A concern brought up was that nature no longer felt like a threatening force. Previously, we had often run Nature Run posts to introduce new flora/fauna to players and also help keep up that feeling of nature is here and deadly. Recently though, nearly all nature interactions are being handwaved and given that nature is one of Thusia's biggest points, it's been really unfair of us to expect you to feel like nature is a continuous threat when you don't see it as such!
One thing we would like to do is get back into the habit of doing Nature Runs to introduce new wildlife, however at a lower frequency so as not to burn ourselves into the ground, as we did last time. Running nature takes a lot out of our current nature runners, as does creating new wildlife, and unfortunately trying to do it every two weeks was still too much for us. But not doing it at all is not cool either. Our current consideration is making it a monthly thing, perhaps at the start of the month, with a majority of new wildlife being introduced then for people to play with for the rest of the month.
We'd also like to get into the habit of using mingles as a 'reminder' of the nature lurking outside your window. A majority of them would be a reaction sort of thing, but we think inserting a few new creatures and possibly smaller scale nature runs (as in nature coming to a couple of you and not you to it) could be plausible! But what we would need in order to make this idea work is help running nature every now and then!
An idea brought to us was to give nature a bit more of a personification in order to make it more fun and less tiresome for people to play. We think this could be interesting, though we are at a bit of a loss as to how to actually implement it.
So! If you have any ideas, concerns, suggestions, or anything at all in concerns to the current playing and playability of nature, please drop a comment here!
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One thing we would like to do is get back into the habit of doing Nature Runs to introduce new wildlife, however at a lower frequency so as not to burn ourselves into the ground, as we did last time. Running nature takes a lot out of our current nature runners, as does creating new wildlife, and unfortunately trying to do it every two weeks was still too much for us. But not doing it at all is not cool either. Our current consideration is making it a monthly thing, perhaps at the start of the month, with a majority of new wildlife being introduced then for people to play with for the rest of the month.
We'd also like to get into the habit of using mingles as a 'reminder' of the nature lurking outside your window. A majority of them would be a reaction sort of thing, but we think inserting a few new creatures and possibly smaller scale nature runs (as in nature coming to a couple of you and not you to it) could be plausible! But what we would need in order to make this idea work is help running nature every now and then!
An idea brought to us was to give nature a bit more of a personification in order to make it more fun and less tiresome for people to play. We think this could be interesting, though we are at a bit of a loss as to how to actually implement it.
So! If you have any ideas, concerns, suggestions, or anything at all in concerns to the current playing and playability of nature, please drop a comment here!