As usual, let me start by thanking the mod team for all the hard work y'all do! I'm so glad Futuro continued into Season Two! I'll try and keep this simple as I can, (sorry, I failed), but here's my two cents!
Exploration: While I did like the system in general, I do look forward to seeing the extra clarity in the future! One thing I did experience, however, was the fact that since most locations only had five slots available there was a lot of pressure to make rather large groups to submit. Obviously, working with other players is great, but when it comes to playing characters that ICly aren't the type to want to team up I feel like there's a certain OOC pressure to not like, be rude/greedy and take up one of the few slots with a single character's exploration submission. Admittedly, this could all just be in my head! The easiest solution if other people feel this way would be to up the number of slots, but I can see how that would potentially pile on mod work, so obviously low priority, but I figured I'd mention it anyway.
Solutions: Thanks in advance for the future work on balancing a variety of hints and potential solution clues. Even though Hayame made a bunch of new friends (lol), I really did enjoy the IC debate mechanic in the decision making log! Congrats on all that math calculating the success/fail in the argument presentation log- I had no particular feeling on knowing the formula beforehand or not, but I can see how some people would want to know.
Dossiers: Very shiny, good work on those! I will second some others though and ask for maybe a touch more information on locations? That could just as easily go in log information too, either way!
Items List: Admittedly, I found this kind of clunky. I can understand the desire to want to head off questions about items availability, but I feel like it could be accomplished in a way that may be easier on both mods and players. Like, the post was a masterpiece of organization, but it seems like it must have taken a lot of coding and thought to do for something that I think most people do not keep track of quite that close. I keep track of significant items for my char., but things like "broken sword", "wooden toys", "wood bundle" and such as that, I feel like most players can be counted on to handwave responsibly. With missions like Hanabira where there seems to be a certain period or cultural information I think it could be easier to just spell that out, perhaps in a "items that could be found in Edo period Japan are in general available in Hanabira" sort of style, with specific item listing limited to items one wouldn't expect to normally find? Just a suggestion.
Future Missions: Seconding some others in saying that I would love a short, Zeta-12-esque mission at some point. Very fun and easy, maybe around a busy holiday season? For more serious missions, I would love to see a mission planet that is just SO BIZARRE. We've mostly been dealing with humanoid races that have what could generally be called human values, but I think it would be a riot if we went to a world that was just VERY not human. I'm talking like "ten feet tall aliens with sixteen legs and the entire world is designed for their anatomy and also they think the sound of sneezing is a challenge to a duel" kind of weird. Maybe???
OOC Notes: Found these helpful! Would like to see it continued.
Applications: I realize we're not at a point to critique the system, but I just wanted to ask when we might find out information about how applications are going to go down when they next open. Like, will it be a free-for-all race for potentially only six spots from a specific set app-opening time, will there be a reserve system, will queue be back? That kind of information.
I really enjoyed the Hanabira mission as a whole, and most everything not mentioned here, so thanks again!! Sorry for the word vomit.
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Exploration: While I did like the system in general, I do look forward to seeing the extra clarity in the future! One thing I did experience, however, was the fact that since most locations only had five slots available there was a lot of pressure to make rather large groups to submit. Obviously, working with other players is great, but when it comes to playing characters that ICly aren't the type to want to team up I feel like there's a certain OOC pressure to not like, be rude/greedy and take up one of the few slots with a single character's exploration submission. Admittedly, this could all just be in my head! The easiest solution if other people feel this way would be to up the number of slots, but I can see how that would potentially pile on mod work, so obviously low priority, but I figured I'd mention it anyway.
Solutions: Thanks in advance for the future work on balancing a variety of hints and potential solution clues. Even though Hayame made a bunch of new friends (lol), I really did enjoy the IC debate mechanic in the decision making log! Congrats on all that math calculating the success/fail in the argument presentation log- I had no particular feeling on knowing the formula beforehand or not, but I can see how some people would want to know.
Dossiers: Very shiny, good work on those! I will second some others though and ask for maybe a touch more information on locations? That could just as easily go in log information too, either way!
Items List: Admittedly, I found this kind of clunky. I can understand the desire to want to head off questions about items availability, but I feel like it could be accomplished in a way that may be easier on both mods and players. Like, the post was a masterpiece of organization, but it seems like it must have taken a lot of coding and thought to do for something that I think most people do not keep track of quite that close. I keep track of significant items for my char., but things like "broken sword", "wooden toys", "wood bundle" and such as that, I feel like most players can be counted on to handwave responsibly. With missions like Hanabira where there seems to be a certain period or cultural information I think it could be easier to just spell that out, perhaps in a "items that could be found in Edo period Japan are in general available in Hanabira" sort of style, with specific item listing limited to items one wouldn't expect to normally find? Just a suggestion.
Future Missions: Seconding some others in saying that I would love a short, Zeta-12-esque mission at some point. Very fun and easy, maybe around a busy holiday season? For more serious missions, I would love to see a mission planet that is just SO BIZARRE. We've mostly been dealing with humanoid races that have what could generally be called human values, but I think it would be a riot if we went to a world that was just VERY not human. I'm talking like "ten feet tall aliens with sixteen legs and the entire world is designed for their anatomy and also they think the sound of sneezing is a challenge to a duel" kind of weird. Maybe???
OOC Notes: Found these helpful! Would like to see it continued.
Applications: I realize we're not at a point to critique the system, but I just wanted to ask when we might find out information about how applications are going to go down when they next open. Like, will it be a free-for-all race for potentially only six spots from a specific set app-opening time, will there be a reserve system, will queue be back? That kind of information.
I really enjoyed the Hanabira mission as a whole, and most everything not mentioned here, so thanks again!! Sorry for the word vomit.