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Hey guys, Iddy here! Sorry for the non-game journal, but this is my only paid account right now and you need a paid to make polls.

As you all know, DDD has slowed down considerably in the past couple of years. For the most part, we were tiny and slow, but not inactive - we still got regular posts that generated activity, and most people made activity check with no problems. However, in the past month or so, we've noticed that this doesn't seem to be the case anymore, and it doesn't look like the game has generated enough activity in July/the first week of August for everybody to comfortably make AC, so we've decided to suspend both activity check and the applications system.

Now, there are a couple ways that this could go going forward, and there are a few options we want to poll the playerbase on.

The Taken Characters list. We could become a straight-up DR and eschew this entirely, or we could just become an appless, AC-less game with a claims list (this would require some form of regular "I'm still here" check-in, to prevent the list from getting bloated with characters that are not and will never actually be played at all).

The rules about which characters are allowed. Currently, we only allow canon characters to be apped - no OCs, and no AUs (with the exception of somebody apping into a cast that has created an AU timeline based on in-game development). We could continue to enforce this, or we could open the game up to characters of all types.

Viruses. We could keep the virus schedule as-is with a voted-on virus occurring each month, or we could do away with scheduled viruses entirely and allow players to infect their characters at random if they so choose.

Poll #16911

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 8

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How would you prefer the Taken Characters list to be handled?

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There shouldn't be one at all
2 (25.0%)

There should be a claims list, along with occasional check-in posts
6 (75.0%)

I'm undecided/I have an alternate answer (please elaborate in the comments!)
0 (0.0%)

I don't care
0 (0.0%)

How would you prefer the issue of AUs and OCs to be handled?

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We should continue to disallow them
0 (0.0%)

We should do away with character control entirely and just allow everyone
4 (50.0%)

I'm undecided/I have an alternate answer (please elaborate in the comments!)
4 (50.0%)

I don't care
0 (0.0%)

How should viruses be handled?

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We should keep running them the way we do now
1 (12.5%)

We should get rid of the virus schedule and just allow people to run personal viruses whenever they wantI'm undecided/I have an alternate answer (please elaborate in the comments!)
3 (37.5%)

I'm undecided/I have an alternate answer (please elaborate in the comments!)
2 (25.0%)

I don't care
2 (25.0%)

This poll will remain open for two weeks, after which the results will be tallied. Feel free to ask questions if you have any, and/or use this as a discussion post!