@dillinger Not to hijack this thread but since you are peddling bullshit and the comment hasn't been moved, I guess I need to ask: do you believe in anything you just said, or are you just not that bothered by their human rights violations including, and not limited to, actual concentration camps for religious minorities and rampant racism?
Just curious.
Btw, love that the game has a CoD codebase! Wish you luck, dude!
Updates:
We should be opening next week, Monday or Tuesday. Our coder still needs to test a few things, the wiki needs some ironing out, but we are all excited about it!
We might share the address earlier so people can connect, talk with us and each other, plan ahead of time before you can actually send your applications. 
Responses and pitches have been amazing. Thanks everyone who sent one!
@tempest imagine banning all those people to flex your (very very minor) authority only to be forced to reconsider it all because you went absolute mad over the very small bit of power you were given.
Pretty wild. Some would even call it pathetic. And creepy.
@phase-face This is a story-driven game, and we want players influencing the game through story. If the Brotherhood is being hunted down by the Avengers, the X-Men can choose to intervene to protect them, for example, or do their side of the plot. Maybe a X-Man slips to a SHIELD agent that Xavier's is the home of the X-Men, and that will have consequences too.
The idea is that the Brotherhood and the X-Men, although opposed in many ways, are still together in the 'we are all mutants' front. Our storytellers are here to provide the opposition, be in the form of the Avengers, Apocalypse, Marauders, Sublime or what have you.
In general, our plots will aim to provide both sides with different approaches that will have consequences if done one way or another. If players don't react, then we will provide an 'all things remaining constant' scenario and go from there. We want these ideologies, and how these characters live them, individually, to have an impact in the story. This is why the Pitch comes first. It is the most important step of the app process.
@ganymede said in Season of Endings:
You are, and always will be, a gentleman of the finest distinction.
Vale, magister.
Out of touch and creepy.
We are taking people through the process like any other player, yeah.
That being said, we won't be doing 'competition' for apps. If someone gets to a character first, they get the chance to app them first. Although we are willing to refuse applications based on if their pitches match or not the theme and vibe of our game, nobody on staff is willing to decide 'who loves/understands a character more than another player'. Even if players handle that superbly (which in our experience, most people do not) it is just so subjective and, quite frankly, unpleasant that we decided to go with the alternative.
@ganymede Accepting responsibility would be stepping down from your position. You fucked this.
@boneghazi Absolutely sad. This guy knew his art, he knew his writing, and he did it superbly. One of my absolute favorites and he will be missed.
Great replies.
I want to touch on power levels a bit. As @Arkandel mentioned, there are only two instances where that is an actual concern, and both of those warrant a talk from staff if they become a constant with any player of our game. As we have plastered all over the wiki, sharing the fun is paramount in our game.
Likewise, most of the extremely powerful characters are getting hit with a friendly nerf bat to diminish (but not eliminate) power disparities. Most characters are younger in this timeline and are still learning themselves. Even Exodus, who is old af, is not the 'final boss' version you see in the comics, and he would have been been banned if the character didn't fit the theme so perfectly.
On to the relationship thing.
I am surprised at the responses. I was not expecting this to be so accepted, but I am thrilled to have been wrong about it. We will be pursuing that in Mutant Genesis and we promise to take all the care in the world to make it so the people who abuse it are caught and dealt with. No sense in eliminating a neat addition to the game because someone might try to abuse it.
We will get to it!
@ganymede Accepting responsibility would be stepping down from your position. You fucked this.
@ganymede said in Season of Endings:
You are, and always will be, a gentleman of the finest distinction.
Vale, magister.
Out of touch and creepy.
Don't worry, @Ganymede is going to back off from all her ridiculous power tripping, undo bans and changes like she is this magnanimous person who didn't get absolutely trounced by the MSB users who collectively gave her the middle finger, and will just keep the people she doesn't like banned to try retaining some modicum of authority over the plebs, which is the whole point of her being admin here.
@tempest imagine banning all those people to flex your (very very minor) authority only to be forced to reconsider it all because you went absolute mad over the very small bit of power you were given.
Pretty wild. Some would even call it pathetic. And creepy.
@mietze Now that you deleted said comment that was being quoted your rules do indeed seem a little less confusing and arbirtrary.
@boneghazi Absolutely sad. This guy knew his art, he knew his writing, and he did it superbly. One of my absolute favorites and he will be missed.
@dillinger Not to hijack this thread but since you are peddling bullshit and the comment hasn't been moved, I guess I need to ask: do you believe in anything you just said, or are you just not that bothered by their human rights violations including, and not limited to, actual concentration camps for religious minorities and rampant racism?
Just curious.
Btw, love that the game has a CoD codebase! Wish you luck, dude!
@il-volpe Do not take this as an insult, my guy, but if the hobby came down to twenty GoB-like games, I would consider it way past dead. Nothing against anyone who enjoyed it, but just because you can keep it open forever, it doesn't mean it is what anyone would consider a healthy game.
@SixRegrets Back in the glory days of WoD there was always a goliath of the genre, and a myriad of smaller representants. Even when Requiem for Kingsmouth was around and it was "The Arx of Vampire Games", there were still many games popping up and people were talking all about them all over the forum.
You only need to go to the Hog Pit to see Arx is the only real representative of the hobby, at least for now
Yes, the hobby is very much on its last legs.
Original games are rare, and from the looks of the forum, the playerbase is too tired to RP (even pre 2020). Most are too busy to start new games, or dont have the juice/setup for it.
I firmly believe that if Arx bites the dust, the hobby is over, as I don't consider 10 player games as anything but a remnant.
I dont like to be a doomsayer, but it is what it is. This hobby is entirely player driven, and the players sound tired and done with it.