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Cosmographia Mods ([personal profile] wearethecrystalmods) wrote in [community profile] cosmoooc2015-12-01 01:15 pm
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How's The Game

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
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[personal profile] strawberry_roll 2015-12-01 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
When it first came up, I thought it was a good idea... mainly because I was very confused about the circumstances surrounding it. At the time, I thought that certain characters were actually already being held in reserve until their players could return and that the rest of us just hadn't been informed about that.

In other words, I thought this was already happening, and that the Temp Drop system was just a way of letting everyone KNOW what was going on. That it was simply telling folks that the players involved were on an extended hiatus. Getting everything out in the open and 'on the record', as it were.

That said, I completely agree with dropping it entirely. If anyone does need to go on an extended hiatus, that should be something they discuss with the mods instead of just sticking their muses on there and letting them sit. Losing CR is saddening, sure, but leaving a character in limbo indefinitely seems sadder. Especially when we've already had several great examples of somebody new bringing in their take on a character who's come and gone, and all the CR potential that came along with that...