Fate of Neutral Omens...

[anthony-crowley.livejournal.com]

All right, guys. Well, it hasn't been a week yet, but only four people voted in the poll - all on the first day - and the vote is unanimously to, "Try to find new mods and give it three months to see if it improves." Apparently no one else gives a damn. But those who do, want the game to continue.

However, there was one write-in suggestion from Gabs that your mods thought held some promise. We've been discussing it amongst ourselves and are now turning to the players for a final decision. The idea was basically to reset the game. Start over, if you will. Players would be given one last thread to wrap up anything they wanted to wrap up and at the end, Adam does his thing. Then the game goes on hiatus for a month or so while everyone submits formal applications for their characters and we try to recruit new players. After that, we'd start the game again (though the stuff we liked from NO can be copy/pasted into the new game - with mod permission - so we don't have to replay what already worked) and see if we can't move faster and feel enthusiastic again in getting to play without having to slog through all the back story that was established before characters disappeared.

Wouldn't it be cool?! Imagine it being fun to play again...

Oh, and our Brian/Azi-mun has volunteered to be the mod for the new game, with John and I sticking around as advisors, so the game really would be starting anew with fresh ideas and ways of doing things.

I, for one, am pretty excited by the prospect, but we'd like to hear from you. Thoughts? Questions? Concerns?

Comments

[anthony-crowley.livejournal.com]

We're still not entirely sure how this will all work, but you will definitely know which bits of back story are being kept and which are not. Probably not much...

As for the formal applications - that is a possibility, I'm afraid. If someone hasn't been posting much but wants to be in the new game, they may end up on a three month probation or something, to prove they can keep up. We're going to be stricter with players this time around, making sure we have good ones with solid goals and that they'll stick around because we've seen what happens when they don't. :p

[mi-guida.livejournal.com]

*nods* that sounds fair. As I think I mentioned above, or possibly in a comment to the previous post, come May I will be doing Finals. However, apart from Finals Week/12 Days itself, that shouldn't stop me posting at least once a day, assuming that'd be quick enough (I know a lot of the time we used to do kind of "tag" back forth comment exchanges...)

Also, are we planning on re-instating some kind of regular AIM chat? I've stopped logging in because other people stopped being online, but that doesn't mean I couldn't resume doing so!

[anthony-crowley.livejournal.com]

I think if people get into threads that they're interested in and excited about then they'll want to post frequently. And if you can do five posts in one day and then none for three days after that, it's okay, as long as it remains fun for everyone and no one is being held up for too long.

As for the chats, I don't know. That's probably a question for vulgarweed...