DISCUSSION: To Plot and Beyond

[thusiamods]

Hey guys, your resident mods here with a... not quite a full-out discussion post, but we'd like to get some ideas and points of note out there and your feedback on the matter. Particularly involving the latest plot and currently running plotlines. There have been a few discussions on plurk, but we'd like to have something more formal to make sure everyone has the opportunity to read and get their input on things that'll affect them.

There's a few things we'd like to touch upon with this post, the main points revolving around current/past/future plots and how we as mods can make things more fun for you in the way we handle them. Also on our agenda are things like State of the Game, God Functions, Player Accessibility, and probably more. To keep things organized, we'll be using header comments to cover specific topics and linking them in the post for easy navigation, so once you see a topic linked here, feel free to jump right to it.

CURRENT PLOTS: Moving HQ | Bitey Dogs | Weres

Week of my Life Posts | State of the Game | Affecting the Gods | Nature

Comments

[over_the_fop]

Having been IN most of the plurks or stalked them carefully myself, the rarrr about the move wasn't about the move. And the one you're talking about it was a wellspring of frustration that came from a great deal of elements.

Basically, the plurks were about how this wasn't fun. The move was just the framing of the discussion.

Honestly? Everything you've mentioned in the first part of your comments strikes me as fun and great. I would really enjoy DOING those.

I wouldn't enjoy pressing a button, donating energy and moving. And that's what the complaints were. And I think I said multiple times in one of those plurks that no one is specifically against the move.

Honestly, I love new environments... but it was a halfassed framing that was half interactive, and mostly not. There was nothing that convinced me that this plot needed to happen RIGHT NOW as a player, even though logically the character could see the need.

Like I said up above. START IT. RUN IT. If you do it, they will come and be like OH SHINY I CAN DO THIS USE ME HERE. There's no amount of arguing that will convince people that the move is a great idea.

But it's very, very easy to SHOW people that it can be fun. And you have more than enough initiative and frankly more mod backing than anyone else in any of your efforts. Roll with it, use it, roll people into it, convince them it's fun.

And what you want will happen.

Your energy is best dedicated into ANYTHING YOU WANT. And a truly interactive RP allows that.

It's not too much pressure, honestly, it's the type of pressure... PEEK ON DOWN to my thread way down there, and I kind of outline my overall frustration with plot execution here. It's not even... anything my character could star in. It's not even something ONE WAY OR ANOTHER he'd be interested in. But as a player, it has made me sideeye so hard I might froth a bit.

There's so much that could be done BY PLAYERS, by people like you who WANT A THING, by people like Dera who WANT ANOTHER THING, by people like Izaya who just want to ROLL IN THE MIDDLE OF A THING - ANY THING THAT IT IS. That there's no reason for the gods to give simple answers to complex, engaging problems.

And that's where my beef is, and I think... that's where all the plurks came from.

And I think, honestly, some of the frustrations IN them got redirected onto you, and that sucks. It really does. And I personally apologize if any of my own comments seemed that way.

[supraliminally]

No you don't need to apologize! Also I am late replying and this will be short because I should really do some actual tags, but in general, yes, okay! I think I misunderstood what was being said and I am happy that no one is like, super adamant about not moving. And I mean, I'm not super adamant about not not moving, if that is what makes the most sense for the game, if you get my meaning. So yes. I am not very coherent right now but yeah. ANYWAY. Just. Things.