▶ FEEDBACK POST & GAME UPDATES.

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▷ FEEDBACK POST.

▶ GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Hi! Welcome to our first feedback post for the game.

We appreciate everyone's patience while we navigated through our first real cycle of the game, including the kaiju fight. As previously mentioned, we wanted to present an opportunity for us to gain more insight in order to be better fine-tune the game as whole. We have provided section-heads below to cover various areas of the game in order for us to better organize topics, but if there are any other pressing concerns, you're definitely free to start your own threads.

Additionally, there are also a few items we would also like to provide an update on.

As a disclaimer, we reserve the right to change the game as we, as a mod team, feel necessary to. Some suggestions we will take into consideration while some we may not. Either way, we look forward to hearing constructive criticism and any positive comments you as a player base may have. As a mod team, we thank you all for being talented writers apart of our little cyberpunk game!

There will be an Enable Me meme going up on the 25th, GMT. We were going to do a different meme, but think enable me meme will be good timing for this next application round!

▶ APPS & GAME CAP.

✗ Beginning with the next app round, we will be opening additional game slots for a total of 60. This provides us with 26 new player slots currently for the upcoming application cycle on March 5th, GMT.

✗ Applications that have been in the APPLICATION QUEUE will be processed before applications open. They will begin to be processed when RESERVES open on the 1st.

✗ We've had a slower start with two application rounds before a kaiju fight and will begin our consistent cycle of bi-monthly applications, each application opening during a TDM SIMULATION / TEAM BUILDING month.

▶ KAIJU BATTLE.

Since this is our first real kaiju fight, we would love to see your opinions on this type of battle format. The important thing as always if that while it may not be a perfect system, we just want to ensure that it is fair and fun for people to play in. We also wanted to clarify a few items from general questions we had received about the fights.

✗ Each kaiju fight typically involves the kaiju having a specific weakness, and a hint to what that weakness is will be dropped in the briefing. This does impact the rolls (as the rolls would then roll with advantage for those who included those details into their attacks).

✗ Each character gets 2 rolls to it the target NPC. We also wanted to clarify that the rolls do not necessarily dictate what happens to your character. It's fine if that's how you want to run with it, but you also don't have to! We always want people to be able to play what they want!

✗ Characters who have won an IC prize will not qualify for another prize ... for a good while if at all.

✗ IC Prizes will be given out, and at the moment we are choosing extra AC points or an item from the Rewards list. We are open to suggestions or how you, as a playerbase, would like to see this play out.

▶ REWARDS.

✗ After each kaiju battle (so, bi-monthly) some new rewards will be added to the rewards page! This month's new rewards will be the Ocean Gem, as seen in the recent Kaiju battle, a tracker ring, and larger vehicles.

✗ And.. *drumroll* .. we will be adding CHARACTER ITEM REGAINS to the Rewards list! Originally, we wanted to keep this game in its specific universe, but we've seen a desire and excitement for item regains. The cost will be the following and then reflect on the Rewards page:

50 for small item: This can be any small, non-living item that does not possess magical powers.
75 for primitive weapon: A character's specific, non-magical weapon from home such as swords, axes, katanas, spears & polearms.
100 for modern weapon: Such as all types of guns, bazookas, etc.
150 for magical weapon: Weapons from home that have a magical ability, which would include futuristic weapons (such as a lightsaber.) OP nerfing rules still apply.

✗ The item regains are items ONLY. Characters who may have had their OP ability nerfed will not be able to get their OP ability, but they can get their sentimental item from home back! All of this will be added to the rewards page soon.

✗ At this time, we are only allowing non-living regains from home. Characters who have arrived with summons or have a creature as apart of their abilities that arrived as their personal item are fine.

✗ We are allowing 2 points for player created logs as well! For now, REWARDS will not increase, but we may change this in the future. It depends on how this all paces out with the player base.

▶ CALENDAR.

Scheduling things has been a bit of a whirlwind in also the beginning of a new game, but we will update the CALENDAR to reveal some changes. Here is what we are thinking:

1st MONTH: TDM / Simulation (1st.)
Reserves Open (1st.)
Applications Open (5th.)
Reserves expire, OOC Intro / CR Meme (8th.)
Applications Closed (10th.)
Text Mingle / CR Building Event (15th.)

2nd MONTH:
Applications & Reserves CLOSED.
Debriefing / Travel Log + KAIJU BATTLE (1st.)
Down Time Log (15th.)
Mod Posted Meme (25th.)

▶ GENERAL REMINDERS.

✗ We encourage players to take advantage of WORLDBUILDING in this game. Have a technology suggestion? Suggest it over here. What about a business? Suggest it over here.

✗ Originally, player run businesses weren't allowed, but you could suggest a business and have an NPC run it. We're allowing characters to run businesses now, and when a character drops, the business will be run by an AI bot.

✗ Memes in the OOC community are always permitted when posted by a player. However, we ask that if it is on a 2nd Month (as in, a kaiju battle month) that you check with us first before posting a meme to make sure it is not the same one we have in mind!

✗ TLDR: Increasing player cap to 60, accepting application queue during reserves, allowing character item regains, any log counts for 2 points for activity/rewards, new rewards after each monster, characters may run businesses, kaiju battle breakdown, calendar breakdown.

Comment below each header below, putting your question with each header relevance. If you'd like to make your own toplevel, please put what your feedback and comments contain in the header comment.

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Comments

▶ GAME GENERAL

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Comments and suggestions about the game as a whole can be responded to here. This could be the game's pacing, application cycle, hiatus, activity check, game layout / graphics, player cap, or anything else that doesn't fit into the other categories can be commented on here.

▶ KAIJU BATTLES

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Comments and suggestions about the kaiju battles can be responded to here.

[stresspoint]

I really like the combination of the RNG and main kaiju along with the smaller threats and problems like environmental challenges that don't need the single outcome. The variety was really nice for the log and gave us a lot of flexibility to respond to. I'd love to see more area effect problems or dangers that aren't directly kaiju attacks too, just because I think it'd be neat. The format of the log I think really works!

▶ WORLDBUILDING

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This could be about technology, LILITH, NPCs, event or plot suggestions, monster suggestions, etc.

Monster suggestions

[stresspoint]

So I feel like I need to suggest this because I love them and constantly return to them, but a monster sized velvet worm would be really fun. Also something like a carcolh to lurk in areas where PCs have to venture into a lair in order to find them?

EVENT/PLOT SUGGESTIONS, MONSTER SUGGESTIONS, WORLDBUILDING

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First, I wanna preface my comment with the fact that I'm really enjoying the game and the setting. I haven't had this much fun in a game in a while! The majority of stuff I'm posting here are simply ideas or things I think would be neat to see.

→ EVENT: Given there have been prompts regarding Outsiders retrieving various specimens and what-not for LILITH, and in the future there will be "data portals" to other cities worldwide that're just barely on the verge of repair, would it worth implementing events where Outsiders are sent on "missions" outside of Neo Tokyo? I don't know what the exact logistics of what those would be, whether they're just surveying a geographical point or testing some new technology, but I think it would be fun to have those willing to go on these adventures stranded in the elements for a while. They could potentially be investigating the source of the rifts. Given that all of our characters have been placed here to protect humanity, I believe there's a lot of potential there to devastate or gratify those who wish to go a bit deeper into the "why".

→ MONSTERS: Given one of the influences of the game is Neon Genesis Evangelion, I think it'd be cool to have some monsters that are variants of humanity itself, like, humanoid... or maybe even replicas of the players or their loved ones, depending. The "kaijuu" are coming from dimensional rifts, so a part of me thinks that they're studying humanity in this timeline just as much as LILITH is studying them. Stuff that has the potential to totally scramble the psyche of the Outsiders would be fun.

My other suggestions re: monsters is simply that it'd be neat to have an event where they manifest in the city itself... a real "oh shit" moment.

→ WORLDBUILDING: I know we're still fairly early into the game, and maybe you've already got this planned, but it'd be neat to have the areas in Neo Tokyo updated to detail what's been permanently altered by the decisions of the players or the kaijuu attacking the city. That way the city and the danger poised by the monsters feels more organic overtime.

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[skirm]

hi abbie 💕

I just want to parrot everything Abbie said here because writing a whole new reply just to say what has been said already would be pointless LOL. NGE is very beloved by many people and pretty much a classic, and I'd love to see moral conflicts when it comes to Kaijus. Humanoid ones are fun, but also Kaijus that can mimic the common tongue/human speech and kind of beg for its life or paint us/LILITH as the actual villains and plant the seed of doubt would be fun. Of course we don't know what you guys have in store for the overall plot of the game, but I can say from my side that while Wanderer has been compliant for the most part, he's slowly becoming suspicious and annoyed at LILITH for forcing him to do stuff he judges meaningless (socializing....), if only because he believes that since LILITH is asking *them* for help, then they shouldn't push their boundaries irt their "employees" comfort zones and whatnot.

I also very much enjoy the idea of watching the setting permanently change due to Kaiju and/or player influence, tbh. NPCs losing their homes, locations now being half destroyed or entirely gone, how the NPCs are affected by that, etc. Like, how did the tsunami and Sachimon affect Neo Tokyo and the people living by the coast? Are there more homeless people, maybe less animals/more species are now extinct, so on. I feel like that could add a feeling of "realness" to the situation, that it's not just Fight Every Other Month and go back to the Previously Scheduled Routine, y'know.

Overall I'm enjoying the game a lot and I'm excited to see what you guys have in store for us. I hope you don't mind the late feedback!!!

▶ REWARDS

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Any questions or suggestions regarding rewards can be commented here.