revivalprojectooc | June OOC Announcements - AC Results and Future Of AC Talk

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June OOC Announcements - AC Results and Future Of AC Talk

Starting this month there will be a minor change in how monthly announcements take place. First one to go out will be your OOC Announcements, which will focus on AC results and reminders, of course the (usually OOC) AC Amusement Bonus, and any other important back end announcements. This will be labeled as OOC Announcements and will cover important things the mods need to tell you about game structure, tasks we might be working on, and things like that. The second post will be your June IC Announcements, which will include any information about changes going on in setting (seasonal changes, new fun things to play with, etc), pending events (event drop dates, hints on what events will be, etc), and anything else we figure will be important to note IC, including reminders in a general sense if we see something getting forgotten a lot (like that Agra 10 has a 30 hour day). We also encourage our players to see this IC Announcements post as a way to plot/plan related to events, player plots, or just general exploration/life on Temba. So, with that news out of the way, let's get on with your June OOC Announcements.

✧ ACTIVITY RESULTS ✧

The May Activity Check is completed. We thank everyone who turned in your AC in a timely manner and give a round of applause to everyone for a great Calibrations Month.

As always we would remind players that if you run into some unforeseen barrier to completing your AC, please drop a line to Mod Churby by Private Messaging the

doubled_speed account, on discord (Churby#4290), or on Plurk

churbooseanon. You can also send a message directly to the

trpmods account. Please do not send messages in the game chat or other mods without CCing Churby, as they are the primary chronicler of AC at this juncture.

If you're looking for your monthly silliness for AC, see the comments below. There's nothing game related this time, but we did find a wonderful glass bottle generator. Why glass bottles? Because we figure anyone in calibrations could use something to store their booze, or tears in. That said these are not canon gifts, though I suppose if your character is particularly inspired they could talk to the replicator.

Strikes and Drops
Strikes Needing Cleared In June
None!

Drops
Iron Bull
Padmé Amidala
Rey

Swept
Jean Grey

✧ MINOR NOTES ✧

There are three minor announcements for this month other than the division of how announcements will work in the future.

First is a note that the calendar of events has had a small change in what was expected for the summer. Due to circumstances the July and August plans will be swapped, so July will be an event, and August will be a plot adjacent event.

Second is a note to players new and old regarding Plurk and Discord. We would like to remind our players that not all of our members use Plurk, just as not all of our players use Discord. Because of this we very much encourage people, when plotting for game events, setting up player plots and adventures, and otherwise planning, consider using our OOC community to give a space that all players can access for talk. We will be looking into doing a regular CR Meme in the future to help with plotting in these ways and to help you reach out to new characters/people, but this is still in progress. As a side note: anyone who does wish to join the game discord should do so by messaging the

trpmods account. Please do not ask other players for invites, we like to be aware of who is being brought in.

Third and finally, we very much love your memeing energy, and encourage our players to keep sharing their meme ideas for play and other sorts of fun. Anyone who wishes always has the option of messaging the

trpmods or

trpmememods account to post these on your behalf to prevent you from getting your inbox swamped. And if you don't want to do that, that's also cool!

✧ AC CHANGES POLL ✧

On this one, we've got to apologize on the delay. Some factors came up and it took a while for us to finish processing the input we were given and create the final, formal language for our potential new AC forms. In the end we cut down to four different options, and we will ask you to choose which one you like the most, the second most, and the least. We are doing this because we feel this will give us a better reflection of what players actually will be happy with seeing here.

Players will have until the end of the month to vote, and we ask that you vote only once each. Not once per character account, but once per player. If you vote with multiple characters, we will take your most recently submitted answer as your final one. We also require you to vote in ALL THREE QUESTIONS.

Results will be announced in July (or late June if the poll is at any point answered by all current members of our community), and in all cases but Option 1, the soonest the new AC system will take effect is for the August AC period. If it's Option 1 (which is just an updated form of what we do now), then it will change over immediately.

All options being voted upon will be in reply to the second mod comment below, in their full final text. The only exception is that the specific forms of Bonus Point System for Options 3 and 4. We have yet to finalize this and will not do so unless one of these systems is chosen/implemented.

Finally, please be aware that while players can SEE the number of votes in the poll, the way they will be tallied will ultimately be by hand due to chances of repeat votes, and how we will apply value to each different option.

Poll #27103 Which AC style would most interest you going forward?

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 12

Select which AC style you like the MOST

Option 1: Continuing System
3 (25.0%)

Option 2: Ten Plus Comments System
6 (50.0%)

Option 3: Simplified AC
1 (8.3%)

Option 4: Month In Review
2 (16.7%)

Select the AC Style you like the SECOND MOST

Option 1: Continuing System
3 (25.0%)

Option 2: Ten Plus Comments System
2 (16.7%)

Option 3: Simplified AC
5 (41.7%)

Option 4: Month In Review
2 (16.7%)

Select the AC Style you like THE LEAST

Option 1: Continuing System
3 (25.0%)

Option 2: Ten Plus Comments System
3 (25.0%)

Option 3: Simplified AC
1 (8.3%)

Option 4: Month In Review
5 (41.7%)

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Ask them here to ensure they reach us.

All Listed Below

AC requirements are one of the following for each character played:

- One open post with clear effort to follow up on replies.

- One open TL in an event or mingle log with clear effort to follow up on replies.

- Two threads with five or more comments each made during the AC month. These should be on average at least three sentences long.

Additional Notes: All content in the main community can be counted toward AC, even if started in a previous month. IC inboxes and TDM threads can be used for a single thread, and the second thread must come from the main community.

Strikes and Sweeps

- Failure to provide full AC in a month will result in a strike. Strikes are cleared by providing twice as much AC as normally required during the subsequent month.

- Players receive one grace month in clearing a strike if they take a hiatus or discuss an extension request with the mods through a message to the mod account trpmods.

- After two strikes characters will be swept from the game.

- New characters who do not check in during their first check-in month will be swept, though any new characters joining on the 25th or after will have their next calendar month counted as their first.

Applying for Extra Characters
All players are welcome to apply for a third character provided they have made AC for their current characters for at least three months. To apply for additional characters beyond this, players should contact the mod team at

trpmods to receive permission and discuss any additional requirements on application.

AC requirements are one of the following for each character played:

- One open post with clear effort to follow up on replies.

- One open TL in an event or mingle log with clear effort to follow up on replies.

- Ten comments over no more than two threads.

Additional Notes: Comments for AC may still be taken from character inboxes and TDM threads, however at least four must be in the game community. Mods will also monitor to make sure all AC for a character/player does not come from the same people every month. If we have a concern, we will reach out.

Strikes and Sweeps

- Failure to provide full AC in a month will result in a strike. Strikes are cleared by providing twice as much AC as normally required during the subsequent month.

- If using comments only, double AC requires no more than four threads, and ten comments must be in the game community.

- Players receive one grace month in clearing a strike if they take a hiatus or discuss an extension request with the mods through a message to the mod account trpmods.

- After two strikes characters will be swept from the game.

- New characters who do not check in during their first check-in month will be swept, though any new characters joining on the 25th or after will have their next calendar month counted as their first.

trpmods to receive permission and discuss any additional requirements on application.

AC requirements are one of the following for each character played:

- One open post

- One open TL in an event or mingle log

- One comment in the games community

Additional Notes: Comments must be taken only from the games community. We do still encourage players to engage the TDM and character inboxes, but activity can only be drawn from in game community threads.

Strikes and Sweeps

- Failure to post AC, request a hiatus, or otherwise contact the mods by the end of the AC period will result in a strike.

- Receiving a strike two months in a row will result in a character being swept

- Strikes are not 'cleared', however posting AC in one month resets all strikes. Strike-outs are only possible when receiving a strike two months in a row.

- If a character is swept or strikes out, players must wait a full month before reserving and/or applying for that character again.

Applying for Extra Characters
No additional AC is required to apply for a new character. Instead a player can apply for up to three characters to start, then an additional character every two months with a hard cap of six characters. No one may exceed six characters at a time.

Bonus Point System
A Bonus Point System would be implemented. This would encourage additional activity through methods to gain rewards for characters. Details to be shared once finalized.

Before moving on to the formal language for this one, it is important to note that for this we will be making a change to the structure of the Permanent AC page. Instead of having it alphabetically arranged we will create a new page for going forward where, on the first day of the month (or as soon after as possible), the mods will post a comment for the new month. All AC will be posted as a response to this, and each player should reply with the form provided separately with each of their character accounts.

Players with characters in their first month check in by responding to the taken page and player contact page with the appropriate forms.

All other players should reply to the comment thread with the current AC month listed with the following for each character. New players also have the option to do this. (Below follows an example of the sheet)

Character Name:
Character Expertise: (Optional)
Summary: Give us at least two or three sentences that tell us what your character has been up to in the last month and how it may affect them going forward. If you're not sure what to say, consider the following questions:

What has your character been up to this month? Are there projects they've been working on or planning? How have they contributed to the community/plot/events/story? Have they changed as a person? Who have they met and how have their relationships changed?

Additional Notes:
Please keep your AC summary SFW and free of excessively graphic descriptions that could be triggering. Players will be asked to provide a link to their most recent AC during CR related memes, and the monthly link will be shared with the State of the Game post.

Hiatuses
Hiatuses still work with the character not currently present on Temba, though their information will still show up in communicator information and ship logs. Players do not need to do more than post their hiatus to the appropriate page. However we do as (but do not require) that if a character was present at all during the hiatus month players consider giving an abbreviated version of what their character was doing during the time they were present.

Sweeps

- Failure to check in will result in a character being swept. If a player misses AC due to extenuating circumstances, they should contact the mod team to discuss the situation.

- Mods will still be monitoring activity of players in game in a more passive sense. If it is found that a player has been turning in AC for two or months without actually engaging in the game in the form of tags, they will be warned. Continued behavior in this manner would result in being swept from the game.

- If a character is swept players must wait a full month before reserving and/or applying for that character again.

This month we've gone with something a bit silly. Have you ever enjoyed looking at blown glass bottles? The fun sort that look LIKE something? That have interesting shapes or vivid colors? Well, thanks to random bottle generator we could bring you some.

These will not have in game presence or repercussions, they are just for fun. As always, these have been generated only for those characters that were part of the game in time for May to be considered their first AC period. Any character accepted late in the month will not be listed.

Edited 2022-06-08 16:12 (UTC)

Billy - This teardrop-shaped bottle is made of opaque red glass. It has a short neck, stands about six inches tall, and it has a simple handwritten label.
Bruno - This round bottle is made of opaque plum purple glass. It has a mid-length neck, stands about an inch tall, and it has a simple printed label.
Bucky - This ovoid bottle is made of opaque bright green glass. It has a long neck, stands about eight inches tall, and it has an embellished label.
Cal - This cylindrical bottle is made of translucent bright turquoise glass. It has a long neck, stands about three inches tall, and it has a simple handwritten label.
Catra - This onion-shaped bottle is made of translucent smokey red glass. It has a mid-length neck, stands about five inches tall, and most of its label has been torn off.
Cayde-6 - This rectangular bottle is made of translucent colorless glass. It has a short neck, stands about ten inches tall, and its label has been removed.
Celty - This coffin-shaped bottle is made of translucent rose pink glass. It has a mid-length neck, stands about four inches tall, and most of its label has been torn off.
Echo - This teardrop-shaped bottle is made of opaque slate blue glass. It has a mid-length neck, stands about eleven inches tall, and it has a simple printed label.
Felwinter - This teardrop-shaped bottle is made of opaque green glass. It has a long neck, stands about five inches tall, and the ink on its label has been washed off.
Gladiolus - This cylindrical bottle is made of translucent bright purple glass. It has a mid-length neck, stands about eleven inches tall, and it has an embellished label
Jon - This apple-shaped bottle is made of translucent dark green glass. It has a mid-length neck, stands about six inches tall, and it has a simple printed label.
Keith - This ovoid bottle is made of transparent colorless glass. It has a short neck, stands about thirteen inches tall, and it has a colorful label.
Lance - This round bottle is made of translucent orange glass. It has a long neck, stands about two inches tall, and it has a simple printed label.
Lark - This teardrop-shaped bottle is made of translucent royal purple glass. It has a short neck, stands about fifteen inches tall, and the ink on its label has been washed off.
Lauri - This pear-shaped bottle is made of opaque smokey yellow glass. It has a mid-length neck, stands about four inches tall, and it has an embellished handwritten label.
Lerith - This teardrop-shaped bottle is made of translucent azure glass. It has a short neck, stands about an inch tall, and it has an embellished label.

Merrin - This ovoid bottle is made of translucent smokey rose glass. It has a long neck, stands about seven inches tall, and most of its label has been torn off.
Noctis - This teardrop-shaped bottle is made of translucent smokey orange glass. It has a long neck, stands about nine inches tall, and it has an embellished handwritten label.
Omega - This cylindrical bottle is made of translucent plum purple glass. It has a short neck, stands about fourteen inches tall, and the ink on its label has been washed off.
Peter - This ovoid bottle is made of opaque bright purple glass. It has a long neck, stands about two inches tall, and it has no label.
Quentin - This coffin-shaped bottle is made of translucent slate blue glass. It has a long neck, stands about seven inches tall, and most of its label has been torn off.
Reeve - This pear-shaped bottle is made of opaque bright yellow glass. It has a long neck, stands about five inches tall, and the ink on its label has been washed off.
Richie - This teardrop-shaped bottle is made of opaque bright turquoise glass. It has a mid-length neck, stands about twelve inches tall, and its label has been removed.
Shiro - This rectangular bottle is made of opaque smokey rose glass. It has a long neck, stands about seven inches tall, and it has a simple printed label.
Steve - This onion-shaped bottle is made of translucent lemon-yellow glass. It has a mid-length neck, stands about seven inches tall, and it has a simple printed label.
Terra - This rectangular bottle is made of translucent colorless glass. It has a long neck, stands about six inches tall, and it has an embellished label.
Tommy - This onion-shaped bottle is made of translucent smokey orange glass. It has a long neck, stands about ten inches tall, and most of its label has been torn off.
Tony - This cylindrical bottle is made of opaque rose pink glass. It has a long neck, stands about seven inches tall, and it has a colorful label.
Viktor - This pear-shaped bottle is made of opaque maroon glass. It has a mid-length neck, stands about eight inches tall, and it has an embellished handwritten label.
Winter - This rectangular bottle is made of translucent slate blue glass. It has a mid-length neck, stands about five inches tall, and it has no label.
York - This ovoid bottle is made of translucent magenta glass. It has a short neck, stands about nine inches tall, and it has an embellished label.

So, some stats here.

Smallest Bottles
-Bruno and Lerith tied at one inch

Tallest Bottle
-Lark (who needs it for all the wine she needs to drink after you've all STRESSED HER SO MUCH!)

Most Common Shape
-Teardrop

Bottle That Made Me Laugh
-Beck's coffin shaped bottle. Dude DID try and do a murder.

On a more personal level, I love that Tommy's onion one is onion colored.

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June OOC Announcements - AC Results and Future Of AC Talk

Questions

AC Poll Options

Option 1: Continuing System

Option 2: Ten Plus Comments System

Option 3: Simplified AC

Option 4: Month In Review

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