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239: how does one become popular on dreamwidth rp?

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I think it's bc in a setting like Duplicity's even 100% gen threads are sort of...not? Because the natives are all born either marked as Submissives or unmarked as Dominants, that whole D/S system extends even to the children. But what does that mean in terms of actual interactions between people?

As soon as you let players interact with children even in gen ways, you open the door to players asking questions about this whole side of the city's culture that I think the mods really don't want to do any world building on. And ok, fair enough, they don't want to touch that or risk being pressured to pin those elements down.

Hostile and unreasonable as the mod team is now, I also always try to remember that this is a game whose creator and original head mod died, and it passed into the hands of other people. I don't want to speculate too much but it's not too hard to imagine that at some point the will to do any world building around that aspect was just lost with changes of leadership. Personally, I don't think it's a big deal because this isn't a game where anyone needs to be interacting with the kids.

I think just saying no children is much less an issue than all the weird and contradictory micromanaging about interactions with adult NPCs, gangs and gang members, this stuff with the SIN guards, an economy that's supposed to be incomprehensibly ring-fenced, the flip-flopping on npc-run businesses, and so so many other things.

'a game whose creator and original head mod died'

oh whoa that's so sad. :( i hope the family and friends of the head mod are doing well.

it was in october 2020. i think it's easy to forget that she created the whole game and the premise was essentially just handed over to the helper mods, which might explain why they're unwilling to do much with it. people who criticise the mod team would do well to remind themselves of what circumstances they've been working under.

personally i think the whole game could do with being rewritten from the ground up and the setting revived but times being what they are i can understand why nobody has the energy to do that.

no, sorry, the head mod dying (while horribly sad) is not a reason not to criticize the current mods for being rude, unresponsive and unhelpful when their player base make requests, or for letting the game grow into a rut. it was over a year and a half ago and they also recruited new mods several times since then, so many of the team won't have worked with the former head mod at all. based on what other players are saying about the early days of the game, it doesn't seem like the current mod team are following the old head mod's example in terms of responsiveness and adaptability either.

if they're unhappy or don't want to put the work in anymore, hand the game over to someone else. i know there are people who'd step up.

but hey pour one out for that one time the whole game got a lecture on how we could ruin future plots because some characters made their magic cupid wings a color other than white.

How many games have actually survived being handed over to someone else?

Nobody wants to mod in this community anymore, and the people who usually jump up at the chance to take over something already-established are more often than not the worst possible candidates for modship.

Victory Road's the first one that's still around and comes to mind.

modding is a young man's game lbr

i think ryslig also went through a total mod replacement and is obviously still going

TLV is on their fourth set of mods and is still doing fun metaplot stuff

TLV is the cockroach that won't die.

but then they could easily deal with that by coming up with a reason not to have kids in the city in the first place so that it wouldn't even be an issue

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