holy overhauls and changes, batmans!

[taxonmods]

The summer of change just keeps on rolling!

FIRST, we'd like to announce a few changes to our application process!

→ You no longer have to write a full history section! From now on, as long as a comprehensive canon and character history is available online (at a wiki or fan site), you can just provide a link. We hope this makes applications less daunting for our players to write, and help speed up our ability to process them on our end.

→ Our wait rule is being shortened! From now on, you can app any character from any canon that has been available for at least one month, and from points in ongoing canon that have been available for at least one week.

→ To reflect these changes, and coincide with our re-writing of other areas of the game, we've given the application page an overhaul!

SECOND, we've also got some changes regarding hiatuses!

→ PAUSE GLITCHES ARE CHANGING! From now on, rather than a pause glitch resulting in no one being able to notice a character's absence, the process is entirely noticeable. You can even have characters see each other get 'paused,' which involves them suddenly fading out of sight and vanishing in thin air.

→ Additionally, characters that were previously pause glitched will now remember bits and pieces of their time away from the city. Main features of these memories will be dark rooms, extensive interviewing, and other vague allusions to a more confined kind of captivity. If you've ever pause glitched your character before, feel free to start having them remember whenever you want if you'd like to participate.

→ After today, characters that will be on hiatus for longer than a week will be pause glitched. Please be sure to communicate these longer hiatuses with your castmates and close CR before they happen, and we hope this will help everyone out by giving them more to work with even when others are away.

NOTE: This does not apply to slowatuses or any hiatus shorter than a week.

THIRD, we're thinking of making an even bigger change! Taxon is known for it's medium policy that excludes anime, manga, and video game characters. However, as we continue into our third year of alien shenanigans we feel that this rule, like the Twilight rule of days gone by, needs to be put to rest.

Before we change that, we'd like to know from you first: how do you feel about the idea of us accepting applications from anime/manga/video game characters?


All of that said, dear Taxon, we love you dearly and hope you're doing well in these end days of summer. Don't forget that we have a Game HMD this Friday where we'll cover issues regarding the upcoming metaplot and future glitch polls, as well as any other subject you feel needs to be addressed.

Comments

[secretshame]

1) my hiatuses usually end up being failatuses, but if, in accordance to the new rule, you'd like Jenna and Willow to end up pause glitched (retroactive or no), I'm cool with that. I've been kind of puttering around during this one, so idk how you guys want to work it, but I'm pretty cool with anything~

2) As far as the anime/manga/video game character rule goes, I... personally like that Taxon is different from most other games as far as what characters are accepted. I know a couple of people who have wanted to app but have no idea who since they play, say, video game characters, but personally I like having this rule because it makes Taxon not just another jamjar game. There's something (aside from plot and the general premise) to make it different. When I apped, I had to step outside my comfort zone and choose a different character, and while I know some video game characters I'd love to play here, at the same time... I'm more comfortable with the way things are right now.

/two cents of tl;dr

[taxonmods]

1) No it's fine, you don't have to retroactive it, but next time feel free to take a slowaitus instead. We know well how easily a hiatus can turn into a failaitus ♥

2) Thanks so much, we are really looking into all the input on this since it is an integral part of the game's identity. No final decisions have been made, and all opinions are being taken into consideration.

[secretshame]

1) I just tend to prefer being on hiatus and then failing it by tagging everything instead of being on slowatus and fail it by never tagging, if that makes sense. But in light of the new rule and everything else, I'll be keeping this in mind for next time! ♥

2) no problem! Hope it helps! I'm really okay either way; that's all just my first thoughts |D;b