SECOND COMMENT. This is about the issue of whether or not the HQ is even going to be moved at all.
First of all, I was under the impression that the move more or less was a decided issue, although the mods never actually said that, so that was more or less (read: entirely) my bad, and I apologize for having encouraged that notion, especially for people who were upset about it. Part of this is just coming from my RP background - I'm used to playing in games where things are very stringently planned out, sometimes even to the point of being very restrictive. So when this came up, I sort of mentally filled in the blanks with SO THEN THIS IS WHAT IS HAPPENING, LET'S SEE WHAT WE CAN DO WITHIN THOSE CONSTRAINTS. I really want to emphasize that no mod said anything remotely resembling this to me, and that was pretty much just me doing my typical "Someone says A, I jump ahead to B, C, D, E, F, G and then start wondering what to do about HIJKLMNO" bit. It's like that thing in South Park where Cartman literally has to finish the song every time someone starts "Come Sail Away," but with RP, and also all of the things in my life.
Part of the reason I had Yukari push for the whole "set up a second base in the jungle" thing was because I saw that ICly there were some serious objections to moving the building, and most of them seemed to be centered around "holy shit, there are still people missing in the jungle, we can't just abandon them." I thought implementing a plan like that would basically help to ease the IC tension for a lot of people, especially for those whose characters would, if the move happened, become totally despondent about abandoning others, or who might even ICly choose to stay behind, cut off from everyone else. Which is obviously not particularly viable to play for any extended period of time.
But look, if the move isn't a decided issue, (it isn't), that is cool. I think, though, that at some point (not necessarily now) we are going to have to actually decide that issue one way or the other. And to do that, I think we need to get a reading on how many people, OOCly, are actually in favor of having a move happen, and how many people are against it. I think that getting a sense of what people are looking for OOCly can help us to kind of guide the results of the various IC efforts.
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First of all, I was under the impression that the move more or less was a decided issue, although the mods never actually said that, so that was more or less (read: entirely) my bad, and I apologize for having encouraged that notion, especially for people who were upset about it. Part of this is just coming from my RP background - I'm used to playing in games where things are very stringently planned out, sometimes even to the point of being very restrictive. So when this came up, I sort of mentally filled in the blanks with SO THEN THIS IS WHAT IS HAPPENING, LET'S SEE WHAT WE CAN DO WITHIN THOSE CONSTRAINTS. I really want to emphasize that no mod said anything remotely resembling this to me, and that was pretty much just me doing my typical "Someone says A, I jump ahead to B, C, D, E, F, G and then start wondering what to do about HIJKLMNO" bit. It's like that thing in South Park where Cartman literally has to finish the song every time someone starts "Come Sail Away," but with RP, and also all of the things in my life.
Part of the reason I had Yukari push for the whole "set up a second base in the jungle" thing was because I saw that ICly there were some serious objections to moving the building, and most of them seemed to be centered around "holy shit, there are still people missing in the jungle, we can't just abandon them." I thought implementing a plan like that would basically help to ease the IC tension for a lot of people, especially for those whose characters would, if the move happened, become totally despondent about abandoning others, or who might even ICly choose to stay behind, cut off from everyone else. Which is obviously not particularly viable to play for any extended period of time.
But look, if the move isn't a decided issue, (it isn't), that is cool. I think, though, that at some point (not necessarily now) we are going to have to actually decide that issue one way or the other. And to do that, I think we need to get a reading on how many people, OOCly, are actually in favor of having a move happen, and how many people are against it. I think that getting a sense of what people are looking for OOCly can help us to kind of guide the results of the various IC efforts.