's ok with you? "Recent open threads/posts:" where people can put links. We used it back in Asgard and I've always found it very helpful, specially for big events where it's hard to find a top level comment or a specific network post in a sea of them. Also there's the thing when sometimes players don't want to tag old things in fear to get ignored, so saying "I have my character over here doing this and I'm still taking tags for that" would help!
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[personal profile] fairyfoes 2014-12-12 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
c: What a great idea! We popped this up just now!
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