Idea Post!

[livebait]

Hello Aather! In the interests of making Aather the best game it can be, we'd like to toss around some potential ideas for what you'd really like to see in the near future!

Since the game has been running incredibly strong for over 3.5 years now (///), we want to make sure we're keeping things bright and engaging, while still staying true to the game as it is and what's made it what it is.

We've had more open slots recently largely due to a lot of characters moving to Happy End or Legacy after being played for several years, and game turnout is a little lower lately (probably also because some of us have been doing this game thing for longer than we've lived in any one place in real life, I don't know about you); and we've also dropped down to a bit of a quieter pace that's a better fit for the playerbase at the moment—but some of these are fairly big changes functionally! so we want to make sure we can continue adjusting and growing the game to fit that.

The mods have some ideas for things we want to do in the future (and I'll make note of some of them in this post!), but we'd also like to hear:

❥ Game or event ideas you'd like to see! Games that we ran two years ago you really liked, or just "a secrets game" or "a costume game" or anything like that. Things we haven't done in a while you wanna see again, or things we've never done that you have a good idea for.
❥ Plot hooks or directions you'd like to go in. "I want to find out more about why there's always a tree in the Ring" or "I want more helping Personae break roles" etc.
❥ Elements that would help you or your characters be more engaged!
❥ Other things that would be cool—quests? Abilities? Themes? Laser beams for Burupya?

At least for this post, we would really just like to hear ideas and suggestions—nothing will be definitely going to happen and someone might have an idea that you don't think would work for you, but that's okay! We are also not looking at making any changes to activity/game structure & functions at the moment—just gameplay, please!

For now—please help us with suggestions about what you'd like to see and we will do our best to make some things happen! If you have multiple ideas, please feel free to leave them as separate comments if they're about fully different things.

Thank you as always for being such a stellar playerbase, and please do always feel free to come to the mods in private if you have questions or concerns or suggestions or pictures of kitten paws.

Comments

[foreignflight]

I have a few ideas but the most solid thing I'd like to see is something to help teams regain memories. By that I mean while they definitely have a larger way to regain because of multiple team members there is, however, a definite change in a number of people being around and playable. For example, Turquoise especially lately-- even more so now, sorry guys-- has a difficult time with turn-out because of being low on members. And I know I've noticed Tiger's Eye not being able to make games and Carnelian. While it's not such a worry for my teams, but it seems unfair to like Turquoise in this example who has far few members able to get people to appear at games to regularly get memories.

I guess what I'm trying to say is it'd be nice to see accommodations for teams who are consistently unable to make games? Like I know that's what Loser Games are for! But when games conflict with a schedule for a month or even if one teammate shows up to a game or two and still loses the chances are they will still gain one memory a month. Or in the case of Turquoise again right now... apparently no memories in a month.

It just feels like with how few players and how many empty slots there are and in the above cases to be a little unfair so I thought I'd bring it up! Sorry if it's a dumb thing and like I said I know loser games are supposed to help a bit but I think it would be a nice thing even for a temporary fix of some sort until teams are more up there!

[livebait]

It's a totally valid concern! It's only JUST COME UP so we haven't thought of a solution yet—ideally, we will see about a couple other things that might help—varying times for games, announcements ahead of time, more frequent take-home games, games that have more appeal, hopefully getting more apps in poor turquoise!!. We definitely are aware of it and hopefully some of the ideas here will start to address it enough!

[foreignflight]

Yeah! It's definitely a newer concern that's becoming more pressing with drops/ends since no one's apping a lot yet! I think more take home games might help, as well, if only because it gives more of a chance to do so. I won't say necessarily like mingle games because those can be more stressing and harder to catch if that weird obscure time zone (but an option!) Maybe there's a way for like a team to take on a super!! special memory quest!! if Beauty realizes they've not gotten a memory yet? Something to help out Aather as a whole that could be taken at their own pace but guaranteed memories or what not? The Loser Game system works fine as it is I think '^'

I'm not very good at this... but I thought I would mention it! Since yeah I feel really bad for turquoise.

[livebait]

Absolutely! We'll be keeping a very keen eye on the teams that are down members and suffering from memories as a result of it, so I'm sure we'll figure it out one way or another ♥

[idkmybffnirvash]

I mentioned it in my game comment that it would be neat if knights could win with certain teams, but it could go the other way around? Maybe, a team wins by a knight being present, too . . . Or a Personae . . . I like the idea of a quest, but any number of options helps, I hope.