coniurati: (Jasper-mod)
conspirators. ([personal profile] coniurati) wrote in [community profile] discedo_ooc2008-05-31 07:41 pm
Entry tags:

+ a billion things

HI GUYS. This post covers A LOT of things, so please please please read it all.

Firstly: Supplies. This is just a reminder, not a telling off: even though things are a little easier for characters now, supplies are still scarce within the city. The scientists replenish supplies slowly, (though this is NOT IC knowledge) but they can only do so much. They aren't living it up in a huge palace while everyone else suffers. Characters are living a lot more comfortably than they were six months ago, but there's still barely enough to get by.

Secondly: There are two things about chips we're covering. One, we're making a rule: your character can't have their chip removed until you've been in the city for two weeks. Why? Because we feel that it's become a little too easy, honestly. You can still put in your chip removal request in the mod post, but we won't accept it until your character has been here for two weeks. Two: Newcomers from now on will find that their initial chip is in a different place. The scientists are tired of being pwned, so they're moving them. The new FIRST LOCATION will be announced along with the event, but the new second and third and so on will be hidden until we feel it important to reveal it.

Thirdly: We've been getting complaints about an 'evil filter'. It should be common sense, but you can't really filter posts to 'evil' people. People could lie, they could be on both sides, and you run the risk of a character you don't want reading it hacking into it. Please take care when filtering things to people!

Fourthly: We're making a few small changes to the application, and these will come into effect on Sunday. They're nothing major, so don't panic! You won't be forced to write a whole lot more, but we find that we're asking for additional first person samples a lot, so we're just adding on a little bit more. It'll save effort in the long run!

Fifthly and lastly: Guys, if there have been any IC developments in Discedo (such as running water, power, etc) either comment in the correct post on [livejournal.com profile] coniurati or email one of the mods or comment here or something! We try and keep up with everything, but we can't compile complete lists on our own, and we really need everyone's help.

Okay no I lied: event announcement soon, watch out for it!

Questions, comments, etc, don't be afraid to tell us.

[identity profile] invisible-ai.livejournal.com 2008-05-31 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually, I'm not sure if this applies to any of the comments and changes noted on this post in particular, but I would like to make a suggestion. Personally, I have been having some trouble keeping track of all of the characters who have gone on hiatus. In fact, a friend of mind made the mistake of relying on a character for something without the foreknowledge that she was on hiatus. Quite troublesome. Eventually, that smoothed over, but I think it sort of brought things to my attention.

For me, I know that I have a hard time keeping track of who goes on and off their time off, and end up paying more attention to the active entries than backtracking to the OOC com notices. I'm shameless, I know. Is there something we can do to sort this out a little better?

[identity profile] ex-enables28.livejournal.com 2008-05-31 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
The only way to do that would be to have a post in [livejournal.com profile] coniurati for hiatuses, and in my past experience they don't work entirely well if they aren't introduced from the start. We could give it a go, though, since it's actually incredibly frustrating for US to have to use the community to go back and find who's on hiatus for ACs, especially since some people go on 'indefinite hiatuses' and never come back.

[identity profile] sheathed.livejournal.com 2008-05-31 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
i'd be all for trying a hiatus post too. it could definitely be very helpful :D and hey, if it doesn't work it doesn't work rite?

[identity profile] totalbeginner.livejournal.com 2008-05-31 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Awright! /o/ I'll discuss it with the other mods, and give it a shot.