I'll be honest.
I'm bored shitless of Mizahar. It feels like its all the same to me. I adopt something in RF and fairly soon other ST's copy it. This is happened so much from the Codex's to the OOC threads to the Character Registries to just about everything. I feel like there's only so much I can do to be 'unique' for my city. And the unusual things I've done, like the Perk Point System, got so abused when other cities adopted it, that I took it down game wide.
Now... this isn't an insult to current STs. Please understand this group isn't responsible for this situation, they simply inherited it. Behind the scenes we've been having discussions about how to make our cities unique, but it seemed to me it caused more grief than anything. And the risk, truthfully, in bringing a discussion like this to the forefront is that the whole game will ask for certain things and we will think they are all fantastic ideas, and then boom... everything changes and yet its still uniformly the same behind the scenes.
I don't want to be bored with Mizahar anymore. I've been doing a ton of other things irl that keep me occupied though and truth be told I spent the afternoon watching a manual controlled kiln by turning it off, on, up, down, venting, not venting, for an hour... in the attempt to hold some jewelry in it at a specific fusing temp to get a better fuse. THAT... as boring as it sounds... was far more interesting than logging on here and say doing HD tickets, answering PMs, or breaking up squabbles or deflecting people I think are super negative from influcing the site.
I don't want this to be the way things are with me. But in order to get excited about MIz again, I need to get some new things going. New magics, new races, new areas, new new new. I also need a refresh in my own city and I want it to be something interesting that people talk about and not just a yawnfest. I really tried to get people to be excited by letting them RP a new god this season, but I see very few people adding to a collective story. I really wanted the backstory between the two deities running around to be written by the players so we could have something to be proud of when we released them into the rest of the game. Maybe that was a miscommunication on my part or maybe players just didn't understand. But that obviously didn't work.
So whats next? How do we carry RP to the next level? How do we make experiences from Domain to Domain unique? I can sit down and kick some butt on writing another lost discipline or poking around with a new land mass or something... but I don't think we need new areas when we have so many closed cities now. Thats why I'm not developing a new city atm. And if I was, I'd do something on the map that's just needed developing all these years.
Anyhow.. this is my reach out to you. What do you guys ACTUALLY want to be excited about the game?
I'm bored shitless of Mizahar. It feels like its all the same to me. I adopt something in RF and fairly soon other ST's copy it. This is happened so much from the Codex's to the OOC threads to the Character Registries to just about everything. I feel like there's only so much I can do to be 'unique' for my city. And the unusual things I've done, like the Perk Point System, got so abused when other cities adopted it, that I took it down game wide.
Now... this isn't an insult to current STs. Please understand this group isn't responsible for this situation, they simply inherited it. Behind the scenes we've been having discussions about how to make our cities unique, but it seemed to me it caused more grief than anything. And the risk, truthfully, in bringing a discussion like this to the forefront is that the whole game will ask for certain things and we will think they are all fantastic ideas, and then boom... everything changes and yet its still uniformly the same behind the scenes.
I don't want to be bored with Mizahar anymore. I've been doing a ton of other things irl that keep me occupied though and truth be told I spent the afternoon watching a manual controlled kiln by turning it off, on, up, down, venting, not venting, for an hour... in the attempt to hold some jewelry in it at a specific fusing temp to get a better fuse. THAT... as boring as it sounds... was far more interesting than logging on here and say doing HD tickets, answering PMs, or breaking up squabbles or deflecting people I think are super negative from influcing the site.
I don't want this to be the way things are with me. But in order to get excited about MIz again, I need to get some new things going. New magics, new races, new areas, new new new. I also need a refresh in my own city and I want it to be something interesting that people talk about and not just a yawnfest. I really tried to get people to be excited by letting them RP a new god this season, but I see very few people adding to a collective story. I really wanted the backstory between the two deities running around to be written by the players so we could have something to be proud of when we released them into the rest of the game. Maybe that was a miscommunication on my part or maybe players just didn't understand. But that obviously didn't work.
So whats next? How do we carry RP to the next level? How do we make experiences from Domain to Domain unique? I can sit down and kick some butt on writing another lost discipline or poking around with a new land mass or something... but I don't think we need new areas when we have so many closed cities now. Thats why I'm not developing a new city atm. And if I was, I'd do something on the map that's just needed developing all these years.
Anyhow.. this is my reach out to you. What do you guys ACTUALLY want to be excited about the game?