takamagahara | November Activity Check + HMD !

Welcome to another Activity Check + HMD!

The AC will run from November 23 through December 1st ending at MIDNIGHT EST. If that's confusing for you, just look here.

In order to pass AC, you will have to provide TWO proofs of your activity. What counts as a proof of activity? Simple! Any one or more network threads consisting of ten (10) or more comments from your character OR one or more log threads consisting of five (5) or more comments from your character. To make AC easier for you, we've created a nice little flowchart for you to follow. Remember, comments must be from November in order to count. That means anything from November 1 through November 30th will count towards AC.

There is now an additional requirement to passing AC!

Everyone is sent an approval email when their application is approved! We now require you do ALL of the following items from your approval email as part of your first month's AC with a new character.

1) Reply to the mod approval e-mail with the username that you will be using

2) Request to join these communities: thenearshore, thefarshore, takamagahara

New characters will not be granted access to the comms without having completed step #1

3) Fill out these forms and post them on your journal: permissions, god/shinki info

4) Make an inbox for your character and post it to your journal

5) Your application is posted on your journal as well

6) Reply to the Taken Character and God/Shinki Info pages, as well as the Tag Request post

Please copy the appropriate code, fill out the necessary information, and paste it in a reply to this post.

○ For Characters Accepted In November:

○ For All Other Characters:

This month will also have our mandatory bi-monthly HMD.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I was wondering if there was any chance of reconsidering the 3:1 day ratio in the game. I get that the 3:1 ratio some how makes it easier for the mods to work. I also understand that TFS kind of brands itself as a slower, smaller, and more relaxed game so it makes sense for the game to operate on a bit of a slower schedule. I’m not entirely sure how the game being 3:1 helps the mods but I’ve personally, really been struggling with it.

With the game being 3:1, I’m doing either one of two with my character(s): doing entirely too much in a short period of time or waiting for weeks or even months for something to happen ICly.

In the first case, I play a really active and social character (Urashima) who likes to get out and do things. When I’m responding to logs/network posts, I constantly have to check myself because it’s really easy to have him doing too much. For the most part, I can handwave and be vague with these things because most things aren’t too important but there are times, especially around event logs, when things just begin to overlap and conflict with each other where it doesn’t make sense. I find myself doing this constantly to the point it’s really hard to keep track of my character and CR development.

On the flip side, when I’m not dealing with too much happening within an IC week because of the 3:1 days, I find myself sitting on my hands a lot just waiting for the IC calendar to catch up the times I need. I have this problem with Sakura who is working on clinic things. ICly, I want to say it takes about a month just to get things started but with the 3:1 ratio, one ic month ends up being like, 3 months. That’s a really long time to hold off on something that I know other players are interested in getting their characters involved with. I’ve tried to scale back and say it’ll take about 2-3 weeks instead but that still ends up being between 1.5 and 2 months. I’m also having this problem with Urashima where I’m just waiting for winter to start so I can do a log and canon update him but it isn’t even going to be November in game until next April.

Tl;dr: I’m struggling with the 3:1 days with either doing too much with my characters because events are actually happening very closely together OR dragging things out because I’m just waiting for a couple of weeks to pass in the game.

I’m not asking for the game to go 1:1 but is it possible to please consider going to 2:1? That way, the game’s IC calendar could progress a little closer to real time while still being slower. This game is really backtag friendly too so I don't think speeding the game up just a bit would hurt too much... I’m only talking about my own personal experiences here but I know I’m not the only one having these problems. A couple of my friends have actually dropped because the 3:1 deal just burned them out trying to develop their CR naturally and I can feel myself going in the same direction, tbh.

We wanted to let you know that we've heard your concerns and are in the midst of an extensive discussion between the mods about what, if anything, we can do to address them.

As a side note, specific to Sakura's clinic, we wanted to offer our assistance. We realize that this does not address the broader situation, but we would be willing to work with you on how to make the clinic happen faster than 3 OOC months. For example, perhaps a custom mission to get any supplies or permissions sorted out, perhaps an NPC's blessing, etc.?

Thanks! I'll look forward to your decision.

TBH that's something I wanted to do but the last time I approached you guys with something, it was handled pretty poorly. I get that you guys are busy and I figured that's what it was so I never really brought up how I felt about all of it. I figured I could just resolve the problem myself by just keeping mod involvement to a minimum with my future plans. And I'm not saying this to be difficult or mean but it honestly really frustrated and stressed me out at the time and I don't want to repeat a situation where I'm waiting for responses so I can do things...

Maybe things are better now in which case, I'm willing to give it a try if you guys are really down to help me make things work out because I really don't want to wait three months for something that shouldn't have to take this long OOC. (´ｰ｀) ; ; Y'all have me on plurk and my private message are always open if y'all want to to plot something out.

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