Destiny String Updates (February 20th, 2013)

[stringmods]

▼ And it's time for another round of...

 

DESTINY STRIIIINGS UUUUUPDATES!!

 

...I just wanted to use this again because I love it.

▼ Hello Again!

 

▶ We hope everyone's having fun in both the crossover and right here!

It's time for some modly updates with a few VERY important announcements and changes in the game.

▼ Tags

 

▶ This is your friendly reminder to ALWAYS TAG YOUR POSTS! Wither it is in the Network or the Logs. Never forget to do so! Or we will find you and-

▼ New Features and Streamlining everything

 

▶ We're slow on many things, and we're fixing all of that up to make the past faster! Everything you can submit for the game from persona, city locations or jobs are now under a single roof knowing as the collective [SUBMISSION PAGE]. Every Thursday or Fridays, the page will get looked at.

▶ The Help Desk is now where you ask ALL of your game-related questions. Popular questions will get posted in the FAQ.

▼ Retiring a few Pages Permanently

 

A few pages are getting removed entirely:

▶ The shared world info page is being removed since it was barely getting any use.

▶ The Persona and character page is switching from being here to your own character's journal (this is explained below).

▶ The HMD page is also removed completely, and will be replaced with HMD in your character's journals.

▼ Monthly HMD reminders and game discussion/plotting posts

 

Furthermore, there will now be a monthly HMD post that will also serve as a discussion about the game. While this monthly HMD reminder will not mandatory, a post MUST exist in your character's journal and be accessible at all times..

▼ Persona & Character Profiles moved to your character's journal

 

Now this is the biggest one, and comes out of a player necessity: the Persona & Character Profile page was at 800+ comments, and we received complaints that it was causing massive lag on some of your computers.

▶ Our solution is that from now on, they will be moved to your charterer's OWN journals and linked to the taken page. Essentially, they will serve as a central link hub post that other players can look into. We have an example HERE. Notice that Personas are listed below as a reply.

▶ You will still need to update your personas whenever you use them in logs, and we will check up on them once in a while. However, now you'll be able to update as you need it.

▶ Moreover with this, we are allowing you to personalize the central link page on your character's journal however you like, as long as all the info is there for mods to see, should we need it.

▶ And if you want to stick with what we have, I've made a Generator that takes care of all the coding for you.

▼ What we're asking you...

 

If you could please move your character's profile as soon as possible to your own character's journal, along with your HMD and your IC mailbox, then link that profile hub link to the TAKEN PAGE, it would be most appreciated. This will be the last udpate of it's kind for a very, very long while.

You can also get your code from the old page HERE

▼ MODE UNLOCKED: Rumor Office makeover and new services

 

▶ The Rumor Office has been taken over by Narumi and turned into a business! There will be more than just rumors, such as Devil Summor services and journalism. Moreover, while rumors will now cost you money (4,000yen), they have a near 100% chance of coming true. You can find out more of these services RIGHT HERE

▼ MODE UNLOCKED: IC Mailboxes & Voicemail

 

▶ Now for a little something extra! Thanks to a new NPC, *HYUN-AE, characters now have access to their own Mailbox and Voicemail. To use it, simply create a post in your character's journal, and add it to their hub for other players to easily find it.

▼MODE UNLOCKED: Permanent Velvet & Aramid Rooms starting in March

 

▶ Once the Crossover event is done and the teams return, there will be an Aramid Room log in the very early part of March. After which, BOTH ROOMS WILL BE OPEN 24/7. We will be doing logs once a while for plot-related reasons, but you will allowed to assume than the doors are available whenever you need them.

▶ The Velvet Room will also be getting a log at the same time, so you can enjoy the new makeover...

▼ MODE UNLOCKED: Time and Spaaaace

 

▶ Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the Hinoto-Ri crew and the Shining Trapezohedron traveling in the multiverse and...

▶ Okay no seriously, starting in March, the Shining Trapezohedron. will be available for player plots who would like to do a little...creative world hoping. With literally the multiverse as your playground, you can submit player plots and have them going around trying to fix things or simply get caught in the best and worst of times.

▶ But keep in mind that this is just an ADD ON to the game. The main plot will still be in Hinoto-Ri. You do not even have to join any of these world-hopping plots.

▶ More information about the item and what you can and cannot do RIGHT HERE.

▼ Activity Check Results

 

the following characters failed to report the Activity Check. This also includes new characters, so don't worry if your character is showing up, just reply here to let us know you're still here!

Haiyore! Nyaruko-san | Mahiro Yasaka
Haiyore! Nyaruko-san | Nyaruko
Homestuck | Dave Strider
Homestuck | Rose Lalonde
Homestuck | Sollux Captor [AU1]
Katekyo Hitman Reborn! | Chrome Dokuro
Katekyo Hitman Reborn! | Secret
Kid Icarus: Uprising | Hades
Kingdom Hearts | Ventus
Saiyuki | Sha Gojyo
Star Wars: KOTOR | Revan
Touhou Project | Cirno

Everyone on this list has until THE 23RD to respond.

▼ Upcoming months

 

March : Calm Month
A time for rest. We encourage players to start their own plots using the Shining Trapezohedron and submit ideas to us!

April: Return to school (early) & Zodiac Battle (last week)
And the relaxing month is over, it's finally the start of a new school year in Japan! I'm sure everyone who can go is EXCITED! (?!)
But that's nothing compared to the Zodiac Taurus fight is the next on the line. For those of you who weren't here last time, the Zodiac battles are giant monsters that attack the city and influence certain people...we're gonna have even more fun this time.

May: Golden Week + Labrynth of Amala
Break time and... wait what is that Labyrinth exactly? ...oh....

Comments

Activity Check

[stringmods]

This is for those who need to reply to the AC check.

[aurathread]

Tsukasa was just accepted! So yeah. |D

[stringmods]

No problem! We were just listing everyone who was on the taken list but wasn't in the PC regardless of status.

CLEARED.

[jumyouboshi]

aaaaaaaaaah fuck i knew i was forgetting something what a way to start off

Recently accepted!

[stringmods]

Not a problem!

CLEAR!

Re: Activity Check

[testsubject031]

Labrys is here! She was newly accepted this month. Sorry! xx;

[stringmods]

No problem! We're just checking to make sure everyone is still here.

CLEAR!

[feminine_carnivore]

Chie is here! :D

[stringmods]

CLEAR!

Re: Activity Check

[multiplyby8s]

Vriska is here, newly accepted.

[stringmods]

Thank you!
CLEAR!

[bestrpgmerchant]

FFFFF Zacharie just got accepted like two weeks ago, so I just thought I didn't need to check him in yet? I'M SORRY MODS

[stringmods]

No it's fine! We're just making sure we got everyone on the list.

CLEAR!

[star_elf]

Rena was just accepted! I just haven't intro'd because I need a canon review and some more icons.

[stringmods]

No problem! We're just making sure we got everyone on the list.

CLEAR!

[ladieswhodresslikemen]

Faris was just accepted and wait there was an AC when she was in the game???

[stringmods]

She was accepted as we were finishing it, but we put in everyone who was on the taken list but not in the player's Check as a precautionary measure. Sorry about that!

CLEAR!

Re: Activity Check

[seasidecherry]

This one was just accepted this past month! <3 Also, I changed the info page linked on the taken page to the new format, do I need to comment again?

[stringmods]

Yes please!

CLEAR!

[doc_brown]

Doc and Gilgamesh (from_the_rift) are still here! And both newly accepted this month too.

[stringmods]

TOO BAD I'M NOT CLEARING YOU ANYWAY.

CLEAR!

[charmedbymemories]

I'm dropping Amaterasu so you don't have to worry about her.

[stringmods]

Noted, thank you!

Re: Activity Check

[blahblahblah]

Oh dear, missed the AC, sorry about that. Rita's still here. Oops, and I meant to say, she's new this month.

[stringmods]

Got it! Thank you.

CLEAR!

[terminalemulation]

agni was just accepted as well so checking in on that

[stringmods]

Thank you!

CLEAR!

Q&A

[stringmods]

If you have any questions about this post, we'll be happy to answer it!

Re: Q&A

[demifemme]

Holy shit fuck yes Amala Labyrinth I could just pee.

Shura is just pissed.

[poweryetunknown]

Don't pee. /puts a diaper on you

[whereibelong]

I guess it's a little late to bring this up at this point but I'm actually disappointed that the Shared World Info page is being removed.

It's a good idea and I've made some use of it, but frankly the reason that nobody ever used it was because it was getting virtually no exposure. It isn't mentioned on the game acceptance notice, nor is it mentioned anywhere in any of the other game info pages that I could remember except maybe the network info page. Basically the only main way to realize it's there at all is to click on it from the game's Navigation, and if you only look at game pages on an as-need basis then of course few people are going to look at it.

I dunno, I wish that there was some way to rework it and try to reintroduce it, but obviously that's up to you guys.

[stringmods]

Maybe there could be a middle ground with having it in the character's profiles if they wanted to have it? that way, it's entirely up to the player if they want to fill out that information, and other players can see it visiting their pages.

[whereibelong]

This seems a fair enough idea, though there would still need to be information on the shared world info capabilities of the network/the concept itself somewhere. I checked the information page regarding the network and it doesn't seem to be there anymore (which makes sense given that you were removing the page).

Otherwise I could add the shared info and people would wonder what on earth all that info is even there for.

[no_longer_a_king]

1. Would we be able to create original worlds to run amok in for player plots? Obviously this would be within reason.

2. My HMD is in my musebox and it's the main thing I've been linking to through out Destiny Strings many many coding changes. Considering I have it linked on my top post on Arturia's journal, would it be all right if I keep it there?

2b. Honestly, would it be okay if I just linked my top post for the character info stuff since I was using it as a reference hub to begin with?

3. This is more bouncing ideas around, isn't guaranteed to happen, and won't happen until toward the end of the year if it does: Since I've been trying to think of a way for Arturia to get Excalibur eventually. Would it be possible to use the Shining Trapezohedron to send her and a couple others to retrieve it?

[stringmods]

1. Yes. (I have a few of these planned myself).

2. Yes that is fine!
2b. As long as you add the Personas at the bottom of that hub, since that is one of the first things we look at. Basically we need for easy access, the Persona lists, the application, the HMD and the IC Mailbox.

3. Yes.

[no_longer_a_king]

So I can't do a separate post just for the persona and link it to the hub?

[stringmods]

Yes that's fine!

Re: Q&A

[gforceinmyfaaaace]

Are there certain conditions the HMD posts have to have in order to comply with the game? Like do they have to have anon enabled/screened comments?

[stringmods]

No, that is entirely up to you.

[magice]

Ahah, I originally wasn't going to bother bringing this up since it would require a bit of updating, but since few of the pages will now be removed, I guess it can't hurt to ask--

Due to naming conventions, the translators for Magi have now updated Judal's name to the spelling based on the official guidebook and Arabian Night's legend. Judal is now referred to as Judar.

Would it be too much trouble to change the name of his tag and the taken page to that?

[stringmods]

No problem, I'll take care of both tags, and when you repost your new information with your character's hub on the taken page, we'll modify it there as well.

Re: Q&A

[misery_hates_company]

There seems to be a weird bug with putting in the Tower Arcana for some reason where there's a capital R at the end of it. Just figured I'd let you know.

[stringmods]

Thank you for pointing that out, I just fixed it!

[beautifulmemory]

You instructed us to put our Persona details in the "hub" post, but I decided to use my already-made Persona post for the sake of organizing things more neatly. Is this fine with you guys?

[stringmods]

That works, as long as you add the logs where they get their powers!

[ghost_shield]

Random other correction! The link to the submissions page on the Mod directory has two "h"s" in http.