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@Glitch said:

This is like a solution in search of a problem. Who is unsatisfied with a first come, first served queue for entry into a sphere? Other policies are going to make this more or less appealing, such as giving priority to people with non-supers, etc, but it seems like an overly complex response to something that has yet to be proven an issue.

This is entirely possible, and is probably a reflection that I find all the answers to this unsatisfying in one way or another. But, I still really hate the idea of a 45 person, two-year old waiting list... so if we do end up going with simply 'first come, first served' I'd be inclined to only keep a 5-10 person waiting list and then we'll announce when we're ready to take more names in the future.

Any strong arguments for some other system of managing sphere caps?

@Thenomain said:

Who's a good girl? Who's a good girl? You are!

I knew it! I knew I was the good girl!

#squirrel?!

@surreality said:

Part of me is sad for them that the collective news files being shared amongst most games these days more or less say: don't send explicit content to staff in jobs or even BGs.

You know, this is actually a good point. I don’t think that anyone involved is actually terrified of this sort of thing and that most/all of us agree that ‘adult content’ can actually be significant in a number of ways... I think the reason it shows up in blanket no-statements like that is more because its hard to articulate ‘Hey, use good judgment here and don’t just send me random terrible porn please’.

@Arkandel Well, despite STILL not having seen a the new Werewolf.... pause for obligatory grrr... I don't know if I would assume they'll be the least popular sphere. My expectation is that werewolves will end up being more the death machines they were conceptualized as but were not in nWoD, and closing that gap between theme and fact may make them more interesting to people. I know of some people already planning wolves for Eldritch too, so I know you'll at least have some company.

That being said, yes, plots that directly involve a mishmash of everyone all at once is the goal for a big chunk of the metaplot. I'm sure the vampires or wolves or demons will also choose to do bits amongst their own, if only to have interesting reasons to act mysterious around the other groups, but there's going to be more crossover than not. I have my first bit of the metaplot arc planned already and I promise it will suit you in this respect.

@Thenomain Hey! First rule of Evil Owls is don't nobody talk about evil owls...

So!

We still have a few little kinks and fiddly bits on the structural code wish list, but... we’re now in soft-open! As of yesterday we approved our first batch of mortals, ghouls, wolfbloods and stigmatics and real actual RP happened on our real actual grid. Its kind of ridiculously exciting. I’m hoping to run my first plot scene sometime this week.

We are hoping to open fully in about 3-4 weeks for major template supernaturals, but this last push was kind of rough on our poor @Thenomain, so honestly, it will happen when he’s ready for it to happen. In the meantime we are also taking concepts for Vampires, Demons and Werewolves, and each are welcome to play characters that can later become ghouls or covers or what have you later on if you have no interest whatsoever in a minor template long term.

Chargen is pretty self-serve and approvals have been astonishingly quick thanks to Theno’s code. You can browse http://eldritch.mechanipus.com/w/index.php/Character_Creation and then +help chargen and +help asp for aspirations in game and you should be mostly, aside from a few bbposts about how we’re handling stuff like Professional Training for the time being.

Come play!

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@TNP

The opportunity to respec the smaller details within the first month if needed would be great.

Happily, we have a respec policy (which I am 90% sure we stole directly from Reno) which allows for this and says 'A character may opt to have their sheet wiped and all experience and starting points redistributed only ONCE in the character's lifetime during the first three months.' It allows for a few other small tweaks to account for mistakes too, and has a few caveats about not allowing you to change fundamental, character defining things... but on the whole I think it addresses what you're talking about.

http://eldritch.mechanipus.com/w/index.php/News:Respec

As an aside, we talked about roster-type mortal and mortal+ characters the other day and I'm going to work on two versions of them this weekend: One would be a 'template' style where you get a brief concept sketch and stats are pre-done, but you can pick your name and make it your own essentially, but is a low-effort entry into things. These don't endure past the player playing them. We're also going to try, as an experiment, a small stable of rostered characters that are a bit more fleshed out, but can be played by one player and then frozen, and then later, possibly picked up and played by a second player. This may include members of the channel 8 news team.