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[rosestolilies]

Hello, Queen of Hearts. We recently celebrated our 2nd birthday and we've been working our way onto our third, however with time things need to change and it's come to our attention that there needs to be a major change in store for this game.

We have been working with the game for quite a while in order to bring fresh life into it that could attract more players, we've taken suggestions for ways to advertise and how we can improve. And still, there's been a lack of apps and quite a few drops, which will surely take its toll on such a small game. We asked for a new moderator who might help to implement some of the changes the players have been asking for, but received no offers.

We feel we are running out of options on keeping this game interesting and afloat. If you have any suggestions, you are welcome to come to us, but we have made a few options of our own.

Closing the game: We don't want to do this! But if the players would like some sort of closure to send their characters home to, we will provide.

Musebox: We can turn the game into a musebox. There will be no applications or activity check, but also no moderator-run events or plot. This basically means the characters will stay in the Gardens and you are free to play as you like.

New mods: If some amount of players would like to step up and help to revamp the game and the rest of the players would be alright with that, we are happy to help.

Any other suggestions are welcome. We feel we're at a standstill currently, but we would love to keep this game running! There's no poll on this currently as these options aren't set in stone and can be changed. We mostly just want to gauge player interest. If it seems there's a divide on certain options, we can find a way to work it out.

Comments

[nekomikoreimu]

I think losing a bunch of players has hurt, especially ones that had so many characters and such a deep connection to the game. I need to count to see how many people are still here. I guess the taken characters/contact has been updated yet.

As to what we do to fix this... I don't think mods are an issue, unless you guys don't have enough to run the game. I think we may need more player run events. Maybe more events involving the NPC's and not just the whims of the queen. I think some of you biggest events involved other NPCs, like the Pirate and the well lady. After the Priestess or the Warrior involved in something.

In that line, I think having the NPC's interact more with our characters is important too. I look at theinstitute as an example on how to do it well. In a few places the NPC's do jump into other peoples threads to interact with them. I say have the Queen and her Vassels more involved with the day to day life. If a character is sad, have the queen comfort them. Things like that.

[swarmoflies]

It was a pretty substantial drop train to say the least. I stopped counting at thirteen characters dropped, but there were more posts after that. It's a big chunk taken out of a character count that had already been dwindling for quite some time.

Running the game with just the two of us would be pretty difficult. Ran and I run more or less opposite schedules, so it's hard to get in touch with each other reliably if we don't have a third to bridge the gap. Adding more NPC interaction on top of mod work and our own characters' tags just adds to that problem.

[nekomikoreimu]

I could have sworn there were 3 of you. My bad. Having a third mod is really needed then. Games with just 2 tend to suffer in one way or another.

I was mainly suggesting the NPC interaction if you had enough mods to do it. I say try it out if you decide you get a third.

However, it seems a bunch of people are leaning towards Museboxes. That would be fun, but I also think the game should have an end. I say do both, and say the muse box took place before it, or have some other excuse. I am very curious to see more of the secrets this world has

[swarmoflies]

There were three of us until recently, when Vee stepped down. We put up mod applications but as noted in the post, nobody responded.

[nekomikoreimu]

Right, I saw that but forgot. I was thinking of putting my name down, but I thought that if you need to ask to be a mod, you shouldn't be a mod. Though I did put my name down in NW since that game is much newer.

Still, I am willing to toss out ideas and help with some plots. I did want Kanako and Sette to have more WACKY encounters, haha