Community Updates New Features on Aeipathy
Hey guys! This is just a quick little announcement to let you know know that your Head Admin is finally getting her shizzle together and working with out staff team to create a plethora of new activities and fun that are kept wonderful and active even as we all (myself included) move into a busy month of the year. So, if you're looking for more entertainment around the Aeipathy corridors then please be aware of the following...
The Weekly Broadcast
The Weekly Broadcast is moving to Sundays. This is to help navigate around any potential uni timetable that I'll be working with in the near future but also as a way of introducing our new Broadcast system! <3 The Broadcast is going to happen every week as usual but every other week it is going to be held on Voice Chat instead of in text form. Ergo, the fully written Weekly Broadcast will be happening every fortnight and a two hour VC broadcast will be held on the weeks in between. Whilst our written Weekly Broadcast will continue to have all the updates on Events, the info on new members and the member-challenge (all of which will be updated once every fortnight now instead of once every week) the VC Broadcast will have it's own purpose...
VC Broadcast
The VC Broadcast every other weekend will be a two hour VC held in the company of JD and will be specifically for plotting discussion purposes. Over the last few weeks/months, several members have mentioned how useful sitting down and talking plot tactics has been with regards to the global plot. As such, we're going to hold one of these every two weeks, in and out of the written Weekly Broadcasts. With me so far? There is now a new text channel on the server called #vc-broadcast. Over the two weeks between the VC Broadcasts, all members are welcome to put questions or topics in there to be answered. It might be - 'How can I get my character X into Y global plot?' - or it might be 'Can I get a quick break down of Z plot?' or 'Why is A plot going so slow? Can we hurry it up somehow?' or 'I would really love an event that my character A can go to...' Whatever it is plotwise that you would like to encourage, build and create, just post it in that channel and, when the next VC Broadcast comes around, I'll be happy to answer any and all questions and work out new plotting groups and stories that everyone can be involved in.
The VC Broadcasts will be held at 5pm - 7pm GMT on every other Sunday. The first of these meets will be on Sunday the 13th September 2020.
Fun and Games Board
Our Community moderators have been charged with getting our Fun and Games board more up-to-date and active, so you should see some more Game Tags flying about. To those that are waiting on posts or hovering over slow-moving threads and don't want to start any new ones just yet, give this board a try for some fun - it can be a nice and easy distraction.
Green Room Discussions
Not that long ago, we used to have Discussions in the #green-room on the server all the time. With busy-times these have fallen by the wayside but will be returning now. The different discussions will have different themes and you are encouraged to partake and debate back and forth with other members in friendly argument.
The Secret Word
The Secret Word game will be continuing but updates on the word are going to become once every 48 hours instead of every 24 hours. This will help give more people who have used the word each time for comparison and not overflow the #announcements channel. So, don't be worried if you see this updated a little less than normal - this is entirely deliberate.
The Wellbeing Challenge
The same can be said for our Wellbeing Challenge. Instead of being every day, we're falling back to every other day so everyone will have 48 hours to complete each challenge instead of 24. The challenge on Mondays, however, will run the whole week and be a slightly bigger challenge so that we have some variety up in here. With every 48 hour challenge you'll get a reminder of the weekly one and you can submit your answers to either alongside each other.
Wanted Spotlights
The wanted spotlights will be returning! You'll see in the different kingdom channels for plotting the spotlight for that week. They'll also be posted in the #quiet-room for all Newcomers to see too. Each kingdom will get a posted spotlight per week and given a little love and attention to hopefully see the characters taken.
Event Discussions
One of the new features on Aeipathy, you'll be seeing some awesome Event Discussions happening in the kingdom plotting channels. Hosted by one of our staff team, a particular event will be thrown up for discussion so that the community can learn to decide where such threads are going. What ideas do you have for these threads? 'Wouldn't it be cool if...'? 'Do you have a plan for what so-and-so is going to do in this Event?' The community has, in general, gotten too used to relying on Curveballs and gotten out of the habit of taking the plot reins in hand and going nuts. These discussions will help to put the power back in the community's hands and spur on members to come up with fun and crazy plots of their own.
To help with this, you may have also noticed that all Events are now being posted with ideas alongside them, tags for those members who would probably be a part of them and a reminder that all Events are down to the community to decide. We'll also continue to have our Event Updates / Means of Getting Started in our written Weekly Broadcasts to help people find an 'in' for their characters.
Reminders
Our announcements channel is going to be a little more on top of reminders. We'll be letting you know more regularly when new member-challenges are due, when OTM Polls are running and when new updates are happening on the site. So, please be reassured that all of these changes will be well communicated and you shouldn't ever feel out of the loop with what is going on around here.
Sweeps
Our head staff team are returning to their dedicated Sweeps every Friday. Which means once a week every member will receive a message from either myself, Berry or Kitsie. This will go in a cycle so if you don't feel like you can share a problem with one of us, you'll always have the opportunity to speak to the others. We will be trying to make these as a natural a check in as we can but please don't feel that we only do these sweeps out of duty. We do them because we genuinely care what our community has to say and if they are having a good time on Aeipathy. So, if you have an issue at any point, please just let us know. Obviously, you can do this with any staff member at any time but these Sweeps are just to try and open up that floor a little easier for you.
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