Ignis Scientia

As mentioned before, the SotG post will only go up now when we have things to say. After a couple of difficult months personally for the moderators, we're trying to get back on track!

As always, we appreciate the feedback received from players and hope to adjust things accordingly to make the game a smoother, stress-free experience for all. We're here for fun and we want to make that as easy to achieve as possible!

This post will highlight the changes we made, updates planned, housekeeping items, and the most recent list of claims, check-in warnings, and drops.

So, without further ado...

ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPDATES

While we will mention updates as well on our mod plurk and Discord server, we're repeating them here for folks who don't have one.

You can check for the tag on pages to see what we've added or clarified on!

⁂ Please take the time to respond to this poll regarding invitations for the game. After some discussion between the moderators, we want to see if lifting the invitation requirement might help bring some new players in and keep the game from stagnating.

⁂ The quest board has been revised. While we originally intended for it to be something players used to build up their reputation in the setting to access new areas, the smaller size and pace of the game made it feel more like an obstacle. We don't want it to seem like we're withholding anything from players, so we'll be changing how the quest board works.

Rather than reputation, quests will reward bonds correlating to difficulty level. 1 star quests = 1 Bond. That way, we can still proceed with metaplot and world setting updates while players are free to use their bonds to influence the setting and their own reputations.

⁂ Reputation has been moved to the locations page! See what different places dragonbonded know of and how they feel so far about them being here. These will change over time and through character action, so as always please let us know what you and yours are up to so we can adjust accordingly!

⁂ Additionally on the locations page, people can now submit new locations they'd like to see added. Whether this be through gaining a business license, the summoning circle pulling them in, or direct player changes to the setting (like the lake), players are encouraged to let us know about what has been added to the world so it can be reflected on this page appropriately.

⁂ The calendar has been updated for July! Previous months will be in headers on the page as a 'timeline' of sorts for players to look back on or refresh themselves about happenings in-game. Make sure to utilize this to know what the weather is like or any mini-events that might be coming up!

REMINDERS

Just a few quick reminders from us:

⁂ The newest test drive meme is up on the meme comm! Tell your friends! After some feedback, we added a top-level directory thread for new players but current players are still free to top-level and play on the TDM as well!

⁂ Character claims are always open until we hit the player cap!

CLAIMS, WARNING LIST, AND DROPS