State of the Game

[etrayamods]

STATE OF THE GAME
Hello, Etrayans!

Here is a summary of recent updates to the game, as well as some requests for feedback!

Activity Rewards

• The Activity page was revised, and a new method for acquiring reward points was added that utilizes a written summary instead of tracking number of comments.


• Adding locations as an AC reward was removed, but you can still renovate existing locations for 30 points.

Locations

• The Locations page has had a map update.


• After a character has been in the game for at least six months, the player can request a free location for them, one per lifetime of the character in the game. We started tracking these requests in January, so everyone has started from a clean slate there.


• On the upcoming intro CR meme for this app round, we will be including a new thread where people can advertise locations their characters frequent. This is a way of encouraging people to make use of the locations already in game, and to plan out chance encounters or assumed CR as desired.

Missions

• Please continue to leave mission suggestions on this post or anywhere else to us to your heart's content! We do save these and have used several of them in the past.


• The game has gotten much bigger than originally anticipated, and we've been experimenting with the mission formats to hopefully accommodate a variety of play styles. We started adding exploratory leads and optional meta plot involved side quests in missions, and we're interested in your feedback on how that's gone!


• We would also like to invite people to come to us with offers to run missions or events of your own on the Plotting page. This can be an IC effort or just one you as the player are volunteering for. Although we can't guarantee we'll take up every offer, we know we have some motivated, capable, and creative players in game, and we want to open up the idea!

Meta Plot

• The Story Thus Far page has been updated.


• Also on the Story Thus Far page, all of the previously distributed notes pertaining to the meta plot are available here out of character, and thanks to the addition of an in-character data repository, several are available for player characters to view.


• We encourage players to come to us if you're interested in exploring the meta plot further, and would love some feedback on how to balance plot within the overall pace of the game! Is there enough meta plot for you right now? Too much? Not enough? Let us know down below!

If you prefer to provide your feedback in private, we have our mod contact post which is always open to players.

Finally, this month marks Etraya's 2-year anniversary and we want to thank everyone for making this game what it is! We've come so much farther than we ever thought we would. We all as mods appreciate all of you so much.

Comments

[rudelanguage]

It'd be interesting to go to a world/zone where the pieces for saving that world were already in place, but that we would be the additional asset to secure it and actively see the stabilization happen -- that'd provide some convincing evidence to the harder skeptics that their purpose here is actually useful, even if it's not to their own world(s).

Like lmfao i'm imagining that bit in Lilo & Stitch where she's like "dear God i need a friend send me your nicest angel" and then it hard cuts to Stitch cackling maniacally...

But like yeah imagining we respond to a call to the supposed heavens that isn't related to Echo's efforts at all but can be taken advantage of would be interesting to me just as a setup B]

Precisely WHAT about us collectively that could be the clincher is what I'm still chinscratching on; maybe we got some imperviousness to whatever is blighting said world on account of being outsiders or sth? Isekai stink. Or idk only strangers from distant realms/heavens can pilot the combining mecha to defeat our enemies etc etc...