Substitute player here! So my answers should be taken with a grain of salt.
1. I admit I wasn't around to really use it too much but I'm also umineko-familiar.
2. I think it might work better with powers off because it'd be too easy for a person to use some power and not admit they have that power? If it was non-obvious. Or, the opposite, where they use a power only they have, and then people discover it and come to the conclusion "Well, it's got to be the one guy who can do that."
3. PLEASE PUSH IT BACK TO 6PM EST! Or even 3 pm EST? I am a poor PST person with a weird schedule who isn't used to waking up early enough to make a 12pm noon EST start-time. ;; I'll fully admit to being biased.
4. I think perhaps investigation should be stretched out over two days, or the way information is provided should be changed. There was a situation where I wanted to investigate more with my character, but at the same time I wanted to tag other characters for normal rping purposes. This split my mental faculties, and I couldn't do both effectively, I think. Two solutions: a. Make investigation last two days, enough for people to tag, look over all the potential information provided by the mods, then write responses like: "Okay, I also investigate whether 'this' and 'this' is possible." Then this gives the mods a chance to wake up the next day and see the investigation back-tags. b. When people discover an item, give them absolutely every detail they could feasibly detect from it, and let them decide individually how much their character actually notices based on their character's intellect, ability to inspect, or how much they actually care about the thing. That is, something like: "You find a boot with caked on mud. If you physically take it and compare it to the bootprint outside in the mud, you'll find it's a match. If you compare the mud on the boot to the bootprint outside, you'll find they're different types of dirt." Etc. etc. Okay, maybe this isn't the best solution. Maybe there should be a point the mods say "You've learned everything you can about this item."
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1. I admit I wasn't around to really use it too much but I'm also umineko-familiar.
2. I think it might work better with powers off because it'd be too easy for a person to use some power and not admit they have that power? If it was non-obvious. Or, the opposite, where they use a power only they have, and then people discover it and come to the conclusion "Well, it's got to be the one guy who can do that."
3. PLEASE PUSH IT BACK TO 6PM EST! Or even 3 pm EST? I am a poor PST person with a weird schedule who isn't used to waking up early enough to make a 12pm noon EST start-time. ;; I'll fully admit to being biased.
4. I think perhaps investigation should be stretched out over two days, or the way information is provided should be changed.
There was a situation where I wanted to investigate more with my character, but at the same time I wanted to tag other characters for normal rping purposes. This split my mental faculties, and I couldn't do both effectively, I think.
Two solutions:
a. Make investigation last two days, enough for people to tag, look over all the potential information provided by the mods, then write responses like: "Okay, I also investigate whether 'this' and 'this' is possible." Then this gives the mods a chance to wake up the next day and see the investigation back-tags.
b. When people discover an item, give them absolutely every detail they could feasibly detect from it, and let them decide individually how much their character actually notices based on their character's intellect, ability to inspect, or how much they actually care about the thing. That is, something like: "You find a boot with caked on mud. If you physically take it and compare it to the bootprint outside in the mud, you'll find it's a match. If you compare the mud on the boot to the bootprint outside, you'll find they're different types of dirt." Etc. etc. Okay, maybe this isn't the best solution. Maybe there should be a point the mods say "You've learned everything you can about this item."