Post by Super Gmagical on Feb 1, 2018 13:26:46 GMT -8
ACTIVITY CHECK!
Welcome to Horizons’ seventh Activity Check!
As with the previous activity check, this will be per character, not simply per member, and will look for a minimum number of posts since the last check. Since the last check went so well in encouraging members to pick up activity if they were a bit below quota, this will be slightly higher than last time, but not much!
So for this Activity Check:
Simply fill out the template given below once; do not post in this AC as each of your characters. Just post with one of your characters (or a staff account) filling out this template, so everything is consolidated for each member. Thank you!
As always, please keep in mind that archiving a character does not mean giving them up forever; it only means marking them as "not active and available to RP right now", so that other players can more easily see who is around, and most characters can be revived at any time.
In the case of limited positions, like Gym Leader types and psychics, there is a chance of a slot no longer being available by the time you get both the time and muse to play them again. However, aura and psychic slots have not been filled since the cap was raised to 20 (Psychics have gotten close, but of course any archived mean that much longer until it's filled). You also have the option to "seal" mental skills for a time (Aura Users can keep some very very limited passive Sight at most) if you can justify it in-character (a head injury or other traumatic experience, most likely), then have your character re-acquire them once slots are open.
In the cases of Gym Leaders and Professors, the character can always be revived without the position, being a dedicated type specialist or researcher without the official League association.
As such, there is little to no risk of not being able to get the character back. We simply want an accurate look at who's active, and in the case of Profs and GLs to open the positions to people who can make more immediate use of them, if possible.
That said, if you do have characters archived, please note: Characters willingly archived cannot be revived for at least one month (this applies at all times, not just in the AC). Characters archived due to inactivity can be brought back at any time, but you may only bring back one at a time.
When seeking to unarchive multiple characters, you must either wait one month between revivals or hit 10 posts with the previous unarchived character, such that you either work your way back up slowly or prove you have enough muse flowing that you can handle more already. This is not meant as a punishment, of course, just to help ensure no one gets in over their head and gets overwhelmed, so the RP has the best chance of remaining fun for everyone!
As with the previous activity check, this will be per character, not simply per member, and will look for a minimum number of posts since the last check. Since the last check went so well in encouraging members to pick up activity if they were a bit below quota, this will be slightly higher than last time, but not much!
So for this Activity Check:
- Every player gets one "freebie slot" so long as they reply to the AC. No matter how long it's been, if you think you might want to get back in the game with that character soon, you can keep one "active" to make it a smoother transition back into playing. However:
-- The Freebie Slot cannot be used on a League position. (You may, however, give up the League position by doing a class change, if you can't keep up with the position but want to use your slot on the character. Ex: a GL could retire to become a Civilian or pursue their showbiz dreams as a Coordinator, lowering their activity requirement and qualifying them for a freebie slot and freeing up that GL position.)
-- The Freebie Slot cannot be used on a character who you used it on last AC, unless you are at least close to the post quota this round or they are your only character. If you're actively trying and just building back up slow, we'll be lenient. If you haven't really used a character in six months, it's probably time to archive them.
That said, one of the main goals of the Freebie Slot is to let even the busiest and lowest-muse players maintain some presence. If you have two or more, archiving so you can focus your time and effort on less characters might be helpful. If one low-activity character is the best you can do right now, though, we still love you and want you around! Just keep trying your best. - Otherwise, we'd like to ask every non-League character to have made at least 6 in-character posts since the previous AC, which ended Nov 30. These can be from any point from Dec 1 up through the end of February.
Non-typical but still ic posts, such as Swarm catches and ic contest entries, do count toward activity, but only up to half of it. For normal characters, this means at least 3 posts in a catch, training, treasure, or interaction thread of some kind. Anything that isn't "one post and done", but rather an ongoing thread. - Gym Leaders and Professors have double the requirement: 12 in-character posts since November. Up to half can be Swarms/etc, meaning a minimum of 6 have to be standard RP in a non-oneshot thread.
- All characters approved in February are automatically immune to the AC. All characters approved in January are also safe unless the player doesn't log on for the entirety of February. As long as they're still around, being slow to get started is fine.
- All non-League characters approved in December only need 3 posts. (League characters would need 6 to follow this trend, but in doing their 10 required in the starting period will already qualify or have lost the position regardless.) This way we give a bit more leniency to newer characters. Characters approved in or before July have the full reqs described above.
- Note: Characters who are/were unarchived during this AC timeframe will be treated the same as characters newly made; just be sure to note it if that's the case!
- When posting the characters you're keeping, please @ tag all of them, and note if one hasn't been active but you want to keep them as your 'freebie slot'. You do not need to post proof of activity. So long as you do the @ tag, we can quickly and easily check each character's recent posts to see that each has qualified, so you can focus on posting rather than keeping up with links.
Simply fill out the template given below once; do not post in this AC as each of your characters. Just post with one of your characters (or a staff account) filling out this template, so everything is consolidated for each member. Thank you!
[b]OOC Name:[/b] Your name in the cbox/forum
[b]Archiving:[/b] Who, if anyone, you're archiving. N/A otherwise
[b]Characters:[/b] The characters you're keeping.
As always, please keep in mind that archiving a character does not mean giving them up forever; it only means marking them as "not active and available to RP right now", so that other players can more easily see who is around, and most characters can be revived at any time.
In the case of limited positions, like Gym Leader types and psychics, there is a chance of a slot no longer being available by the time you get both the time and muse to play them again. However, aura and psychic slots have not been filled since the cap was raised to 20 (Psychics have gotten close, but of course any archived mean that much longer until it's filled). You also have the option to "seal" mental skills for a time (Aura Users can keep some very very limited passive Sight at most) if you can justify it in-character (a head injury or other traumatic experience, most likely), then have your character re-acquire them once slots are open.
In the cases of Gym Leaders and Professors, the character can always be revived without the position, being a dedicated type specialist or researcher without the official League association.
As such, there is little to no risk of not being able to get the character back. We simply want an accurate look at who's active, and in the case of Profs and GLs to open the positions to people who can make more immediate use of them, if possible.
That said, if you do have characters archived, please note: Characters willingly archived cannot be revived for at least one month (this applies at all times, not just in the AC). Characters archived due to inactivity can be brought back at any time, but you may only bring back one at a time.
When seeking to unarchive multiple characters, you must either wait one month between revivals or hit 10 posts with the previous unarchived character, such that you either work your way back up slowly or prove you have enough muse flowing that you can handle more already. This is not meant as a punishment, of course, just to help ensure no one gets in over their head and gets overwhelmed, so the RP has the best chance of remaining fun for everyone!