More Mod Stuff... and a Poll!

[whiteas]

Hey guys, me here! There's a reason I'm on Weiss's account instead of the mod account and that has everything to do with it being a paid account so I can put a poll in. But first and foremost, I'd like to introduce Tamzin as a co-mod. She's been helping me with getting things updated and is making great codes and graphics for us so everything looks shiny, new, and fabulous. We may be accepting applications for one more co-moderator roll at a later point, but she's been doing enough work that she definitely earned the title. If this is something you might be interested in, start thinking about it now. There will be a more specific job description of the duties and expectations of the position and a brief application in the future.

You'll start seeing some of those changes in the upcoming days, along with the elimination of the Application and Reserves pages that were sort of just hanging out and the addition of a "How to Get Started" page that will have brief instructions for new characters and players. Since we don't have applications here like a number of games, there's no little blurb to help everyone figure out what step two is after commenting the taken list, so that's basically what the page is going to be. A helpful little instruction guide!

The last thing would be the part that the poll is about. It's a change to one of the rules that I think is reasonable, but I wanted to check with all of you first because while it is slight, it may have an affect on how some people play. As I can't possibly stalk every thread in the game, I'm not sure how much it will matter, but that's why I wanted to check with everyone first!

Current Rule: Once an archway is opened, it stays open no matter what. The price was paid, that's that.

Proposed Rule: As long as the price was once paid, the archway will remain open as long as there is someone from the world still present in the game. If it is not, the archway will disappear until someone from the canon returns to the game. It will reopen upon re-establishing a connection to that world.
*Real-world places like modern Tokyo, Paris, etc. will stay unless they are a very specific version of it (Like Tokyo from the year 5031 opened by a sci-fi character, for example) as there are usually multiple characters who would normally have access to cities like that in their world.

Why this change? If there is no one from the world in the game, then we don't know exactly what information is there without extensive research and it also seems a little odd to have characters going into worlds that we don't have ready access information about and it can be awkward for people coming in to see "Hey there's no one playing the Ice King right now so why.. is his palace there...?" The new proposed rule will also make it easier to keep track of the world so that it doesn't get out of hand, but still make it so that characters coming in do not have to pay a repeated price. From an IC standpoint, it would simply be that Genessia needs a connection to the world to establish a subarchway.

Poll #16323 Subarchway Rule Update

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 16

View Respondents

Would you be alright with this update to the game?

View Answers

Yes- It makes sense and sounds good!
16 (100.0%)

No- It sucks and here's why (comment the post to make your case!)
0 (0.0%)

The poll will be open until Monday, January 12th at 11:59PM EST. Please make sure to get your vote in before then! If you have any questions, ask them here. Thank you!

Comments

Questions

[makelove]

Have a question? Reply to this comment to get an answer ASAP!

[weavemyownfate]

The idea seems fine to me but I want to ask something- Because of Satsuki and Wily's CR, she's been using his robots for construction and evening security. I am not super sure whether they were newly built or brought from Wily Tower but in the assumption they originated from the Tower, what would happen to these robots under the new ruling?

[makelove]

Any items that were brought over before the archway closed would be completely keepable, though she may need to find a new place to store them!

[weavemyownfate]

.. This makes my vote so shallow. I should have voted first then asked. XD

[makelove]

Fff. That's alright. You can always change votes too if you change your mind, provided it's before the poll close date. And there's no reason you should be required to vote before you ask your question! Questions are good and we'd rather have everyone on the same page than confusion abound!

Re: Questions

[koishi_komeiji]

If I may suggest a slight change/suggestion to the idea. Archways will not close if someone was actively using them when the owner of the archway left. This way if someone else was living in a sub archway they're not forced out of it.

There's no point in having completely inactive archways but archways that are inhabited/in use by someone other than the person the archway is connected to can make for some really REALLY interesting RP.

[plungeintofire]

Thank you for your thoughts!

I do have a few concerns with this idea, though I do think that you are right that it would be interesting from time to time.

1. With keeping subarchways open when there is not a character from the series present, it would be incredibly difficult for moderators to keep track of the locations of every single character hanging out and/or using in subarchways. There are a lot of characters in the game and it's hard to keep track of all of their individual activities.

2. The biggest problem with keeping the subarchways open for another character when someone from the canon is absent from the game is that if someone wanted to join with a character from the series and they do not want to have to deal with a plot in which they have to reclaim their homeland from some strangers or other similar concepts, it could be a deterrent from new characters joining us. If it's a plot brought up during their time at the game, that's great, more power to everyone involved and have fun. Forcing players to take on plots without their prior consent, knowledge, and interest upon arrival could present problems for new players and we want Genessia to be a place for anyone to be able to join and have fun!

Thank you for your input though, and I hope that this isn't too much of a deterrent for you!

[koishi_komeiji]

Maybe a timed collapse then? This will give any existing users time to set up something new.

[plungeintofire]

Sorry about the delay getting back to you on this, we were trying to figure out how to go about this! We're going to have an event that will mark the closing of current ones so that characters will have a couple of days ICly to make other arrangements. More details will be coming soon!

Thanks for bringing up the idea of a timed collapse, it helped greatly in making this decision!

[koishi_komeiji]

You're very welcome! :D