As best as possible, I would like to summarize an overall impression that I have gleaned from my CR, and folks are free to +1 or add thoughts as it pertains to them. Anyone who responds, please be respectful and focus on Constructive Criticism.
1. The game's events are still suffering from "Wall of Text" syndrome. Many of us end up using several RL days just to parse what's going on and reconcile that against what our CR is doing in order to address how our characters respond to events. There's either too much going on in every single event, or the plot-heavy stuff that demands so much text to explain it is happening too often.
2. Due to that turnaround time, many of us don't even have a chance to START a thread before a results poll's time is up. How can I respond if I don't know what my character is doing? For something this significant, a whole month would have been preferable.
3. This is exacerbated by events being started in the middle of the month rather than the start of it, yet AC disincentivizes carrying threads over from month to month -- while rapid-response threads are more important to answering polls.
4. This creates a feedback loop where, over the course of several events, some of us feel overwhelmed by the plot entirely. What is Celliwig? Why do I care? Who are the Lestari? If you're not fully participating in every single event - and have someone around to explain older events to you - you lose enough context to meaningfully participate in the next one.
5. "The next 3 months will be chiller" does not absolve the heavy hits we already took over the last month. I phrased it as feeling like we get to dance on the rubble.
I say all of this as a former mod myself in the hopes that things will be better for myself and others who genuinely want to engage with plot but not at the pace that it's being presented.
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1. The game's events are still suffering from "Wall of Text" syndrome. Many of us end up using several RL days just to parse what's going on and reconcile that against what our CR is doing in order to address how our characters respond to events. There's either too much going on in every single event, or the plot-heavy stuff that demands so much text to explain it is happening too often.
2. Due to that turnaround time, many of us don't even have a chance to START a thread before a results poll's time is up. How can I respond if I don't know what my character is doing? For something this significant, a whole month would have been preferable.
3. This is exacerbated by events being started in the middle of the month rather than the start of it, yet AC disincentivizes carrying threads over from month to month -- while rapid-response threads are more important to answering polls.
4. This creates a feedback loop where, over the course of several events, some of us feel overwhelmed by the plot entirely. What is Celliwig? Why do I care? Who are the Lestari? If you're not fully participating in every single event - and have someone around to explain older events to you - you lose enough context to meaningfully participate in the next one.
5. "The next 3 months will be chiller" does not absolve the heavy hits we already took over the last month. I phrased it as feeling like we get to dance on the rubble.
I say all of this as a former mod myself in the hopes that things will be better for myself and others who genuinely want to engage with plot but not at the pace that it's being presented.