IMPROMPTU FEEDBACK POLL: Event Pacing!

[vestigemods]

A POLL!

IDK WHY I'M EVEN USING THE CODING

► SO HERE'S WHAT'S UP

An impromptu query in the Discord led to some unofficial/speculative feedback that the pacing of events might be a little quick for our playerbase's tagging speed. It was suggested that when events which go up and get no immediate top-levels, it's less indicative of the event quality and more of the fact that we're basically all in backtag hell and don't want to overload any further.

I admit, I myself have not been able to keep up with Vestige's events as a player - but since I hadn't heard anything re: pacing in the official feedback request a bit ago, I assumed it was my modding/grad school combo. What I'm hearing now is that it's something more people are struggling with than I realize, so I've created a poll to get a proper consensus on where the game pace should be compared to where it is now.

The drop-down below explains the questions a bit, so that I don't need to do so on the poll itself - so take a peek at that, then hop over to the poll and weigh in!

POLL LOCATED HERE!

SEMANTICS Y'ALL MIGHT NOT EVEN NEED BUT W/E

① SHOULD WE SWITCH FROM EVENTS EACH MONTH TO EVENTS EVERY OTHER MONTH?

The overarching question, and fairly straightforward: Should we make the switch from a monthly gamewide event to an event every other month? For the sake of this poll, define 'monthly gamewide event' as 'a gamewide occurrence large enough to require an event infopost and/or event log'.

The rest of the questions below are just elaborations thereof, so feel free to choose N/A if you voted 'no switch' and don't have a further opinion.

② IF BI-MONTHLY, WHAT SHOULD OCCUR IN NON-EVENT MONTHS?

Forgive me, I wasn't sure how to phrase this any better, which is why I'm glad I gave myself space to explain it - basically, this assumes the event schedule is once every other month, and the question can rephrase as "What would feel correctly-paced/manageable for the game during non-event months?"

Should it basically be a freebie with very minor goings-ons? Should there be brief/mild events, detailed fully within the Bulletin in 2-3 short paragraphs and contained within the Catch-All (for example, the Winds of Change event from October)? Do we want non-event/gathering mingles (like the Thanksgiving Feast) or are those too much? Check all boxes which you feel you would want in these months!

③ JANUARY FLASHBACK EVENT, YES OR NO?

So switching to bi-monthly might help from now on, but what about recent events? I know there are a number of people who haven't had time to participate properly in one or more of the last 2-3 months of events, for the above-listed pacing reasons. I know I've heard folks express a little disappointment in the past that they're 'too late' for the events, even by Vestige standards.

In response to this, I kind of thought back to age-old Box's dreamscape event, particularly 'phase 2' (ctrl-F 'phase 2' for ease of navigation), and had the idea of making part or all of January a throwback month. Everyone is put into a Big Long Sleep for containment zone maintenance purposes, and within this time, characters are within a nebulous shared dreamscape with a tenuous concept of time and are able to experience various past events as if they're currently occurring. Maybe you missed an event and want to experience it! Maybe you had two different ideas for how an event might go and would like a chance to play out the other! It's kind of freeform and do-your-own-thing, and can be skipped entirely with no IC 'time is passing and I'm missing things' consequences.

This would mean two things - 1) the small-medium event I had planned for January (environmental fuckery without a ton of actual action involved) would either be cancelled or the flashback dream would only take up 2-3 weeks to leave room for it. 2) the 'open application period' for non-invites would be pushed to February instead, which is not an issue but is something to note.

Basically, is this opportunity to dip back into older events something y'all would even want? And if so, in what form? Let me know on the poll.

If there's anything you have to say that I didn't ask about and/or want to elaborate on your answers, I left a blank write-in question at the end of the poll - please let me know your thoughts! :)