Controversial posts made by Kestrel

@surreality said in The Shame Game:

I would recommend that 'self-awareness' post or three that describe some of the problems that arise when someone doesn't have it.

Ditto.

@ixokai said in The 100: The Mush:

@Kestrel said in The 100: The Mush:

There is only one thing so far about the game that I really don't like: I think the senate is a silly idea.

Note, staff's not pushing that exactly, players are. Among them, mine. Why? Because there's a big undercurrent of "everyone needs to get a say" and giving "everyone a say" is an absolute nightmare logistically and completely not fun.

Morgan, Max and Quinn tried to give everyone a say on Saturday and called a spontaneous meeting and it devolved almost immediately into a shouting match. Its kind of horrible.

As a suggestion, be more sneaky. Have smaller meetings with fewer people, even if you make them public via +event with a participation cap. This would have been a perfect way to handle the Grounder prisoner thing, for example.

Show spoilers ahead:

Remember back when Bellamy was just a dick championing 'Whatever the hell we want', and what he wanted was to get Clarke and Wells' bracelets off? So first he, Murphy, and Nameless Goons #2 & #3 cornered Wells for a beating to pry it off by force, then he agreed to join Clarke on a group expedition so that he could be smarmy and wait for his opportune moment to pry it off of her.

Yeah, giving everyone a say is a nightmare. But you don't have to give them an IC say, nor to elect official leaders to involve them. There's a group going to the Grounder village soon, for example. Why don't others sneak off to do the same even though they aren't part of the official 'delegation'? That sort of happened in the show, too, when trigger-happy Jasper and Bellamy tailed Octavia and Clarke to make sure they stayed safe while trying to meet with Anya on the bridge, then fired shots and ruined everything.