enablemeplz | August EMP Meme

ENABLEMEPLZ
meme goes up on the last Saturday of every month
FOR GAME ADS:

➤ Put an ad up with the characters / crew / pairings / fetish you want for your game under the correct game header. This meme is primarily going to be focused on DWRP games but IJ and LJ games are allowed.

➤ PLEASE NOTE A RULE CHANGE HERE. ABSOLUTELY NO obnoxious coding (no font size > size 4 or 3 "big" tags, no oversized banners (they must be 250px in height or less), no blinking text, no obnoxious table html that doesn't collapse easily, no sparklies, no large pictures). Use all the colors you like, but please remember 3 "big" tags is the limit and that's only for headers or title text rather than for all the text in an ad.

FOR GAME QUESTIONS:

➤ RPers interested in a game can create a header for the game and ask questions about that game that aren't easy to find on faqs, such as the actual pace vs. what's listed/what kind of plots are run/if the game leans more towards plotty or slice of life/if a game leans more towards network or logs, etc. Both anon questions and anon answers are welcome in this section just like in the rest of the meme.

➤ This thread is not for speaking about wank or drama in a game. There are anoncomms that exist for that. This thread is specifically for general questions about a game that rpers want to get perspective on from players already in the game. Answers can be slightly negative (such as saying app response is slow or that the plots are repetitive or similar things) but this should at least be worded politely. Unnecessary vitriol, any mention of personal drama or wank, or mod teams/individual mods/players being singled out, will be either frozen or screened (based on what seems right based on the content).

FOR CHARACTER ADS:

➤ Put up an ad about the characters you are offering. For PSL ads, there is a separate subthread but for character ads for games, post directly to the meme post. Others will comment to you with the games/casts they want you to join.

➤ There is a "Find a Castmate" section, where you can talk about a cast you play in at a game, and try to lure people to join it. Not all games post to the meme or have a "wanted" section, so players that want to tempt people to their cast on their own can use this section for it. Please format this the same as the PSL section, where you post your character's canons in your subject. For the actual text of the ad you must use the "Find a Castmate" form provided at the bottom of this post so that these ads don't get huge. When listing who's currently in a cast, please do this in sentence form (with commas) rather than in list form.

➤ There is a "Find Crosscanon" section, where you can talk about a character you play and and desired crosscanon for that character. Please make sure this is not too generalized a search, because just wanting general crosscanon can be accomplished with the other sections of the meme. This is for specific characters or character types you're looking for. In the subject, please list the "Looking for [canon you're looking for]" rather than your character's canon. If looking for a character type, list the character type in as few words as possible. Do not make the subject huge or I'll screen your comment. For the actual text of the ad you must use the "Find Crosscanon" form provided at the bottom of this post so that these ads don't get huge. This section is only for game crosscanon as in the psl section people can list their preferences.

➤ Examples of crosscanon you can search for: You play The Flash from DC Comics and your dream CR is fellow speedster Quicksilver from Marvel. Or you might play a witch and want cr with other witches in general. Or maybe you play a good character messed up by evil parents and want to play against a villain character you know has evil parents, because you know it'd lead to some interesting negative CR.

➤ ABSOLUTELY NO obnoxious coding, with the same rules as the Game Ads Section above.

➤ If you're recommending a game to someone, try to match your suggestion to their needs. It's okay if part of your game rec is copy-pasted (such as what the game's about), but at least some part of the rec must be personalized to their ad. Try not to recommend the same game to every single ad, either. Ad spam that isn't individualized in some way will also be frozen or screened. Keep in mind this needs to be more specific than "this game has easy AC like you're asking for but meets none of your other requirements." Make sure you're advertising games that might click with that specific character, where a few elements fit what they're looking for. You should be thinking about the story reasons of how the character might click with the game.

IN GENERAL:

➤ Don't be a dick. This isn't one of the anoncomms, so any snide comments or unnecessary commentary on the RP plans of others will be frozen or screened.

MOD CONTACT:

If there's trouble, tell me HERE, please!

RESOURCES:

enablemeplz - The plurk for Enable Me Plz. Follow for monthly, replurkable EMP reminders
DWRP Masterlist - A regularly updated basic list of public DWRP games.

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AD LINKS:

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➤ Important note: IP logging has turned on due to multiple instances past and present of problem players trying to return to the dwrp community via emp after being banned other places, so I'll be IP logging from now on, and will compare notes with the rpa and wg mods (as well as game mods) where appropriate if it seems like someone that has been mass banned. I will not pay attention to IPs otherwise. I don't care what people like playing or who's who. So please feel comfortable to keep doing your thing, anon or otherwise. The knowledge will only be used for really egregious problem cases.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Players interested in a game can post a header for the game and ask questions that players in that game can respond to. Please see the instructions/rules for this section in the post above.

You can also use this space to ask general game questions like "What games accept CRAUS?" or "What games have a fast pace and aren't SOL?"

what's the gameplay like here? in particular, how fast is it?

does the pace vary much? if so, is there a particular cause? (like "[x time] usually has [y-style game-event]" or "[z-something] tends to affect [player/mod speed]")

Depending on who you tag, the pacing can get very fast! However, mod-events are spaced out so not everything happens at once, and things tend towards regularity given the monthly rhythm of things (pay attention to the monthly info posts for the relevant dates, basically).

As for pace varying, that's usually due to real life throwing some variety of curve ball, though that accounts more for individual players than mod interactions.

Also, both mods live in the UK, meaning info posts often go up in the middle of the night/early morning compared to the US! That said, they are very communicative, and very lenient.

And there are also mod-run calendars! One just for the mod-provided events, one that specifically accepts submissions for player-run events that syncs them with the regular events each month.

Edited 2020-08-31 13:08 (UTC)

ah, thank you! very helpful info.

Gameplay runs on a 2:1 day ratio (2 ic, 1 ooc), so game events get spaced out rather nicely. While those who get involved really deeply into mission events might be moving a bit faster during those moments, I found I was able to keep up fine even with just one tag a day in those times. Notably, our last event had people paired into threading groups, and tag-speed was actually a point that could be specified...there's plenty of players here who aren't able to boomerang constantly haha.

(Missions are one month- train events, are another. Missions take place on alien locations, while the rest of the game is within the Voidtrecker Express, a fairly unique train with carriages for things like gardens, gyms, etc in addition to the usual.)

As noted above, for characters who get involved in everything as much as they can, the game can be pretty quick! But ultimately, that's for characters inclined to do that. The pacing is what I would consider 'medium' paced, backtag friendly- depending on who you bring, it's easy enough to set your own speed. I do feel that one thing that contributes to the casual ability to set your own pace tag-wise is just the various timezones everyone is from.

I think everything else was covered by the above player though! (And the mods are VERY helpful, there's even a chunk of the discord dedicated to asking them live-questions for...pretty much anything about the game that you can think of while there.)

I see, I see! you and the other player were super helpful, thank you!

Just saw the game ad and would be interested in giving this place a shot, but I'm a little confused how the application process works for the public round. Are the Workshop and TDM always open for non-invited players to comment on? The last TDM was posted in April and it looks like there are still people tagging it, but the post says that new TDMs are posted every two to three months, so I'm wondering if I should just wait and hope for something new to pop up in the next few weeks or if I should just bite the bullet and workshop my character now.

Yes, workshops and TDMs are always open! You can either wait until the dates listed in the ad for the new workshop and TDM, or if you want to get a head start you're welcome to use the current set. We'll still allow entries there for public registration, or sooner with an invite.

Of course I missed the big bolded dates staring me right in the face. 😔 But that's very good to know, thank you! Also, weird question, but do you typically open claims at fixed time during your application/reservation or at a random time on the day of?

Happens to the best of us. And we try to aim for midnight CST, but since the schedule is a bit more relaxed, the time might vary slightly.

I know there's at least Voidtreckers; are there others?

August EMP Meme

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what games accept fan-made AUs?