How's the Game?

[wearethecrystalmods]

HOW'S THE GAME?

Welcome to Cosmographia's second "How's the Game" post! This is essentially an open forum for players to discuss the game and where they feel it should be taken from its current point. Anything you think needs changing? Anything you want more, less of? Just want to air your opinions in a space with your fellow players? That’s exactly what this is here for! This also provides a place for players to air ideas for the game to the mods in a more broad sense than player plots and location ideas. In essence, we’re asking you guys to tell us exactly what you want from the game! Let us know what you’d like to see to make Cosmographia a fun, engaging experience for you.

Please note that this is not a place for criticism of specific players or characters. This is purely about the game itself. Please save player specific criticisms for HMD posts or private contact. Any disregard for this or out of hand conduct will be frozen or deleted.

How’s the Game is a space for all players to participate in a discussion. This includes current players as well as also past players that have left and new potential players considering the game; we’d like everyone to pitch in and gives us their thoughts! Please also not that for the time being, we will not be allowing anon commenting or sock accounts, though this may change in future HTG posts.

How’s the Game is a completely open forum. We have a list of topics we want to discuss (listed below), but after all those have gone up players are completely free to start their own threads with anything not covered by the other sections.

Current sections:

The Staff
Excursions
Setting & World
Game Plot
Future Event/Plot Suggestions

Comments

[torya]

Item regains actually only cost a single event... let's call them 'tokens'. Pets and familiars may cost extra and things such as vehicles will also be more expensive. But your basic item regain from home will rarely run you more than one token!

On the subject of power costs though, the current costs in the system were originally set in place because we wanted there to be some weight to choosing powers, both in picking new ones and choosing to get rid of old ones. The idea is that the way the system is set up should encourage a player to focus on upgrading and improving their current powers to show how they're growing as a Gem!

Essentially the idea is to encourage upgrading without cutting off players from picking new powers or making it inconvenient for them. While I personally feel the current system works okay, if players are feeling restricted by it, there's definitely room for improvement! More immediately, I think additional power upgrades or regains from a successful Excursion would definitely help towards that.

[lifeisfun]

...I am not sure why I thought item regains required two points, but that is on me. Thank you for the clarification!

And I really do enjoy planning out upgrades and gaining new powers; in that sense the current system is really good! It's just that while I was saving up to get Namine back for Amelie I had so many other ideas for upgrades but I knew I couldn't do them until I had two points. Basically for an entire third of 2016 Amelie's powerset was on complete lockdown.

[torya]

I think with this in mind then the idea of smaller buffs or regains with certain Excursions would definitely be beneficial. It's absolutely something we'll talk about when we're solidifying the final details!