MOD ANNOUNCEMENT -- AC POLICY

[singularitymods]

First, this is a reminder that Activity Check begins in two weeks on April 1st, so now is the time to start rounding up posts, or make them if you're falling short. AC is one network or log post with comments, or 15 comments in another person's post. For this round all activity since moving to DW counts, so we don't anticipate any reasonably active players having trouble with it. Characters accepted in March are exempt.

Currently, we have a lenient activity check, and we loosened it even more for the move, in anticipation of complications which, happily, didn't occur. Our AC schedule worked just fine when we were a smaller, slower game, but that's no longer the case. Space Prom went to 3,000 comments in a week, and we are facing the fact that our little game is all grown up and ready to borrow the keys and wreck the car.

We have no intention of instituting an unreasonable AC, but we do need to make it more stringent to keep inactive players from affecting their casts and other CR, and there is plenty of room to tighten things up without AC becoming unmanageable. We are currently leaning toward keeping AC bimonthly, but increasing the total number of posts/comments required, probably with a mix-'n'-match system that will accommodate various play styles. However, we'd like your input before making any changes, hence this post. What would you like to see out of a new AC policy? What would you not like to see? We know people would like to have a purge list posted at the end of the AC period. Anything else?

Any changes will not affect this AC round.

Comments

[soundslikeafuckingkid]

Since I have a quick chance to shove an opinion in here before I get driving again, I am against increasing a number of entries (I.e. 3 entries a month) or having a strict weekly activity. I know Sing doesn't do either of these but I just want to throw this out before I possibly fall behind.

+increasing entry number => I sometimes have problems thinking of posts on my own, but I find it easier to have characters respond to something happening than be directly posting to the network (esp with CT, who's not likely to post to the network pretty much at all, but will respond to thinks that interest her). I think the 15 comments ob someone else's entry is a great avenue for those kinds of characters.

+strict weekly activity => Again, I know Sing doesn't do this, but I've been in a game with a strict you must have this many consecutive comments in a week so if I had a bad week or was running slower for any reason, I had to call. Iatus for anything. I think a monthly AC is a good standard across the board with grace if someone had a particularly shitty/busy month.

[theuserabides]

If we went to a weekly AC requirement, I would pitch a fit.

[soundslikeafuckingkid]

LMFAO glad we're on the same page then! It was stressful for me as a player to have a weekly number and I think eve bi-weekly is not a great idea. A month is golden, man.

[astrometry]

I'm already in one of those and I don't think I can do two sob.

[thecarisboring]

...how do you manage one?

[astrometry]

Well the mods take care of AC so you don't actually do anything but play and tag your posts. It's all actionspam so a lot of the time 20 comments is full of

[ wanders over ]

and

Hi! [smiles]

[twotailmechanic]

How the hell can anyone deal with a weekly AC requirement? I would fail at that since I do other things besides RP a lot of the time. Hell, I remember when I was (very) briefly in luceti I failed the AC because I couldn't make enough comments for the month that counted. So yeah I would have a major problem with a weekly one.

[soundslikeafuckingkid]

I wasn't able to handle it, personally. Between school, other games, and real life stuff, I just didn't have time for a game that pace.

[twotailmechanic]

I don't exactly blame you there.