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Re: Majority Rule

[(Anonymous)]

I had planned to app and even put in a reserve, but I ended up changing my mind once the TDM stopped getting replies. I'll admit a lot of games are having TDMs and interest checks around this time so it was always a matter of where I ended up having a better experience on a TDM anyway since I had something else in mind I hadn't settled on yet.

I loved the premise but I think the TDM would've benefited from being smaller. It was a neat idea letting you choose how/when you arrive, but I think people had the option to be way too spread out so the combination of a lot of exploration and a lot of prompts that involve maintenance tasks make threads harder to maintain.

Re: Majority Rule

[(Anonymous)]

+1

a lot of new games are falling into this trap lately. a tdm should be simple and easy to access. it shouldn't have a ton of plot or more than a few prompts. leave that for the actual game events.

Re: Majority Rule

[(Anonymous)]

I think having everyone wake up on one of the two ships and funnelling everyone into the space station to deal with threats and situations that would have actually encouraged people to use the poll mechanic would've been better.

Three months is also a really long time to handwave entire character interactions in a setting like this. I never even considered the second arrival option because it was way too long but seeing how many other people chose it that might just be me. Having one crew wake up maybe a week ahead of the other would've been better. I can figure out what my character would do around others for 7 days or so without trying to explain how they made no friends or at least people they can trust not to get them killed in several months' time is hard to believe even for someone who isn't super social.

Re: Majority Rule

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen people complain when it's the opposite too, though. It feels like there's no way for TDMs thede days to please anyone unless they manage to get 1000+ comments. Which seems to rely more on popular people replying?

Re: Majority Rule

[(Anonymous)]

The tdm is a combination of big and plot heavy but the prompts themselves are "turn the power on" or "fight pirates" or handwave 3 months of CR with people to explore a planet.

These are interesting on paper but not really as threads. People quit replying because the threads are boring. The starters were great in a lot of cases but I can't blame anyone for not being able to keep the energy going.