Thanks for taking the time to write this all out. I think the drop train is somewhat inevitable once a few key people drop so it's not necessarily your fault directly. From a personal perspective, Viridi has a grand total of three or four people she still interacts with at this point, which is pretty disheartening. If I drop now, it wouldn't really have anything to do with the game, per se.
In regards to issues, I'm going to echo a lot of folks and say that quite frequently, it feels like there isn't much to engage with. The setup of the game means that it takes months for change to occur, and it's often demoralizing to think that a concept you submitted might show up in the game two or three months later. Early into my stay here, I remember there was a poll done about having too many big events all at once. I was surprised that people wanted things to slow down as I was already feeling somewhat the opposite. Since then, it's kind of felt like not very much has happened at all in terms of game development.
Communication has been mentioned as an issue, and in my case, I frequently felt as if I were slightly out of the loop about certain things. I thought I read all the mod posts pretty thoroughly, and I had no idea about this 'Kyo' thing. The damage in Mementos being caused by Akechi also came out of left field, and I only knew the truth about what was happening because I coincidentally tagged in to Ren's top level. It might be helpful if you explicitly summed up ways that player interaction had changed the game each month - or gave us nudges or hints about things that we were accomplishing that we could more actively pursue.
I think there can be a happy medium between everything driven totally by players, which is a good idea but is difficult in execution, and having an over-arching plot decided upon by the mods. That is to say, you can give us a direction and we can supplement it. Also going to be honest and say that I haven't fully committed to staying on yet, so take my thoughts with a grain of salt!
I definitely don't think the hiatus would work, though; I think that would be a lot of effort only for not many people to return (I would probably not). What might work would be a reboot or reenvisioning, but that seems to be beyond the scale of what is being proposed.
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Thanks for taking the time to write this all out. I think the drop train is somewhat inevitable once a few key people drop so it's not necessarily your fault directly. From a personal perspective, Viridi has a grand total of three or four people she still interacts with at this point, which is pretty disheartening. If I drop now, it wouldn't really have anything to do with the game, per se.
In regards to issues, I'm going to echo a lot of folks and say that quite frequently, it feels like there isn't much to engage with. The setup of the game means that it takes months for change to occur, and it's often demoralizing to think that a concept you submitted might show up in the game two or three months later. Early into my stay here, I remember there was a poll done about having too many big events all at once. I was surprised that people wanted things to slow down as I was already feeling somewhat the opposite. Since then, it's kind of felt like not very much has happened at all in terms of game development.
Communication has been mentioned as an issue, and in my case, I frequently felt as if I were slightly out of the loop about certain things. I thought I read all the mod posts pretty thoroughly, and I had no idea about this 'Kyo' thing. The damage in Mementos being caused by Akechi also came out of left field, and I only knew the truth about what was happening because I coincidentally tagged in to Ren's top level. It might be helpful if you explicitly summed up ways that player interaction had changed the game each month - or gave us nudges or hints about things that we were accomplishing that we could more actively pursue.
I think there can be a happy medium between everything driven totally by players, which is a good idea but is difficult in execution, and having an over-arching plot decided upon by the mods. That is to say, you can give us a direction and we can supplement it. Also going to be honest and say that I haven't fully committed to staying on yet, so take my thoughts with a grain of salt!
I definitely don't think the hiatus would work, though; I think that would be a lot of effort only for not many people to return (I would probably not). What might work would be a reboot or reenvisioning, but that seems to be beyond the scale of what is being proposed.