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[recollecters]

HOW'S MY DRIVING?

HMD - JULY Welcome to Recollé's quarterly HMD! Due to feedback from the playerbase, we have opted to switch from bi-monthly HMDs to an HMD once every three months. Players are encouraged to post to the HMD, though it is not required; there is a comment for mod and game feedback, as well. While anon is not enabled, socks may be used. However, any harassment is subject to being frozen or deleted, and if that should become an issue we will move the HMD meme to a members-only community such as our OOC community. Please remember to be respectful of your fellow players while offering crit and feedback. Thank you! MOD/GAME FEEDBACK COMMENT.

Comments

[matchbreaker]

So I largely agree with basically everything Yuff said in their critique for the record (and thank you Yuff so I don't need to write something like that myself) but I'd like to add on/emphasize three more points in addition to those:

Despite the fact that this big five month mega event thing I feel/agree has gone too slow on balance, I don't want that to be twisted to mean that everything should be really zippy all the time. If anything, I actually feel that something(s) as huge as all the NPCs disappearing (even if they did get overshadowed by the bingo stuff to some extent) or especially the apps closing should have gotten a longer lead in ends up. The apps closing in particular probably merited that being announced weeks back further than what it was, because I can tell you anecdotally that blindsided a number of people and didn't provide a lot of time to plan around it.

Related though, while there's been some player choice mechanics (turning in the bingo things, I don't know if you guys did a birds eye view of the painting to assess completion or something?) none of them have felt particularly tangible in a way that reflects the stated desire for player actions to steer this summer mega plot that was said at the front end of it. Or at least they haven't to me and to some other people I know. I admit especially because the bingo thing could have been reported more promptly by me and others and the mid-month update implies that was meant to be a more gradual progression thing, this could be subjective. But it has been a curious thing for me.

It's picked up the pace in the last month-ish (which is good, genuinely!) but for a while there a lot of game functions (response to mod PMs, approving/rejecting regains, etc) were getting to be really delayed as compared to how they function most of the time. While that's understandable, mods have lives and are people, that in conjunction with closing apps for this event and the frankly kind of bad optics of a secret murdergame being prepped for/happening concurrently (which I will stress agreement with Yuff that it's totally valid to do! people should have fun how they have fun, it just felt kind of weird after some lackluster feeling event months) with it do serve to make me a little worried about the nuts and bolts functionality of the game going forward

That said on the flip side even if I am not using the option for it, the ability to provide for AU reconstruction is actually cool and I enjoyed the consequences of the buildings/things being repainted weird colors lasting through June and even into now too, that's actually a neat longer term thing especially if we still have the brushes which I'm pretty sure we do. I'm still on balance having a lot of fun with the game.

[fiddlestick]

+1 to all of this! Especially the first point which I think Charles made clearer than I did. I don't want things to be zippy, just more evenly paced.

[recollecters]

Hi Charles! Thanks for the comment; in order to streamline everything and address all points that you and others share, I've written up an HMD address that I hope answers all of these. Please let me know if there are questions still unanswered, and we truly appreciate the feedback!