JULY ANNOUNCEMENTS + HELPSTAFF HIRING + LEVELING CHANGE + HOLES

[asgardmods]

Hey guys, AJ here! In the interest of simplicity this month I'm going to break the announcements and monthly event rundowns into two separate posts. Here are the announcements – keep an eye out for the events tomorrow.

There are a couple of really important things here, so try to take a quick look!

HELPER MODS;

• The Asgard modteam is looking to hire on one to two helper/list mods, just to assist with keeping our information up to date! If you're interested in volunteering a little of your time, head on over to HERE for all of that information.

LEVELING CHANGES;

• The LEVELING UP system for powers is undergoing a big change! With the advent of endgame, we want to make sure everyone is able to up their powers. Starting in July 2014, characters will now be able to level up with one month of heightened activity (40 comments), with at least ten of those comments pertaining to that character's chosen group.
  
  That means if your character is part of the Engineering group, ten of the comments linked must be pertaining somehow to their role as an engineer. Further details about the leveling up changes will go up on the Leveling page itself later tonight!

GROUP GOALS;

• Pertaining to the groups: we will be posting an optional "goal" for each faction every month, just so characters and players will have a foundation for plotting ICly and OOCly every month. These will go up with the monthly rundown, and a place will be provided for people in those groups to interact. (E.G. Freyr may task the Welcoming Committee with deciding what goes into care packages for refugees from other cities and then building a bunch of them.) The tasks would change every month and will work to push towards endgame goals. Again, these would be completely optional, and just meant to help give people a jumping ground for things! We want to make this as easy and as much fun for people as we can, so if you have any questions or changes, please be sure to let us know.

JUNE HOLES EVENT;

• The HOLES event for the month are FLESH-EATING SCARAB BEETLES, because everything is terrible and nothing is okay. Starting June 30th - the latter half of Day 471 – these jewel-like beetles will descend upon the city and take a hearty chomp out of anyone they might come across. A little less deadly than they are in the movie, they instead leave welting and painful red bites. Resistant to physical damage, they seem averse to flame, and can be easily driven away by fire. (They also seem to have a taste for the Singing Flowers from little Alice Liddell's canon, causing them to yelp and whine whenever their petals are chomped.)
  
  Most of the swarm will have lifted and moved on from the city proper by the evening of Day 472 (July 2), though some will linger in the city – so maybe remember to check your boots before you go shoving your feet in there.

With that said, remember that Activity Check and the test drive are both up, and let us know if there's anything we can do for you!

Comments

QUESTIONS: HELPER MODS

[asgardmods]

QUESTIONS: LEVELNG CHANGES

[asgardmods]

[samantha_grey]

I suspect not, but have you guys given any further thought to opening level 4 once again, or too much of a headache?

[asgardmods]

It's not so much of a "headache" as it is "difficult to implement fairly with so little time left in the game." We're throwing a lot of stuff at you guys, and have a lot of cool stuff left to throw at you, so while it is something I would really really love to do, it's unfortunately just not something that we'll be able to make work.

[samantha_grey]

Yeah, I'll be honest: I expected that, with everything required just for end-game, polishing off Level 4 on top of everything else was going to be an unlikely possibility at best. It would have been nice, but honestly setting it up so it's fair to everyone, especially newer players, would have been very difficult. So, I didn't think it'd be in the works. Just forgive that brief moment of greed. ^.~, I know I'll have fun either way.

[fintastic]

This kind of goes half here, half in the "group goals" below. Since leveling will be dependent on some degree of group involvement, will there be opportunities for this or are we on our own to find somewhere to get those 10 comments? Will be somewhere specific to play out things relating to the goals/group things? Just to know what to plan for.

My other question is if the comments have to be positively pertaining to their roles. :') I would assume so but it's worth asking.

[asgardmods]

There may be some mod-sponsored opportunities for this but we're really pushing for you guys to coordinate amongst yourselves and plot things out as well! The groups are designed as a means for you all to contribute to the endgame development through your characters, so you can post anything group related at any time.

And no, it most certainly does not have to be positive. ;]

QUESTIONS: GROUP GOALS

[asgardmods]

QUESTIONS: JUNE HOLES EVENT

[asgardmods]

[tonsofpun]

Can we blame Loki for the bugs because I'm pretty sure this is his fault

[asgardmods]

you can basically blame loki for everything

[tonsofpun]

except when it's Thiazi

[variates]

can other powers work on the scarabs :|a like freezing them as opposed to just scaring them away with fire??

[asgardmods]

Yup! They can be frozen.

QUESTIONS: MISC

[asgardmods]