How's The Game

[wearethecrystalmods]

HOW'S THE GAME?

Welcome to Cosmographia's first "How's the Game"! This is essentially an open forum for discussion about where to take the game from here and anything that might need changing. A lot has happened in the past week and going forward we feel it's more important than ever to have a discussion like this.

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 the upcoming How's My Driving. Any disregard for this or out of hand conduct will be frozen or deleted.

We are inviting not just all current players (old and new) to participate in this discussion but also past players that have left and new potential players considering the game; we encourage everyone to pitch in their two cents. That being said, since this is the game's first HTG we are currently going to do it without anon or sock journals (for future HTG this may change).

Like said this 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 (please wait until all these are up and linked to post your own they're all up now!):

The Staff
Applications
Setting Suggestions
The World Outside Waverly Bay/Potential World Plot
Event Schedule/Power Distribution
Player Plot Approval
Power Limitations/Guidelines
Fate of Cosmonet
Network Comm?
Day Cycle Comments
The Temp. Drop System
Future Event/Plot Suggestions

Comments

[foolish_seal]

I mostly agree with spreading it out, but I'd like to give a devil's advocate perspective: Newer character might like powers more frequently, so they can have new toys to play with and new things to do. A character with only a single ability in a big event might not feel like they can contribute much at all, and having to wait two or three months before they can get a second might be discouraging for player and character, since playing around with those is a big draw to the game.

[foolreversed]

Yeah that was my one hang up with all this: it kind of sucks waiting too long to get a new power, especially if the first power that was picked on your app was not actually your first choice.

Maybe we can put in something else for new players in that case... :|a

[foolish_seal]

Maybe if a character has less than 3-4 powers and you pass AC for any given month (whether it be the month the character was apped in or otherwise), they could get a new power?

[foolreversed]

Mmm... maybe! I like that as an idea for the first month for sure! Right now new characters have waived AC for the month they're apped in, but if someone makes AC regardless in that first month then offering a power as a reward might be a nice incentive and easy fix for this!