Award Rotation Frustrations

[silverpheonix]

In addition - keep in mind that this update came in just a few scant days before Christmas, a very busy time for a lot of people.

The Dev team gave you all a lovery Christmas gift of a new award. Maybe it wasn't wrapped as well as it could be, but is that really reason to insult them?

I don't mean to be rude, I just thought it odd implementation with the one race I mentioned. Feytoyched sounds cool, I wanted to know more about them. What if I wanted to play one? How do I know my concept is accurate, or if I'll need to retcon later?

This is where waiting for more information to be available before making a choice would be pertinent.

Well, yeah.

Now that I am not on my phone and can type out a lot, this is why I personally, with my own preferences, feel like this was a haphazard release.

What I'm trying to say is that while I absolutely appreciate the effort put in by the team, I don't mind waiting for a race/class/feature to be released when the team is ready to also release the information that goes with it. And I know the team isn't saying "shut up and be grateful we're releasing something." It's frustrating that there are players here drowning out me trying to ask why by being snarky jerks, which coincidentally colors staff response. (EDIT: I also don't know whether chastising staff remarks are aimed at me too or not)

Either we wait for the "polished" release to find out about it in the first place, or we wait for the information to come before we can play them accurately, and chomp at the bit some. The second option, while appearing clunky, lets us test builds but TBH feytouched is pretty simple, what's there to really test?

So, again, in my view we're back to just waiting to release it when we're ready to also let people know what it is. I'm not sure I understand the "keep it secret' Sincra mentioned, since it's a race without too much mechanics-wise, rather than something that would have a big impact on economy or a total overhaul of a system.

As I said, I didn't know there's information on character creation. I didn't spend a Normal award for one, and I don't really use the PGCC for testing award races, so I never realized that character creation for award races might have additional information. I also don't feel like firing up PGCC to read a paragraph or three that could have just been included in the announcement.

Anyway, that's my medium-winded way of explaining my first post in this thread.

Am I just off base here?

[silverpheonix]

I'm complaining about lack of prompt information on a volunteer game for a christmas release.

Good lord. I am off base.

[But Will It Blend]

I think that having some frustration is normal. But also, yeah, how it's brought up helps.

Personally I don't think there's much of anything that's interesting for minor or normal awards. Maybe the way around it is to not have a normal reward put you on cooldown for two months? I don't really know. It just feels bad to get a normal reward and be like "So I guess I just... be taller maybe? IDK"

Even a language isn't the most compelling when you can have a class that gives people a free language per level taken.

Hopefully we'll see some interesting options though but I'll be waiting I guess another two months to see if I can get something more interesting with a new roll or just kinda. Let it sit there I guess!

[Quizmar]

As long as we're discussing normal award options... Ahem

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Don't see why this isn't a great option, fun, isn't just a stat increase.

[AstralUniverse]

Maybe it's time to reconsider my old suggestion to add the old paths (natural leader, farmer, thug, etc...) as minor normal awards in some form. We have greater awards who are basically their base race but with +2 to a skill and darkvision and they're greater/major tier soley because of their cosmetics. Maybe we can add such awards, but without the cosmetics and put them on minor/normal.