Police Force

[coniurati]

Because apparently it's Mod Spam Night!

Many of you may have noticed a scarcity of the Police Force as of late, and there's a reason for this! Basically, we've had an attrition of members, a loss of a leader, and a loss of interest from the community in general.

Now, the Police Force in kind of a big deal, because without it, we've got nothing left but vigilante justice and a jail that can't be kept up. All of our lovely, cherished villainous creatures out there could simply run amok! And we've got a lot of law & justice types out there that wouldn't be too keen on that. But at the same time, without enough of the playerbase behind it, it simply can't be upheld.

SO

We'd like to talk to you guys about it.

We're of the opinion that the Police Force is something that's simply inevitable, as there's always going to be a character (or more likely, several characters) that are going to notice the lack thereof and try to make something of the sort to fill the gap. But it's kind of obvious that the system we have going now isn't working as well as it should. Some of the main concerns are:

- Low Membership. This is the biggest problem. A lot of characters that were on the Force have just plain left Discedo, and others have simply quit. In order for it to function properly, it needs more members. How do you propose we solve this?

- Leadership. Currently, the Force doesn't have a leader. We've already figured out that it needs something of the sort, so that's a moot point. So it needs a new one! Or more ideally, more than one new one. This would be in case of one character leaving, going on hiatus, etc, the Force wouldn't be stuck without.

- Laws. the laws that have already been established need to be re-hashed, or re-instated at the very least. There are many characters and even players that don't know them at all, and therefore they could be broken pretty easily. who would like to do this? Who would be in charge?

- Organization. Some sort of page needs to be made, so all of this information can be easily accessed by everyone. Us mods are willing to help on this one of course, but we're going to need all of the information to put on it first!

- Cooperation. We're looking at you, Discedo badguys. Up to no good? Well, you're going to have to let the Police Force know, OOCly of course. It doesn't mean you'll have to be caught right away of course, but our boys in blue are gonna have to be on the up and up if they're gonna do their jobs properly!

And that's it for our main concerns. Note, however, we're not saying that the Force absolutely has to stay. If these things can't be ironed out, disbandment is certainly an option.

Thanks everyone for your time and patience! It's gonna be tough, so we really appreciate it.

Comments

[ration.livejournal.com]

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.

/scuttles off now

[momentarily.livejournal.com]

I like and agree with this.

[loyal-credo.livejournal.com]

You speak great words O=

I do really like the police journal/community idea... only because it'd be easier to keep posts organized as you wouldn't be shifting through a crap load of other stuff not concerning it. But yeah, trust and stuff.

Though I do also agree about the lawyers. I mean as say let them handle it cause ffffff I have no idea about laws and stuff... so @__@ but I guess... maybe like a meeting with interested characters about suggesting laws and getting their views on that sort of thing to incorporate into the laws that the lawyers can um... consider? FFFF I guess?

[ration.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, thank you ♥

I think that's a good idea! I mean - at least ICly - it's going to be them who take these things away, figure out what's doable and what makes sense and do the formal writeups, but without the input of other characters, what they'll come up with is a very... I don't think ethnocentric is the right word, but there won't be much perspective? Where things are concerned. Even if the muns can consider a lot of different issues, it wouldn't be possible for most characters because they're not in the heads of 2/3/4/whatever different characters at a time.

So, er. Yeah. I like the idea of an open forum where characters can air their grievances and offer suggestions and get feedback an the like. Say something monthly, just to make sure things are constantly in development and everyone knows it, too. I think having a recurring thing like that would mean that new characters can offer their ideas and such instead of having to sit and be told, "this is how it is for now :|" for however long.

[medanmyboy.livejournal.com]

hoooooonestly yes that's pretty much it. fff.

ALSO JACKIE IS AN AWESOME LAWYER

ALSO SIMONE DO YOU WANT IN ON HELPING US LEAD THE FORCE BECAUSE YOU ARE SO AWESOME

[ration.livejournal.com]

Jackie is my favourite lawyer c: *puts him in a suit*

UM. OKAY. l-lol I didn't want to offer myself up since I keep dropping my force characters BUT IF YOU WANT ME, I'M GAME.