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

[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.