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1. Allow Open Lobby without listing game as Looking for Group

   I like the idea of allowing a peanut gallery to comment on the game as it progesses. Maybe even offer suggestions or talk about the game as it happens. Like people watching a TV show together.

   But leaving the Lobby open for this discourse also sets the game to Looking for Group, which will confuse people who are trying to find games. So as it is, it's not really going to work.

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2. How do I get at the custom cards I've created in other games?

   I've narrated several games, and in the course of them, I've created, probably, hundreds of Strength and Weaknesses of a generic sort useful for any a game.

   When I am setting up a new game, is there a way I can get at those custom cards I've created myself? For Add cards, I see "Add from world" and "Add custom" but the latter only seems to look at the current game, not other games I have created.

   Is there a way to do this that I am missing?

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   under review  ·  Adminehardee (Admin, Storium) responded

   Cloning a game will duplicate all existing cards, but there is currently no way to access all cards a narrator has ever created.

3. lose 'nudges'

   Back in the day, when there were few communication options open to narrators, this may have been a really useful piece of functionality, so I'm absolutely not dissing the original decision to have it.

   But now that there are character comment areas, PMs, discussion areas and comment sections, allowing for a 'nudge' seems to just encourage narrators to use a non-communicative automated response when a message would do a much better job.

   Having spoken to some other folk, I've discovered that Storium users, on balance, find nudging to be irritating at best and at worst downright rude. If you think about it, any piece of functionality that uses a word for unsolicited physical contact probably isn't the best idea (even Facebook changed 'poke' to 'say hello')! Given the prime importance of communication on Storium, it seems like we might want to lose a setting that allows for sending an automated message instead of a personal one for such a situation.

   I realise that nudges count as 'high priority' for the purposes of notifications, and that mere comments/discussion posts don't (unless you're @ed in the case of comments). I'd suggest getting round this by replacing the nudge with a 'send game alert' or similar, where rather than a push button that sends an automated note, the narrator gets a mandatory message field to send a high priority message to all players. This would have the added advantage of being more generic and allowing the narrator to use it for other high priority notifications that they want to ensure all players see.

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   ~mordant

   Back in the day, when there were few communication options open to narrators, this may have been a really useful piece of functionality, so I'm absolutely not dissing the original decision to have it.

   But now that there are character comment areas, PMs, discussion areas and comment sections, allowing for a 'nudge' seems to just encourage narrators to use a non-communicative automated response when a message would do a much better job.

   Having spoken to some other folk, I've discovered that Storium users, on balance, find nudging to be irritating at best and at worst downright rude. If you think… more

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4. Multiple Improvements to Favorites Implementation

   There are a number of ways that we could improve our currently handling of Favorites (Stars) to make them more useful for the community. Right now, the problem is that Favoriting a story also means 'following' it for update purposes, which can make it problematic to have more than a couple if you pay attention to your Favorites feed. Part of the trouble there is also that you can't just see a list of your favorites to track one story, and then move to another that's been updating when you're ready. You're locked into chronological view-everything (and even see comments updates for games you can't see comments in!)

   There are 3 changes I'd recommend to improve the Favoriting system:

   1. Separate Favorites from 'Following' (or 'Subscribed'). This allows readers to star a game, essentially 'liking' it as a signal that it's a good story, a nod of approval for the narrator and the players, but without adding it to the things they receive updates for. Following would be separate, and purely for that particular member's use.

   2. Provide each member a page to view a listing of games they're Following, and also a list of Favorites. This gives even more utility to the 'starring' process, since you can say 'this is interesting but I don't want to read it right now; I'll come back to it later.' A list of Followed stories allows a user to quickly catch up on one specific story without muddling through a chronological feed of updates for anything related to that one. It's an ease-of-life feature, but a very important one for encouraging readership (bonus: a list of Favorites would be incredibly useful to those volunteers who are picking Featured games; they'd have a list they can keep going back to for nominations and selections, check in on their progress over time, etc.)

   3. Allow us a way to toggle email notifications for Followed stories! Ideally, there would be two options (well, three including 'no email notifications,' as usual): an immediate notification, as is sent to a player; and a daily digest sort of email that summarizes activity in all Followed stories the member has.

   There are a number of ways that we could improve our currently handling of Favorites (Stars) to make them more useful for the community. Right now, the problem is that Favoriting a story also means 'following' it for update purposes, which can make it problematic to have more than a couple if you pay attention to your Favorites feed. Part of the trouble there is also that you can't just see a list of your favorites to track one story, and then move to another that's been updating when you're ready. You're locked into chronological view-everything (and even see comments… more

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5. make character creation non-sequential.

   The thing I am finding I don't like about character creation is that it is hard-wired in to be sequential. I don't like that at all. Sometimes I think of a weakness before I can think of a good strength. Sometimes, I want to write the character description and name before I even think about creating or choosing cards. It's somewhat frustrating that I cannot see and be able to choose from all of the options available for all of the card types at one time, rather than having to choose the Nature first, and so on. I would rather be free to create the character in whatever order I prefer than to always have to do it in the software-prescribed order.

   The thing I am finding I don't like about character creation is that it is hard-wired in to be sequential. I don't like that at all. Sometimes I think of a weakness before I can think of a good strength. Sometimes, I want to write the character description and name before I even think about creating or choosing cards. It's somewhat frustrating that I cannot see and be able to choose from all of the options available for all of the card types at one time, rather than having to choose the Nature first, and so on. I would rather… more

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6. Fill in challenges with different colors based on the cards

   Currently, challenges show empty squares until someone plays a card them, and then they fill in with green. I would like the colors to correspond to the cards--perhaps green for strong, red for weak, and grey for neutral--so players don't have to keep scrolling up to check what the balance is before they play their own cards.

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7. Allow Narrator-Player communication from the moment a character is *started* rather than *complete*.

   I definitely appreciate the new private commentary sections that we have on the player character pages--very nice. But I'd like to ask for one adjustment...it'd be nice to have that become available from the moment a player starts a character rather than when the player submits a character.

   Sometimes as a player I've had questions about a Narrator's world that I need resolved, and the only way to do it at the moment is to complete a temp character and send a note to the narrator with approval.

   And as narrator, I can see if people I have invited have begun a character, but I can't actually speak to them to find out if they are having any trouble in the process unless I happen to have an external way to contact them.

   If the comments became available the moment a player started a character, these might be resolved.

   I definitely appreciate the new private commentary sections that we have on the player character pages--very nice. But I'd like to ask for one adjustment...it'd be nice to have that become available from the moment a player starts a character rather than when the player submits a character.

   Sometimes as a player I've had questions about a Narrator's world that I need resolved, and the only way to do it at the moment is to complete a temp character and send a note to the narrator with approval.

   And as narrator, I can see if people I have invited have… more

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8. Visibility of games on player profile

   It would be good to be able to choose the visibility of suspended games and retired characters in one’s profile, probably? This isn’t an issue for me but it seems like a logical thing to include.

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9. The "Opposing Outcome" Challenge Card

   One way of promoting player vs. player interaction would be to introduce an "Opposing Outcome" Challenge Card. Unlike conventional challenge cards (with strong or weak outcomes), an Opposing Outcome Challenge would be used by players to determine which of two mutually exclusive outcomes take place. The accompanying image shows what two of these cards might look like.

   The challenge presents two alternative Courses Of Action. These COA’s might be in the form of two choices (administer conventional medicine or an untested experimental vaccine in a medical game; reason with a creature/monster or attack it in a sci-fi/fantasy game; voting for or against impeachment in a political game, etc.) Instead of just one set of boxes which tallies the strength/weakness/asset cards the players use, the challenge has two sets of boxes—one for each alternative COA. Once the characters have played their cards, the COA with the strongest outcome prevails.

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   Once a player uses a card for a given COA, he/she can NOT play a card against the alternative COA (should be restricted from doing so by the gaming software). This prevents a player for playing a strength card against one COA and then playing a weakness card against the opposing COA (in effect sabotaging the alternate outcome).
   
   2. A positive card is worth +1, a negative card is worth -1; asset/goal/subplot cards (nominally considered neutral under the current system) are worth +0.25.
   
   3. Although both outcomes might be positive overall, the COA with the highest net “score” wins. (Example: Players favoring COA-A expend a strength card and two (neutral) asset cards for a net score of +1.5. Players favoring COA-B expend two strength cards and one asset/goal/subplot card for a net score of +2.25, thus winning the challenge)

   If the two Outcomes receive numerically identical scores, the technical result is an uncertain outcome, though the types of cards played and the strength of the accompanying posts may still allow the Narrator to declare that a particular COA appears to have the upper hand.

   Game Play Implications:

   This type of card would allow characters to work together in most situations (as they do now in Storium), but would allow the Narrator to force them to perhaps work at cross-purposes (or perhaps in direct opposition to one another) at certain critical points when an Opposing Challenge Card is introduced in a story. It would also allow for the Narrator to set up a “Faction vs. Faction” style of play when designing a game (Loyalists vs. Rebels; Abolitionists vs. Slave Owners; Vampires vs. Werewolves, Hatfields vs. McCoys, etc.). Players might find themselves holding their strength cards in reserve for use in some future potential challenge rather than expending them willy-nilly (how many times have we seen a player use a “Charismatic Leader” strength card in the largely throw-away “getting to know you” challenge of a first scene??). At some point in the game, one faction/player may find that they are in possession of only weakness cards and may realize that they are in a really bad situation when that critical Opposing Challenge finally manifests itself.

   Of course, there will be times when all the players are in substantial agreement on an important decision. In that situation, the Narrator might find that all the squares for “Outcome A” are filled with strength cards, but nobody is interested in supporting “Outcome B” with its still empty squares. In that situation, the Narrator has still given the group to opportunity to choose between two distinct courses of action, and they have done so. At that point the Narrator should end the scene and move on in the new direction indicated, even though there are still empty squares remaining for the second outcome. As noted above, in the case of “tied scores,” the Narrator would still have leeway to declare a given outcome based on the types of cards played and the quality of the player posts accompanying each COA being supported.

   One way of promoting player vs. player interaction would be to introduce an "Opposing Outcome" Challenge Card. Unlike conventional challenge cards (with strong or weak outcomes), an Opposing Outcome Challenge would be used by players to determine which of two mutually exclusive outcomes take place. The accompanying image shows what two of these cards might look like.

   The challenge presents two alternative Courses Of Action. These COA’s might be in the form of two choices (administer conventional medicine or an untested experimental vaccine in a medical game; reason with a creature/monster or attack it in a sci-fi/fantasy game; voting for… more

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   under review  ·  AdminStephen Hood (Co-founder, Storium) responded

   This is a super interesting idea, thank you for sharing it! We will put it in the mix ideas we’re experimenting with.

10. Add a true wild card

    I'm finding in one game that having wild strengths as goal rewards is strangely limiting. I know there'll be more reward options in the future, but what if one of those options was a true wild card? The player could set it as strong or weak (or possibly neutral, I suppose) when it's played. That would allow for a LOT more flexibility.

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11. Use the border around character avatars to indicate card usage

    Segment the border around each character portrait and use the three segments to indicate how many cards each character has left to use in the scene.

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12. Alter the Number of Strengths and Weaknesses by World

    The world itself should specify the number of strength cards and the number of weaknesses each player gets. This would help with genre. A thriller game should probably have an even number of strengths and weaknesses. But an action game romp should probably be tilted slightly to strengths — Aid the power fantasy. And a comedy? Should be much more weakness tilted: Things going wrong are far funnier than things going right.

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13. "Blocking" cards

    Here's a weird idea.

    "Blocker" cards must be played, at least one per challenge, until they're all gone. You can play a strength or a weakness or an item as well, but until the blocker cards are gone, they must be played. Worse, they count as 'weak'.

    However, when you finish the stack, you get a wild strength for each blocker card you played.

    What would these be used for? "Chained up". "Drunk." "Dazed". Anything where there's an ongoing, temporary effect that drains a character. Narrators could place them like objects or give them to characters as appropriate.

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14. Allow players to take over games as Narrator after extended period of Narrator inactivity or ineffective activity

    Some games stall when Narrators either go missing, or only post ineffective content that doesn't really move the game along. After a reasonable amount of time, or a string of ineffective posts, it would be great if the players could contact Storium and request that the game be reassigned to one of them.

    Most players put a lot of thought, time and energy into their characters and their posts, so when Narrators are absent, or when their posts reflect a low level of interest in the game, players have to either wait it out, or retire. Either option is frustrating, and seems unfair.

    There are many great Narrators out there, but there are also those who seem to be more interested in having a long list of "Narrating" titles than in actually nurturing the games that they started.

    There are also many great writers out there who are devoted to the games they're playing, and I think that rather than letting a dormant game die, it would be great for the players, and Storium, if others could be given a chance to keep the game going.

    Some games stall when Narrators either go missing, or only post ineffective content that doesn't really move the game along. After a reasonable amount of time, or a string of ineffective posts, it would be great if the players could contact Storium and request that the game be reassigned to one of them.

    Most players put a lot of thought, time and energy into their characters and their posts, so when Narrators are absent, or when their posts reflect a low level of interest in the game, players have to either wait it out, or retire. Either option is frustrating,… more

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15. Allow assets to serve as Strong or Weak toward a challenge outcome

    Sometime it doesn't make sense for an Asset to be neutral towards the outcome of a challenge. If you're trying to kill someone, for example, using a Gun asset seems like it would be awfully helpful. Or if you're trying to cover a long distance quickly, it seems odd that a Car asset would only be neutral. On the other side of things, if the challenge is to take care of some guards while attracting as little attention as possible, using a grenade would definitely take care of the guards, but it would also make a lot of noise and attraction attention, which could be reflected well in a Weak outcome.

    The narrator should be able to specify when they create a challenge that certain assets will count as Weak or Strong for that challenge.

    Sometime it doesn't make sense for an Asset to be neutral towards the outcome of a challenge. If you're trying to kill someone, for example, using a Gun asset seems like it would be awfully helpful. Or if you're trying to cover a long distance quickly, it seems odd that a Car asset would only be neutral. On the other side of things, if the challenge is to take care of some guards while attracting as little attention as possible, using a grenade would definitely take care of the guards, but it would also make a lot of noise and… more

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16. The narrator advice pages should talk about not writing in motivations or intentions for PCs.

    A game I've been in has had a problem where the narrator opens a scene and describes (inaccurately) the motivations and intentions of the players. Even if the narrator is willing for these intentions to be subverted, that sort of thing should never make it into narration, because it's inaccurate, confusing, and stifling to players. New narrators should be advised to leave PC thoughts, feelings, motivations, and intentions out of their narration as much as possible, and let the players actually play and make their own choices.

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17. Autocomplete User Names

    In the commentary track, I am trying to speak to another player in the game with their User Name. I noticed other people did the same, but typos caused problems and prevented notifications. If it would be possible to enable an autocomplete function, for user names within the same game, that would be excellent.

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18. Notification Readablility

    The current notification sidebar is very short and list format gets quickly clogged up by streams of comment notifications. If you put how much activity has passed since you last saw a story on the games thumbnail itself it would improve readability and show you how much activity has passed on the games themselves. Allowing players to keep track of the games they are a part of more easily as notifications that fall off the edge of the sidebar on the homepage never reach me. See attached image for an example.

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19. The Storium forums should be called Foriums.

    That is all.

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    under review  ·  AdminStephen Hood (Co-founder, Storium) responded

    I love you.

    Seriously considering this. :)

20. Holistic vs "As of Now" Character Edits

    Under the current system, when a player edits their character, that change is reflected by all posts made by that player, however sometimes a player wants to have their character evolve through the story and have their description/avatar reflect that. For example, one character in a story I'm a player in switched sides for a little while, switching to an alternate persona, and edited their profile to match, however, this change was reflected by the entirety of the story, all the way back to the first scene. When I first logged in after the change, I was confused and didn't understand the change until I read the post detailing it. This can also be a spoiler problem for those reading along in a story that is ongoing.

    So my idea would be to give the player the option, when editing their character, to make their changes either Holistic (affecting all previous posts, such as correcting typos in the description or finding a better avatar) or "From Now On" (allowing for stated character evolution, preserving the previous version(s) of the character).

    I think this would be great for longer stories whose characters change over the course of it, without forcing them to either be stuck with the initial (and more and more inaccurate) character profile or lose previous versions of their character by making those changes.

    Under the current system, when a player edits their character, that change is reflected by all posts made by that player, however sometimes a player wants to have their character evolve through the story and have their description/avatar reflect that. For example, one character in a story I'm a player in switched sides for a little while, switching to an alternate persona, and edited their profile to match, however, this change was reflected by the entirety of the story, all the way back to the first scene. When I first logged in after the change, I was confused and didn't… more

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    under review  ·  AdminStephen Hood (Co-founder, Storium) responded

    FYI we are looking at ways to do this. One that we particularly like is to link “as of now” edits to playing your Nature card, and thus making it a big event in your character’s evolution. For example, when Luke’s Nature card changes from “Farmboy” to “Rebel pilot”, and his photo and description get updated to match.