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State of the Game || September to October
State of the Game
State of the Game
Are we beginning to feel spooky, adventurers?
As you all prepare for ghoulish delights this coming Halloween, we have some updates and notices to grab you by the tush and keep you screaming. Check out the list of subjects for more frightful mod things! Much update. Very spook. Wow.
In this edition of the State of the Game, you'll find the following topics:
♆ Closed Prompts and Logs
♆ Character and Cast Caps Increase
♆ Island Specific Location Pages
♆ Story Accrual Tracking
♆ Bestiary Rehaul
♆ Exploration Events: a tiny name change
♆ Background things, for the truly curious!
♆ Feedback!
In the past two months, there has been a steady amount of prompts and logs closed to characters of a specific gender or age.
Whilst such prompts will always have their place in game, we would like to remind players that prompts or logs geared towards excluding characters based on gender, age, or species should be the minority, not the majority, of what is offered within LifeAftr. Please help us to continue to foster as inclusive an environment as possible for our community! In future, we may address this with individuals if we feel that this has become an issue.
As announced on plurk, the character cap has now been raised to 100 characters. For casts, the 10% rule is still enforced, meaning that 10 characters can now be apped per canon. We hope that this will not only inspire you to call in more castmates, but offer far more placement for our wonderful variety of lone canon warriors!
This change has been reflected on our FAQ and Reserves Page.
Due to feedback on plurk, Bird has created a new island specific location page, which provides square by square insight into what has been found in searches. Toggle between the locations and search request pages no longer, and give our handy dandy page a look!
As this page is new, we encourage anyone who has suggestions for improving this page to contact us however they wish. You’ll find a link to this page on the Main Locations and Search Request Pages.
After checking in with those of you on discord, the mods have created a new page linked from the Item’s Requests page. With HTML crafted by Zero, this page acts as a tracker of how many stories characters have used, and how many they have left. We’ll be updating this page in conjunction with the item requests page from here on.
In addition to this, we have been keeping record of what, precisely, characters have requested. If the numbers don’t make sense to you, please don’t hesitate to send us a message, and we’ll check our records for you! We encourage people to keep an up to date Inventory page to assist in tracking what items they have requested- such as Chara’s, Taako’s, or Edward’s. Additionally, our lovely Casey has also taken up organizing a monthly Trading Post. Thank you, Casey!
The Bestiary page has now been revamped to show creatures by both island and whether they are predator, prey, obstruction, or catastrophe. Additionally, creatures that can only be found in certain locations now have the squares they are specific to listed below the creature’s description.
Have a look and check out this new layout for yourself! As per above, we are keen to hear any feedback on how we can continue to improve this page going forward.
Last month we introduced the concept of trigger events; events that only come into play when the appropriate square is searched. After a brief discussion, we will be renaming these events to exploration events, to avoid potentially negative connotations.
And as usual, there has been plenty going on in the background, as well.
♆ Work on the bestiary has continued, with 23 beasties waiting to be discovered.
♆ We continue to monitor both compulsory and non-compulsory AC, with our second storytelling log receiving as much positive response as the first! Remember that this month will see the beginning of mod issued warnings for lack of activity, failure to tag your characters in logs, and potential follow ups for issues such as consistent thread dropping or clique-like behavior.
♆ The Search Request and map continue to update in tandem, with a handy new compass rose added to our map. Thank you to Taylor for bringing the need for this to our attention!
♆ Our first scheduled event is quickly descending upon us, with more details to be announced very soon. This will also see the end of our first arc focused at Enso, with our second island scheduled for introduction in November.
♆ In the meantime, further work is being conducted on our metaplot, as we look to consolidate everything up to this point with events in the future. We’re very excited for you to see what’s to come- though some of it is still quite a ways away...
Feedback!
As always, there’s a toplevel below for any questions, concerns or feedback! If you feel something could be done better, or you’d like to comment on something that’s working well for you, please feel free to utilize this. You can also contact the mods directly!
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