Events are not going to be on a schedule of every two months. There is no actual set schedule for events, as the mod events are based on player actions. Not only that, but we are also trying to be completely flexible to work in player run events should they come into play. We have an event scheduled to begin in March, however that is happening directly because of actions taken during the Oros Mission. Punishments are put into place here because interaction and participation are very big parts of the game. It isn't fair to the other players to continuously allow those who sign up and don't participate.
Yes, going forward we do have a plan to get characters to ICly participate in missions. As we've said before, it's perfectly reasonable and expected for characters not to trust the captain or the crew. We are planning for it and in fact are counting on it. When future events require characters to ICly volunteer, we will be taking the general feeling toward the crew into consideration. It is also something to take into consideration that the crew can and often may be just as in the dark as the player characters. They, too, are just doing their jobs.
As for answering questions, we'll do our best to answer whatever questions the playerbase has about anything pertaining to the game. There will be occasions when players will just need to make things up and we'll try to communicate those occasions more effectively in the future. Again, not to repeat ourselves continuously in this post, but the basic part of the game is players contributing to the open world setting.
On our end, part of the trouble we've had answering questions is that many of them seem to be asking for a level of detail we never intended to provide. In your example of questioning Trilk and Fek tech, it seemed as if the intent was for us to provide an extremely detailed explanation, which we weren't going to do as we wanted players to have the freedom to do that. Knowing that general, generic answers like "Stone Age level tech" suffice is very helpful to us and we will do our best in the future to provide at least this level of information whenever possible.
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Events are not going to be on a schedule of every two months. There is no actual set schedule for events, as the mod events are based on player actions. Not only that, but we are also trying to be completely flexible to work in player run events should they come into play. We have an event scheduled to begin in March, however that is happening directly because of actions taken during the Oros Mission. Punishments are put into place here because interaction and participation are very big parts of the game. It isn't fair to the other players to continuously allow those who sign up and don't participate.
Yes, going forward we do have a plan to get characters to ICly participate in missions. As we've said before, it's perfectly reasonable and expected for characters not to trust the captain or the crew. We are planning for it and in fact are counting on it. When future events require characters to ICly volunteer, we will be taking the general feeling toward the crew into consideration. It is also something to take into consideration that the crew can and often may be just as in the dark as the player characters. They, too, are just doing their jobs.
As for answering questions, we'll do our best to answer whatever questions the playerbase has about anything pertaining to the game. There will be occasions when players will just need to make things up and we'll try to communicate those occasions more effectively in the future. Again, not to repeat ourselves continuously in this post, but the basic part of the game is players contributing to the open world setting.
On our end, part of the trouble we've had answering questions is that many of them seem to be asking for a level of detail we never intended to provide. In your example of questioning Trilk and Fek tech, it seemed as if the intent was for us to provide an extremely detailed explanation, which we weren't going to do as we wanted players to have the freedom to do that. Knowing that general, generic answers like "Stone Age level tech" suffice is very helpful to us and we will do our best in the future to provide at least this level of information whenever possible.