OOC Channels
Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2021 12:18 pm
I'm curious to hear peoples thoughts if the following happened;
- OOC was moved to 3rd party access, with its content being to discuss Cogg in regards to ideas/suggestions/chatter about the game
- New channel, called Questions that was the base channel allowed in game, intended just for the asking of and answering of questions
- A. It can be massively overwhelming for new players who just want to get to grips with the game, and get questions answered when need be.
- B. Questions do get lost in the chatter on OOC, and it can be very hard for the people with the knowledge to answer them to keep up.
- C. There is a trend that has been around for a while, that people discuss ongoing events on OOC. I've done it, and let us be honest. It is jarring and also with NotShadgard coming up and conflict potentially becoming a lot more commonplace it has huge potential to create messy situations that should remain IC. We've had it happen before, and I am not naive enough to think it won't happen again even with OOC being taken to a 3rd party only but it might at least give people that moment pause of going, "I actually want to take my time away from playing the game to chat about me playing the game." If people prefer to do that, fine but I don't think it is necessarily something to encourage.
- D. I think if there is separation, we're less likely to see channels muted which negatively effects new players experiences.
- 1) It will break community, and not make us see as active to new players.
- People can check WHO, which is already better than many games, and I'd rather them see active RP and engagement in game, than idle chatter on OOC - 2) People don't want to work third clients.
- I get it, but there are a variety of options and Nobody posted a great idea before about a different login server that just feeds to chat. Neither of them are as instant or easy as OOC in game, and honestly. That is the idea.