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

Fusions and Fusion-related questions

[nailed_it]

Hey there! This is something I've been wondering about for awhile now and I think it might also help out players both in-game and prospective.

Would it be possible to have an info page about Fusions and how they generally work in-game? Either as an off-shoot of the Powers FAQ or even its own thing?

I'm specifically thinking of something detailing how fusions are achieved (which the helpful SU video covers), and then additional information about how their mechanics generally work in-game, and then perhaps some links to sample fusion threads so that players can get an idea of how they can be threaded? I've noticed people coming into the game completely canon-blind or even just generally unsure of how fusions are supposed to be played out and I think this might help with any confusion from that as well as encourage fusions in-game (because let's be honest, that's the coolest gem power X3 ).

I'm actually still a little unsure myself as to what the limitations/guidelines are for fusions and their powers. When the game first started, I believe fusions essentially worked as follows (Disclaimer - the only place I can specifically recall this being said was in a Plurk ages ago so I may be super wrong ^^; ):

> Fusion appearance and weapon is generally left up to the players involved.
> Fusions have all the same powers as the Gems they're comprised of, PLUS one additional special power unique to that fusion.

Mostly I'm just wondering if that's still the case? And if so, I was wondering what, if any, are the limitations on the unique fusion power. I would assume probably the same restrictions as regular gem powers but perhaps with an added power boost? Basically I just want to know what guidelines there are since fusions are supposed to be generally "more powerful" than regular gems but, as we've seen in canon, not all fusions have the same degree of power behind them. XD I think this might be helpful to clarify for new players too.

And my sincerest apologies if there already is something like this with this information on it. I checked around on our FAQs but I definitely could have missed something and if so, my bad!

[torya]

This is actually something we've got in the works right now! We're working on page that will serve as an introduction to fusions for those who are canonblind to SU and also to outline exactly how fusions work in terms of powers and mechanics in Cosmographia. We're still chewing over some of the details, but it's definitely being talked about!

There also haven't been any changes to the way fusions function in-game! So it should essentially continue to be played as it always has, though if you have any specific questions or concerns about a fusion or something fusion related then just zip it right to us!

[nailed_it]

Oh perfect! Thank you! I think that'll really help players both old and new as well as encourage more fusions, particularly when excursions get started.

And that is good to know! I didn't have any other questions about fusion mechanics short of the ones above (do they still get one unique power, restrictions, etc) but if nothing's really changed game-wise and there's a guide on the way for them, then I think I'm pretty set.