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EnableMePlz ([personal profile] enablemeplz) wrote2024-03-09 08:54 pm

March EMP Meme

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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.

All mod responses regardless of whether they're rule breaks, correction requests (like someone posting in the wrong section), or thwapping someone for spamming copy-paste ads, have always been and will almost universally be public. If someone sends a PM and the conversation gets combative, this will also be made public and posted to the comments of the mod contact page. This is for the sake of transparency so people can judge the emp mod's communications for fairness themselves.

There are times where the player's post may be screened (such as if they posted to the wrong section) but the mod's response will be left unscreened.

Players may sometimes be allowed more than one strike for copy-paste ads since this is often just enthusiasm behind it, but game mods should know better. They'll get one warning for copy-paste ads, and if they spam anymore copy-paste ads after the warning, they'll be banned from the meme.

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.
colorofthesky: (Consider the eastern sky.)

[personal profile] colorofthesky 2024-03-10 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Hello!

I am not sure it would be exactly what you are looking for, but might I suggest [community profile] lastvoyages? The game is very focused on character development, and characters are sorted into two categories, Wardens or Inmates. Wardens are tasked by a mysterious entity called the Admiral to help graduate / redeem an Inmate, for which they receive....basically whatever they want! Inmates are pulled in after they die or a point in canon where they might have died so that, if they graduate, they get a second chance at life.

I think Rufus would make a very interesting Warden (not all Wardens are 100% morally upstanding folks, which is what makes it fun) - but ofc, that would be up to you!

As for a cast, there is me (Zack, a Warden) and Sephiroth (an Inmate). Both of them are post-ACC, but Remake/Rebirth stuff is very much loved!
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[personal profile] unionized 2024-03-10 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey! Thanks for the suggestion - I'm vaguely familiar with Last Voyages but mostly through word-of-mouth and osmosis. I do think the Warden/Inmate system is really intriguing, but wanted to ask, how difficult is it to find a warden or inmate pairing as a completely new person to the game? Is there some sort of in-game matching system or OOC meme that would help facilitate finding a pair-off?
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[personal profile] colorofthesky 2024-03-10 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
So the way that it works is that all new Wardens/Inmates are put in the temp pool! And once a month, temporary pairings go up as an Admiral announcement. (This is ICly done so all Inmates have someone to look out for them even if they don’t have a permanent Warden.) The mods usually randomize the pairings, but you can also ask somebody to pair up with you if you’re interested in a specific pairing!

So you basically get to see how characters would work together for a month. And all unpaired characters stay in the temp pool until an official pairing happens. Most of the permanent pairings I’ve had have been temps first, and it usually takes a few months (?) to land a permanent pairing.

We also do plotting memes, and there are always OOC posts for plotting for floods, breaches, and ports. Those are good opportunities for CR building too and see how well characters click.

I can also tell you the players here are always delighted when new people show up so you can expect people piling on to say hello.
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[personal profile] sefirot 2024-03-11 07:00 am (UTC)(link)
Yesss, come harass Sephiroth. We would love to have Rufus. Sephiroth has already bad mouthed his company to people, I'm sorry.