MOD HMD;

[asgardmods]

Hello, hello! It's time for Asgard's first ever:

How's My Driving: The Mod Edition
which we hope is every bit as exciting for you as it is for us. As you may or may not know, last September marked the year anniversary of Autumn, Draggy, and me being mods in Asgard, and this December marks the two year anniversary of Asgard as a whole. We think the very best way of celebrating these awesome landmarks is to bend over and cough to make sure everything is working okay! If this HMD proves fruitful, we may consider doing one of these at the end of each story arc. So slap on some gloves and give us your everything, guys, this is open forum.

If you aren't interested in participating in mod HMD and would like to skip ahead to the player poll RE: Arc 4 and endgame, go here!

HOW THIS WORKS

Responding to this meme is not mandatory. However, we would greatly appreciate any and all feedback / criticism you might have, as it helps us better the game for your enjoyment. This post will not be comm-locked as the player HMD is, because the face of the game affects not only current players but past and future players as well, so we are leaving this open to everything. Anon is disabled, however, because we feel that our players are the only speaking authority on the game's successes and failures and we want to know that we can have a discussion with our players.

Because we understand that dishing out crit is not the easiest of tasks, we've decided to break down the things we feel are most important to be addressed so that you can simply respond to them if you feel the need. Think of it like the "Known Problems" part of the player HMD; these are the things we would most like feedback on, but they are by no means the limit to what there is to critique, so you can make your own comments as you like. The basic breakdown will be as follows:

• EVENT FEEDBACK: We've listed out every event from Arc 3 with links to all related informations posts / logs in separate comments. You guys can give us your thoughts on the successes / failures of each one individually or on the month as a whole.
  • Consider the set-up of the logs and the timing of the events. Was enough information given to understand the event? Was there enough for you to work with in terms of plotting, or were you left uncertain of what to do? Do you like our use of volunteer positions or do you think we do it too often / not often enough? Things like that!
  • We also listed the opt-out options that we've given in separate comments. Please let us know whether or not these opt-out options have worked for you. Did they help keep your interaction with any plot you didn't want involved with to a minimum? Were they interesting / enjoyable alternatives to the main plot event? Is there anything you would like to see more of? Etcetera, etcetera.
• TONE / PACING FEEDBACK: Let us know how this Arc's set-up worked for you. Were the events placed far enough apart / too close together? Were there too many of them? Did the tone fit the theme of the story arc? Was it too dark / too light-hearted / an uneven mishmash of all the squishy bits inbetween?
• NPC FEEDBACK: You can call out one NPC in particular or speak to the presence of the NPC cast as a whole. Are they fun to interact with? Are they easily accessible / do they make enough appearances? Is there anything we should encourage more / less of?
• INDIVIDUAL MOD FEEDBACK: If you feel the need to address any one of us in specific, here is the place to do so! We do pretty much everything together, as we have constant communication up in the background, but if there's something any one of us has done that you'd like to discuss, we're happy to do so.
• MISCELLANEOUS FEEDBACK: For anything we might not've covered in our headers!

And that's pretty much it as far as the HMD goes. It's a free-for all, so respond to as much or as little as you'd like wherever you'd like. This post won't really close, since there is no deadline or AC for it, so feel free to respond and discuss at your leisure. We appreciate anything and everything you guys have to say to us, so have at it!

Before you go, though, we want to talk shop with you all. Arc 4 will begin in January, and though the overall storyline will follow Yggdrasil's collapse, it will also be pushing us closer to Ragnarok 2.0, which will likely take place in Arc 5 and ultimately conclude Asgard Eventide's run. Because of this significance, we are going to let you guys decide what direction the game takes as we move towards end-game. This is super duper important, so even if you don't choose to participate in the HMD, please still vote in this poll! To make room for questions and discussion, we've put the poll in a separate post over here.

Comments

[nukeoleptic]

I think I've always seen those subdivisions as sort of problematic because setup comments are usually broader than that? This is just my view, and could definitely be wrong!! Personally, my setups are usually more along the lines of --

"On Day 1, Johannes is doing this all day. On Day 2, he's doing x all day. On Day 3, he might be doing x."

-- which might present an issue of having to write three 'starters' per day.

[becauseichooseto]

There's no reason why these categories need to so strictly compartmentalised though. I mean, I have threads that start in section wherever and end up in section wherever else, I'm breaking no laws of roleplay doing so.

[nukeoleptic]

Very good point!!