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I'm kinda concerned that the game seems like DV and is geared towards face-to-face interaction opposed to a network. Other than a school forum, characters have to get another's contact info to be able to talk to them. It sounds great in theory, I'm just concerned about how it will work out.

I don't mind logs, but it always seem so much slower to me and people seem more prone to drop a thread before anything happens.

I might be the only one worried! But I just thought I'd bring it up.

aren't action tags usually acceptable for face-to-face interactions?

Yeah! Action or prose.

This isn't something I'd been worried about, but honestly I'm not a huge fan of network-focused games. That doesn't mean your concerns aren't justified.

DV, from what I've gathered, limits itself to face-to-face interaction or phonecalls. I think I've provided a little more leeway for electronic based communication, but would you feel more comfortable with a slightly more vanilla network method? Is the "any existing social media site is viable for network posts" bit overwhelming, or underwhelming? It's different, and I don't want people to be confused by it.

Having everyone be magically ~connected~ by some handheld stretches the imagination a little too far, but we could work in another forum/website type thing for students that isn't monitored by the faculty.

Considering there are obviously other anons here and no one else has spoke up, I think you're good! I might just be a little too used to networks, I guess. :|a

Honestly, I think the 'any existing social media site' is a little overwhelming in a good way. I'm genuinely interested in seeing that in play!

So don't mind me! Thank you for actually considering it, though.

I play in an existing AU school game and most of us have found that if you want to make a believable and enjoyable AU, it makes sense to pre-establish some things. For instance, if their players decide that X and Y have been friends for years, there's no need to play out each other's info -- they'd already have it.

Hell, even if two characters are only just meeting, you can handwave some things. I don't go out of my way for my characters to always ask for names, since in most cases it's boring to play out.

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