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if ur breath were baited, it would smell fishy

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tbh i feel like if this is more than just spitballing the best thing for the interested parties to do is to sock up and discuss in realtime

if its just talking for fun its ok to stay here cause sometimes hypotheticals are fun, if its serious then itll help to re-establish what anons want out of the game, what its focus should be on, and then go into mechanics. im okay with watching the movie mentioned above and throwing out ideas or helping with mechanics but i wouldnt be able to help with modding

you're right

that's true, i just don't think anyone should be frightened away from trying new things because of histrionic anons implying that things will never work or be doomed to wank

if someone out there likes this idea, try it! see how it goes!

oh yeah sometimes things work even if you dont think they will and theres never any harm in trying. the worst thing that could happen is something doesnt work and then you can rework it or try something else

and if youre ever unsure about something, you can also use a tdm to test condensed mechanics for an event but let players engage it how they like. youll probably be surprised by a lot of things they end up doing! ive seen some really creative players who engaged events in games that i never wouldve thought of as a mod

Yeah I am sad for myself, but it's nice to see stressed mods having a good outlet.

Got a long awaited castmate from an old fandom!

Except they're never around. And when they are around, their writing has enough careless mistakes to make me question whether or not they'll be a good castmate. I guess I'll never know because they drop every thread (with everyone, not just me) after two or three responses. :(

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I just don't think any "mechanic" involving AC and what threads you have is either interesting or unique. Every game involves rewarding players with positive or negative outcomes/social standing in the setting for their efforts in threads. All that "idea" is involves making the mods the middle man and mostly puts a lot of work on the mods that even in a small game is going to cause either burn out or drama.

You can't even test how the idea works on the TDM because the genre and setting can be anything and the prompts can be shit because the only idea is "look at these AC rewards".

Isn't this what Nightfell did anyway and the mods shut it down because there was so much drama over the subjective way AC was handled? AC rewards are not a mechanic.

>I just don't think any "mechanic" involving AC and what threads you have is either interesting or unique.

cool ok thanks for your worthless opinion

>Every game involves rewarding players with positive or negative outcomes/social standing in the setting for their efforts in threads.

no they don't, ac in most games is just "can you stay in the game for another month"

>All that "idea" is involves making the mods the middle man and mostly puts a lot of work on the mods that even in a small game is going to cause either burn out or drama.

depends on the mods/game/players

>AC rewards are not a mechanic.

yes they are

lol i had this exact experience with a very rare castmate. their writing was a little awkward and the threads never went anywhere. 2 or 3 responses tops. every single time.

"iDeA"

How do you test drive a mechanic like that? Honest question, because if someone was going to make a game like this you want people to be able to test out the setting to see if they enjoy it. Other mechanics are things you can mess with on your own, but this requires direct mod intervention to reap any benefits and requires you to have cr, so anyone brand new isn't going to be able to interact with it.

The point is that on its own AC rewards are just AC rewards and not something you can build an entire concept around.

i saw someone posting on memes that i wanted to tag, but i kept holding off because i didn't know if they would want to thread with me. i noticed that they haven't posted anything in a while, so i worked up the nerve to pm them to ask if they wanted to thread only to find out that they deleted their account.

sorry, anon. to other anons, this is your sign to tag that character!

aw, i'm sorry anon. i hope they’re doing okay, maybe they’ll come back someday and you’ll run into them again

i mean, you just run the game for a few months and if the mechanic works and people enjoy it then keep it. if it doesn't, rework it or remove it and do something else.

you seem to be looking for reasons to shit on this idea because you personally don't like it. if you don't want to be in a game like this or run a game like this then just.. don't?

the scarequotes around "idea" really do make the post

that wasn't even the entire concept you numpty, parent up

I'm wanting to see if anyone can explain how this is any different from anything that already exists.

Running a game for a few months isn't useful to a new player who wants to see if the game is a good fit for them, because you could have great cr and be earning points left and right, but someone else might not have the same experience. Since the mechanic is an AC reward and mod controlled, how could they know?

There have been numerous games with cr bonds as a significant mechanic and this sounds exactly the same but with the mods assigning point values to relationships and cr, turning something you could control yourself into one the mods have to hand out to people. It creates a bottleneck where people have to wait for the mods to give them something instead of creating a mechanic that players can pick up and use themselves with or without direct oversight and input from the mods.

If you don't like people asking questions like this, you're going to hate it when you make an interest check and people tell you your mechanic isn't unique to your setting or they ask how you're planning to keep it going without the mods absolutely burning out in three months in this climate where modding is even more thankless and soul sucking than it's ever been before.

this kind of thing is why it's better to hash stuff out between excited parties not on rpa

If the reaction to someone asking fair questions about an idea is "we should've kept this to an echo chamber" that's not great either.

someone's always going to think x idea is boring or dumb or whatever, there's enough people here that there can't not be someone who isn't interested, and anons love to tell people they don't like chips rly

soliciting ideas here isn't totally worthless but the longer the conversation carries on the better the chance someone'll pop up with an essay about how popcorn is the way to go

thanks again for your totally worthless opinions

i ain't reading all that but i'm happy for you

i think you meant "opinions"

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