capeandcowlooc

Hey gang. As promised, here is the discussion post that will serve, in lieu of an HMD this month, as a place for players (or prospective players, or former players) to offer their opinions, feedback, critiques, and suggestions about the idea for a game reboot or, if not that, an endgame after the New Year. Please read this whole post. We understand this is a busy time and all of us will be monitoring this post for as long as it's active, but we ask that players are patient with us in turn when it comes to response time. We'll try our hardest not to keep anyone waiting.

Anonymous has not been enabled for this post, as we would like to heavily encourage players to chime in with their names for a truly honest discourse. It's easier for us as mods -- but also for fellow players -- to know when it's a player speaking before engaging in a discussion with them, and we feel at this point it's more productive to be as straightforward as possible. In this sort of discussion, unlike with ordinary HMDs, identity does have weight and it is our players we are soliciting for discussion. However, if you are uncomfortable leaving feedback logged in we are not currently disallowing the use of sock accounts.

(As an additional reminder, each/all of the mods can also be contacted anon-enabled and IP-disabled outside of this post.)

Here's how it works: In the post below, several subjects that have been brought to us already as concerns will be listed and addressed to the best of our current ability, leaving opportunity for player feedback. As big a change as this is, we want to make sure the majority of the playerbase is on board with the same thing before we make any decisions one way or the other. As excited as we are about our reboot ideas, if ultimately they won't amount to much due to either disinterest, preference toward an endgame, or whatever else, we'd rather expend our efforts toward ending the game on a good note than developing a wholly new setting that won't get used. We will include, as well, a very brief blurb about the setting in case having an idea about our ideas makes any difference.

Each of us moderators will have a thread in this post where people can direct specific concerns of any kind to any one of us, and as mentioned above we also have our individual HMDs for use if it's more comfortable. The rest of post itself should serve as an open discussion not just to (with) us, but with your fellow players as well. We encourage people offering feedback and suggestions (or simply reading) to also go around and respond to others that are left so that whatever comes from this post can be, at least, a solid consensus.

Based on what discussion unfolds here, following this post -- after about a week -- we will post a poll, locked to the community, for players to finally register their vote in what happens. The reason this poll will be locked is because, given that this involves the future of the game, we want a method of ensuring that only players are voting.

Last of all, we ask that everyone please be respectful. We want to hear our players and react to their needs, and we also want our players extending the same courtesy to one another. It is okay to be critical or blunt as long as you're still courteous in the process -- there are no right or wrong opinions here -- but please avoid being aggressive or dismissive of anyone's points, even if you disagree with them. We will intervene if we see any hostile threads.
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