Destiny Strings collaborative app-this-plz ad

[all_wound_up]

Well, it's getting close to that time of the month again - app-this-plz goes up on Saturday August 31st. We seem to have hit a pretty serious recruitment slump, as we've had far less apps into the game than usual and a number of drops lately. I love this game and want to see it grow and flourish, but it's not going to do either of those things if we don't start getting more proactive in getting the word out there.

To this end, I think in addition to the normal app-this-plz game ad we typically put up, it would be good if we could also get one or two people to volunteer to go through the Character Ads page this time and advertise personally to people who are looking to play in a game like ours. A lot of people who are seriously considering playing a specific character tend to post only there rather than looking at the Game Ads post, so we're really missing out on a good chance if we don't try to pimp the game around over there.

This game has a lot going for it in terms of what it can offer to potential players, but none of them will know about any of it unless we get out there and tell them. I love Destiny Strings to pieces and it is absolutely my RP home right now, and I would gladly do this myself if I weren't going home for Labor Day to the Land Without Internet (AKA my parents' house). But I was hoping maybe by getting this up three nights in advance, we could spur some discussion and maybe get a second game ad drafted up for the purpose of advertising directly to players.

Here's a list of things I think are extremely attractive features that this game has:

• allows you to keep powers with very minimal nerfing
• no memory loss
• slow to medium pace
• very easy activity checks
• fairly simple application with many players willing to help make Personas
• ability to pull in locations from your character's home canon
• dedicated and friendly mod team who are very receptive to player concerns
• long-term game plot that can be affected by player actions
• extremely friendly to player plots
• characters can learn skills and powers from other characters' canons

Some of these things are things that no other games out there do, or at least very few. We have a really unique and wonderful setting here with a lot of potential, and I really do think it's just a matter of letting people know how great it is to play here. I realize our biggest obstacle is we're viewed as niche because of the strong Persona connections, but if I have to walk every new player through Persona creation step by step to get more people into this game, I am happy to do so, and by all means feel free to attach my Plurk fullofbees to the resulting game ad.

So, that's pretty much my spiel.  If someone more skilled than I at writing up a game ad wants to take a crack at it with what I listed above, I think it will help us out immensely.  And like I said before, we probably only need one or two people to go through the Character Ads page and post it to anyone whose specifications for a game match what we've got.  Let's not be That Game and spam it out to everybody, but there's definitely no harm in letting people who might be a good match know that we're out here.

Thanks for listening and playing.  I wouldn't love this game half as much as I do without such great fellow players.

Comments

[nyanface]

It definitely begs the question of what's in it for the characters who stick around. For Samus, she's just an all around helpful person who can't just LEAVE when she's needed, even if she was in the middle of something important back home. (there's also some other IC reasons i can keep her in hinoto-ri, enough so that she can still stick around)

For Joshua..... well if he left Hinoto-Ri, he would be going back to a TORTURE FACILITY so it's in his best interest if he never, ever leaves.

Might also be an interesting idea for future plotting: how can we better reward characters who stick around in Hinoto-Ri aside from fulfilling some desire to do good/bad? Save the Earth, for instance, is also technically not a jamjar, just like it's technically not an AU game... the characters are all there because they were (re)born in the setting, and they get involved with the plot because they want to protect their home and their loved ones they've grown up with on Earth.

Random suggestion just to throw it out there, even if this is a weird place for it, but it might be cool if later down the line characters' home worlds were being affected by Nyarlathotep or some other evil force in Hinoto-Ri that gives characters more incentive for sticking around. :Ia But those are thoughts for another time.

[deathboss]

In the interests of being as vague as possible, there are plans already in motion for those things.

[nyanface]

Oh my. I would know these things if I wasn't but a lowly helper mod. >8O