Extra mod announcement

[expiationmods]

Hello all players of Expiation. The spring really came in like a wrecking ball and the mod team has noticed that the game has significantly slowed down during these past few months. We would like to get some further feedback which direction the game should go. The poll from March did give us a general idea of what the players might like, but we would love to hear in more detail what do you guys think works in the game and what doesn’t. Let’s get the conversation going! How are you feeling currently in the game? Are there mechanisms you’d want to implement in the game? What kind of events do you want to see more and what less. This also included general feedback towards the mod team.

With things slowing down and the game becoming smaller, the mod team has been considering shifting our focus to be more personalized towards the existing player base and characters. For an example: The mod team has plans for the upcoming months that would focus more on world exploration, which would allow characters to visit various places and other cities. If this is something that your character would be interested in, please let us know so we can start working on including them in the plot.

We originally planned this announcement to be part of the State Of The Game post that goes up on the weekend, but decided to bring this up now so that we can start the conversation as we move towards the summer's adventures.

Comments

[opheliac]

i don't know if this will be helpful or not, but maybe we can label our TDMs as, for example next month, instead of "Text Drive Meme #15" to "June/July TDM #15" or something similar to that?

i don't know if that will help with attraction, but who knows! maybe the people who read "Text Drive Meme #15" for June think that particular test drive can only be tagged into for the month of June, when technically, anyone can still go back and tag to that test drive and test the waters even when it's not app cycle time.

of course if we do this, the prompts need to be something that will effect the game for two months for the June/July TDM to make sense.

like maybe the critters of the forest keep breaking into the inn, homes, or establishments for shelter because the simulation decided it's hurricane season, so the characters are constantly dealing with storms and stuff.

or a pipe bursts somewhere and everyone has to use water responsibly and/or the council expects the chosen to do the right thing and share water with your neighbor.

i'm just spit-balling. but yeah i don't know if that will be helpful at all but it's an idea!