Thisavrou Head Mods (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
savmods) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
thisavrou_ooc2017-10-10 07:22 am
savmods) wrote in thisavrou_ooc2017-10-10 07:22 am
Entry tags:
mod update 33
mod update
OCTOBER
Auto-Drops
The following characters failed to reply to Activity Check and are slated to be dropped. Please check the list, and if you have a concern, correction, or last-minute activity, drop it off below! We offer a 48-hour grace period for late ACs, but once processed, drops are final.
As a reminder, all characters who were not accepted to the game this month are expected to respond.
-Anakin Skywalker
-Ellie
-Scott Summers
-W'elta Tia
Patch Notes
From time to time we come across things to change about the game that aren't major issues, but still make for quality of life improvements to the game. Since we're a bunch of gamer nerds, we joked that they essentially function as patch notes...and then the joke became real! Here's what we have for this month:
- AC Update: Going forward, players who submit activity after the listed deadline (whether or not the warning list is up yet) will be unable to request a bonus reward. This is being implemented as both a time-saver on your mods' side and an incentive to get activity in early. While not in effect for this current round of activity, it will apply to the upcoming AC posted at the start of November.
- Page Updates - Resurge/Refresh, Navigation: Your modteam appreciates your patience as we catch up to the arc change.. and now has two more pages to throw your way! While a few links on the Navigation are still listed as WIP, the menu itself should be fully functional at this point. The Resurge/Refresh page, on the other hand, is deliberately sparse on detail.
Avagi has neither the technology nor the helpful technicians who previously resurrected the dead, and ICly, characters are entirely unaware of how—or if—they might return. OOCly, we can reassure you (yes, they will), and the mechanics of the page itself work similarly for both death requests and canon updates. However, the method by which a character resurges, along with some consequences thereof, will be discovered through their first implementation. - Applications and New Arrivals: Those checking out our updated calendar will notice that despite applications closing on the 31st as usual, acceptances are not being sent out the day after. Due to an increase in last-minute apps and the time generally required to review, process, and deal with revisions, the modteam is switching to an acceptance window. Acceptances will now go out en masse by the 3rd of each new month... but may show up sooner if the work gets done early.
Plot Update: TABs(?)
In Arc III's arrival log, we mentioned that the network was undergoing difficulties, and suggested the more technology-inclined characters address the problem ICly. As demonstrated by the recent plot post, our playerbase has more than risen to the challenge.
One result of this plotting frenzy is simple: between modifications to the network transmitter and adaptation of the comms devices on hand, the network will be fully functional on October 15. However, the previous TAB system is ill-equipped to handle the transition. As discovered during the fight against the Savrii, it also possesses several hardwired backdoors and glaring flaws in data security.
Arc I had the Moira Interpersonal Devices (MIDs). Arc II used the Thisavrou Audiovisual Badges (TABs). In Arc III, technically minded characters are creating the system for mass use—and consequently, we're asking the players of these characters to call some of the shots.
Restoring the network will involve hybridizing technology to create a new brand of communicator. We encourage all interested players to discuss the project on the plot post linked above, and comment on this post with their solutions. Your mods will be compiling the information presented here to create a new page for these communicators. A few questions to consider might include:
- What do we call it?: Give your project a name!
- What do they look like?: Size, shape, color? Flip phone, tablet, bracelet, ID? Hardware people, have fun.
- How are they distributed?: Due to the game's nature as, well, an RP game, it will be assumed that a stockpile of extra devices is created and available where newcomers can receive them. However, if your character or characters want to involve themselves personally or organize an IC system for distribution, they're more than welcome to do so!
- Anon or No Anon?: With the biosignature technology on-hand, it wouldn't be too difficult to ensure that individuals using the network can only do so as themselves. That said, maybe your technicians respect the value of anonymity. Or maybe they want to preserve enough backdoors that they can use a fake ID themselves. Discuss!
To be clear: all of the above are optional discussion questions. Players are not obligated to decide them, and the modteam can make up a "consensus" to have been ICly worked out if it proves necessary. That said, it's your group, and we'd like to give the plotting players a chance to steer this one if they have interest. Let us know what you're up to!
Plot Update: Locations
In addition to the network plotting, we've had a few players come to us with notes that their characters would be interested in making improvements to a certain area of Avagi. In particular, the Greenery is under renovations by Lavellan and his friends, and Medbay is being worked on by Adrien. This kind of modification is both welcome and encouraged. While no outside force exists to assign jobs on Avagi, characters are welcome to take that role for themselves, and take over the management of different spaces to whatever degree they can maintain it.
To accommodate for this, we'd like to offer a way to record your characters' progress. If players submit summaries of their characters' efforts under the header below, your modteam will do our best to take the information into account. This may involve notes in upcoming plot, minor edits to the location page, or the creation of specific sub-pages linked off the main one. If you have interest in the latter, please offer as much information as you can. Also keep in mind that while some information can be player-editable (say, through a linked spreadsheet), the page itself does need to be a mod creation that would sustain itself should any one player drop.
While leadership and coordination will make a difference, individual efforts are also welcome. If your character has something they would like to contribute to a space independent of what others might be organizing, feel free to drop off a note about that as well!
Thanks so much for your interest, patience, and excitement! Take a look at the calendar, and drop a note below if you have questions.
no subject
If you could supply us with a 1-2 paragraph writeup about Charles' classroom, we would be glad to incorporate it into the post. Please note that editing is likely, and that resources are currently scarce. An image for the classroom will also be included in the OOC post; if you have any preferences, feel free to drop off links.
no subject
no subject
no subject