Hey there, anon! We definitely understand your concerns. We've had some of the same ones ourselves and have actually already been discussing some possible solutions so we have a few proposals to make to the playerbase.
1) Lae had to drop and Emerson's mostly just our buddy for plot ideas (and honestly may have to drop as well), so we really could use new helper mods. So far, Kaylin, Zita, and I (Tipple) have been handling things just fine but that's partly due to how rarely we get new players. If we do potentially increase the caps in any way, we're going to need more hands on deck just in case it does encourage more people to app.
So what we're going to do is take volunteers for two more list mods. If we can fill 1-2 list mod slots and make sure we have enough hands on deck, we're definitely willing to up the player cap to 50 players. The 3 character per player cap would stay the same but that would allow a larger playerbase and more overall characters.
2) That idea the anon had about advertising upcoming events on the game ads to make new players see what action is coming and feel welcome to hop right in is a great idea so we'll start doing that in the future on the game ads.
3) We actually already were working on an idea for new tdm memes, so you had good timing. We do want to open a discussion with the playerbase about an idea we had for new tdm memes we can maybe do 1-2 times an AC period. We were considering running them as little action events that would actually count as part of the game's canon. Our current players would be allowed to count them towards their AC, and as long as some of the posts in them hit the app requirements, we were considering allowing potential new players to use them as their samples, AND, if they so chose, even keeping the events as how their characters got pulled into the game. (Obviously, they could opt out if they wanted to intro their characters a different way and then no one would remember them in the event).
Each of these memes would be themed, usually something fun but simple. Pirates! Steampunk! And so on. With some kind of simple goal and good situation for the characters to meet.
Obviously, it's something we need to discuss and see if the kinks can be worked out, and how exactly they'd be handled, but that discussion is definitely going to be put up later this week to see what the playerbase thinks of it and we'll see if people want to roll with that idea or nix it if they don't like it.
But we can say for sure that we can definitely try the first two options right off. We'll start doing that in the ads and put up the requests for list mods this weekend and up the caps if we get what we need.
Also, thank you very much for bringing this to us! We know sometimes people can be nervous about bringing over crit from RPA or WG. We really don't want to make a habit of going on the anonmemes because it's best to leave players a place to just hash out their frustrations, so we appreciate you bringing your concerns and suggestions from there straight to us. If you come up with anything else, please feel free to bring it to us. We do want to stay hands off over there but we definitely want to know what you think.
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1) Lae had to drop and Emerson's mostly just our buddy for plot ideas (and honestly may have to drop as well), so we really could use new helper mods. So far, Kaylin, Zita, and I (Tipple) have been handling things just fine but that's partly due to how rarely we get new players. If we do potentially increase the caps in any way, we're going to need more hands on deck just in case it does encourage more people to app.
So what we're going to do is take volunteers for two more list mods. If we can fill 1-2 list mod slots and make sure we have enough hands on deck, we're definitely willing to up the player cap to 50 players. The 3 character per player cap would stay the same but that would allow a larger playerbase and more overall characters.
2) That idea the anon had about advertising upcoming events on the game ads to make new players see what action is coming and feel welcome to hop right in is a great idea so we'll start doing that in the future on the game ads.
3) We actually already were working on an idea for new tdm memes, so you had good timing. We do want to open a discussion with the playerbase about an idea we had for new tdm memes we can maybe do 1-2 times an AC period. We were considering running them as little action events that would actually count as part of the game's canon. Our current players would be allowed to count them towards their AC, and as long as some of the posts in them hit the app requirements, we were considering allowing potential new players to use them as their samples, AND, if they so chose, even keeping the events as how their characters got pulled into the game. (Obviously, they could opt out if they wanted to intro their characters a different way and then no one would remember them in the event).
Each of these memes would be themed, usually something fun but simple. Pirates! Steampunk! And so on. With some kind of simple goal and good situation for the characters to meet.
Obviously, it's something we need to discuss and see if the kinks can be worked out, and how exactly they'd be handled, but that discussion is definitely going to be put up later this week to see what the playerbase thinks of it and we'll see if people want to roll with that idea or nix it if they don't like it.
But we can say for sure that we can definitely try the first two options right off. We'll start doing that in the ads and put up the requests for list mods this weekend and up the caps if we get what we need.
Also, thank you very much for bringing this to us! We know sometimes people can be nervous about bringing over crit from RPA or WG. We really don't want to make a habit of going on the anonmemes because it's best to leave players a place to just hash out their frustrations, so we appreciate you bringing your concerns and suggestions from there straight to us. If you come up with anything else, please feel free to bring it to us. We do want to stay hands off over there but we definitely want to know what you think.