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

Re: Applications

[antabaka]

Potential apper here. (the drama sprung up right around when I was considering apping, and now apps are closed... so, here's hoping for the future!)

As for apps, I'm personally confused on what exact key points and history are supposed to accomplish by both being there. Or like, what the difference is? The way the app page explained it made it seem as though key points involved elements of personality and history both, so to me it feels redundant.

Generally, when a personality element needs explanation of where it comes from, I make a brief reference to history within the personality section itself. (Asuka is attention-seeking and so on because of blah blah past event - that type of thing.) And when there's both bullet points and a separate history section, it kind of comes out to rewriting a bunch of the same stuff in longer format.

Also, while I'm not apping a CRAU, I would nonetheless support the idea of a separate section for it to make it easier on people.

[foolreversed]

I also feel it's very redundant.

Fun fact: the history section was not a part of the app when I joined. It was added in later. Originally it was just key points. The history section was apparently added because people were... confused about key points or something I think? And then from what I can tell the original headmod like... completely misunderstood what people were asking for and this happened. (I can try to dig up the original mod post, but I s2g I remember this being a thing. FOUND IT it does not detail the exact change but it was def the addition of history because yeah my app did not have that.)

One of them has definitely got to go it's just a matter of which.

(Also it's great to see an Asuka btw!)

[hasmovedon]

I know that I personally hit the word limit for the history section before I'd even gotten out of childhood; for those of us with characters who come from long and/or very complicated canons, the 500 word limit is a killer. I'd support doubling the limit and doing away with key points since key points are pretty much just 'write a history section but in a slightly different format'. What I've seen of key points and what I personally used them for was basically cheating to write the long history section I needed to write to cover everything important, but couldn't write because of the incredibly small restriction on the history section.

+1

[samsa]

I had an extremely hard time with my app due to word limit constraints, and it left what I came up with feeling very superficial and I was honestly surprised it could be accepted since it didn't cover everything as thoroughly as I'd wanted. Tokyo Ghoul is one of those long/complicated canons and it just made things...difficult, in the end. And I also agree with the history section being redundant; I very much felt like I was repeating myself and just adding a tiny bit more when even then it wasn't much because, again, there was the word limit.

[coneyislandcrazy]

As an aside, I had a lot of fun with you in the test drive and look forward to you joining us!