ACTIVITY CHECK...announcement(bato)!

[coniurati]

Ladies and gentlemen, once again it's the 10th of the month. Normally, I would be starting the Activity Check today, but this month? That's not going to be the case. We think it's time we change things up a bit, so we're trying something new with the AC this month

Comments

[sketchysham]

Well...at least this gives me more of an excuse to try and push some of my people out of their nests.

[crippledroyalty]

I think the 20 comments is hard for people to reach...it isn't really fair to punish people because others dropped the thread. One of the other games I was in had a higher comment requirement but we were allowed to combine threads to meet it. Then it's not so dependent on other people's actions...

[crippledroyalty]

This.

[coniurati]

As I said before, if you end up having trouble hitting the requirement, talk to us about why and we'll work with you to come up with a solution. Since the thread can encompass the last 2 weeks of the check, hopefully this will be encouraging less dropped threads, more backdating if necessary and more communication between players, as well as more of an effort to tag around. If it causes difficulty, again, talk to us when it happens.

[anonymous]

I didn't want to reply to any individual threads since that may come across as an attack, but. I don't really see why this is such a big deal? I mean, honestly, if you can't get a single 20+ comment thread in a game with over 300 characters, I'd be worried. Especially since it includes logs/actionlogs too.

Not to mention, I feel like this revised system would encourage people to backtag/not drop threads/get their characters more active/etc. instead of the 1 post/2 weeks rule that ended up with a lot of bland posts that were impossible to reply to, just for the sake of scraping through the AC.

[anonymous]

Like some people said, it's because a lot of people aren't willing to backtag - the game moves too quickly for some people to want to, because retconning/changing things midthread are a pain in the butt. I've personally found very few people that are willing to keep tagging back. Not to mention a lot of people drop threads. It's basically saying, "why should we have to rely on someone else for our activity?" That's why people prefer the idea of combining threads - that way there's something to fall back on. Sure, this is meant to encourage people into better habits, but there's no guarantee that this will actually happen.

/stormy's useless input

[pilot_princess]

Honestly, I don't really think it's that huge of a deal, but some characters aren't very talkative so they might have a good collection of 10-comment spans (where their character only makes around 5) instead of one solid string of 20 (where their character makes 10). That was my big concern with two of mine; their conversations just don't seem to last long enough sometimes, and I was worried it would end up just stretching useless talks just to fit requirements or I'd be just shy of 20 consistently and lose them.

It was just easier to manage, for me, when I could go "okay, post is done, activity acquired" and balance my tags from there.

F-fff so really, I don't think it's that big of a thing, it just takes some getting used to.

[pilot_princess]

QUESTIONBATO!

Okay, so let's say you have an open log/hijacked-as-whoa commentlog, and people are tagging left and right.

Does it count if you have 10 posts from you through the whole comment/log, or does it have to be "these three people have to have 30" and "these two have to have 20" etc.?

ALSO!

What about devices shocking people? Can that still come into play without the two-week post requirements?

Oh, and after reading everything, I had an idea.

What about, if there's some huge difficulty with coming up with 20-post threads, maybe have like... a back-up plan? Like they have to have tagged 3-5 people with at least 10-comment threads to at least attempt? Idk if that would work but it came to mind, I am throwing it out there!

[coniurati]

Ideally the 10 comments per character would be one continuous thread, but again, it's something we'd have to look at on an individual basis. If it happened, you would be absolutely free to poke a mod and see if it would be acceptable, depending on how it works out.

The devices will continue shocking for all eternity, because the scientists are mean like that. :P

And...again, problems with the tagging requirement will need to be brought to us so we can work with the player on a different way to come up with the requirement. We're running this first check as a trial period, so whatever problems people bring to us (not being able to get tagbacks, people getting removed from the check accidentally, etc.) would be addressed in the first check and changes would be made based on that.

[pilot_princess]

Ahhh, okay! I was wondering because of something like the nakamalog and some of my older stuff I don't think each individual chunk could go around that far without just being an absolute bore to play through, but we had different branches in posts and it's sometimes easier to be in around ten individual branches with only a few posts each than clumped. But okay!

I will nag you guys. For everything. >:)

Those evil devices. EEEVIIIIL.

OH, ANOTHER QUESTION.

Let's say you're having trouble tagging around during the latter two weeks of the month, but at the beginning of the month you have, say... a 50-comment action log that you're still backtagging (so, earlier than two weeks started, but tags still made/thread completed within two weeks). Would that count or does it have to be only things started during the past two weeks?

[coniurati]

Yeah. And we know that not every thread even hits 10 comments total, let alone 20. But giving it two weeks (and it doesn't have to be a completed thread, either, so long as it's 20 comments long when it's linked to us) and only requiring one thread means ideally people would have several to choose from, depending on their activity level. But definitely, if that ends up being one you want to choose, ask us if it'll fit.

Hmm. I'm starting to get repetitive now, I'm sorry, but it still stands: bring it to us (if you end up wanting to use it) and ask if it would be okay, because it would be another individual decision. Sorry for saying that so often, but it would be the truth! In a case like that, we might be able to use it and maybe a more current thread as well, it would again be a case-by-case basis. We're trying to be as flexible as we can with the requirement. We just want to see that players are tagging around, not dropping threads, things like that.

[distortstruth]

I am curious about one thing--

If it's a monthly AC check, why does the thread have to be from within the last two weeks? I'm just generally curious about the reasoning behind that.

[embracethewaves]

The post fills the monthly requirement; the two-week thread requirement for the thread is coming into play because we're no longer requiring a post every two weeks.

[embracethewaves]

oh hey character journal, where did you come from O_O