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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[tempredmental]

I'm going to kind of sit here because I like having both options, but I can see how it might be difficult to manage two sides like that.

I think, maybe reduce the amount of effort on the holiday stuff, because those are going to be the same each time that month comes up, but focus more on the actual events and exploration aspects of the game. The holidays are a nice backdrop, but don't need a huge amount of attention, I'd think. However, having it there as maybe an OOC info post instead of a full-size mingle. This will give the non-adventuring characters something to do, or give the adventuring types a chance for down-time and slice-of-life CR if they want it. But, I've been through an entire calendar cycle, and repeating the events for the holidays again, while fun for some of the events, is a little stagnant for others. So, having a big giant focus on it feels dry, and difficult to come up with new ideas for.

However, expanding the map is kind of part of the main premise, right? And rediscovering the history behind the fallen city, so I feel like that would be something to create a bigger focus on. Just a thought. I'm not sure how much of that is already planned out and how much is player influenced, but it's a nice thing to have people find this stuff.

I personally keep forgetting about the TDM and the missions and prompts posted there. So, perhaps making the TDM part of the main comm might be nice. It's hard to keep track of a lot of comms for a lot of people, and I don't know a lot of games that still separate their action comm from their network comm anymore other than this one and Recollé (but I could just be out of the loop here). I like having stuff all in one place and easy to find, though. Also, because a lot of network posts turn into action posts, I've wondered several times if I should just continue the thread there or create a action post for the continuation... though, I'm likely just overthinking that! LOL

As for the cap, at this point, because we're worried about waning membership in the game, maybe removing altogether temporarily, and seeing what happens? If it gets too big, we can always reinstate it just above the membership number, and then let it calm back down again. Or, if we wanted to limit things, I know Drift Fleet uses an invite system. It's a fairly loose one, but you have to know someone in the game in order to join.

[riverviewmod]

Hi Sailor G - Thank you for your feedback! I've definitely heard from a few players that the holidays are getting a bit repetitive and that the TDM prompts get missed by the main game, and I completely understand. That's definitely going to be one of the main things that changes. As of now, my plan for the monthly mingles is to do a quick rundown of the holiday traditions with a link to the previous year's mingle for further information along with a new prompt for each month, and to incorporate the TDM plot with an additional prompt to pull it into the new month, just to throw some action into the midst and make the TDM missions more accessible to accepted characters without taking that action away from prospective players.

For your question about continuing network threads into action, there's really no rule about that! It's actually the main reason I chose to go with a word count for AC comment counts instead of whether the tag was a 'log' or 'network' tag - so people could be as flexible as they wanted with where they threaded things and still get credit for longer tags on the network posts.

I'm still a bit up in the air on the idea of a cap - the reason I'm interested in instating one is mostly because if the focus switches to more curated and intensive plot, I wouldn't be able to handle 175 characters, which is where the game cap is at right now. Most likely, the cap would be lowered to 125 or 150, which would leave room for expansion from its current size, but keep it from getting bigger than I can handle.

Thanks again for your feedback, I hope I've addressed your concerns!