taxonooc | How's My Driving: Player (And Game) Edition!

Happy St. Patrick's Day to those who celebrate! Remember: don't drink and how's my drive.

This is a combined player and game HMD, which means your mods are going to be begging for feedback. We're feeling a little disconnect and want to make sure everyone is enjoying themselves as much as possible. Specifically we're looking for feedback on the Haunted Holo plot, and what we can do in the future to make such large-scale plots more accessible.

It's also an HMD for our characters! Please comment here with the names of the characters you play and others will reply with their feedback- and it's obviously a given that this feedback will be helpful, constructive and respectful. Also, as amazing as getting ILU comments is, it's nice to hear why and what we're doing right just as much as criticism needs to be constructive. Participation is also entirely optional, and if you have any issues just let a mod know and we'll help out as much as we can.

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I don't even know where to start, so I guess I'll just write things as they come to me, and worry about structure later.

I've been seriously bummed out over this plot since the first few days of it. I think more so than the other mods as this particular plot was my wacky brain child since six or so months back, and I've been eager to work it into the game on a few occasions, but we ended pushing it back for among other things the sake of pacing.

So, when we finally got planning, I of course got excited and wanted everyone else to get as excited as I was, and I'm still not sure I succeeded in anything I set out to do. We plotted in the plotting post, as we always do, and then the plot started and...it never seemed to me to get going until the day before The End of it. The plot was supposed to run between March 1-8, one week, keep it nice and tight, but I don't know where it went off the rails.

Half the posts the first four days were made by either the mod account or characters played by mods. Almost half of the total posts between March 1-8 came on March 6 or 7.

I love rping with Dien and Keri, as my gushing comment of wub down below no doubt illustrates, but I keep saying it again and again: I want CR with every player. Not necessarily with all characters, as that could get a bit difficult to keep up with, but I seriously want CR from everyone.

I had this idea in my head that people would be tagging each other left and right and inserting their characters into other characters' nightmares to their hearts' content, but both during the plot and after the extension and now that it's over, I feel like it ended in one big whopping anticlimax.

I don't know if it's hindsight that's fooling me, but I have this mental image of the fairytale plot being super busy and fun and like I described above, everyone tagging each other left and right. I wanted the same vibe for this plot, just with a nastier edge. I don't feel it. I love the tags I got for my posts, I really enjoy the CR I've had so far during it, but I'm just not feeling it right now.

So what I'm asking for specifically, since as I said, the Haunted Holo thing was my idea originally, is what didn't work for you.

I'll admit that I'm new but when I was reading what was given, I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do. Let me clarify - I wasn't sure if everyone was supposed to grabbed or not and if not, were the people who weren't supposed to try to do something. It may just be that the plots here are more open ended than I'm used to at other place. If so, that's totally cool. I'm used to places where a lot of people who run plots have pretty tight structure to them - sometimes confiningly so but it has also gotten me used to making sure I'm hitting my marks, as it were.

Haha, we are the OPPOSITE of tightly-plotted around here. And yeah, that can be a big adjustment for players coming from games that are on the more organized end of the spectrum.

We definitely encourage a 'jump right in and get your feet wet' sort of mindset, you don't need to be 'grabbed' first although pre-planning with other people sometimes helps plots go smoother.

We'll try and be clearer on what people are 'supposed to do' in the future!

Again, a very new player, but I felt intimidated about barging in on posts where a couple of people were already tagging. I also personally found some of the narratives didn't leave me with an entirely clear idea of how Scott could get involved, but I've also been on heavy duty medication that leaves me a bit addled, so that was probably more me than them.

Likewise, Scott got Mick checking in but not much else on his post, so it felt like he was a bit outside. That was probably my fault for having his post be very non interactive.

this is completely unrelated to your post but that icon always makes me think scott is wearing a gas mask for some reason

As a mod I want to apologize for not tagging into as many people's posts, including yours, as I could have. I kept meaning to and meaning to, but somehow the time was never there :-\

Live and learn. 'Barging' in on posts is definitely accepted in Taxon unless someone specifically says they don't want it in their permissions post, and for my part at least I will try and do a better job tagging the posts of other (especially newish) chars, so that y'all feel part of things and not just there.

Heh.

It's something that I need to learn to do, I'm just fairly timid about posting on an active thread of combat doom or the like. It's me, and I wear that one.

And apology accepted. Have more not a gas mask.

I love the idea, really truly.

Currently I'm stuck -- my post is halted because I'm waiting for Glitch to respond. I suppose I could just assume at this point that we escape and can move on to actually defeating the thing.

Having it last a week in a comm that is historically slow seems to be an issue -- perhaps if it were to go the whole month?

How's My Driving: Player (And Game) Edition!

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