Comment/Complaints

[adstringendummod]

In light of recent events, it has come to our attention that Adstringendum requires some restructuring. The staff are doing their best to address these issues and adapt for the changing times, the growth of this comm, and the new issues that have come up, but thinking ahead can only account for so much, and the staff's ideas will only please so many.

So to best serve the needs of the comm, and to best address complaints early, we've decided to create this comments/suggestions/complaints post to manage complaints and ideas which players and potential players may have with the community. Think of it as a "How's My Driving" for Adstring as a whole. Topics you might bring up here include (but are not restricted to): application process, mod/staff duties, complaints about mod/staff members (on staff-based issues; character-based complaints still belong in relevent mun's HMD post), event issues, etc. We will be sure to reply to every note, and complaints and suggestions will be reviewed and taken into serious consideration.

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[nukeoleptic]

Hey, there! This.. probably doesn't belong here at all, but I was wondering if there was any way at all that we could petition to change canon update requests. I realize that the current way stops people with ongoing canons from "abusing" the ability to canon update (you definitely wouldn't want Homestuck kids updating every week after every new update, of course), but I think the current system could punish people with dynamic canons who stay in Adstring for a while.

Just as an example! I waited six months with Johannes and a new book came out with a plethora of amazing new information and adventures with him, so I decided to canon update -- but when I did, losing the CR with him just utterly destroyed the muse for me. He was a hard character to establish in the first place, and doing that again was nigh impossible.

Again, this is just a suggestion. I know other games (Paradisa, Poly, Siren's Pull, Asgard, etc) allow you to canon update and still retain memories of the game, and I think it might be more friendly for people with changing canons that plan on sticking around long-term. I know Break suffered from this, too, and Lucifer, too. Limitations of course would have to be put on this (you can only canon update every 6 months or once a year or whatever), but I think this would be a really, really good policy change to make.

Thanks. :B


Also, you should totally unscreen this! BD

+1

[saucey]

Exactly why I never canon updated before :|a And playing someone who has ties with those that get canon updated (ie Break, Allen), it's... WELL IT'S NOT FUN.

+1

[tipsygnostalgia]

I just wanted to come and +1 this post

Canon updating isn't something that should be able to happen regularly w/o consequences but i think if the option was there for once or twice a year without losing all memories it could help those who wanted to canon update due to major changes in their character but felt unable to through fear of losing months or years worth of CR?

if that makes sense :B also idk if this gets screened or not but it can be unscreen if u dont mind that ;A;

+1

[follower]

Just popping in to say I really like this idea. It's a lot more fun if canon information can be brought into play without erasing previous CR, especially when canon information can be used to make new CR with character who previous had little in common or to make existing CR more dynamic.

[froghat]

Throwing out another idea- canon update could be treated like a death, and count toward death totals or something like that? It'd keep people from abusing the system as well, since IIRC the limit for deaths is three. Your character would gain the new memories and retain the old, but lose something in return- a sense, limb, object, etc. I think it'd be a good compromise, but I do support this general idea!

uh yeah unscreen this too 8D

[tastestherainbow]

I AGREE WITH THIS.

It seems kind of like a silly rule/implementation to have required that most no other game has. Unless I'm drastically overseeing something that would make the memory loss make sense or useful, it seems a bit of an arbitrary rule to have.