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EnableMePlz ([personal profile] enablemeplz) wrote2022-06-11 09:08 pm

June EMP Meme

ENABLEMEPLZ

meme goes up on the Second 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:

[plurk.com profile] enablemeplz - The plurk for Enable Me Plz. Follow for monthly, replurkable EMP reminders
DWRP Masterlist - A regularly updated basic list of public DWRP games.
[community profile] dedoralive - A more detailed listing of DWRP Games.

GAME/AD LINKS:

General Game/Dressing Room Ads Link
- New Games
- Small Games
- Medium/Large Games
- Museboxes/Memes/Dressing Rooms/Misc.
- Game Questions
- Game Start Discussions/Questions

PSL Offerings
Find a Castmate
Find Crosscanon

Latest Page

Textbox for Character Ads (Optional):



Textbox for "Find a Castmate" Ads (Required):



For "Find Crosscanon" Ads (Required):



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.
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[personal profile] frightknight 2022-06-12 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Correct account this time!! (Sorry my icons are garbage rn)

And yeah, sounds good. Could send Batman to wherever Marc + co are or send them to Gotham to get things rolling !
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Addressing all comments so far. Thank you for them!

[personal profile] everland_mods 2022-06-12 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Hello! I am so overwhelmed with how many people replied, thank you! I appreciate it so much.

While I responded to each comment individually and intend to keep doing so, I want to address somethings here where everyone who is interested can see the answers without having to scroll through each thread individually.

First: It was brought up that I had failed to identify myself. I appologize, it was not intentional nor was it an attempt to fool or deceive anyone. I was excited/nervous and just forgot that my name isn't on the journal anywhere.

Not sure if having my name will help, but here it is, I am Chicklet. I currently play 4 characters in VT (Xion, Spark, Clef, Najaran). I have played in a number of other games including X-institute, Wake, and SMK. I am a LARPer and LARP GM, as well as having a history in tabletop RP.

Second: Everland is based off a short story (published) and novel (unpublished) that I have permission from the author to use for the game, with some restrictions. Knowledge of the limited canon is not needed to play or mod.

Third: The exact lines of what is and is not allowable in terms of rating will be spelled out clearly in the Rules/FAQ. I was trying not to bury people in wall of text here on EMP, but I will address some of the specific issues raised. (please note that some of these may slide based on co-mod input) Nudity is FTB or take to journals and cannot be used for bonus AC. Romance threads, no matter the gender or number involved will need to FTB or go to journals if it gets to removed clothing or reaching into/under clothing levels. Crime and violence has a wide range. Lower end will be based on OOC player consent. For example, if all involved players are okay with a fist fight or even a stabbing, that is perfectly fine. playing out torture or mutilation would not be, even if all players are okay with it. Death and dying are acceptable so long as they are not the butt of jokes or otherwise done in a way that is clearly intended to upset players OOC. But detailing the death would not be. I hope that clears things up. CWs and TWs on topics that require player consent should be used.

As an addendum to this, because it was asked: GENDER IDENTITY AND ORIENTATION ARE NOT CONSIDERED TABOO IN THIS GAME. The same rules on romantic scenes and nudity apply no matter the gender, genders, or lack there of, of those involved. I am LGBTQ+ and even if I was not, I want this game to be welcoming. So anyone who has issues with the game accepting queer or ace or NB characters or players or anything along those lines, I thank you for your interest to this point. Have a nice day.

Fourth: I have no intention at current of hiding player identities or forcing anyone to thread with people they do not want to thread with. If the issue you have is with a character not a player, that is 100% understandable. If the issue you have is with a player not a character, I would like to think the whole mod team would be encouraging of you to communicate and/or give that player another chance. But this will not be enforced. Opt-outs will be allowed, though again, I would hope that if it is for OOC reasons, you would be open to considering trying to thread with them again and/or discussing your issues in a mature way. We are all people. We've all made mistakes. We've all had a point of veiw or style at some point that has since changed. We all have had a chance to grow up, to evolve. And this is easiest when one has feedback to work from. I, myself, am a huge believer in communication and feedback.

Basically, in summary, I will be encouraging second chances, but the only people who will be enforced to give people a clean slate would be fellow mods. I do not want any player or players to feel targeted by the mod team, or unwelcome because one of the mods is someone who had an issue with them in the past.

Fifth: I am aware that I have not given much detail about the settings and am hesitating to put certain things down as set in stone. This is because I want all mods to have a voice, to feel welcomed and heard because they are welcomed and heard. I want everyone to have a chance to have a say. In the rules. In the settings in the NPCs. If a mod wants to come in but doesn't want to do NPCs or only wants to do NPCs and not admin stuff... I hope to build a team that each mod is doing things they love doing, and all needed jobs are done fairly, well, and in a timely manner.



I hope all of this helps to clarify things. Thank you all so much for your feedback and engagement. I am very excited, and even if I get no new co-mods from this post, I still have a lot of things to think about and ways to improve the game, so I thank you all!

Have a wonderful day!
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[personal profile] nekipas 2022-06-12 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
did somebody say gods?

I've super enjoyed the thread we've got going on in the Denny's meme, and have tons of ideas about developing that into an actual PSL, if you're interested. Elsewise, I've also got a spider and devil for general vigilante work!
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[personal profile] gravity_fissure 2022-06-12 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Can I just say that I have been loving our thread? :D

Re: Looking for Co-mods

(Anonymous) 2022-06-12 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Based on your responses, I'd really recommend against trying to proceed with this idea. I don't think you understand why a "second chances" game is going to raise a lot of eyebrows nor do you seem to grasp why many of your ideas are confusing, contradictory, or even downright offensive. To put it bluntly, it is unlikely anyone will want to co-mod with this game with you and it is extremely unlikely anyone will join it. You are basically opening your players up to potential harassment and exposure to abusers by letting anyone walk through your doors, no questions asked. It is your responsibility as a mod to protect your players and you simply cannot do so in that sort of environment.

I'm not trying to be mean, I'm sure your intent was good, but I think someone needs to tell you and tell you directly this isn't going to work. You keep mentioning co-mods and assuming you'll have a team, when again, I think you're going to have trouble attracting any real interest.
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[personal profile] mahoraga 2022-06-12 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
sryjoi My character (Megumi) is 15/16 and he got in fine. My cast (Jujutsu Kaisen) are all teens, and we also have a My Hero Academia cast (all teens). It's fine as long as the teen is a good fit for the game, and Azula would have no problem given what she's gone through and done. I also have had no problem getting CR from adults and teens alike.

Do consider! There's a TDM going up 24/6. If I see you, I'll drop you a tag!
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pmmm @ yogen

[personal profile] cubism 2022-06-12 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[game]: [community profile] yogen
[fandom]: puella magia madoka magica (+ magia record)
[game's current cast]: none
[who I play]: apping alina gray or kyoko sakura
[wanted]: the original five, the magius, mitama, mifuyu... lit anyone
[game info]: Yogen is a horror game set in a high school, in which characters wake up suddenly as students of the school, spending their first days drifting between their school life memories and canon memories until they finally "wake up" and realize something isn't quite right here. Currently everyone is trapped inside of the school, so they're trying to uncover the mysteries of Yogen while also figuring out how they can get home.

AC is 10 comments over 2 threads (or 5 comments and an open toplevel/post,) but it's relatively easy to meet all things considered. There is a test drive meme here if you want to try it out!

I'm planning on apping in either Kyoko or Alina so just trying to see if I can lure any other megucas to app in with me, I miss having a cast for this series! I'm happy to dig up or make icons for anyone who needs them.
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The Revival Project | SciFi Survival/Exploration

[personal profile] trpmods 2022-06-12 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)


✧ THE REVIVAL PROJECT ✧
premisegame details/faqreserves
test drive meme

The show must go on…

The Drift Fleet was renowned across the galaxy as the intergalactic reality show to follow. For centuries people have been taken away from their homes, pulled from multiple universes and from multiple times, and watched like a bug under glass for the amusement of faceless aliens. But what was entertainment for some was hope to another - for one race desperately needing help, The Drift Fleet was an answered prayer. For you it will be the start of a whole new adventure.

Welcome to Agra 10.

Where is this planet? Well, no one is quite sure of that, yet. When you arrive, you encounter a glowing orb that harmlessly downloads information directly into your mind. What you learn from it is this:

This planet is now home for you. Centuries have passed since anyone has been able to live here, though. Agra 10 is a dying world thanks to inexplicable and debilitating energy storms that have destroyed everything in their paths, including the Agrii people. Once, this proud race of millions had a thriving world full of advanced and sophisticated technology. The storms cut that number down to hundreds, huddled together in the heart of their capital, Temba.

That is where you are now.

The Agrii are now gone and Temba is the most intact area left (which says a lot about the rest of the planet). The orb is a Data Point left by the departing aliens to tell their story. But how did you get here? Why are you here? What are you supposed to be doing?

That is all for you to discover. The Agrii’s hope and your own survival is now in your hands. This isn’t a show anymore. It’s not a game.

It’s a Revival.

No, but really. What is this game?


The Revival Project is a jamjar game that picks up after The Drift Fleet concludes. While it is a spin-off game, it is only loosely connected to the plot there and anyone can join regardless of their presence in The Drift Fleet. NO prior knowledge of The Drift Fleet is necessary to play.

From what you’ve discovered so far, your character has been brought to Agra 10, a destroyed planet that has been abandoned for centuries. You will soon learn that your mission here is to rebuild the capital city and the rest of this once-proud world. The Agrii, who remain off-world, have found that outsiders are somehow partially immune to the energy storms that massacred their population. Because of this, they will continue to find the best helpers from every universe to bring here. Lucky you are among those chosen.

In addition to rebuilding the planet, there is another task you must undertake. After all of the chaos that has splintered them for decades, the Agrii no longer fully understand what it means to be part of a community. Watching The Drift Fleet was the only lesson they had to help them relearn how to function as a cohesive society once more. So while you work together and even (eventually) travel to distant worlds, know that you have fans watching and learning from your every move. And don’t be surprised if they even reach out (although their English leaves much to be desired).

TRP is structured as a slice-of-life, adventure, and survival game where you have the opportunity to pick whichever of those elements you wish and avoid those that you do not. Whichever path your character travels here is entirely up to you.

As the game progresses, events will uncover larger and perhaps surprising truths about your new home and the race that brought you here. Not all is what it seems. There will be plenty of opportunity to take advantage of the setting; how you do so is yours to decide.

So, as the Agrii would say: Whale Comb, he rows!

Welcome to The Revival Project!





code by tricklet
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[personal profile] fauned 2022-06-12 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
ahhh ♡♡♡ i'm glad.. i always get a bit nervous doing stuff Out of canon. sorry essek i'm sure that one day you two can have a very normal conversation about things while you aren't bleeding out.......

dont worry that piece of chalk will be hers. mark my words. you cant leave this friendship now sir
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Destiny - cross canon/media and OCs welcome

[personal profile] bomblogic 2022-06-12 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
offering:
Mara Sov » [personal profile] bomblogic » queen of the awoken, queen of the reef, the first awoken, semi-accidental divinity, etc etc.

looking for:
Any castmates (especially Uldren/Crow, Petra, Eris), and open to positive, neutral, and negative CR. Obviously Mara isn't everyone's favorite person and people like to question her motives, but she's an essential ally which can make for interesting interactions.

I'm semi-current on Season of the Haunted; first two weeks done, haven't had a chance to tackle Week Three plot yet. Good with writing stuff set during the Witch Queen expansion or after, as well as set pre-Season of the Lost (ie. before her 'publicized' return) or pre-Battle of Saturn.

For cross canon/media: the door is wide open, I'm open to all kinds of crossovers. Depending on the verse, I could AU her/her history in with something similar to her canon role.
» Let her pop in to help save humanity in your corner of the universe (though she'll likely be expecting something in return)
» Or be a mysterious overly-knowledgeable and slightly meddling alien god-figure.
» One thread that I'd be particularly keen to explore would be her treating another universe as a sort of "backup plan" for if humanity gets destroyed in her home universe.
» Also would love to play her off other god-figures, deities, etc. Not just because Mara is essentially a god, but also because assorted mythologies have a heavy influence with the Awoken in particular (namely Greek and Norse, and Sumerian is often referenced by Mara) and I think it'd be fun if she encountered someone she otherwise only knew as human myth.

And while PSLs/memes are more my activity level, I'm not opposed to possibly taking her to a game that has other Destiny characters, though it would highly depend on the nature of the game and the activity requirements.

notes:
I'm CST and work full-time during the day. Also currently dealing with some family health issues that have caused my tags to be spotty (sorry!). So if possible delays will bother you, I might not be the writer for you atm. Overall I'm pretty laid back as a general rule and will happily backtag threads as long as we both have interest; if a thread has gone too long, starting something fresh is always an option.

(Anonymous) 2022-06-12 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
da here, but i've got to ask you a question about this while you're here doing Q&A.

have any players actually come to you and expressed their burning need for a game that treats it's players like they're 5 years old? did you put up a poll somewhere that revealed to you that there's an untapped market of dwrpers nostalgic for the old antiviolence field from milliway's? i mean, different strokes for different folks and all that, but it seems to me that what you're trying here is so narrow in its focus that there won't be any market for it. you don't want this to be a game where players with bad histories can start over in, you want it to be that AND a game that is inclusive to CRAUs and canon OCs (two notoriously problematic character types) AND you want it to also be a game so squeaky clean that even BS&P TV censors brought straight to us from the 1990s would approve.

see the problem? there's just too many hurdles here you're trying to clear at once. someone might be willing to give problem players a second chance, or give CRAUs a second chance, or give a patronizing kid's TV setting a chance (I'll point out here that even other "kiddie" games like Route 29 allowed swearing, for example). but the chances of you finding someone who is willing to entertain all of these restrictions, besides you yourself, is probably going to be a very small pool indeed.
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[personal profile] mahoraga 2022-06-12 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
i notice we are both in jigoku? would you like to be plurk friends -- it's completely fine if not!

do link me these top levels! there is a chance i might move things to your open post instead for gojo out of shame. but i'd love to play with him!

link me the megumi top levels too! my nobara isn't that strong so i may or may not be able to accomplish this, but we shall See.
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[personal profile] conceivedeceit 2022-06-12 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I've got a Loki if we'd like to see how he and Steven (et al) might do together, platonic or ship if things go that route! Do you have a preferred canon-point for Steven?
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[personal profile] crystalmaster 2022-06-12 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I have [community profile] crash_town, which is a jamjar set in a weird Western town. I wouldn't force humanization and right now there is no AC at all. It's a Yu-Gi-Oh! setting, but knowledge of the show wouldn't be necessary as it's panfandom. Downside is there's not much going on yet.

I'm trying out [personal profile] tamerunion, a Digimon panfandom that also checks your boxes. :)

(Anonymous) 2022-06-12 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Honestly I think there's some misunderstanding here about the reasons people choose not to interact with certain other players/why some mods refuse certain people access to their game. In my experience in DWRP, the vast majority of the time, when this kind of thing happens it's because an individual has personally had bad experiences with the person they're trying to avoid, and knows from past experience that they don't enjoy playing with them (or modding for them).

DWRP is smaller now than it used to be, but it's not all one contiguous community that everyone knows what's going on in. It's not too hard for people who have found themselves alienated from one social circle due to bad behavior to find a foothold elsewhere to try again, unless the bad behavior is real nightmare shit. If there really are people out there who can't get into any game and are shunned by everyone in DWRP, I sure haven't heard of them.

I understand the appeal of the idea of a game where people who have acted badly can have a second chance to prove they've changed, I don't think this is really... like... generally those people are already doing that, just in different games and social spheres from the individual people they've hurt. Nobody is out here religiously consulting lists of total strangers to avoid based on hearsay from other strangers. Or at least nobody I know is!

This just sounds like you'd be deterring anyone who's experiencing harassment by someone else in RP from apping to your game because of the knowledge that by playing there, they'd be making themselves a target for their harassers to app in too, knowing their victim would have to either drop or deal with being encouraged to make nice with them.
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genshin impact

[personal profile] yanshang 2022-06-12 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
hydro supremacy ladies

offering
» kokomi sangonomiya
» mona megistus
» yelan

looking for
» castmates primarily! but crosscanon is also bomb, especially for yelan
» open to both gen and shipping. i don't have a lot of preference when it comes to shipping them. writing chemistry > otp
» more into long term psls but if you'd prefer random tagging on memes, that also works for me
» leave a comment or send me a pm here!
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[personal profile] mrsklover 2022-06-13 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
Omg I love Jim. May I suggest [community profile] revivalproject? It's a small game that takes place on a planet being rebuilt by the people pulled onto it. There's events that take them to other planets and storms that mess with reality. Here's the TDM link just in case.
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[personal profile] shittylittle 2022-06-13 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
ooh, I was eying jigokucho when it first opened, but had it in my mind that ac was higher than it is? so I'll definitely check out the tdm once it drops!

thanks for the rec 💟
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arcane

[personal profile] shims 2022-06-13 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
OFFERING
» SILCO @ this journal
» JINX @ [personal profile] whimsikills
» SEVIKA @ [personal profile] rambos

INFO & PREFS
» Slowish tagger in BST. Mostly tag mid week/weekend.
» Okay with memes, museboxes or open posts. No pref for prose or brackets so happy to match you!
» I would ideally like to start a PSL from the ground up, and I'm p okay with most content except non-con (okay with dub) and extreme underage. Happy to build up to shipping or start from mid-early stages stuff. M/F M/M F/F and variations of! Some things I am into: exploring the seedy criminal element of Zaun, role swap au's, supernatural au's, happy endings/bad endings but I'm v interested in other ideas including gen.

» Open to cross canon!
» For SILCO, canon wants: Vander, Jayce, Viktor, Sevika, Mel, Ambessa, Jinx
» For JINX, canon wants: Silco, Viktor, Lux, Sevika, Vi, Thieram, Ekko
» For SEVIKA, canon wants: Siloc, Mel, Vi

» To contact either reply here or dm this journal!
Edited 2022-06-14 15:48 (UTC)
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Re: Looking for Co-mods

[personal profile] everland_mods 2022-06-13 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
I appreciate the feedback, and always prefer blunt honesty to pretty much anything else. You are right that I do not understand why this is coming across as confusing and/or contradictory and am trying to address questions as they come up. As for offensive I never thought that this could be in any way offensive, nor was this intended to be. May I ask in what way I have offended people so I can fix things and make amends?

I hadn't really thought about abusers, and you are right that I should have. I am not sure how to find a balance between giving people a chance to show they have changed and protecting people. I will need to think on that and am open and welcoming to any advice on the topic. I do want people to feel safe here. But I also want people to have a chance to grow and change and become more who they want to be, and to show that of themselves to others.

I get that you are not trying to be mean and appreciate the feedback! I keep mentioning co-mods not because I am assuming I will find a team, but because I know that I cannot do this on my own. I've been trying to figure things out on the back end for this for a while now. I cannot run this game the way I want to run it on my own. So it is not presumption of having a team interested in the game, more it is presumption that without a team, there will be no game. I am hopping that I will attract interest. Even if I first have to take this feedback and revamp my approach - both in my pitch and the base of the game myself - before that happens.

I believe in a lot of the core concepts of this game, and do want to see it flourish and do well. But I am also aware that the timing may be off. And more, that I myself may not be right for this right now. But a lot of people have been encouraging me to come to EMP to look for co-mods, so I took their advice and tried it. And even if I gain no co-mods this round, I am learning a lot and seeing a lot of places that I need to improve.

I may even need to try starting a far less ambitious game first to get some experience under my belt. That is a possibility I am willing to consider. And maybe that experience will convince me that Everland would never have worked. Or maybe I will use that to try again in a different way, one that takes into account all that has been brought up here and will come up between now and then.

Sorry for babbling at you. Thank you for the feedback, and if you are comfortable telling me how this came across as offensive I would appreciate it. It has never been my intent to offend or hurt the people of this community.

Thank you.
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[personal profile] ainissesthai 2022-06-13 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I love the sound of that! Ed has a fondness for Egyptian history, too, so that could be interesting. I have not seen the show yet, but I know the basics (and spoilers are fine), and it could definitely be fun! Maybe Moonie has been framed for something, or they're both looking into the same case for whatever reason?
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[personal profile] ganashara 2022-06-13 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
the AC is eight total comments over two (or more) threads, one of which can be an inbox thread, and TDM threads count, so it's pretty generous!
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[personal profile] everland_mods 2022-06-13 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
Hello, Da. I do not think I know you, but am pleased to meet you and appreciate you responding!

I do not think that this is treating players like children and I am very sorry if it comes across that way. I am unfamiliar with Miliways, and am presuming from context that it was a game a while back? I am not trying to be super squeaky clean so much as I am trying to avoid triggering people. Myself included to be completely honest.

As to interest, I did get some interest when asking around small scale (on my own plurk and through the game's mod plurk which was replurkable) and did have some people interested in NPCing, helping out, and generally playing. None of the people were up for full on modding, which is fair enough. It is a lot of work.

As to canon OCs and CRAUs... I have met a lot of players who have played one or the other and have done really well with it. I also enjoy canon OCs on occasion and honestly have a lot of characters with CRAU because their arcs in a game ended, or their game ended, but I am not ready to stop playing them yet. I want to see more places willing to accept those kinds of characters, and believe in trying to be the change I want to see in the world. Yes, there are some cases where those kinds of characters can be problematic. But there are some characters in nearly every category who can be problematic. If we disregard all character categories that have a few potentially problematic individuals... what would any of us be able to play? I would rather take things on a case by case basis.

That said, canon OCs and CRAU can be exactly that. Taken on a case by case basis. We mods would have to decide in advance enough of what can be said so that players have guidelines to know that if theirs is one that needs to be looked at individually they are not being singled out. So long as we can make that clear, I am open to mod discussions on individual characters that run the risk of being problematic, as individuals.

I hope that clarifies and helps!

I appreciate that there are a lot of hurdles, and that I am being ambitious. But I would rather try and fail than not try at all, so long as no one gets hurt by my failure. And more, if I try and learn from the attempt, and find a way to succeed in a modified form, then that is also progress. If nothing else, I would rather try for everything and have to reduce my list and work with other moderators towards, well... moderation, than to create something that I will always be frustrated by. It is easier, I think, to start big and restrict down as needed, then to never try for anything big and always feel like you could have done more.

Anyway, that is my thoughts on the matter. And I appreciate yours.

I will say that if the pool of players starts small, that would be fine by me. Possibly even ideal, since I am still new to DW modding and a smaller player base will help me find my feet and iron out anything that we as mods missed the first time around. I believe in the concept enough that I feel like if we start small, interest will grow. And organic growth would be a wonderful long term goal.
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[personal profile] accessgranted 2022-06-13 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Oh Loki! Do love him! I think either would be fine, I love shipping but Gen stuff is just as good. As far as canon points go, I'm flexible. I've been playing him from the end of the series, but at any point works for me. I figure it depends on the story and all.
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[personal profile] gravity_fissure 2022-06-13 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
I do, too! It's always a little scary, so I totally feel you. But this feels like canon, it's so smooooth.

"Normal" conversations. Suuuure.

He's paid more for friendship, so this seems fair. (Although have you SEEN the price of chalk lately, Fearne? He's not going to forget this)

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