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[coniurati]

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 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.

Comments

[quirky-sitar.livejournal.com]

Thumbs up n' understood on the policy changes! (Man, LJ, its a day for policy, huh?)


yaaaaaay, event!

[crabbygenius.livejournal.com]

Haha, Evil filter... I admit, though, I would totally have played with that. "Chaotic neutral filter" for the win. ♥

First person samples are hard to show a person's character through when they all have the same "omg i'm not in kansas anymore" idea. Maybe a recommended prompt or something would help?

[the-blueblur.livejournal.com]

Read it all-- Thank you!

The chip thing is getting a bit easy, I did see that.. Interested in seeing where the new place is. |)

I couldn't help but giggle at the 'evil filter'... I watched waaaay too much Neuro last night.

[embracethewaves.livejournal.com]

bwah THANK YOU +_+ the chip thing was getting especially D: with me. i mean, come on, part of the fun is figuring out what the heck's going on!

the filter thing was kind of weird too...struck me as a bit godmodish because some evil characters don't make themselves KNOWN as evil and the like. also again with letting people figure things out >__> (also players might not know whether their characters will be in the filter, as every character in the game cannot feasibly know every evil/good/whatev character; at least put their names on the filter =\)

in all, THX GUYS ♥

[too-green-eyes.livejournal.com]

I just sorta WTF'd about the filter, honestly. I mean, I recently put "all established nasties" as a blockade on a filter on Razer's journal, but that's just 'cause I don't want to list out all the names. It's not all the nasty people, it's all the nasty people Razer is ICly aware of. :| Palm pilots do not discern moral alignment, unfortunately.

...Question, though. What's this about the Discedo Lake being saltwater? I can't remember hearing anything about it anywhere, and now I'm confused. o_O

[playwitchu]

Yeah, I do admit that it is easy to figure out where the chip is and finding someone to remove it is even easier. I know for a fact someone lets say, Soren, he learned about it first day here, where it was and who to go in order to get it removed. Of course his IC reaction would be to want to get it out out once.

I giggled at the 'evil filter' but at the same time was confused. Because if people could do something like that, then one day a character will get the bright idea to make a filter of that, demand all of the 'good' people to respond to it and there you go! All of the evil characters will be exposed like Sai who has been hiding the fact that he is indeed one of those evil people.

Whoohoo! I can't wait to see the changes to the app! Also, dang... I was pretty long-winded there wasn't I? o_oa

[ankokutenshi.livejournal.com]

Okay, I understand.

Sorry about that.

[invisible-ai.livejournal.com]

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?

[ultimatepower.livejournal.com]

XD Sorry about the filter thing. DArk Angel used it and it didn't seem to be a problem, so I sort of decided to roll with it? I do like Razer's thing better though. Although it was less roflworthy than the moral alignment comment of VK's. XD