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State of the Game
Hi everyone! This is a State of the Game post from your mod team. First, we’d like to give you guys a sincere thank you for bearing with us while we figure out what works and what doesn’t work for the game. We’ve had some unexpected changes pop up and are doing our best to adjust to them while keeping our playerbase in mind. We really do appreciate your comments and suggestions, they’ve helped us substantially.
That being said, we wanted to make this post because we are looking at making some bigger adjustments to the game moving forward, largely because our own IRL circumstances are changing our availability.
We might be a short-term game, but it’s still early, and we’d like to make this experience as manageable and enjoyable as possible for everyone. So! Here are some things we are thinking of implementing moving forward:
On that note, we won’t be able to get to your questions as quickly either because of work, but we will do the best we can to get to them as soon as possible!
ETA, 7/8: Going forward, explorations like hitting rocks for resources can be handwaved! You don't have to wait for us to get back to you when you gather resources, but make sure it stays a reasonable amount--no five golden nuggets at a time, things like that! The following items, however, will stay rolled by the mods: DIYs in bottles, balloons, fossils, and shaking trees. Essentially, items (as these are higher in value in several ways) will be mod-rolled; natural resources (clay, stones, nuggets, chopped wood, and a reasonable amount of bells) can be handwaved.
We are opening this post to your feedback on these changes as well in case anyone has any additional thoughts. Our mod inbox and our DMs are always open if you’d like to have a private discussion as well!
With that, thank you guys for your continued support, patience, and participation! We are grateful to have such an awesome playerbase, and we hope that you’ll all still have fun in the game moving forward!
That being said, we wanted to make this post because we are looking at making some bigger adjustments to the game moving forward, largely because our own IRL circumstances are changing our availability.
- Mod Coco is starting a new job on July 16th and Mod Michelle is starting hers this Thursday (which she just found out today!).
- With Mod Amber’s availability being late afternoons and evenings, we won’t have hands on deck as frequently anymore on weekdays from the hours of 10AM-5:30PM EST.
We might be a short-term game, but it’s still early, and we’d like to make this experience as manageable and enjoyable as possible for everyone. So! Here are some things we are thinking of implementing moving forward:
- Player plots: To keep the game more manageable both for the players and the mods, we are thinking of asking that players DM the mods to get approval for weekday events that will alter the setting significantly (i.e. demolishing a building) and/or will require mod involvement tag-wise (such as an investigation) before going forward with said events. For example, if you’d like to have a character investigate Blathers’ tent while he’s not around, this would require mod approval first.
- NPC changes: We won’t have a mod available to NPC from 10AM-5:30PM est, so we will be scaling back on NPC appearances. That being said, when we do have them, we are looking at two things starting on Thursday this week:
1. Limiting each individual NPC thread to five comments per person
2. Instead of opening the event up early in the week (such as the Blathers event), we’re thinking of opening it up on the scheduled day and backtagging instead.
The reason for this is so players and mods won’t get overwhelmed when the week begins with objectives and an event at the same time. The reason behind the limited comment counts is so that we can respond more quickly to everyone who comments and not leave people waiting too long on NPC answers.
On that note, we won’t be able to get to your questions as quickly either because of work, but we will do the best we can to get to them as soon as possible!
ETA, 7/8: Going forward, explorations like hitting rocks for resources can be handwaved! You don't have to wait for us to get back to you when you gather resources, but make sure it stays a reasonable amount--no five golden nuggets at a time, things like that! The following items, however, will stay rolled by the mods: DIYs in bottles, balloons, fossils, and shaking trees. Essentially, items (as these are higher in value in several ways) will be mod-rolled; natural resources (clay, stones, nuggets, chopped wood, and a reasonable amount of bells) can be handwaved.
We are opening this post to your feedback on these changes as well in case anyone has any additional thoughts. Our mod inbox and our DMs are always open if you’d like to have a private discussion as well!
With that, thank you guys for your continued support, patience, and participation! We are grateful to have such an awesome playerbase, and we hope that you’ll all still have fun in the game moving forward!
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Other than that I think that's a good call on NPC threads! As one who keeps slamming at the NPCs it's better for y'alls health...............
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