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Hey kids! Dien here.
First off, THANK YOU for all your feedback to the house-cleaning post. It's clear there were a lot of problems that needed bringing up, and we're glad we asked, because it lets us work on these. So thank you to everyone who replied, everyone who offered suggestions or asked questions. We know Taxon is a small game right now, but we've got a great core of players and we want to give you guys the game you deserve.
We will try and respond individually to your suggestions and issues, but here's a quick recap of what Sofie and I are considering doing right now, with a more in-depth elaboration to follow at some point:
-Return of weekly chats. Yeah, timezones will always be a hassle, but we'll do the best we can with what we have
-Return of the SOTT (State of the Taxon, for those who don't know. It's a monthly post that covers things like loose updates to what is happening to your character and is a prompt for OOC communication.) We've said before we were bringing these back, and then.... promptly fell down on actually doing so. Round 2, go. For the record, we will probably do SOTT every two months, unless people want it more often.
-Activity check: The last thing we want is to clog the community with posts-for-the-sake-of-posting, which, as Relia pointed out, just creates an obligation to tag among what is honestly a small group of players. We WILL have an AC, but it'll be along the lines of one (open) post OR ten tags to an (open) thread. AC will check at the same time as the SOTT, so a likely once-every-two-months. No job AC check at this time.
-NPCs: You can totally make your own NPCs, guys. We encourage you to do so! Make Yer Own Extra can be done here. We apparently were remiss in adding that to the link directory, so we'll add that to our list of To Do on our house cleaning.
-Doing big Plots that aren't necessarily Glitches: Go for it. The last thing we want to do is make Taxon feel like a place where your plans for your character are restricted by the setting. If that's the mindset that has resulted, then we as moderators obviously need to work on it. Just to use Relia's example of Horst finding an Extra who offers a cure for vampirism: we think that's a fascinating idea! We would like if you ran big, potentially Big Plot items like that by us, but that's not a 'YOU MUST GET APPROVAL' thing so much as it is a 'ooh, we'd like to be in the loop' on it thing. But in short: please don't feel that any sort of change like that has to be a 'glitch'. It can absolutely be a permanent plot with lasting consequences.
-This sort of ties into: the metaplot. So, Sofie and I DO have an idea of where we'd like the game to go, long-term, but after hearing your feedback, it's pretty obvious that our current method of disseminating information isn't successfullargely because Sofie and I both fail on follow-through. So we're going to be doing some big, big changes. Sometime in the next few days, we'll do what we should have done from the start: we'll lay out the metaplot for everyone in an OOC post, to be weighed in on by everyone who wants to-- to be discussed, added to, changed, and improved. We'll outline things that CAN happen as a part of that metaplot, and give you guys free rein to incorporate them without needing us, as moderators, to initiate those developments.
On this note, the longterm metaplot is probably going to do considerable violence to the existing nature of Taxon. None of it is going to happen anytime SOON, but in short, the game will undergo big changes, and a lot of things characters and players have taken for granted will be changing. Sofie and I personally think they are exciting changes, and we hope you will too.
-Players who did not post to the house-cleaning post are, effectively, dropped from Taxon. They are welcome to re-apply. And no, smartasses, Sofie and I don't count.
-Sofie and I are trying to actively recruit new blood for Taxon. If you know a player you want to see in Taxon, please do so! We'll try and finish our house-cleaning on our end as quickly as possible so that they are looking at a streamlined, smooth, up-to-date Taxon as far as meta-info and applications and such go.
OKAY I THINK THAT'S MOST OF THE THINGS. I probably missed something, and I will try to get to it on a future update!
First off, THANK YOU for all your feedback to the house-cleaning post. It's clear there were a lot of problems that needed bringing up, and we're glad we asked, because it lets us work on these. So thank you to everyone who replied, everyone who offered suggestions or asked questions. We know Taxon is a small game right now, but we've got a great core of players and we want to give you guys the game you deserve.
We will try and respond individually to your suggestions and issues, but here's a quick recap of what Sofie and I are considering doing right now, with a more in-depth elaboration to follow at some point:
-Return of weekly chats. Yeah, timezones will always be a hassle, but we'll do the best we can with what we have
-Return of the SOTT (State of the Taxon, for those who don't know. It's a monthly post that covers things like loose updates to what is happening to your character and is a prompt for OOC communication.) We've said before we were bringing these back, and then.... promptly fell down on actually doing so. Round 2, go. For the record, we will probably do SOTT every two months, unless people want it more often.
-Activity check: The last thing we want is to clog the community with posts-for-the-sake-of-posting, which, as Relia pointed out, just creates an obligation to tag among what is honestly a small group of players. We WILL have an AC, but it'll be along the lines of one (open) post OR ten tags to an (open) thread. AC will check at the same time as the SOTT, so a likely once-every-two-months. No job AC check at this time.
-NPCs: You can totally make your own NPCs, guys. We encourage you to do so! Make Yer Own Extra can be done here. We apparently were remiss in adding that to the link directory, so we'll add that to our list of To Do on our house cleaning.
-Doing big Plots that aren't necessarily Glitches: Go for it. The last thing we want to do is make Taxon feel like a place where your plans for your character are restricted by the setting. If that's the mindset that has resulted, then we as moderators obviously need to work on it. Just to use Relia's example of Horst finding an Extra who offers a cure for vampirism: we think that's a fascinating idea! We would like if you ran big, potentially Big Plot items like that by us, but that's not a 'YOU MUST GET APPROVAL' thing so much as it is a 'ooh, we'd like to be in the loop' on it thing. But in short: please don't feel that any sort of change like that has to be a 'glitch'. It can absolutely be a permanent plot with lasting consequences.
-This sort of ties into: the metaplot. So, Sofie and I DO have an idea of where we'd like the game to go, long-term, but after hearing your feedback, it's pretty obvious that our current method of disseminating information isn't successful
On this note, the longterm metaplot is probably going to do considerable violence to the existing nature of Taxon. None of it is going to happen anytime SOON, but in short, the game will undergo big changes, and a lot of things characters and players have taken for granted will be changing. Sofie and I personally think they are exciting changes, and we hope you will too.
-Players who did not post to the house-cleaning post are, effectively, dropped from Taxon. They are welcome to re-apply. And no, smartasses, Sofie and I don't count.
-Sofie and I are trying to actively recruit new blood for Taxon. If you know a player you want to see in Taxon, please do so! We'll try and finish our house-cleaning on our end as quickly as possible so that they are looking at a streamlined, smooth, up-to-date Taxon as far as meta-info and applications and such go.
OKAY I THINK THAT'S MOST OF THE THINGS. I probably missed something, and I will try to get to it on a future update!
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