HMD | April 2012

[these_balls]

EVALUATE MY BATTLING!

TRAINER TIPS:
→ This is encouraged, not mandatory. We will not penalize you for not using it.
→ Feel free to link your personal HMDs if you would like, just in case someone doesn't want to use the mass HMD post.
→ this is more for actual critique and discussion. Please don't just blindly praise a person or just call them horrible. If someone's doing a wonderful job, you can tell them, just tell them why, or even where they're showing off bonus perks. If someone's doing a not-so-wonderful job, tell them why, give them things to improve on if you can. Examples, links, things that can give them something to work on. Meaning, no bashing, flaming, or nasty behavior. Please keep it civil.
→ Anonymous is turned on! But note: anonymous is a privilege, not a right. If it's being abused to bash players, please be sure to let one of us know and we'll step in or freeze threads if necessary. If anonymous is abused too much, it will be turned off for the next HMD.
→ Don't take this all too personally! Remember that roleplay is a game, and crit is supposed to help, not make you feel horrible. No one is perfect, we've all got room to improve. Please keep that in mind.

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Comments

[dreamsofahero]

That may be! But it still doesn't really address the main issue I raised- namely, that the game is currently designed, and players encouraged, to follow it by using their journals' reading pages. And obviously there is an issue with this, if it's so incredibly difficult to establish new IC relationships without some kind of OOC connection. Which is the main point that I'm finding so frustrating, and why I suggested having a comm or network page as being the centralized go-to place for following the game, rather than leaving it up to individuals.

[derpsaboutfamily]

I'm in both journal-based and community-based games, and I haven't really seen much of a difference between the two. I think regardless of whether or not the game is journal-based or community-based, there's often a bias of wanting to tag canons you know. I have just as hard a time establishing new IC relationships in my community-based game with my lesser-known characters than I do here. I'm not saying it's right, necessarily, but I don't think completely revamping the way the game is built will change too much of that, unfortunately.

Perhaps the way around it would be to have more CR memes and to tag around those.