// POST-EVENT FEEDBACK_

[eluviomods]

// POST-EVENT FEEDBACK_ With our first event concluded, we'd like to hear from you about what you thought! There are two components to this feedback post. ➣ Mod Feedback First, we would like you to tell us, the mods, what you thought of the way the event was run. What worked? What didn't? What did you like? What didn't you like? Through watching the game communities and some player feedback, we've identified three areas that seemed to cause some issues and would like to hear any thoughts you might have on both of them. PACING: Because this was the game's first plot event and we acknowledge the slower pace of DWRP these days, we thought allowing the playerbase a month to work through the mission would allow plenty of time to thread, explore the setting, and complete logs without a significant amount of backtagging that might slow things down. However, we noticed that approach didn't seem to turn out to be as helpful as we thought it would. So we would like to hear your thoughts on how to achieve a good balance of time to thread versus not slowing the game down to a crawl. Currently, we're considering providing less OOC time to complete events and missions in the hope of encouraging things to move along more quickly. PARTICIPATION: When slots are limited, it's important that the players who sign up to take part in missions or events participate. This means actively playing with the group you sign up for and participating in logs, posts, or OOC communication. To encourage players not to squat on slots, we have a penalty system in place. Currently, if a player signs up for something that's plot important or has limited slots and then doesn't participate, that player will be ineligible to sign up their character(s) for the next two missions. If there are other ways you believe might encourage participation or discourage signing up for a spot and then not participating, please let us know. MOD GUIDANCE: We've been made aware that some players are struggling with the level of freedom provided to build the game environment along with us. Player contribution to the setting and the environment as a whole is a vital part of the collaborative game experience we want Eluvio to be. We want you to feel comfortable creating the details inside the framework we provide. How can we help you achieve that level of comfort? We can't restrict player freedom too drastically or we run the risk of micromanaging everything you do and that's something we expressly want to avoid. We do intend to provide a little more structure to the next plot than what was provided for the Oros Mission and we're always available to answer questions about what characters can do in a particular setting or during a plot. But if there are other things you think would help, we want to know. Aside from those three points, please let us know if there are any other areas that we need to take into consideration. In order to avoid repeating the same responses, we may not be responding to every comment, however we will be reading them. ➣ Player Feedback The second component of this post is to give you, players, the opportunity to discuss your experience with the event. Our hope is that having a venue for open, honest communication with one another will help alleviate frustrations and enable things run more smoothly going forward. We ask that you please keep things civil and respectful. Discussing frustrations is welcome and encouraged. Insulting one another is not.

Comments

[nodyinteam]

I agree largely with the Zelos mun's points. Of course, I wound up not participating in the missions, so I have no experience there to speak about, although I definitely know that it felt like there wasn't much to do while the characters were off on the mission. I feel that there should be at least a little something to work with for those who aren't taking part in missions, especially considering the length of time that this mission was scheduled for.

In terms of mod guidance... well, I'm personally not good at being creative when having too much freedom to work with. I certainly appreciate you mods being open about giving us this freedom, but I and possibly other players would probably benefit from having more of a framework and guidelines to work with when we're asked to be creative for things. Hopefully an ideal middle ground could be figured out between mod guidance and player freedom?

I think that's about all I have to comment on specifically. But thank you mods for being open to feedback and for running this game! And I wish you guys all the luck in figuring things out!

[eluviomods]

Thank you for your feedback!

The timing of the event was an issue and one we will be working on in the future. We are definitely hoping to prevent something like this from happening again!

To paraphrase what we've said above regarding player guidance and freedom, from the outset Eluvio has been a game that will be created and guided by the players and mod team alike. We encourage our players to be creative and take the initiative to have their own plots if they aren't chosen or participating in the meta plot itself. We will from time to time offer secondary events for those staying or left behind, but that won't always be the case. We've left much of the game open because we are interested in seeing how the players here can help us shape this world! In order to keep that spirit of the game, we will not always be providing more than a basic framework for players to fill in and color with their own imaginations.

For an example of what we mean by basic framework, the background information we provided on the Oros Mission is representative of what you can expect in future additions to the meta plot. Team-specific information and schedules will be tightened up a bit so that team and timed events don't drag or dissolve into confusion. But it's important to us that our players aren't just filling spots in a rigid, pre-written script and we do intend to stay true to the spirit of the game.