The Purpose of Vox Populi
Posted by Apostate on 01/31/17
So one thing that has been missing, that we have been planning to do for a long, long time is to better show the reactions of the people of Arvum. Now I hadn't been doing this so much up to this point, since I worried about being overbearing or stifling, but there's an awful lot of thematic drift when there's zero pushback at all, so I think that I had to start slipping this in here sooner rather than later, particularly since it gives leadership characters some kind of guidance and something to draw on, that I started to allude to with the public reactions in the +crisis model that were kind of popular.
These will be pretty simple. We're replacing the @org reputations of affection and respect and will be using those, though numbers will be obscured, and we'll just use adjectives. NPC praise or condemnation will almost never be in isolation, as one group tends to like something, and another group might hate it, and affection and respect will tend to be markedly different hits. We'll start to see posts as it goes, as different characters in the public eye start to get reputations with NPCs- obviously players are free to respond however they want, or even disagree with the NPC consensus, but as for how the populations as a whole are responding, that's what we'll be writing as staff.
These will be pretty simple. We're replacing the @org reputations of affection and respect and will be using those, though numbers will be obscured, and we'll just use adjectives. NPC praise or condemnation will almost never be in isolation, as one group tends to like something, and another group might hate it, and affection and respect will tend to be markedly different hits. We'll start to see posts as it goes, as different characters in the public eye start to get reputations with NPCs- obviously players are free to respond however they want, or even disagree with the NPC consensus, but as for how the populations as a whole are responding, that's what we'll be writing as staff.