unexpected absence & apology, along with poll

[supportadmin]

Hello everyone! This is Vi, and I need to start out by apologizing to everyone for the disappearing act I've pulled lately. March blindsided me with a series of real life obstacles that have finally stabilized over the last few days. With that, I'm pulling together here, and coming to you guys for discussion.

To begin, a question of interest! I'm finally back in a place where I can dedicate the time and attention this game deserves to the game itself. But as I've been out of it, I want to ask the simple, and hard, question first: who is, and isn't, interested in having the game continue? If you are, please keep reading below. If you are not, I want to thank you for the energy and time you've shared with everyone here, and wish you the best in future endeavors!

For those interested in seeing the game continue, I have a few questions.

1. What can I do to help make the game feel accessible to you and for you? As in, what are the kinds of tools or the type of information I can provide to make you feel comfortable with the game setting, and want to set up your own posts and reasons for interaction?
   
   A few items that have been in process include a facility map and/or sense of what the setting looks like in the Shatterdome, information on Valparaíso the city as a whole, cultural information on celebrations and other aspects of Chilean culture, etc.
   
   
2. What classroom activities are most beneficial and/or interesting for you to have your characters explore, or for you to actively thread within?
   
   
3. Would it be beneficial to have initial training last 8 weeks instead of 12, and allow participants who want to go for being a Ranger and not another portion of the PPDC be able to start PONS training after two months?
   
   
4. What kinds of outside events are you interested in having your characters deal with? In this case, are things like relief efforts and rebuilding efforts of interest to you, are festivals and cultural celebrations of interest, are outside competitions or challenges of particular interest?
   
   
5. What would you like to know about the overarching response of the world to events as they happen? Would anyone like to contribute to more in depth responses, based on personal knowledge and/or personal interest?

I ask most of these wanting to hear from everyone about what they feel is important for them to have in order to enjoy exploring and creating within the environment of this game's world. I want to be able to provide assistance as best as I can, and so I turn to you!

Thank you for reading, and I'll be here throughout to answer questions, ask more questions, and engage in dialog with anyone willing. i will also accept reasonable tomato's tossed at my head - regardless of what life's been pulling on me, I should have been making sure people here knew some of what was going on.

Comments

[boomerangarrow]

I'm still here and willing to play.

I've also been hit by a truck ton of life lately.

But I'd just like to add a +1 to fieldcommissioned's suggestions.