Here's a lovely status update about me and the game! I don't usually talk a lot about who I am or my life in chat with people from the game so a lot of you are unaware of this, but I have been out of college and actively looking for work for almost 2 years.
My waiting is finally over. I have a start date for early March at a job with hours that are as unfortunate as they are unpredictable and plentiful but also will be returned to me in cold hard cash. That's all anyone in my position can ask for.... but not ideal for SavingtheDays.
I am not closing the game, though I did consider it for this reason and others, because I can't see myself being happy whatsoever without some of my characters in my life, however things are going to change. Honestly considering the laid back nature of the game right now people will probably all be in favor of these changes so don't sweat too much as I elaborate.
First off I'm dropping a huge chunk of my people, For certain right now I am dropping: Mink, Vox, and Emerson. My maybe pile for dropping is Ravi, Chase and/or Tristan even if I can sort out the collection but I'm not sure there, that's just maybe stuff. Obviously if you guys have opinions about these things let me know but the three I listed first are definite drops despite my love for them. In the end the ones I am CERTAIN are staying for me and are totally safe are: Simon, Kasper, Alice, and Nico. Four is a great number, I'd like to get down to that somehow but we'll see what happens. The details of departure of those I'm dropping will come later as each of them may leave on events/threads.
Here's the second part. I can't keep up with the level of mod dedication that I've had in the past. I will no longer (as you noticed this month) be holding formal activity checks of any kind. If you're missing on ALL accounts for a month or so I will send you a message and if you can't be reached I'll remove your characters but no one is required to be any amount of active... as long as you're doing something.
What this means is that the game may move sluggishly (I feel like it already kind of is though so probably no change?) and I offer an out with no hard feelings whatsoever to anyone who thinks the changes make the game something they didn't sign up for. I will still attempt to pump out some plots, I have ideas still, but they'll be done as I'm available to do them. I won't speak words over my availability, I might be around just as much as I am now or I might be around less or it might end up I'm around not at all which would suck but we'll survey that bridge when we come to it.
Basically what I'm saying is that the game is going to be OFFICIALLY as lax as it has basically become. I might slack off on some of the info pages like cast page/school page/plot recap because I'd like to dedicate the attention I have to the actual writing and the plots and I can't do everything and work along with a bunch of other things going on in life that I will not get into.
I'm sorry if this changes things for anyone writing with us, I hope it doesn't. You're all great writers and people and we've created something really lovely here that I am not ready to see expire. So tell me what you guys are thinking, tell me about your opinions or advice or just reactions. I'm interested in what all of you have to say about everything all the time.