Post by IncubiLord on Dec 23, 2007 2:30:21 GMT -5
thechosenone said:
Have you considered maybe sending out emails to people that go more then two weeks without posting just to... for a better word... hassel them... in a nice way of course. Maybe if someone directly asks what's going on it might encourage them to get in gear. Its not like these people aren't out there playing games right? They just aren't bothering to post write ups i guess. Personally, I wouldn't try to track down everybody who joins, reports, and disappars.
Since we've got a couple of staffers with access to all areas (you have to do that to run a forum), there's nothing they've posted that doesn't get noticed, so these people are choosing to leave the campaign without attempting to reconcile their objections within the system (at which point there's not much to do with them), or they are drawn away by something in RL which a 40K campaign can't compete with (which also means we aren't getting them back).
I also think its really important to directly involve players in some way. You don't have to write narratives for people or their characters but to make mention of them, or to allow the players' characters to in some way more directly influence the story would be nice. Especially for people that post every week a battle and some side narratives. That would be nice i think.
Much of our planning, last time and this time, assumes that each force will take a certain path and, without fail, half of the foces involved didn't. Now I know that some might say this is a result of bad preparations by the campaign staff, the players not knowing what they "should" be doing, and so on, but I think it speaks volumes to the contrary. It's not that we're not prepared for the players, it's that we're giving you the campaign you want. The weekly reports were all about you, what you were doing, and how that related to the other factions.
I'd certainly make a spot for people to post their own endings too, why not right?
Oh, I guess I wasn't clear on that.
Remember how there was a spot for Introductions in the BatReps section?
There's a spot for Epilogues now.
Post away.
You might also want to take player suggestions for the type of campaign they want to play next, story suggestions i mean or even a poll. Ask us if we want to be invading a world and slowly claiming it from an NPC source. Maybe a player could be the ruler of a world and the other players trying to take it. Maybe its a barren world with no real value aside from an item or fugitive the campaign is based around. Maybe we're not even playing on a material world but a demon world, the interior of a massive space hulk or derelict space station or something like that. just thoughts.
Actually, we're already kicking around an idea or two, but we'd be more than happy to hear yours. Post away.
The General Discussion area should be open for you to start threads in, and anything campaign-related (this one or the next) is fair game as long as you keep it clean (which hasn't been a problem thus far). Or, you could just post your opinion here.
As far as the moderators playing in the games... its not really a problem.
I suppse it's only as much of a problem as you make of it.
I don't think it was an issue last time around, but something about this time made it seem a bigger deal to me. Perhaps it was that I would have been allied with one of the sides who were hotly contesting the planet and I perfer to see a close game than join in nd gang up on other players. Maybe I would have joined in if the game hadn't been close. Maybe the winter weather is getting to me. Who knows?
Ultimately, I think we'll try a more-open scoring system next time, and that means that it really doesn't mater now. Don't think I didn't enjoy watching the rest of you scheme against each other - that's one of the biggest rewards of modding.