This has been a very useful discussion so far and I want to thank you all for providing your input and giving us a great list to work from on what you all want to see.
So let’s dig in. Some of this I’m going to just respond to directly, others I’m going to save for future discussion threads where we can all talk about the gritty details.
Communication is by far the biggest issue and is a common theme throughout your suggestions. We’re very conscious of this and we are working on this very thing. Which is what brought me to the team. I’ll be working the forums, IRC, twitter and facebook to spread your stories out and let everyone know what’s going on. The Roleplay Lead and I will be working together to ensure there are avenues for folks to catch up on things that are ‘public’ knowledge.
Roleplaying emails are also going to see responses and more useful responses, though you should always try to tailor your roleplays to not ‘require’ GM assistance, we do still want to know what you’re up to! In addition, there are some stumbling blocks in the way of letting us work on better ways to react and show results of roleplays. The XP bug was the focus of our dev team and has been delaying some of the fixes already planned that will solve a few of these concerns.
However, the XP bug has been squashed. By one of our devs who is not Tary. =P
We also want to bring an OOC resource like the wiki page to the forefront and keep it up to date with teaching rules, task requirements, learnable art levels and sample tasks.
Recognizing and responding to roleplays is something we will be working on in the coming weeks and months and we hope to get better at it and give enough recognition without forming a dependance.
Early Advancement issue has been discussed and is beginning implementation:
http://forums.clashofdreams.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=774
I have mentioned the Forge debate already in my thread in the roleplaying discussion forum:
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=757
Cursed Items from gens and mare drops has been discussed by the team.
Art ‘imping’ is being looked at.
And let’s have some discussions on some of these for future threads. I appreciate everyone’s participation. With your help, we’re going to continue to make this the best version yet.