hello, chicklet. no, we do not know each other, and as other anons have told you already (and I think you already knew), 'da' is just a header used in anoncomms, not a handle
i do hope that the many responses you have received over the past few days has educated you to the reality that, even if you do not see this sort of premise as treating players like children, that is how most of us will still take the idea of a game that so heavily restricts character behavior. as someone else here i believe already told you also, most of us in this hobby are adults or young adults. building a game specifically to avoid triggers is on its face a good goal, but when the triggers are this many and this common, again I think the market for it is going to be very limited if not nonexistent altogether
as to your efforts to recruit mods, speaking as a person who has known other would-be mods in your current position and been offered modship by them... it is easy to offer someone support on plurk. even if one thinks an idea is bad, is costs nothing to be polite, offer a few kind words of support and beg off any actual effort in the process. i can't say for sure if that is what is going on in your case, but I can say that none of my three friends who tried to make games happen like you are doing now got their games off the ground. they were each what I personally call 'vision mods', that is to say would-be mods that had aq vision for a game but no ability to organize and no head for the actual work of modding. you need a person like that, a 'work mod'. without that your game will not happen. and your vision as presented here is so restrictive that no work mod will find it appealing
i can understand wanting to make a game where canon OCs and CRAUs are welcome from the position of a person who enjoys those types of characters. but you in turn should try to understand why they are such an ostracized character type in the first place, and why so few games allow them. just about everyone in dwrp remembers 'renne', an infamous canon OC player from the late lj/early dw days who carried all their CR from every game into the next one and burdened players who did not know them with an OC who claimed interactions they had never participated in or necessarily wanted to. renne is the most infamous case, but there have been many canon OCs and CRAUs who played their characters in this pushy, force-CR-onto-others style. they are why the character type is largely persona non grata today, and by admitting them you are giving prospective players another reason to avoid your game
do you understand fully what I am saying about the problems with this game? you are trying to build a game around multiple problematic elements at once: offering second chances to players with bad reps (1), welcoming canon OCs and CRAUs when your players might not necessarily want that CR (2), and the heavily restrictive G-rated premise that prohibits elements most players have been comfortable with since they graduated from elementary school (3). just trying to make a game focused on one of these elements wouldn't be such a challenge, but all of them at once creates a premise that, to coin a phrase, has a little something to alienate everyone
i do apologize for sounding like a debbie downer here, i'm not trying to discourage you, just to tell you what kind of uphill battle you are facing. by walking back some of the more extreme restrictions you have proposed here and picking just one problematic element to try and rehabilitate, i do think you'll have a much greater chance of success. if you refuse to do that, then all i can say is best of luck to you.
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i do hope that the many responses you have received over the past few days has educated you to the reality that, even if you do not see this sort of premise as treating players like children, that is how most of us will still take the idea of a game that so heavily restricts character behavior. as someone else here i believe already told you also, most of us in this hobby are adults or young adults. building a game specifically to avoid triggers is on its face a good goal, but when the triggers are this many and this common, again I think the market for it is going to be very limited if not nonexistent altogether
as to your efforts to recruit mods, speaking as a person who has known other would-be mods in your current position and been offered modship by them... it is easy to offer someone support on plurk. even if one thinks an idea is bad, is costs nothing to be polite, offer a few kind words of support and beg off any actual effort in the process. i can't say for sure if that is what is going on in your case, but I can say that none of my three friends who tried to make games happen like you are doing now got their games off the ground. they were each what I personally call 'vision mods', that is to say would-be mods that had aq vision for a game but no ability to organize and no head for the actual work of modding. you need a person like that, a 'work mod'. without that your game will not happen. and your vision as presented here is so restrictive that no work mod will find it appealing
i can understand wanting to make a game where canon OCs and CRAUs are welcome from the position of a person who enjoys those types of characters. but you in turn should try to understand why they are such an ostracized character type in the first place, and why so few games allow them. just about everyone in dwrp remembers 'renne', an infamous canon OC player from the late lj/early dw days who carried all their CR from every game into the next one and burdened players who did not know them with an OC who claimed interactions they had never participated in or necessarily wanted to. renne is the most infamous case, but there have been many canon OCs and CRAUs who played their characters in this pushy, force-CR-onto-others style. they are why the character type is largely persona non grata today, and by admitting them you are giving prospective players another reason to avoid your game
do you understand fully what I am saying about the problems with this game? you are trying to build a game around multiple problematic elements at once: offering second chances to players with bad reps (1), welcoming canon OCs and CRAUs when your players might not necessarily want that CR (2), and the heavily restrictive G-rated premise that prohibits elements most players have been comfortable with since they graduated from elementary school (3). just trying to make a game focused on one of these elements wouldn't be such a challenge, but all of them at once creates a premise that, to coin a phrase, has a little something to alienate everyone
i do apologize for sounding like a debbie downer here, i'm not trying to discourage you, just to tell you what kind of uphill battle you are facing. by walking back some of the more extreme restrictions you have proposed here and picking just one problematic element to try and rehabilitate, i do think you'll have a much greater chance of success. if you refuse to do that, then all i can say is best of luck to you.