mod post: mini state of the game poll

[riverviewmod]

mini state of the game: a poll

Hi everyone! This is just a quick poll!

I just wanted to reach out to everyone and ask which aspects of the game players are most interested in. Considering Riverview's playerbase has gotten smaller over the past couple of months, I've been debating on lowering the gamewide cap and shifting the game focus going forward. This would mean more mod-directed plot related to the aspects of the game that players are actually interested in rather than low-maintenance broad sweeps that cover more bases. This would allow me to more directly focus my attention on the things that players would really like to dig into in the setting and allow me to cut down on detail for things that are enjoyable but not high-priority for players.

In the comments, there are a couple of comment threads with major "themes" of the game that I am interested in delving into with more depth. Please respond to the headers with your vote, or hit up the suggestions thread with other ideas or thoughts.

Thank you for any feedback, and I'm looking forward to hearing from you!

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GAME THEME: exploration, expansion, action

[riverviewmod]

If you are interested in plots centered around action, characters exploring and expanding into the Abandoned City, and unearthing information about the moon and its history, please comment here. This would include events of the type that usually feature in the bi-monthly exploration mingles and exploration missions.

Increased mod focus on these themes would include more in-depth exploration mingles similar to the most recent one, focused on in-character actions affecting the setting in more dramatic ways. This may shift the overall game tone to more serious and darker themes with occasional gamewide effects such as disasters and epidemics. Slice-of-life festivals and monthly mingles would be less in-depth but still present, and mostly recycled from previous monthly mingle posts.

+1

[jintetsu]

I'm most interested in exploration and worldbuilding! (And Jintetsu's great at accidentally stumbling into the plot despite his best efforts to avoid it, lol.)

[madeupnames]

I love both aspects a lot, so really it's just a coinflip for me, but I'll go ahead and side with this one! Especially since I've seen in interest from others on my plurk for it as well.

[bestsir]

Personally I'm a fan of the exploration stuff, admittedly because exploration and disaster response give my character a lot more to do that's directly relevant to his experience.

[indigobird]

I will throw my vote in for this, though I'm honestly split like, 55 and 45 between exploration and SOL stuff. I was drawn to this game a lot in part because it has both. But ultimately it's easier for people to do their own SOL stuff.

+1

[childofaxios]

I'm for this! I didn't have a particular motivation in joining the game re: SOL or exploration, but I'm definitely drawn to the latter and to seeing how the results will affect those characters who can't participate in exploration etc directly.

[bardish]

Throwing in my vote for this! Even though my one and only character rn is more SOL oriented, I like having active exploration/expansion/action going on, because the immediate and long-term effects can feed into interesting character/SOL plots, too.

+1

[winscenario]

I'd definitely be more interested in seeing this part more developed and explored, so long as the slice-of-life aspect of the game isn't lost! Besides it makes sense for both my boys.

[mutant_messiah]

I would like to say that this is easily the only place I really much care about giving effort to outside of memes and my own musebox/PSLs blah blah. I love the whole moon setting with a planet off in the distance, the Quarantine, the Abandoned City and all that stuff.

I think this would be great to open up more of, as we have a lot of action/hero types in this community. Nothing wrong with a bit of darkness. You need it for true and proper drama. Otherwise people will just become complacent. An always satisfied character is a boring character to play.

Maybe even have someone play an OC that gets unearthed via an exploration event? Someone powerful that would require the heroes to do something heroic, etc. together.