HMD Post

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How's My Driving? This is a strictly optional HMD post. This may seem wordy, but it's good to set a positive standard and a healthy atmosphere from the beginning. It will always be encouraged for players to: Ask questions about how a character is played... A player might have good reasons for making the choices they make. There might be aspects of the canon that you're unfamiliar with or game events that made them deviate from the path that they would usually take. There could be circumstances that would make a character make different decisions. They might not know how a real job would work because they're not a professional paleobotanist or their canon has them do a job a different way. Please give them a chance to explain or at least better consider where there might be a problem. Keep any OOC issues out of concrit... This is strictly about in game activity. That's it. OOC discomfort should be discussed between players or with mods, not as a reflection of one's ability to play their character. Also don't bring up OOC issues as part of your concerns except mentioning real life might be affecting availability. Make sure the crit is constructive and not destructive... Concrit can be very destructive, and can be used to discourage a player from playing altogether. That's not something we want. But we want players to feel comfortable enough with communicating with each other that they can take crit (and also have that crit countered). Destructive Examples: "I've been thinking about how you play Dr. Butterball and he's nothing like this in canon. In fact, when you [LINK HERE] had him turn Sue into a billy goat that went against everything he believes in. And [LINK HERE] he tells Joe all about his master plan when he would normally never do that. Then you went [LINK HERE] and had him open a store across from my character's store and they sold the exact same thing, and that's completely OOC. What gives? You're giving our cast a bad name." "Your character was a jerk to mine. Your character would never ever have been a jerk to mine in canon so I'm very disappointed in you as a player. I was looking forward to that CR and you let me down." Constructive Examples: "I was wondering about a few things Dr. Butterball did. Like turning Sue into a billy goat and revealing his master plan to Joe. I can get you links if you need them. I was a little surprised because I'm familiar with the canon and didn't expect that. Did something happen in game or did I miss a scene?" "I'm having a lot of trouble working around our current CR. I was wondering if we could change its direction or have them ignore each other because the threads aren't what I want to do." Remember we're all in this together... We're not going to ban anyone for not listening to an HMD or disagreeing with you. We will strike against you if you break rules but this is just a safe place for people to work out kinks and make story and interaction move more smoothly. Please give each character their own comment. Form: <b>Character:</b> Character Name | <user name="username"> <b>Concerns:</b> <b>Contact:</b> <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #a36f34;" href="URL">Contact Information</a> (You can find your contact information on the Taken Character's page) Game Related! Additionally, we would like your opinions on these issues: Activity Check We're considering changing the AC from 24 comments to two AC samples. An AC sample would be a post, a log, or a thread with ten comments from your character. We want to give people the ability to backtag during slow periods of time, but also keep up activity. Adding a wanted characters section to the game ads This is pretty common practice, but there's also the option of letting players comment to the advertisment itself with wanted characters. So we're checking here to see what you would prefer. Navigation