Activity Check Reminder & App Cycle Changes

[tabularasa_mods]

Activity Check Reminder & App Cycle Changes The current activity period will end in one week on August 31st 11:59 PM (UTC). If you have not filled out your August 2020 activity, please do so on the Activity Check page before the end of the month to remain in good active standing.

If your character was accepted in the August 2020 app cycle, you are exempt from the minimum activity requirements for this month. You may submit full or partial activity for influence, but you must leave at least a check-in comment to pass the activity check.

Players on hiatus are exempt from the activity check. They do not need to check-in for the month and may submit any valid activity for influence after their hiatus has ended.

If you have any questions regarding the activity check, please contact us through the mod contact or FAQ.

App Cycle Changes & New Player Apps
Starting on September 1st, we are going to be transitioning into a new application system for the game. We will no longer be using a monthly app cycle. Instead, current players will be allowed to apply for a second character at any time, and separate app periods will be arranged for new players whenever we have open slots to fill. The application and reserves pages will be updated to reflect this soon.

Reserves will also be reworked since we won’t have app cycles anymore. All reserves submitted until the end of August will be good through September 7th. Starting in September, reserves will last exactly one week from the day they were placed.

New player apps will be opening sometime next month under a separate queue system. We’ll give more information on this once we’re done working out all the details, but the plan is to keep a queue of 5-10 apps that can then be trickled into the game as slots become available. By limiting the size of the queue we hope to avoid long wait times between submitting an application and getting into the game.

If you have any immediate concerns or suggestions you’d like to give us regarding these changes, please let us know! We’ll be tweaking the system as we go to try and make it as easy and painless as possible for everyone.

As this will affect new players the most, we are also interested in feedback from players who aren’t currently in the game. Thank you for your interest in our game, and we hope to see more of you here soon!

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Comments

[comburst]

Just one question! If the application cycle is changing, what about the TDMs? Are they still going to be regular (and if not, will there be an alternative to that AC bonus)?

[tabularasa_mods]

We will still be posting regular TDMs. Even if we have long stretches of time with no new player app periods, secondary character apps still need samples too!

We may adjust the timing of future TDMs to make it a bit easier for the AC bonus, though. Most likely it'll be moved to the 1st of the month.

[comburst]

Oh, I think that would actually be helpful for current players - and if you're going to as slots open for new players the timing of tdms would effect them less. Thanks for answering!

[thunderwave]

+1 to the moving of TDMs! That would be great.