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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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[recollecters]

Hi Yuff! I'll go back to responding individually since you did mention some things I'd like to discuss further as well, so thank you very much for further explaining/sharing! It absolutely helps to get further insight where I'm overlooking things as a plot mod and where we might be stumbling as a mod team as a whole.

Re: apps + state of the game: I'll discuss this with the other mods and most likely we will put up a post/poll/etc about both of these items to see how the playerbase at large feels about them! The longer I think about it, I as a player would want a "how's the game" feedback post, too, outside of just a standard HMD but we will leave this to the playerbase. It's something to think about at least in regards to making this a scheduled thing as well. Maybe pair it with the HMD's schedule or such.

Re: the murder game: this is absolutely fair and I can definitely see what happened and where I failed to communicate my intentions. Overall I mostly just want to stress to the playerbase at large that Lucy and Megan were not involved in the decisions I made regarding Grimmoired and extend a further apology. Going forward if something like this becomes a thing again transparency will be the default option.

Re: pacing - This is also a very fair point and I'm going to pin this one on me again as the mod who's writing the event logs. I think for me, personally, my fear is that the plot posts would be overbloated with information and the event logs too barebones so it's really more about me specifically finding a better balance (since like…yeah, more information is good information.) These are good ideas and while I can't guarantee they will be used in this specific way, they are appreciated and give a very clear idea of what might be best for the game at large.

With that said, I'll strive to make August's event log more "here were the things you guys plotted on the plot post, but in addition if you want, here are some other things you can do with what you've already found out." The August plot post is going to be a bit unique compared to the last couple of posts as it'll require more information and detailing, but I hope to hit the mark this time.

In the end, all I can really say is thank you very much for taking the time to talk through the concerns and give us a clear idea of what we can do to improve going forward. Lucy, Megan and I really love the game and love seeing players have fun with it so we want to make sure we're doing everything possible to make sure it's fun and not frustrating.

[fiddlestick]

I don't have much more to add other than this all sounds good! Thank you so much for listening to our concerns, being open to change, and working with us. I look forward to seeing how August plays out!

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