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RULES THAT SHOULD EXIST IN GAMES

[(Anonymous)]

toxic atmosphere
no pregnancy or strict guidelines for it
no ocs
if you got kicked for squatting you can't reapp only to do it again (EV Dean I'm looking at you!)

Re: RULES THAT SHOULD EXIST IN GAMES

[(Anonymous)]

no craus unless the game allows for duplicates

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[(Anonymous)]

what chaffed your butt anon

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[(Anonymous)]

why would any crau-allowing game NOT have this rule?

Re: RULES THAT SHOULD EXIST IN GAMES

[(Anonymous)]

What's a crau?

I already googled it and mostly came up with frenchy pages that have nothing to do with rp. The only result that even came close to being rp-related was the urbandictionary entry for "cray cray" but I don't think that's what crau means. Or does it? (inb4 some lmgtfy link)

da

[(Anonymous)]

a crau is like when a character is apped with their memories of past games!

Re: RULES THAT SHOULD EXIST IN GAMES

[(Anonymous)]

-1 to the no ocs rule, I'm kinda eh about pregnancy plots outside of sex games but I wouldn't outright ban it.

As for rules:

If you idle out, you can't reapp or app for the next 2-3 app cycles.
If you join a plot with limited space and don't participate, you get an activity strike for it.
Mods reserve the right to reject your app if there's been activity concerns with you or you're serial apper/dropper
No rape plots outside of sex games
No incest unless its a confirmed canon fact
No fucking period for kids 15 and under
You get auto kicked out if you keep alternating between making bare min ac and using hiatuses to be exempt from ac for a period of six months or more.

Re: RULES THAT SHOULD EXIST IN GAMES

[(Anonymous)]

...That first one has a long period. Cycles are usually monthly, so that's two to three months.

Re: RULES THAT SHOULD EXIST IN GAMES

[(Anonymous)]

yep

sorry but there's little to no excuse for idling out and 95% of people who idle out were capable of taking ten seconds to fill the drop forms. even for people without internet for long periods (which is a rare case), the least of their concerns is being dropped and unable to app for a measly 2 or 3 months.

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[(Anonymous)]

I have no problem with that myself. You can't just cause that much work for mods and then fuck right back in. I wish more games DID install penalties for idling.

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[(Anonymous)]

And it's easily resolved by taking less than a minute and going to the drop page and filling out the little form there.

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[(Anonymous)]

No incest unless its a confirmed canon fact

Would you require it to be stated outright with zero room for doubt? Or would heavily implied be acceptable?

I'm just curious.

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[(Anonymous)]

I have a lady character who would 100% deliberately get pregnant asap on entering a game because of plot/magic reasons (she can use her children to become immortal if everything works right). Sadly I think the game where I want to app her has handwavey reasons that it's impossible. Time isn't really passing, no one ages, also no babies kind of thing.

8C she will be so frustrated

Re: RULES THAT SHOULD EXIST IN GAMES

[(Anonymous)]

No fucking period for kids 15 and under

ok. i'm curious why. do you just not like 'omg i'm bleeding' posts? b/c i get that, i do, they're very 'why would you even', but it is normal for girls to get it before 15.

Re: RULES THAT SHOULD EXIST IN GAMES

[(Anonymous)]

who would want to have a fucking baby in coa

Re: RULES THAT SHOULD EXIST IN GAMES

[(Anonymous)]

no pregnancy or strict guidelines for it

b-but anon, they're just going to go in-game "teehee I forgot to take birth control!" or "oh I just forgot to use a condom!" and get pregnant anyways!

especially if it's a f/f game! that's just way too tempting.

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[(Anonymous)]

especially if it's a f/f game!

...what.

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[(Anonymous)]

No obnoxious text formatting.
No gifspam.
No backseat modding.

Re: RULES THAT SHOULD EXIST IN GAMES

[(Anonymous)]

player or character caps
mandatory participation in ooc comm plotting memes

Re: RULES THAT SHOULD EXIST IN GAMES

[(Anonymous)]

1. there is no formal strike system in this game. whether a player is given a second chance before being permanently banned from the game is dependent on their past behavior and the nature of their offense and is fully up to the discretion of the mods. the mods reserve the right to reject an app or ban an individual from the game at any time and for any reason.

2. keep in mind that the amount of activity needed to pass AC is the absolute bare minimum level of activity required to stay in the game for a particular month and is NOT the overall level of activity a player should be maintaining for the long term. we expect a reasonable level of activity and engagement with the game overall; a longterm activity pattern of scraping barely by at the last minute and being otherwise invisible is not acceptable and will be considered character squatting.

2a. character squatting will not be tolerated. if you have a clear longterm pattern of abusing the spirit of the AC guidelines such as alternating hiatuses and the bare minimum amount of tagging to pass ac the mods reserve the right to take such measures as setting a higher individual minimum activity requirement or banning the player from apping multiple characters. if a player fails to improve their activity level within a reasonable timeframe their character will be removed from the game.

3. this is a panfandom game and not a musebox. all players are expected to make themselves reasonably available to plotting with the rest of the game. players who have a clear longterm pattern of highly insular play (threading exclusively with the same handful of characters/players) and refusal to make themselves available for open plotting will be considered to be character squatting.

3a. (in sex games) due to the nature of the game's premise, sex threads and plots are considered to be on the same level of game importance as gen plotting and therefore the rule about insular play also applies. players should be reasonably open to sex threads and plots with their characters with more than the same handful of players/characters in the game. if you want to exclusively play sex between your otp, take it to a musebox or a gen game where sex is not a major gameplay focus.

4. players are allowed to app only one character per app cycle, and are initially allowed a maximum of two characters. players who go considerably above and beyond in terms of their activity level and engagement with the game over time can earn themselves a third character slot; however, if they fail to maintain that higher activity level they will be required to drop that character.

5. to encourage cross-canon interaction there is a permanent cast cap of 10 characters per canon. because of this players can only app one character per canon.

+1000

[(Anonymous)]

Especially to requiring people to smut outside of their otp in sex games. A lot of people will give you crap for that but fuck them, sexing it up with just your otp in a sex game is the same as consistently only doing plots with one other person in regular games.

-1

[(Anonymous)]

to #3. i'm sorry but i'm not going to force myself to thread with someone who can barely string a coherent sentence together or consistently gives me ecats-quality tags. i have limited time to play as it is so i'd like to spend it with people i actually enjoy writing with, and maintaining extensive cr with a ton of people is hard with my schedule. i like the structure of games, i make enough ac, why do you care who i thread with?

policing "cliquishness" is dumb and you're only going to look stupid for trying, tbh.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with all of this with regards to activity. I'm so tired of seeing players hiatus around AC, idle out just to reapp, or take a pass or whatever the game's equivalent is. If you join a game, you should be playing in the game. If you're not playing, leave. You're just screwing over your castmates/CR by being an inactive presence that the other players have to make excuses for as to why their characters aren't interacting with yours when they should be.

What I don't agree with 100% is about tagging outside of the people you're comfortable with. In a game, you should be tagging around. I agree with that. I dislike cliques as much as the next person and do agree that people need to be more open about their tagging practices.

However, I personally don't want to tag people who consistently give me ECATs quality tags. On network spam, when it's two characters talking, that's fine. No one needs an assload of bracketed introspection for an audio/video call. But in logs, I want decent tags and I'm only going to want to tag people who actually put forth effort and give me more than one or two lines. This goes doubly for smut. If you're the kind of player who writes something like Yes, more. [He lays back, panting.] I'm not going to thread out smut with you. My writing style is not the least bit compatible with that and I don't want to waste the time I have to rp with a thread I'm not going to have fun writing.

I think overall, people need to be more mindful of the tagging styles of the people they're tagging with. If you prefer the ECATs method, don't expect the more introspective taggers to want to thread logs with you. And if you're a tagger who writes paragraphs for each tag, realize that you might put off or otherwise overwhelm the players who write significantly smaller tags. This might help alleviate some of the cliquishness in games.

I know everyone wants to get tags from the players and characters they like, and that not getting them, or not getting them as fast, might seem like the player is cliquish. And maybe they are. But maybe they're not. Maybe their tagging style just doesn't gel with yours and it's not that they hate you or your character.

Re: RULES THAT SHOULD EXIST IN GAMES

[(Anonymous)]

-no using hiatus to get out of ac two months in a row. no using strikes/saves/whatever two months in a row. no using a combination of both two months in a row. exceptions may be granted for rl circumstances.

-if you hiatus within the last week of the month and haven't gotten enough for ac by then, the hiatus will not exempt you. you had the rest of the month to play and get enough to pass, or to hiatus if you're really that busy or burnt out or whatever, why are you only worrying about it the last week of the month?

-seconding toxic environment. i've said it before and i'll say it again- if you need a game's rules to spell out exactly how not to be an asshole and name every minute behavior that's not acceptable without using your common sense and decency, you don't need to be in a game. if you're doing nothing but shitting up my game even though you're not technically breaking a rule, why should i make allowances for you?

Re: RULES THAT SHOULD EXIST IN GAMES

[(Anonymous)]

aren't those first two rules in most games?...