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HEY BROS

So Lady and I have discussed and we don't think Pearl has gained or is likely to gain the traction it needs to survive the way we would need it to suit our purposes. This isn't to say the game is entirely dead, as obviously some people are at least somewhat active and others are much more active. But it isn't active enough or large enough for what we wanted to do.

We are well aware that THINGS COULD POSSIBLY BE DONE to fix this, but one major part of the game, for us, was that it be more-or-less self sustaining. We neither have the time nor the energy to cultivate a thriving team game like we know is possible, as that is very much tantamount to taking on a part-time job.

If someone else has ideas of what could be done to bring the game up to speed and would personally like to implement those ideas in their entirety, you can email the modbox at pearlmods@gmail.com to talk to us about it and we can mull that over. OR, more likely, if you think you would like to start your own game and steal a bunch of pearl ideas but adapt them to work for your own purposes (and superior survivability) by all means!

On the POSSIBILITY that anyone wants to do the above, we're gonna hold off on anything official a couple of days. One way or another you'll hear back from us soon.

<3

-Lady and Aviy
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IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, ASK THEM HERE, NOT IN PLURK. (but feel free to ping aviy in plurk to come answer questions here)
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SUP BROS

So in this OOC announcement (I realize we have almost as many of these as we do public posts… hence the reason for this announcement really) we're gonna talk about streamlining a few things to hopefully open up the game more and make easier/more fun for people to engage with.

LOCKED POSTS
While we are not going to take away the locked post mechanic as of yet, we are gonna strongly encourage ya'll to not lock posts unless you have some REAL RAD SHIT you are hiding and planning to launch on other teams. We totally appreciate everyone was like YEAH LOCKED POSTS LET'S ENGAGE WITH THIS MECHANIC!!! Buuut it seems to mostly right now be making it hard for people to interact with each other and difficult to tell what the pacing is as you can't really tell how many posts have been made. We do realize that overall there just aren't a lot of posts but a solid amount of them have been locked. Additionally, locking a post makes people feel like they can't talk about what's going on in them, and the lifeblood of any game is people being really publically excited about their stupid bullshit.

SO just as a solid SUGGESTION, less locked posts, but do try to keep the OOC/IC divide in mind when playing. I think ya'll are grown up enough for info modding to not really be an issue.

SECONDS
Applications for seconds are open! ETA on when they will actually be accepted is pending (near or on the first of the month), but you can go ahead and start submitting now!

PRIME DROP
WE MAY HANDLE THIS DIFFERENTLY IN THE FUTURE. but rn there is an open prime space so you may app for aristophanes prime

AC AND SEASON SUBMISSIONS
GET EM IN
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If you have been paying attention to plurk this not news BUT update various pages to reflect some changes in the game:

-Changes to Seasons - Seasons now last a little over 3 OOC weeks (ending on the 24th of each month). This is to account for the game going a bit slower than anticipated, and also so that at the end of the Season there is a period to play with and react to the fall out of everyone's scores. Sometime on the 25th is when the mods will release the results, so fill out the submissions on your team journals by the end of the 24th. We won't be freezing them or anything just if it ain't up by whenever the mods get to it on the 25th it will not count.

-Changes to Martyrs and Primes. DID I MENTION PRIMES BEFORE? Slight changes to the abilities of primes and martyrs. TLDR primes control seals are split up and martyrs smell tasty after level 2.

-There is also a note on the role page now to Edificers that basically says if you are level 2 and want to use your BUILD SHIT power, email the mods with what you want to build, and some clarity on what is acceptable.

-On Drops and making AC - HOW TO DROP YOUR CHARACTER AND ALSO SUBMIT YOUR AC FOR REAL DO IT.

Some stuff

Oct. 6th, 2014 07:36 pm
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HERE you will find a post explaining healing mechanics, now that some stupid assholes have gotten themselves injured.

And HERE you will find changes on the abilities of Primes, as the Prime's level 1 ability was useless and boring.

ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE MAY GO BELOW
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HELLO PEARL!!

Since after looking around, I haven't found any comprehensive lists of all the character journals belonging to each house, I figured I'd make an OOC post for people to comment to, to help those who enjoy organizing stuff and want to get their House access filters set up on their house journal. THIS IS ALL VERY UNOFFICIAL but I figured it'd be helpful :U.

Comment with your chara's journal under the correct heading, please!

THE LISTS ARE UP TO DATE AS OF 10/8!
Aristophanes - the Artists
Axum - The Merchants
Borja - The Church
Ichibei - The Mafia
Ching Shih - The Smugglers
Uruk - The Nobles

If you want, you can comment with a meme thing:



You can check out the Mods' FAMILY JOURNAL MAINTENANCE page if you want to know what you're supposed to do with the family journals.

Also, a fix for the navigation strip at the top of all the house journals )
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HEY GUYS, SO IT TURNS OUT YOU CAN'T HAVE ACCESS FILTERS ON COMMUNITIES.

Balls right?

As such, we are retiring the family communities and replacing them with family journals. This does mean you will have to log into a separate journal to make posts. But also you will have full control over creating access filters for other teams and having private team chats!

I have ALREADY MADE THEM and will be emailing you shortly with the passwords. Adjustments have been made to Family Journal Maintenance and Getting Started to account for this. I have also moved the OOC bulletin and the season submissions to each journal and set up the filters for YOUR family.

You are welcome to keep playing in existing posts in the communities, obviously, but please don't create any new post in the communities. I'll be removing them from the network to avoid confusion.

You may also want to create a post that links back to posts that were in the communities so we don't lose them.

SORRY FOR THE CONFUSION GUYS. I think it is all straightened out, but tap me if I missed anything that you can't fix.
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Yay, Pearl is officially open! We made it!

So, while ya'll are welcome to use the OOC comm for whatever you want, we will also be using it for mod announcements, as such you may want to stalker pin it for new posts, though it is also visible in the Network.

Applications are once again open, and will remain so until such a point where Aviy and Olivia decide to close them for any number of seemingly arbitrary reasons. RIGHT NOW our plan is to just leave apps open and process apps as it makes sense to us, which I realize is frustratingly opaque but the real answer is 'we don't know what the best way to handle that is right now, we'll figure it out'. Please take note of the new submission rule on the app page. We will be enforcing this, so if you know a friend who wants to join just let them know you'd be happy to shoot us an email on their behalf before the submit their app.

We will however do the NEXT round of apps friday, so if you want to get in pronto, get your app in by then.

Also, there is a new post on the mod journal concerning Community Management. Everyone has been made an admin of their own family so this is just some explanation on how that works. (OH! And you all have FIRST POSTS put in there by the mods, you'll be able to see them once you're an admin (= You are welcome to unlock them if you wish now that we don't have to hide them anymore).

Finally, I think most of you have seen it but remember the Info Tracker/AC doc? You will help your mods and literally everyone else in the game if you keep this up to date. Please do! At the very least don't get lazy about it until you've met AC each month. It is also linked in the sidebar of the network so you can ~ALWAYS FIND IT~

FINALLY FINALLY, (i remembered something else), everyone gets level one for FREE, for the new year, but you still need four meals to get up to level 2!

Thank you for playing everyone, we hope you enjoy the ride (=
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