This is for thoughts on like, AC, keeping track of corruption, anything else along those lines.
I haven't quite futzed out AC yet, and that's okay especially for Beta since we're not gonna do AC! But for keeping track of corruption, I think the easiest way to do it might be to have a post, where everyone has a header for their character, and they just comment and keep track of their power usage and corruption in there. It's an easy handy reference for everyone and makes sure that the corruption element of power-usage doesn't just get ignored.
I think that could work, but my one question is, because it's self-reported, how would it be enforced? With AC, for example, even self-reported AC is relatively easy to check up on by looking through character tags or something. :|b
I'm not quite sure how to phrase this rn but I guess my quibble is, based on what I'm reading now, this seems like a system that would be relatively easy to be dishonest about, because each incident of corruption takes place in the content of the thread, which is more work to check up on to make sure corruption is happening frequently enough, with appropriate severity, etc.
But if it's meant to be more of a player reference (individual and game-wide) than a means for mods to check up on how corruption is being handled (not that the two are mutually exclusive but it could lean one way or another and I'm not quite sure which you'd prefer atm) then accuracy of corruption reporting matters less. :|b Bleh I'm starting to fall asleep I hope this is clear enough. orz
:|a I don't think it'd be that difficult to check up on. Format like
Power usage : [WHAT WAS USED AND LEVEL] Corruption: [CORRUPTION] Link: [LINK TO THING ]?
And hopefully people being dishonest and mis-reporting wouldn't be too much of a problem, especially in beta. Having everything in one thread per-person for reporting means if it's noticed that someone has messed up, it can be checked through previous ones to see if there's a consistent trend or if they just messed up and need a gentle reminder.
More than/in addition to corruption, I think it'd be good for people to just have a check in on what your character/their faction (if you're the only one speaking for them) has been up to for that IC period. Then AC can serve the double purpose of tracking plot as well as personal progress, if that makes sense. Especially if you weren't playing much but your character still did stuff... Like, if I was playing Bill Gates and only had time to thread about having dinner with Melinda but off screen I also found a cure for malaria, I'd mark it down so that other characters can react to it in future threads.
I think this is a particularly good addition because sometimes people really only have time to thread the personal stuff, whereas the bigger stuff might be going on off-screen.
:|a all sounds good to me. AC as a check-in of WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN ICLY DOING FOR THE MONTH, on-screen or off-screen. I think doing things off-screen is fine, as long as it's not something that directly affects someone else that's not been spoken with. Like, your character is the leader of FACTION A OF SILVERSIDE, DEMON-HUNTERS!! and you say they gave the orders to look into idea thing x and players b and c are in there and now have the orders to look into thing x even tho it wasn't played out that's fine.
Player a saying oh yeah my character took out b's eye and beheaded C is a little less okay. I think those are good guidelines.
It occurred to me that having a post for players to hit each other up to talk pre-existing CR might be nice! Something like the character planning portion of this post, where people could work out what if any relationships characters might have had before appearing in Gehenna (the city). I'm thinking a separate post dedicated to this might work best so Character Roster comments can remain editable as people tweak personalities, update info to reflect IC developments, etc.
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OOC MECHANICS
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I haven't quite futzed out AC yet, and that's okay especially for Beta since we're not gonna do AC! But for keeping track of corruption, I think the easiest way to do it might be to have a post, where everyone has a header for their character, and they just comment and keep track of their power usage and corruption in there. It's an easy handy reference for everyone and makes sure that the corruption element of power-usage doesn't just get ignored.
Re: OOC MECHANICS
I'm not quite sure how to phrase this rn but I guess my quibble is, based on what I'm reading now, this seems like a system that would be relatively easy to be dishonest about, because each incident of corruption takes place in the content of the thread, which is more work to check up on to make sure corruption is happening frequently enough, with appropriate severity, etc.
But if it's meant to be more of a player reference (individual and game-wide) than a means for mods to check up on how corruption is being handled (not that the two are mutually exclusive but it could lean one way or another and I'm not quite sure which you'd prefer atm) then accuracy of corruption reporting matters less. :|b Bleh I'm starting to fall asleep I hope this is clear enough. orz
Re: OOC MECHANICS
Power usage : [WHAT WAS USED AND LEVEL]
Corruption: [CORRUPTION]
Link: [LINK TO THING ]?
And hopefully people being dishonest and mis-reporting wouldn't be too much of a problem, especially in beta. Having everything in one thread per-person for reporting means if it's noticed that someone has messed up, it can be checked through previous ones to see if there's a consistent trend or if they just messed up and need a gentle reminder.
Re: OOC MECHANICS
Re: OOC MECHANICS
Re: OOC MECHANICS
Player a saying oh yeah my character took out b's eye and beheaded C is a little less okay. I think those are good guidelines.
Re: OOC MECHANICS
Re: OOC MECHANICS