I'm glad to hear that both a full DW backup and navigation revamp are coming soon! It's been pretty frustrating to have half the links on, say, the mod journal lead off-site, especially when a lot of the site-specific links are still dead. I don't know if this is going to be included in the navigation redo, but I think it would be great if we could access the other comms from all the other comms, be that in the layout or just from a nav bar on the profiles; it's a small inconvenience to not be able to just click through to the other comms on applenet, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to mention it.
Also! Slightly more important suggestion now, haha. It would be really fantastic if there was a page dedicated to describing the city a little more in-depth. Currently we only have pages talking about the general layout (tech levels, currency, etc) and the school - but that's hardly the entirety of the city. I know at least one other player has mentioned wishing we knew a little more about the various locations, since that would make it much easier and more fun to interact with the setting and put together more interesting top levels.
For example, the solstice festival log took place in Point-a-Tarte, but because there's been no description of that part of town (aside from a single answer buried in the FAQs saying people have picnics there) it was difficult to interact particularly deeply with given the generic mingle setting. It doesn't have to be complex city maps or huge business directories - just enough to give us a sense of the area, some important landmarks, stuff that really sets it apart from other parts of town.
And speaking of the FAQ, it might be useful to have a place where the previously asked questions are listed and linked? Since Recursion's a semi-AU game there's going to be a lot of questions asked that'll end up being relevant to a large number of people, and as the game grows it'll be difficult to wade through pages of FAQ questions just to check if they've already been answered. I almost missed the little blurb about the city areas, for example!
Also (I'm so sorry, I just keep going ghfk) would it be possible to link some of the player-made gdocs detailing setting-specific things somewhere in the official pages? Things like the tower game and such. I see that they appear to be linked every time in the welcome ooc post, but it'd be nice for prospective players to get a better sense of the ic 'flavor' of the game as well as make for easy access for players in the future, rather than having to dig around the ooc comm.
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Also! Slightly more important suggestion now, haha. It would be really fantastic if there was a page dedicated to describing the city a little more in-depth. Currently we only have pages talking about the general layout (tech levels, currency, etc) and the school - but that's hardly the entirety of the city. I know at least one other player has mentioned wishing we knew a little more about the various locations, since that would make it much easier and more fun to interact with the setting and put together more interesting top levels.
For example, the solstice festival log took place in Point-a-Tarte, but because there's been no description of that part of town (aside from a single answer buried in the FAQs saying people have picnics there) it was difficult to interact particularly deeply with given the generic mingle setting. It doesn't have to be complex city maps or huge business directories - just enough to give us a sense of the area, some important landmarks, stuff that really sets it apart from other parts of town.
And speaking of the FAQ, it might be useful to have a place where the previously asked questions are listed and linked? Since Recursion's a semi-AU game there's going to be a lot of questions asked that'll end up being relevant to a large number of people, and as the game grows it'll be difficult to wade through pages of FAQ questions just to check if they've already been answered. I almost missed the little blurb about the city areas, for example!
Also (I'm so sorry, I just keep going ghfk) would it be possible to link some of the player-made gdocs detailing setting-specific things somewhere in the official pages? Things like the tower game and such. I see that they appear to be linked every time in the welcome ooc post, but it'd be nice for prospective players to get a better sense of the ic 'flavor' of the game as well as make for easy access for players in the future, rather than having to dig around the ooc comm.