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[passingmod.livejournal.com]

So, I've been thinking! I've gotten very busy IRL, and you might have noticed that I'm not around nearly as much as I was in March. I simply don't have the time and energy to devote to making this game all that it can be, but I don't want to give up on it, and I've always wanted to do something I've never seen done before...

Which is to make applications by player, instead of by character, and turn the game into something of a "dressing room with standards". This would mean that applications would be on a more general writing style / characterization grasp standard, and once accepted, players could bring in whoever they wanted. It would eliminate the need for V#'s, and would erase all character limits. Current players would not need to re-apply under this system, as it's assumed you already meet our standards.

Tags would be reformatted to be done by journal name, and the taken list would be a comment directory, with a comment for each letter, a comment for each series under that letter, and a comment for each character under the series. This would be almost totally player maintained, and people could comment and delete their comments from the list at their own discretion. A separate post would be to request journals to be let into the communities. Monthly themes would still be run as they are, and I would likely take on a mod helper specifically to do the voting and announcing each month (since I'm so terrible at remembering to do it, l-lol).

However! I don't want to do such a dramatic shift to the game without asking you, the players, whether you'd support this. :) Please, please please vote and leave any commentary below! ♥

[Poll #1738355]

Comments

[abaratian-soul.livejournal.com]

We all know I'm on board with this!

[traptinacoffin.livejournal.com]

I think the A/C and apps are so extremely easy there's no reason to make it a ~dressing room~. I actually like the game better for /not/ being a dressing room so, there's my two cents. I think it has a better chance staying the way it is.

[agkelikos.livejournal.com]

I love the idea of eliminating character apps, though that might be because I'm lazy haha. However I would feel more inclined to try out new characters knowing I could do a player app and that's it. ^^; I would be scared that a dressing room type format might make the quality of the game go downhill and CR to die quickly with characters being picked up and dropped everywhere but it depends... it might not happen after all! It's a risk but it might be worth trying?

I'm not sure if I'd like the new taken characters format, but that might just be because I wouldn't find it pretty lmao. ;~; Also if you're eliminating versions would there just be one of each character? Or could there be like a million of the same character in the game 'cause I don't really like it when that happens. ):

[vacationisalie.livejournal.com]

I'm behind it all the way, and despite my general lack of being here most of this week, I'd love to help moderate, as this place is generally absolutely fantastic.

Really, its up to you guys, and making somewhere more open and hospitable to general styles of gameplay would be great. I think the one thing that really separates this from being a game is a lack of a hub and generalized plot... it'd be nice to see what would happen if the players here wanted to add something of that style, and work on an over arching plot together. One that people can easily jump in and out of.

Also I'll work on the description for this event soon; did you want me to post it or PM it to you? ^^;

[reverse-destiny.livejournal.com]

Mm. I'm gonna have to disagree on just player apps, because I think it's inviting trouble. Especially on the AUs since they're allowed. Right now, with a character-by-character basis, there's some form of standards for the AU. They have to at least partially resemble the character and be thought out. And if we go player apps, then... Well, I know some of my AUs are at least decent if not really great. I also know some of them probably won't stand up to current standards and would never get in. This is good! It makes less friction amongst players, because the ones that do get in tend to be interesting and make sense! But... If we just let in players who meet the standards and not just characters, then... Things can go south real fast. You can get extremely bad AUs--quality wise, not as in "Character A is now a bad guy." And right now, because we actually have standards, it's nice. Easy-going. Everything fits together into a nice, pretty and interesting puzzle and the IC friction is the good kind that spurs development.