Ask A Moderator - Suggestions, Questions, and Help

[digitaldivemods]

Have a question? Want to suggest something to help the game run smoother? Just need some help in general with the game?

We're here to help!

Whether it's questions on our application process, how things in the game world function, how the Tamer Class System or Digimon evolution works, or any relevant question that might come to you? Please, feel free to ask it!

Even if you're not very knowledgeable on Digimon in general, we're willing to explain anything you need to know to get you going and having fun in the game. On staff are moderators who have extremely intricate knowledge of the Digimon franchise, so if there's a Digimon question, we can definitely find an answer quickly.

Need help coming up with a Digimon partner, or evolution line, that fits the character you're applying for? We can definitely help there, too. (Though given it is a part of understanding the Digi-Xros concept, we're going to want you to try and work out Xros Ups for Xros Tamers yourselves. But remember that is something of an advanced, time consuming Tamer Class. You don't have to dive headlong into something that difficult right away, if you're new!)

These are just a few examples, of course, so feel free to ask whatever you need to!

Comments

[star_student]

Hi! For a long while I've been interested in Digital_Dive, and have enjoyed following it's move from Livejournal to Dreamwidth. Here is an opportunity to re-start and re-make the game into a more user, plot, and lurker friendly Community.

So much has already been done, such as making it Community based for accessibility and convenience, along with the new coding and formats and countess other work put in place.

If I may though, I've noticed that one of the things that hasn't changed is the lack of a Character Limit. In most if not all of the successful RPGames a limit is put in place, which flexes around each individual player's ability to keep all of their Character's activity at an acceptable level. Typically the rang is anywhere from 5-15, depending on how large the Game is and how Fast it's pace.

One of the factors contributing to less activity and the 'dying' of DD on livejournal may have been that players had too many characters, and were not always able to put forth enough time into them. Another benefit of a limit is opening up slots for potential new Players, who may be intimidated by the large percentage of Characters belonging to individuals.

There is of course a downside to a Character limit, one that is very clear. As DD currently stands, it would potentially loose many of it's Character's due to Players needing to (at least temporarily) pick and choose. Along with this, CR will be lost between the characters given up and the ones remaining.

Despite this downside, another benefit of a Limit is most noticeably for the NPCs and Moderators. Having less of a flood of tags each event, being able to manage and organize fights, plot, etc without it turning into a dog-piled mess.

With DD's 'Reboot', there is no better time then to implement a Character limit. Plot wise, many of the cut/dropped characters could have been 'lost' during the literal reboot, others returning home, and some perhaps integrated/absorbed by the Antagonists.

Whether you decide to place a limit or not will be a difficult decision, with how long the game has been going, and characters with it. In the end, this is all a well meaning suggestion, and either way I hope to see the Community continue to Grow.

[digitaldivemods]

This comment has actually spurred a large discussion among the moderators, and we've spent much of the night discussing it. We have yet to come to a consensus, so we can't make any official statements, but we've exchanged several ideas about both character limits and activity checks. We won't have an immediate response to this, but if you're willing to wait a little while, you can expect to see us making some changes Dive's character structure. Thank you for your question, by the way. That conversation would not have taken place without it.

Also, thanks for watching our progress in the move, and for providing us with such a nice and thoughtful first question for this section. :)

[star_student]

I can only imagine, as I'm sure you were able to list even more reasons for or against doing something so radical. Like all good things it'll take time to figure out if it or another idea will best fit Dive's needs. Yet another decision to toss onto the massive workload of the revamp! xD

It's my pleasure. I should be thanking all the Mods and Players for their dedication and renewed interest in DD. It's always been fun to lurk, and I'm sooo looking forward to not needing to search each individual Journal to follow CR. (The magic of community tags are amazing.)

Good luck wrestling out the details and preparing for the Reopening!

[terra_who]

I know that conversation isn't something we should have on these pages, but just a quick drive-by comment, even though I've been so long on hiatus that you...likely don't know me or my characters, I'm just going to say that it's amazing to know someone's been lurking through our game and through our CR. If you decide to app, it'll be great to have you aboard, if not I hope you enjoy reading what we have to offer. As a long-time member of Dive, it's great to know that someone out there likes what we've been doing. Or well, what everyone else has been doing.

Poofing now before I get scolded. >3

[extraordinarily]

Hi! I’ve been interested in Digital Dive for a while, and I was debating between reapplying here (since I was a player here a long time ago), but I have some questions! Especially since some of them are ridiculously specific to a certain fandom.

1. First off, how do you guys feel about two characters who come from different timepoints but are considered as two separate characters in the timeline?

The character I’m actually thinking about is Mikuru Asahina (big) from the Haruhi series – she is actually distinctly different than the smaller Mikuru, even though they are the same. I’d explain more, but it goes into Surprise spoilers, which I would like to avoid in this thread.

2. And what about a character from another medium? Let’s say the character is already taken from the main medium (manga, anime, light novel), but there is a canon alternate version of that fandom which makes the character slightly different?

I think that’s it. Thanks a lot for replying in advance!

[digitaldivemods]

My apologies for the delay in responding here.

First off, for (big) Mikuru, unfortunately we don't think we can allow that in this case.

For the second matter, could you clarify just how the canon is different, and just what kind of medium it is? We do allow canonical AUs, we just need to get an idea of where they're from and how different they are before we can tell if they're different enough to be allowed in.

[straycatgunning]

I think they mean something along the lines of Edward Elric from the first anime, and Edward Elric from Brotherhood/manga. Essentially the same character, from the same universe, but slightly different in how their personalities develop and how their story goes.

That's actually a question I'm going to follow up on with them and ask if that's cool? I know anime and manga can very wildly enough for them to might as well be two characters. Actually Train, Hao, and Cut Man (if you count Ruby Spears) all fall under that.

I don't plan to do it myself but I'm just backing them up.

[digitaldivemods]

If it's like that we already allow and have or have had numerous characters like that in the game before. It simply depends on how divergent and different both canons are.

[extraordinarily]

That's completely fine! I was thinking of this version of canon, a canon alternate AU where all the characters are placed in a Disappearance-verse setting (basically, an "as if" the world never had any sort of unusual oddities).

Several (or, well a good majority) of the characters in there act different than canon. Haruhi's a lot nicer (and ships Nagato/Kyon), Kyon is calmer (though he does act lineface-y towards certain people), Nagato shows more emotions, and Asakura is overprotective towards Nagato.

I hope this answers your questions, and I'll be looking forward to your reply!

[digitaldivemods]

For the sake of reference and solidifying our answer, was there a particular character there that you may have been looking at?

[extraordinarily]

I was thinking about Haruhi or Yuki, actually.

[stop_flashtime]

Hey guys, not sure where to go for this, but I just noticed Centaur Man's name is typoed in the taken list and both the main network comm tags.

[digitaldivemods]

Whoops! Sorry this took so long to get to, I'll get right on that! Thanks for the heads up!

edit: and fixed!

suggestion!

[camalyng]

Get a mod Plurk for all your announcements C: From having most of y'all added I've noticed that your announcements and reminders tend to be a bit all over the place depending on who posted it; having a centralized mod Plurk gives players just one Plurk to go to for game business.

SHE DOESN'T EVEN GO HERE

[tacos_of_doom]

HI CAR HI. I LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU. ♥

This isn't an actual moderator response, I just wanted to tell you how much I love you and miss you.

Though there is an e-mail going about this idea now. c:

[camalyng]

RIGHT BACK AT YOU. ♥

Happy mod e-mailing!