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Activity Check & Revisions
Friday, 4 April 2014 16:28![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oh_bluebelleHi guys! Nobody likes these no-fun posts, but sometimes they just have to be put out there, and today I'll be the bad guy!
We've noticed that some people have been joining the game and immediately losing interest or making very little effort to participate. Due to this, we will be giving a one week grace period where, if these people don't make more consolidated efforts, we will unfortunately have to cull them. Consolidated efforts include:
- replying to everybody who tags you - it's okay to drop tags after interacting a bit, but it's not very nice to outright ignore characters. This is a game set in Budehuc that involves all other characters from every Suikoden game, not just your cast mates.
- making a conscious effort to comment to other character's posts
- making a new post with your character
This will be a short-term solution, and hopefully this will either encourage players by setting clear goals as to how to play, or allow players to have the opportunity to decide that this is not the game for them. I'd like to emphasize consistency when it comes to these efforts, too, so bursts in activity every time we do activity checks will not be a sustainable option. While it's nice to have a pretty cast list with a wide variety of characters, it's helping nobody if those characters are sitting around doing nothing, and is especially a drag when these characters have cast mates who rely on their interactions.
On another note to anyone already in the game or anyone reading this who is considering joining, we want to make clear that this game differs from Tumblr RP blogs in the fashion that it is a persistent world, and events will carry on with or without your character. The game and your character's development progresses by the posts and comments that you make, and your character has to exist within the world! Not being around due to sickness or your life being busy is absolutely okay, but being around and not making the effort is not! We want you to be able to develop your character and their relationships!
If you have any questions, feel free to either DW inbox me or reply to this post! We will also be making minor revisions to the application and rules in order to prevent these situations from occurring in the future, since it's not very fair to players and characters already in the game. The revisions will be very, very minor and won't affect second, third, etc. character applications and will only affect newcomers. If you have any concerns, please check out the application to see what's changed! We will be enforcing changes made in the application from hereon forward.
We've noticed that some people have been joining the game and immediately losing interest or making very little effort to participate. Due to this, we will be giving a one week grace period where, if these people don't make more consolidated efforts, we will unfortunately have to cull them. Consolidated efforts include:
- replying to everybody who tags you - it's okay to drop tags after interacting a bit, but it's not very nice to outright ignore characters. This is a game set in Budehuc that involves all other characters from every Suikoden game, not just your cast mates.
- making a conscious effort to comment to other character's posts
- making a new post with your character
This will be a short-term solution, and hopefully this will either encourage players by setting clear goals as to how to play, or allow players to have the opportunity to decide that this is not the game for them. I'd like to emphasize consistency when it comes to these efforts, too, so bursts in activity every time we do activity checks will not be a sustainable option. While it's nice to have a pretty cast list with a wide variety of characters, it's helping nobody if those characters are sitting around doing nothing, and is especially a drag when these characters have cast mates who rely on their interactions.
On another note to anyone already in the game or anyone reading this who is considering joining, we want to make clear that this game differs from Tumblr RP blogs in the fashion that it is a persistent world, and events will carry on with or without your character. The game and your character's development progresses by the posts and comments that you make, and your character has to exist within the world! Not being around due to sickness or your life being busy is absolutely okay, but being around and not making the effort is not! We want you to be able to develop your character and their relationships!
If you have any questions, feel free to either DW inbox me or reply to this post! We will also be making minor revisions to the application and rules in order to prevent these situations from occurring in the future, since it's not very fair to players and characters already in the game. The revisions will be very, very minor and won't affect second, third, etc. character applications and will only affect newcomers. If you have any concerns, please check out the application to see what's changed! We will be enforcing changes made in the application from hereon forward.
