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Alright, anons. Let's talk about this. The success or failure of this reboot (and any game, really) depends entirely on the people who reserve & subsequently app. As much as the adjusted premise, AC, etc. might help, it really comes down to the playerbase. Zodion had major problems with hemorrhaging players and only retaining the ones who didn't have the motivation or interest to actually play out anything.

Right now, I'm on the fence. I like the premise a lot more than some of the other sex games open right now. I also like the ideas brought up in previous rpanons discussions about adding a smut AC but not making it all smut, all the time. I'd probably app here if the ball got rolling with other people reserving and wanting to commit to taking the game seriously again. So, the question is, how many people are actually interested in apping or re-apping here? Are you still on the fence about it too? No interest at all? Don't think the restart will work?

I intend to reserve/app. I already have my app mostly written up. I'm saving the samples for after the test drive goes up to see if I can get good ones from it.

Meaning yes, I'm interested. I've also talked to a few people that are planning on apping as well, so there's at least a small contingent of people that will join in a new wave. Whether it crashes and burns depends on how willing people are to tag out and not settle into pre-established cliques.

......on that note, I'll express that I think a 2 IC days to every 7 OOC days is a terrible idea. How are characters supposed to forge relationships like that? So ICly the world will expand at an exponential rate over a matter of days? What's with all these new game proposals with ridiculously slow IC progression like this?

Considering that backdating and backtagging is the overwhelming norm and has been for at least a year now, I don't understand this either. 2:7 is severe.

that part has me scratching my head as well. i'm all for backdating, but 2:7? that's a bit much. and way more complicated than it needs to be. i can see a lot of issues cropping up because of this. ariel has a few people that forget that it's 1:3, which i personally think is the slowest a game should be. a month is just under 2 ic weeks. it's easier to remember and work around. 2:7 is just complicated and people are going to have to live on the calender to date anything.

Yeah, I was seriously confused about this too. This post http://zodionooc.dreamwidth.org/490375.html mentions each month having different effects on the characters based on what their signs are, which I think is an excellent idea and plays into the astrology theme, but how can that even be implemented ICly when a single IC month would take 15 weeks of OOC time?

maybe ask the mods to clarify how they intend to have that work out? because i can easily see that being a point of contention.

I'm actually quite fine (and prefer) some staggered IC/OOC day ratio, however, given the premise of this game and the focus on the zodiac elements which run on real time I definitely think would be a problem.

I'm REALLY interested in re-apping in, but having it be 1:1 would probably have me hesitate to app in (unless it stays small and manageable) but another alternative idea I can think of is to play with the fact (as I think the mods were trying to go for in their post) that the planet is way out far away from it's sun-star and logically it would take a Really Really Really long time for it to make one orbit (one year) around the star. The planet's rotation however would determine the days.

So let's say we stagger it at 1:3--that means all they would have to do is make the "year" match for all the zodiac signs to line up.

1:3 = 1,095 ooc days in 1 Opi-year. It could still line up, but you would have to keep in mind every zodiac season would have to be thrice as long. Just as an example.

If that were to work out everyone would have to rely heavily on the game calendar. Which I'm all for, I check those things religiously in any game that has them and keeps them up to date, but I can't say the same for everyone else.

...which when put into that perspective I think probably a 1:2 would work best when it comes to ooc patience expectations. Each zodiac sign would get a spotlight two months long at a time. 1 Opi-year would be 2 ooc years as opposed to three, so it's not quite so long.

So your sign only gets featured once every two years? Even just once a year sounds harsh, and that would be with a 1:1. I mean, I do think it should be staggered too, but I'm wondering how to make the sign feature thing work at the same time.

Each sign has an opposite, right? Maybe both the current sign and its opposite would have effects at the same time, not necessarily the same effects? That way, there's more opportunities for people to take advantage of this element of the game? Logically then, your sign would have something going on at least once a year?

ayrt

(Anonymous) - 2014-02-23 20:07 (UTC) - Expand

i'd be really sad to see such a slow rate like that. one of the reasons i had to drop ariel was that it was too slow and it felt like nothing ever happened in the game, so i've been looking forward to the zodion reboot.

they may not do it like that. they're doing a poll now.

http://zodionooc.dreamwidth.org/490977.html

I can't comment in that entry because I'n not in the game, but thank you mods for being so open-minded about suggestions and input from anons!

isn't that how asgard does it?

As someone who was never in Zodion:

What the fuck is this new name?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiuchus

wikipedia is your friend

I intend to reserve, anon!

this new name sounds really gross and unsexy tbh

it makes me think 'mucus'

I think it's very awkward and I'm not sure how to pronounce it in my head, even if the name makes sense if you take the time to look up the constellation it's referring to.

it just makes me think of homestuck. like we needed another reason for people to think our game was the bottom of the barrel for rp.

we aren't known for "bottom of the barrel rp" though??? if anything it was just drama??????

uh... no, we have a reputation for being pretty bad rpers. where the fuck have you been

How does Ophiuchus remind you of Homestuck any more than Zodion and all the other zodiac-themed stuff did? Homestuck didn't invent these concepts.

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(Anonymous) - 2014-03-01 19:38 (UTC) - Expand

so are the mods ever actually opening reserves or

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