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MOD ANNOUNCEMENT -- MOVING TIMELINE
Happy New Year, Singularity! Big long moving post with a lot of information below, so please take the time to read it all. We're trying to strike a balance between gettin' the heck out of Dodge and spacing things out enough that everyone stays sane.
Timeline:
January 6: OOC coordination post goes up in the OOC community on DW. This will contain some DW-specific information to help people get settled in. Ask questions, show off your new accounts, arrange Paypal proxies, and get help with layouts and just generally starting out on a new service. There'll be mod a comment thread where you can point out broken links in info posts and whatnot. You'll also be asked to comment to the new Taken post with your DW accounts.
January 8: Extended December reserve round ends. January app round begins. All apps should be submitted on the DW app post. Accepted characters from this round should join the DW comms and not the LJ ones.
January 9: CR with Me and a some kind of fun meme--maybe forced honesty; that one's always popular--in the DW crack community. These will run for a few days before game posting opens up and will be open to new characters who've apped this round on DW. This gives new characters a week in limbo, we know, but we're trying to strike a balance between alacrity and having everything happen at once.
January 13: End of IC posting on LJ, beginning of IC posting on DW. The LJ comms will be set to moderated submissions at this point.
January 22: End of January app round, beginning of January reserve round.
February 1: End of January reserve round. Beginning of February app round.
February 15: End of February app round. Beginning of February reserve round.
February 29: Leap Day! Assuming comment importing for communities with large comment counts is live, this will be the end of backtagging on LJ. You can keep commenting to the old comms if you want, but we don't guarantee your comments after this point will be imported to DW.
March 1: One last round of comment importing from LJ begins. Singularity runs solely on DW at this point. The LJ accounts will remain, but be unused.
April 1: Activity Check. Only DW activity will count.
Miscellaneous information about the move:
-DW has extended open account creation! This should carry us through getting moved over. We would like to set up a fundraiser just within the game so that everyone can get at least a couple months of paid time, both because everybody loves icons and because supporting DW is the helpful thing to do, but we haven't set up the logistics yet. It might be as simple as a thread where people can ask for and pledge paids/tokens.
-Go ahead and request comm membership if you have your DW accounts set up already, but we won't be making sure we've accepted anyone for a few days, so please don't worry about it just yet. The DW comms are:
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singularityrpg
singularitylogs
singularityooc
singularityderp
-We're resetting the AC cycle. Everyone has a clean slate, and we'll run an AC based on DW activity in April.
-We're likewise waiving the activity requirements for new apps from existing players for the January and February app rounds. They will come back into effect in April with the first DW AC.
-We've taken the opportunity to clear out some old stuff that wasn't working anymore: the Events Archive is going away (did you even know we had one?) and that rule about maintaining a CR chart for your characters is dead. It was pretty much dead already, but we're making it official. It made more sense when Singularity was a small game, but we're not any more.
-Likewise, the wiki never really caught on with players, so we're moving the FAQ back to the info pages and discontinuing any official use of the wiki. In light of this, we're going to ask that people provide copies of their apps somewhere on DW as a reference.
-The long-overdue changes to the credit system will roll out with DW, as well.
-Large-scale player plots will reopen in February.
-Questions?
(Plurk paste format here, since LJ is being especially LJ today.)
Timeline:
January 6: OOC coordination post goes up in the OOC community on DW. This will contain some DW-specific information to help people get settled in. Ask questions, show off your new accounts, arrange Paypal proxies, and get help with layouts and just generally starting out on a new service. There'll be mod a comment thread where you can point out broken links in info posts and whatnot. You'll also be asked to comment to the new Taken post with your DW accounts.
January 8: Extended December reserve round ends. January app round begins. All apps should be submitted on the DW app post. Accepted characters from this round should join the DW comms and not the LJ ones.
January 9: CR with Me and a some kind of fun meme--maybe forced honesty; that one's always popular--in the DW crack community. These will run for a few days before game posting opens up and will be open to new characters who've apped this round on DW. This gives new characters a week in limbo, we know, but we're trying to strike a balance between alacrity and having everything happen at once.
January 13: End of IC posting on LJ, beginning of IC posting on DW. The LJ comms will be set to moderated submissions at this point.
January 22: End of January app round, beginning of January reserve round.
February 1: End of January reserve round. Beginning of February app round.
February 15: End of February app round. Beginning of February reserve round.
February 29: Leap Day! Assuming comment importing for communities with large comment counts is live, this will be the end of backtagging on LJ. You can keep commenting to the old comms if you want, but we don't guarantee your comments after this point will be imported to DW.
March 1: One last round of comment importing from LJ begins. Singularity runs solely on DW at this point. The LJ accounts will remain, but be unused.
April 1: Activity Check. Only DW activity will count.
Miscellaneous information about the move:
-DW has extended open account creation! This should carry us through getting moved over. We would like to set up a fundraiser just within the game so that everyone can get at least a couple months of paid time, both because everybody loves icons and because supporting DW is the helpful thing to do, but we haven't set up the logistics yet. It might be as simple as a thread where people can ask for and pledge paids/tokens.
-Go ahead and request comm membership if you have your DW accounts set up already, but we won't be making sure we've accepted anyone for a few days, so please don't worry about it just yet. The DW comms are:
singularityrpgsingularitylogssingularityoocsingularityderp-We're resetting the AC cycle. Everyone has a clean slate, and we'll run an AC based on DW activity in April.
-We're likewise waiving the activity requirements for new apps from existing players for the January and February app rounds. They will come back into effect in April with the first DW AC.
-We've taken the opportunity to clear out some old stuff that wasn't working anymore: the Events Archive is going away (did you even know we had one?) and that rule about maintaining a CR chart for your characters is dead. It was pretty much dead already, but we're making it official. It made more sense when Singularity was a small game, but we're not any more.
-Likewise, the wiki never really caught on with players, so we're moving the FAQ back to the info pages and discontinuing any official use of the wiki. In light of this, we're going to ask that people provide copies of their apps somewhere on DW as a reference.
-The long-overdue changes to the credit system will roll out with DW, as well.
-Large-scale player plots will reopen in February.
-Questions?
(Plurk paste format here, since LJ is being especially LJ today.)
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I think we can use the template for the wikia as a sort of template for the info post? We could even make an info comm and everybody posts their info to that comm? It can be locked to members if that is a concern.
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The other thing is the locations that characters have set up, like various canonmates living together, the clubs, the Grid, etc. We may ask for writeups and integrate those into the Maps & Locations page after the majority of the move is complete.
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Speaking of locations, I really need to figure out where Tails lives for real. I did a post for blood donation in the jobs post, but got no reply, so I kinda had to pretend he got the credits to live in an apartment for his last post. Sorry if that breaks any rules. I pretty much had my hands tied there.
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