Below is a list of items we're considering changing based on player input. Rather than being limited to selecting just one, we're setting this up so you can check boxes to indicate which ones you're okay with. Click as many or as few as you like, and feel free to leave comments below if there's a particular subject you feel strongly about, or if you have other suggestions.

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Attention everyone! It's time for the election poll for the City Guardian new term (July-December 2019). Here are the rules for voting in the poll:

1. All votes should be who YOU would vote for. Use only one journal for this, not multiple character journals. Voting is done OOCly by player, not characters!
2. Voting results will only be seen by me, so please vote honestly for which character you'd like to see in that position.
3. As far as IC voting goes, characters are still voting technically -- the voting booths include NPC voting as well as pendant-holders, so if a character would ICly be unlikely to win but OOCly would be the most interesting or fun to see with such a job (such as a villain character), victory can be assumed as due to things like cheating, a very strongly devoted public interest group, brainwashing some of the populace to vote a certain way, etc.

If you have any questions, reply to this post and a mod will get back to you as soon as possible. Otherwise, click on the cut to vote. The poll will close at 11:59pm PST on June 22nd. The official IC announcement will be made on the 23rd.
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Attention everyone! It's time for the election poll for the City Guardian new term (January 2018-June 2018). Here are the rules for voting in the poll:

1. While the instructions here are OOC and the post is in the OOC comm, each vote should be considered a vote cast by your character, not you the player. City Guardian candidates are permitted to vote and may vote for themselves.
2. You cannot use any information that your character does not know in the game to influence the vote. The first day of voting, ICly, every character will receive a copy of a candidate profiles newsletter. Additionally, the debates were on as live television (not a network post) with open attendance if your character wanted to go in person. Characters can also use posts the characters made on the network and newspaper articles at any time to inform their decision.
3. Each character gets one vote for each city, not just the city they reside in.
4. Voting is via secret ballot ICly through a character's device. Characters will have submitted their vote via a notification that popped up on their devices that it was time to vote. Because the voting is done through the devices which check both DNA and memory sets to even work (read the FAQ if you don't know what this is about), no hacking.
5. Your character is not required to vote, but for the duration of the polling period they will have notifications basically 'harassing' them to vote every 5 minutes. It's far worse than a Windows update restart notification.
6. Any characters who have not shown activity during the election period beyond declaring that they are running or have dropped have been removed from the poll.


If you have any questions, reply to this post and a mod will get back to you as soon as possible. Otherwise, click on the cut to vote.

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Hi everyone! Quick update to the Player Contact list and an interest poll. The player contact list has had email addresses removed for security reasons. Email addresses will no longer be provided on the player contact list unless you choose to add it yourself under the "Other" category.

AIM and Discord have been given their own separate categories given that they're the most popularly provided option that was previously in "Other" so it should be easier to see them now.

That said, you're probably like "Well you already did everything already, what the hell are you going to poll us for?" Well, that has to do with Discord.

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Hello everyone! As you may know, a number of new features were added to this City Guardian election. We'd like to get a little bit of feedback on these to see if they helped you as players to make decisions more easily and if you have any more suggestions that we may be able to improve upon in the future.

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Thank you so much and please feel free to let us know if you have any questions, as always.

Additionally, we would like to make note of a recent change to Genessia's rules. It is not anything new or unusual, it is just stated outright due to multiple incidences over the past year. The following passage has been added right at the top:

Respect. Genessia as a game is intended to be a fun place for people to play. It is not intended as a place for people to feel disrespected, oppressed, or otherwise discriminated against. Please treat all players with respect and please conduct yourself respectfully toward all individuals and groups. Usage of any derogatory language or behavior will result in a warning with an explanation of the behavior and why it's unacceptable. (We do understand that some people just haven't realized that something is offensive on occasion.) A secondary offense will result in removal from the game.

As usual, if you notice a recent rule violation and would like to report it to the moderators, feel free to send us a private message on the moderator account (plungeintofire) including evidence of the incident in question and we will investigate ASAP. We want Genessia to be safe for everyone but we can't do it alone.

Attention everyone! It's time for the election poll for the City Guardian new term (July-December 2017). Here are the rules for voting in the poll:

1. While the instructions here are OOC and the post is in the OOC comm, each vote should be considered a vote cast by your character, not you the player. City Guardian candidates are permitted to vote and may vote for themselves.
2. You cannot use any information that your character does not know in the game to influence the vote. The first day of voting, ICly, every character will receive a copy of a candidate profiles newsletter. Additionally, the debates were on as live television (not a network post) with open attendance if your character wanted to go in person. Characters can also use posts the characters made on the network and newspaper articles at any time to inform their decision.
3. Each character gets one vote for each city, not just the city they reside in.
4. Voting is via secret ballot ICly through a character's device. Characters will have submitted their vote via a notification that popped up on their devices that it was time to vote. Because the voting is done through the devices which check both DNA and memory sets to even work (read the FAQ if you don't know what this is about), no hacking.
5. Your character is not required to vote, but for the duration of the polling period they will have notifications basically 'harassing' them to vote every 5 minutes. It's far worse than a Windows update restart notification.
6. Any characters who have not shown activity during the election period beyond declaring that they are running or have dropped have been removed from the poll.


If you have any questions, reply to this post and a mod will get back to you as soon as possible. Otherwise, click on the cut to vote.

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Hello everyone! Tay-mod here on a character account because it's paid and that means I can make polls with it.

We've had a few things brought up to us during the course of this last City Guardian election season. There are a few decisions that the moderators have decided to set in motion going forward as well as a few issues we'd like to see what the majority of the community has to say about.

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Attention everyone! It's time for the election poll for the City Guardian new term (January-June 2017). Here are the rules for voting in the poll:

1. All votes should be who your character would vote for, not who you would vote for.
2. You cannot use any information that your character does not know in the game to influence the vote.
3. Each character gets one vote for each city. While the instructions here are OOC and the post is in the OOC comm, each vote should be considered an IC vote. City Guardian candidates are permitted to vote and may vote for themselves.
4. Voting is via secret ballot ICly and characters will have submitted their vote via a notification that popped up on their devices that it was time to vote. No one will know who a character voted for unless they want to share.
5. Your character is not required to vote, but for the entire voting period they will have notifications basically 'harassing' them to vote every 5 minutes. It's far worse than a Windows update restart notification.

If you have any questions, reply to this post and a mod will get back to you as soon as possible. Otherwise, click on the cut to vote. The poll will close at 11:59pm PST on December 24th. The official IC announcement will be made on the 25th.

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Attention everyone! It's time for the election poll for the City Guardian new term (July-December 2015). Here are the rules for voting in the poll:

1. All votes should be who your character would vote for, not who you would vote for.
2. You cannot use any information that your character does not know in the game to influence the vote.
3. Each character gets one vote for each city. While the instructions here are OOC and the post is in the OOC comm, each vote should be considered an IC vote. City Guardian candidates are permitted to vote and may vote for themselves.
4. Voting is via secret ballot ICly and characters will have submitted their vote via a notification that popped up on their devices that it was time to vote.
5. Your character is not required to vote, but for the next 24 hours they will have notifications basically 'harassing' them to vote every 5 minutes. It's far worse than a Windows update restart notification.

If you have any questions, reply to this post and a mod will get back to you as soon as possible. Otherwise, click on the ( cut to vote )

Polls will close at 11:59pm PST on Wednesday, June 17th, 2015 so make sure that all votes are submitted by that time. Thank you!

Hey everyone! The mods have been thinking and we were trying to figure out how to make this game more fun for everyone with a couple of simple policy adjustments to two things. As you might've guessed by the fact that I'm not posting this from the mod journal, we won't change anything without talking to you guys first, so go ahead and peek down in this cut for some information and a poll!

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THE POLL WILL CLOSE APRIL 10TH, 2015 AT 11:59PM EST. Please submit your votes in by then. If you have any questions, feel free to reply to this post and we'll get back to you ASAP. Remember: any changes are made to try to make the player experience better and more fun overall! We just want you guys to be happy, so vote for what you want most! Enjoy your weekend and, if you celebrate it, have a good Easter and World Health Day (that's the 7th)!

-Genessia Moderators

P.S. Look forward to more information about what happens when the Bay returns to its normal spot sometime in the next couple of days! Until then, don't forget to check in and enjoy the event!

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.

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!

This poll comes a little earlier in the month, because why not. We've got two polls for people to answer! The first concerns the character cap, as I've had two players (who are not me, I swear) approach me about it. To me, eight characters is a LOT, especially when you should be active with all of them before taking on more! But part of the thing I wanted to do with Genessia was allow people to get in and play, without having to worry about activity checks and counting comments. After all, if someone isn't active with a character, someone else can come along and apply for them, no big deal. It's happened a few times already!

However, this is my personal concern: if the character limit is raised or eliminated, people have a tendency to play nothing but reactionary protagonists, and that can quickly choke a game by making it super slice-of-life, and promoting dependency on the mods alone to provide any sort of conflict. I can tell you right now I would not be able to keep up conflict plots and events for a big swarm of good guys without getting burned out very quickly!

As such, one of the options (the one I'm heavily favoring for that matter) is that if you want to play more than eight characters, at least 25% of them should be active antagonists providing conflict for the masses. Genessia's setting does favor villains, especially with characters like Moriarty wanting to lend a hand to give bad guys access to home worlds and henchmen. The mods are also very willing to work with you if your antagonizer needs some help setting up plots and situations.

Nonetheless, this is a game I want to share with my friends (even though ruling with an iron fist is a heap of fun), so please cast your vote as to what you'd prefer.

The second poll question concerns June's event. Yes, yes, May's event is still in full swing, and this may be premature, but you've got a lazy mod who wanted to post all the polls at once. S'how it goes.

Notice that there are no options for 'do not care'. If you don't care, don't vote! That's totally fine!

Questions and comments? Do it!

Time for some game events! You have until April 28th to place your vote. What should the next game event involve? Feel free to reference the plot suggestions page for more details on the below events (which were chosen randomly), and make your pick. Only one vote per player, so don't use multiple characters to make your vote.

And don't worry, if an event isn't picked, it just goes back into the pool for a later date!

Hey guys! January is fast approaching, and there are a couple of events coming up! We already have several player events being run as well, so here's a link to their respective plotting pages just in case you missed them:

* Dean Winchester's hunt for Moriarty
* M. Bison assaults Genessia, and plans to kidnap/brainwash Yang Xiao Long
* The rise and fall of Captain Hammer

Secondly, here's a head's up that there will be a metaplot event taking place around the middle of the month. We're not telling what it is, because we're obnoxious like that.

Finally, for an additional monthly event outside of player plots and metaplot, here's a poll so you can choose what happens next. We selected five ideas at random from our not-so-secret list, mostly contributed by Yasmine who is amazing. Poll runs through December 31st. It's short, but EH! The event will likely run early in the month, as one of the mods will be unavailble at the end of the month for close to two weeks.

1. Master/Slave - get your mind out of the gutter, you kinky bastard. >3 One of the randomly put together has to do as the other says. Can be unhappy about it, but will be unable to refuse. The other is the 'master'. They can abuse their power or not.... once they realise what's going on. There's no indication prior to the event to tell the muses who will be obeying who, just to add to their confusion. (and I don't mean 'Let's not tell the muns 8D', just to clear that up. Just that there'll be no IC announcement.)
2. Projection - An object of your subconscious joins you out in the real world. Have fun with that.
3. Snowman Building Contest - Charm event! Who can build the best snowman? The most creative? The best submissions will win a nice prize.
4. Age Shift - Kids are adults, adults are kids, grandparents like Harry are young and spry.
5. Fairy Tale Takeover - Characters either become fairy tale creatures, or assume the roles of famous fairy tale characters. Stay out of mushroom rings!

Remember that the poll closes on New Year's Eve, so submit your vote before then. Only one vote per player, not per character.

As a final note, the new "App This Please" is up, so if you see anyone there you'd like to invite, feel free!