AC RESULTS + GAME PULSE

[groundrules]

Hey everyone, happy spring!

ACTIVITY CHECK

As a reminder, you do not need to do anything unless your character is on a list below. Please character tags when you make or tag into posts or logs — it helps find your activity!

Regular activity requirements are one of the following during the AC month:

■ a network post
■ OR 10 text/network-style comments across at most two threads
■ OR five log comments across at most two threads

Activity can be carried out on either the game communities or character inboxes. Drop a line until 5 March to reclaim a character, or if they have activity that hasn't been tracked.

Insufficient activity found in February for:

Rufus Shinra | Final Fantasy — RECLAIMED
Rachel Silva | Original — RECLAIMED
Lorna Dane | The Gifted — RECLAIMED
Yan Zhengming | Liu Yao
Shen Qingqiu | Scum Villain’s Self Saving System — RECLAIMED
Jiang Cheng | The Untamed — RECLAIMED

Swept as a result of two consecutive strikes:

Lee Chang | Kingdom
Emmet Fox Martin | Original
Bai Mingyu | Original Character

Please wait two weeks before re-applying for a swept character.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

We're tweaking a few things to preserve mod bandwidth. Hopefully everything makes sense, but please don’t hesitate to reach out on the anon-loving mod contact post, if that's not the case.

■ We are introducing a cap of 50 players. We're comfortably short of it at present, but mod math suggests this is probably our plot comfort zone. The cap comes into effect on 12 March.

■ AC requirements are tightening a bit to only allow one activity strike or one hiatus across a three-month period. To keep things even, we’re getting rid of the request for more AC if you’re reclaiming. That said, if you end up facing an emergency hiatus situation, please get in touch and we’ll work it out — we’ve all been there!

■ You can now apply for a third character, if you've met activity requirements for both your existing characters in the two months that precede the third application.

This shouldn’t conflict with the player cap, because most people tend to switch up whom they're active with plot-wise from one month to the next — so they don’t need much more mod support when they increase their character load.

CHECK-IN TIME

It's been a while since our last check-in, so! If you don’t mind filling the below form and leaving your thoughts here, that would be great!

Just to make sure no one feels put on the spot, please don't respond to other folks' comments.

Is there anything that would make events more interesting to you? (Structure, approach, themes, etc.) Currently, we have a large plot update roughly every three weeks. Do you prefer this, or smaller updates every 10-14 days? Are there any plot ideas you’d be excited to run as player events? Are there any resources that would make it easier for you to go from event plotting to threading? ( Info pages of any kind, etc) Currently, plot rolls are custom-written and randomly assigned to those who sign up. Do you prefer this system, or one where all plot rolls can be claimed on a first-come-first-served basis? Do you prefer mod-run AC, or would you rather track and post your own AC threads? Do you enjoy eastbound as largely invite-only, or would you rather the game went fully public? Do you prefer the current structure of perma-open applications, or would it be better if we had applications on a strict schedule? Anything else?

Comments

[blackscales]

There's probably a happy medium. I can understand the idea of wanting things to be fun and surprising, and the other side of the coin which is 'if everyone has ALL the info and then has to WAIT for the log will they be annoyed by waiting and maybe lose momentum'.

In this case, there was just some stuff I had no concept of at all so didn't plan for, and some stuff where the information was vague enough that I wasn't sure how to plan for it so some of my plans were a little 'this MIGHT work DEPENDING how it looks on the log?'

If I'd had a clearer idea of the events going on I wouldn't necessarily have needed EVERY detail, but the fox wedding thing for example I just hadn't planned for at all because I couldn't conceptualise what exactly it was going to be like and I ended up largely not interacting with it after not planning to.

[groundrules]

That makes sense — thank you for flagging!