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Since Hawk is like the most common Mul name and tribal and everything else. Lets clarify that we're talking about Captain Hawk the silt skimmer master!

My suggestion would be to write a primer or a guide about how interaction with staff is not the same as on other games like Armageddon or SOI. That it's more collaborative and you expect players to wish up when they need things ICly. That's probably the strangest thing I'd have adjusting too and having some kind of codified guidelines would certainly help.

One thing is that kind of system is something where a player who has more experience using that system of interaction has an advantage over newer players. They know what they can ask for, when they can ask for it, and know how to interact with NPCs/PCs in such a way to promote their agenda. Newer players don't even know they can ask for knives at shops without knives. Thus creating the perception that certain characters are staff favoured?

Thank you for your article Alaire and also for you and Jazet actually engaging with players who have critical feedback about your game and your staff approach. Even if it has been on this board and not OR, I think it's important for the health of our genre that we stop trying to keep things behind closed doors or downplay them.

Good Question...

I do not believe that the text-based game community would support an RPI/RPE/RPG that is pay to play. Whether it is a one time purchase or a monthly subscription. MMOs with 10s to 100s of people are not able to get that kind of commitment from much larger playerbases. In addition the legacy of the diku engine has ingrained a very suspicious response to trying to profit off of MUDs.

That being said I do believe a system similar to Riot Games - League of Legends or a Patreon campaign could be a viable means to fund the development or running of a game with a full time staff. This is of course assuming that you have an engine with a license which allows for this.

TLDR - Project Redshift will not require a purchase or monthly subscription, ever.

I think there is a key difference between playing the game and contributing to the game. Before I elaborate I don't want to imply that playing or contribution have different levels of value. One isn't better than the other. I just want to explore why a lot of people say I want a good character and to contribute or good roleplay and contribute. But all of your definitions thus far the good RP or the good character constitutes contribution. So why the additional word?

I think it's because deep down people believe contribution goes beyond the stories we tell with our characters. They do add content, they do add to the game world, but I don't believe it is a contribution. I think it's just playing the game. I think contribution requires creation and change. I think the Tuluki Levies are a contribution, I think Captain Hawks Silt crew was a contribution, I think that the formation of the culture of how Nakkis respond to Tuluki's will be a contribution. I think that the Tal-Vasi circus -might- be a contribution. It depends how far they are able to take it.

A contribution is something of significant impact to the RP culture, style, habit, mannerisms, acceptable lexicon. With the levies it was creating a new realm of RP for Tuluk and giving context to those roles and that change to the IC culture. With Captain Hawk, he was exploring (for the first time for many) the silt sea and all the mechanic and RP open to use through that part of the game. The potential cultural changes that Nakki players have the opportunity to shape in how they respond to all these refugees is also a contribution. It will shape the game for however long Tuluk is closed. The Tal-Vasi circus is also a potential contribution. It could create a solid replacement for the Muark that is player initiated and far more world appropriate. It could start a trend even.

You're making me blush, Jcarter.

Drovians do see an ungodly amount of mudsex... But as I mention in another thread, Krathi's are the closest thing to the reaper of death on the game. You can not only kill a mek in a few hits but you can then pick up the corpse and carry it around.

Personally I'd pick the Drovian because I think they're a bit more of an RP creator than Krathi's are.