This will probably become an essay because what's being concise.
1. I really loved this game! The energy was good, the play was fun, the speed was astounding. In particular I loved the freedom to do things as involved as Shadow dungeons and the way that bonus rewards encouraged a lot of tagging and thus even more engagement. Overall it was a really good system.
2. Main problems: the burnout. Towards the end I think we had too few wins to keep character morale up, and the freedom to do so much came at the price of having what was essentially every other month having two important events crammed in, often with time limits. I'm not honestly sure what the best workaround for this is! Maybe incorporating player plots into the overall plot more so that it can be a combined event? Or restricting it to only during the non-plot months entirely? I'm also not 100% on how you plan to structure the PokeSpe game anyway so this might even be moot!
On a more personal note I know that I also tend to do best in games where there's a steady momentum, so once there's some significant slowdown (like when the winter killed us all RIP) I was already losing my motivation to tag. But that's also a very specifically me thing. The slowdown was also due to a variety of factors that I don't think any of us could have predicted so AGAIN, JUST MY EXTREMELY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE sorry for the lagging tags around that time.
But again, I really, really loved Cetana, it had a lot of great CR and experiences and I'm super looking forward to PokeSpe! Regarding things like how to run events that involve groups in a timely manner, I can also try to pull up some examples from murdergames where group investigations are pretty common. I don't know how often that's going to be a mechanic in PokeSpe, but even things like using bold text for the actual "interactable" or "plot" items at the very least can help speed things up since it signals to the players where we need to look to advance the thread, stuff like that. Just let me know!
I'm really looking forward to seeing what you guys cook up next '-'b
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1. I really loved this game! The energy was good, the play was fun, the speed was astounding. In particular I loved the freedom to do things as involved as Shadow dungeons and the way that bonus rewards encouraged a lot of tagging and thus even more engagement. Overall it was a really good system.
2. Main problems: the burnout. Towards the end I think we had too few wins to keep character morale up, and the freedom to do so much came at the price of having what was essentially every other month having two important events crammed in, often with time limits. I'm not honestly sure what the best workaround for this is! Maybe incorporating player plots into the overall plot more so that it can be a combined event? Or restricting it to only during the non-plot months entirely? I'm also not 100% on how you plan to structure the PokeSpe game anyway so this might even be moot!
On a more personal note I know that I also tend to do best in games where there's a steady momentum, so once there's some significant slowdown (like when the winter killed us all RIP) I was already losing my motivation to tag. But that's also a very specifically me thing. The slowdown was also due to a variety of factors that I don't think any of us could have predicted so AGAIN, JUST MY EXTREMELY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE sorry for the lagging tags around that time.
But again, I really, really loved Cetana, it had a lot of great CR and experiences and I'm super looking forward to PokeSpe! Regarding things like how to run events that involve groups in a timely manner, I can also try to pull up some examples from murdergames where group investigations are pretty common. I don't know how often that's going to be a mechanic in PokeSpe, but even things like using bold text for the actual "interactable" or "plot" items at the very least can help speed things up since it signals to the players where we need to look to advance the thread, stuff like that. Just let me know!
I'm really looking forward to seeing what you guys cook up next '-'b