Pre-Launch Feedback

[tabularasa_mods]

Pre-Launch Feedback Tabula Rasa is still a work in progress. As it will be much more difficult to implement changes to game's systems after it opens, we will be fine-tuning everything throughout the month of June to try and make it the best game it can be. If there's anything you feel needs adjusting before the game opens, now is the time to share it.

If you have any comments, suggestions or concerns you'd like to bring up before the game opens in July, please leave them on this post. You may also use this post to give general feedback on aspects of the game that you like or dislike. All feedback is appreciated, no matter how big or small!

If you would like to discuss your concerns privately, you may also use the mod contact post to reach us.

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[comburst]

Not a concern but more a clarification request: "TDM BONUS: 1 thread from the TDM that was not started by you, and has at least 5 comments from your character posted during the activity period (max 1)" This wording has me a little confused bc I'm reading it as you can only get credit for it if someone tags into a thing you do, which means you'd have to toplevel at every TDM for a chance to get it, but now I'm wondering if you meant you can only get credit for tagging into other people's toplevels? I'm just confused bc a thread not started by you (i.e. what would happen when you tag into someone else) seems like it'd be what you'd want to incentivize so I'm wondering if I got mixed up and wanted to be sure which you meant!

(Sorry if that was confusing)

[tabularasa_mods]

It's meant to the the second scenario! You would need to tag out to someone else's toplevel to get the bonus. We'll see if we can make the wording a bit clearer there.

[comburst]

Okay, cool! Thanks for the response!

[tabularasa_mods]

We received feedback on rpanons indicating our rule regarding NSFW lacked clarity. The comment has been deleted by the rpanons mods, but we wanted to leave a note here that we received the feedback and have edited the rule accordingly.

Here is the updated rules on NSFW content:

Tabula Rasa is a game open to players and characters of all ages. Rather than keeping track of player and character ages and policing who is or is not allowed to play out sexual content on the comms, we have decided not to allow it at all. As such, please do not post any explicit sexual content on any of the game's communities. You're welcome to "fade to black" or post this content on your own journals.

Other NSFW content, such as excessive violence or gore, should be put behind a cut with a warning. We expect our players to be respectful towards each other when it comes to warnings and mature content.

[atragedy]

Hi! Having read all the game info, I'm a little concerned about the Imprint system as is. I feel that the cost of the imprints is prohibitively high or the limit of earned influence points is prohibitively low. Fixing either might help, but my current issue is this:

The most any person can earn per month is 15 points, and that's if they do everything correct and if a TDM is posted. Given that and ignoring "regain items" for the types of imprints that are meant to be the draw of the game for scenery/species/object or concept the soonest anyone can request a Scenery, Species, or Object would be three months into the game - the month after earning 25 points - if they spend no points on anything else for two months. The soonest anyone can get a Concept would be four months into the game -the month after earning 40 points - if they may no other purchases whatsoever for three months.

While a higher cap of earned points or a lower cost would mitigate this issue, right now it seems like players wouldn't be able to play with the main hook of the game often if ever and if they do want to do the actual game-changing things the game is built on they would never be able to do smaller item purchases at all. While I overall like the system and what I've read I wanted to bring up this concern about "even a very active player who gets every point possible will not be able to play with concepts more than four times a year if that and if they did those four concepts they couldn't do anything else".

[tabularasa_mods]

Thank you for the feedback! We understand your concern, but we'd like to go over our reasoning for the imprint/influence system first to put things a little better into perspective.

When new characters arrive, they will already be getting an imprint on the setting right off the bat at no cost. We originally aimed for all new character imprints being added within 1 month of joining, but for the first app round this will likely be extended to 2 months if we get a large number of apps. With a 35 player cap, that's up to 35 unique imprints to mix into the setting with the potential for another flood once 2nd character apps open.

Then we have additional imprints that can be purchased. If we allowed new characters to submit a second imprint after their first month in the game, the imprint queue would undoubtedly become massive and continue to grow in length. We would either have to reduce the overall impact of each imprint in order to implement more of them at once, something that we feel would take even more away from the fun of the system, or players would be left waiting months for their imprint to appear in the game. If we went with the latter then we would still have the same issue you're concerned about, the difference being that players would be left waiting for months between submitting an imprint of any kind and actually seeing it in the game.

This is most going to be an issue within the first few months of the game, so after we've passed that initial flood of characters we may very well adjust the numbers or add new ways for characters to earn points. If you're only looking at imprints on an individual character level then it may seem like it takes too long to earn anything, but you need to also remember that there's going to be 30+ other characters in the game who are also submitting imprints, and that all of these imprints need to be processed and worked into the game and given space to breathe. We don't want to overwhelm players with too many imprints at once, and we definitely don't want to overwhelm ourselves either.

With concepts in particular, they're valued much higher because concepts are meant to have a much wider impact on the game as a whole. We want players to think hard about the kinds of concepts they want to introduce and to allow each of those concepts room to have a real impact on the setting. We also want to encourage players to work together when making concepts rather than continuously building on the same idea by themselves. Even if you can only submit 3-4 concepts a year, you can plot with other players to build upon those concepts together rather than only through your own submissions.

We'll look over the points system further before the game opens, and we may make some small adjustments to the numbers to make it a bit easier to fit in smaller regains while saving up for imprints. The overall wait time between imprints at the start is going to stay as-is for now, though, for all the reasons stated above.