mod post: monthly state of the game

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monthly state of the game

Hi everyone! Welcome to November's State of the Game post! Nothing really major this month, though there's a note regarding December's Activity Check!

exploration

Short and sweet and to the point, but please don't forget that the EXPLORATION PAGE is up and running and has quite a few unclaimed missions and missions that are available to multiple teams (missions open to multiple teams are noted on the exploration page) that have a major chance to expand the city, and open up a bunch of exciting new locations. This is some really cool stuff, and I have a lot of ideas of how I could leverage off of player exploration to shake the game up a bit.

Also, I just wanted to say that there have been a lot of exciting player plots going on. If any player has ideas for player plots that involve exploration or expanding/contributing to the setting, I would absolutely love to hear about them and facilitate them. Please shoot me a PM with your ideas and we can work together to integrate them. I am also willing to post mingles or OOC posts with the mod account, and/or plurk any player-posted logs or posts related to player plot on the mod plurk riverview.

concerns regarding the intro/holiday mingle timing

I was contacted privately with a concern regarding the timing of the introductory mingle/holiday post this month, so I wanted to post my response so anyone else who has this concern can see.

The concern raised was that the post went up on the first, when apps opened, which meant that current players had tagged in and started threads before new players were accepted into the game. I want to clarify - the monthly holiday/intro posts are not intended solely as introductory posts for the new players, but are meant for use by the game as a whole. They are intended as prompts for characters already in game, and to provide an easy place to tag out or post a top-level for new players. While the holidays originally had time limits of one week, they have been revised to be open for the entirety of the month, nullifying concerns about there being a time limit on posting a top-level. The mingles are posted on the first of the month, as I generally prefer to process applications as they come in starting when they open, and want the mingle immediately available for new players as they are accepted. The delay in processing them this month was related to crazy circumstances in my real life.

To make the intended purpose of the posts clearer, they will be called 'monthly mingle post' instead of 'introductory post' going forward, and the wording of the acceptance notices will be changed to reflect this.

That having been said, if you are an existing player in the game, please save some space on your RP dance card for the new players who are entering the game!

december activity check

December's Activity Check (opening January 1st and closing January 8th) is going to be Check In Only to take some of the stress out of the busy season! Have an excellent December, everyone!

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