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sunshinemods ([personal profile] sunshinemods) wrote in [community profile] sunshine_ooc2015-07-13 12:17 pm
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A couple questions to our players!

Okay you guys, we know that things have slowed down here pretty hardcore lately. With the war plot, it's gotten harder to get AC right? That's caused a lot more hiatuses which has caused more hiatuses, etc as well, we know. Even we mods have been having similar issues and looking at RL disasters which have been furthering this rather dramatic lull.

We're really sorry about that, and this post is all about fixing that.

First, we want your opinion on how to change Activity.

With the lowered player numbers, does a conventional Activity Check help you with motivation? Does it help you get CR in any way? That's the main purpose for how we did it around here, and if it's not happening that way, then there's no point in keeping it how it is.

Proposed alternative options!

1) Making it so multiple posts as well as all comments can be used for AC instead of the mix.
2) Lowering AC by 5 comments all together so you only need 5 and a post, and half could correspondingly be 5 comments.
3) Some mix of 1 and 2.
4) Switching entirely to a check in system, where you note what characters you have, and show something you did with them that month. It could be a couple tags, or a post, just a single link to something they did to show you're still doing something with them.

Do any of these appeal to you guys? Would this take the stress off and make it easier for people to tag? The mods are on board for whatever you guys decide you like best.

Second question for our players: Characters.

If we institute a check in system, would that inspire people to pick up villains and other characters not being played? We already know a couple mods are looking at it. This would also mean that picking up more characters would no longer carry heavy Activity issues, which would hopefully inspire people to do more.

Third question for everyone: War Events.

Does anyone have any events they want to see in the war? By this we don't mean specific conflicts (though those are good too) but we mean things like stuff that can only happen in a time of chaos.

The long ago talked about grand Genjutsu so make people their canon selves for a while, for instance, would be an open warfare event, but so far there has been no time when it has seemed appropriate. Another event of that nature would be unwilling genderbending, temporary de-aging, and other traditional events along those lines. Does anyone miss those and want to see them in action? Are there others you miss?

Do you want a return of the festivals and holidays we've been unfortunately neglecting for bigger plots that admittedly we haven't been executing in as timely fashion as we should be?

Or is there something else entirely you want to see? More propaganda, more open conflict, bigger in your face war efforts? Smaller ones with more subtlety?

Last question: Memes.

Did memes make it easier for you guys to keep active? Do we need to do more of them for you guys? Do you guys have memes you want to post yourselves? (We can readily tell you Go Ahead if you want to post your own, we will encourage and help you do so if you want.) Do you have memes you want us to repost? Ideas that you don't know how to have us execute but want to see?

We know we mods have dropped the ball, but we want to pick it up and resume play. This is a sweeping apology for letting things get difficult for everyone where play is concerned, and going forward, we hope to properly fix it and keep it from happening again.

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