RE: Things like cooperation and laws. I think a huge part of the problem is that there are far too many players in this game who are far too content to sit back and let other people do the work and complain when things don't go how they want. I mean, these are the same issues that have been brought up time and time again and it's still chiefly the same handful of people doing anything about it.
I'm. Not entirely sure how to change this outside of urging players and characters to offer their input every time a post goes up, but it's an attitude that really does need to change if we're to make any progress on this.
Case in point; a people saying we should leave the laws to the lawyers. That's really just not a viable option due to the diverse nature of Discedo. We have three? Lawyers from two different countries on modern Earth (... And Jackie.) And a few hundred characters from various time periods/universes/planets. They cannot feasibly come up with a system on their own to accommodate everyone. The problem is, however, almost every time I've seen a post - both IC and OOC - go up asking for opinions, especially when it comes to laws and the like, there's a huge lack of participation and then I see several of the people who offered no input complain that they never agreed to these things/that it's useless/etc. etc.
So, yeah. There's that.
I like the idea of a police/lawyers/judicial type peoples comm that'd be linked in the profile (and accepted info?) for quick and easy access/location for players and to keep track of what's actually happening. I know in the past there's been a lot of problems with a lack of communication and assumptions made because of it. When I had police characters, it wasn't unusual to get IMs like, "isn't Raiden handling this," or "did King know ___ was happening?" About stuff I'd never heard about or that I was under the impression was in in someone else's hands.
I've no idea how well that may work, since the posts in playmyace tended to just get completely forgotten about and fall by the wayside and when a character who had posted something got dropped, it often takes a while for someone else to repost, but maybe with a dedicated community, that would be less likely to happen?
In that vein, it may be better to have a police journal instead of a community so you could have stickied posts with member lists and the like. Though that'd require putting a lot of trust in people to give them the password and limit player access... so. Maybe not.
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I'm. Not entirely sure how to change this outside of urging players and characters to offer their input every time a post goes up, but it's an attitude that really does need to change if we're to make any progress on this.
Case in point; a people saying we should leave the laws to the lawyers. That's really just not a viable option due to the diverse nature of Discedo. We have three? Lawyers from two different countries on modern Earth (... And Jackie.) And a few hundred characters from various time periods/universes/planets. They cannot feasibly come up with a system on their own to accommodate everyone. The problem is, however, almost every time I've seen a post - both IC and OOC - go up asking for opinions, especially when it comes to laws and the like, there's a huge lack of participation and then I see several of the people who offered no input complain that they never agreed to these things/that it's useless/etc. etc.
So, yeah. There's that.
I like the idea of a police/lawyers/judicial type peoples comm that'd be linked in the profile (and accepted info?) for quick and easy access/location for players and to keep track of what's actually happening. I know in the past there's been a lot of problems with a lack of communication and assumptions made because of it. When I had police characters, it wasn't unusual to get IMs like, "isn't Raiden handling this," or "did King know ___ was happening?" About stuff I'd never heard about or that I was under the impression was in in someone else's hands.
I've no idea how well that may work, since the posts in
In that vein, it may be better to have a police journal instead of a community so you could have stickied posts with member lists and the like. Though that'd require putting a lot of trust in people to give them the password and limit player access... so. Maybe not.
/scuttles off now