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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.

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[promisedyou]

I'm definitely going to echo the above in terms of the pacing of the events, but I definitely wanted to add my two cents on the matter as well: in terms of the last two plots, specifically the painting the town plot and the disappearing NPCs plot, I personally kind of felt a little uncomfortable that their honestly wasn't any way to feasibly opt out of either of those events unless you were taking a hiatus, and even then, you'd have to deal with the consequences of those events as well - after all, the town disappearing meant that actual necessities would be missing: food, water and medicine being the three that come up to mind immediately, especially for the former event.

But I feel like the tone of the event itself - with the whole 'painting the town' being more of a "fun gimmicky thing" than a harsh reality definitely clashed quite a bit, not to mention that there wasn't any way during that month to keep track of what was being colored in and what wasn't, especially when you take into consideration that the ones who were majorly doing in the coloring in were solely members of Retrospec.

As for the latter, this is a little more personal on my end but... I was actually extremely concerned that the June plot would have clashed really hard with the player plot that I had told you guys about months in advance. With the potential being there for NPCs not to return if we didn't have the turn-in, I almost felt uncomfortable moving forward with the player plot in the off chance that winded up being the case. And while it didn't happen, the fact that concern was actually there in spite of being told that the event wouldn't clash with my player plot was definitely something that I was worried about, and if I had known - even vaguely - that the event for the month of June was going to be a scale-wide event that would have affected the entirety of the town, then I wouldn't have done the player plot at all.

Other than that, I have nothing else to add other than what everyone else has said already - I really do enjoy this game and playing in it a lot myself, and I'd like to continue on hopefully playing in the months to come.

[recollecters]

Hi Len! 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!