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1. 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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2. Secret card

   A card that narrator can give to one player or more without anyone seeing it or knowing about it.
   It will create a “Game of Throne” kind a story
   
   Example: Josh saw Gerard drinking blood from a man they just killed.
   1. The narrator can give the card to Josh character and Gerard character, they both know that the other one know about it and it create a “cat mouse” relationship between the two, Gerard can't do much about it and need to be careful with his approach to Josh and Josh can use it to his advantage.
   2. The narrator can also give a card to Simone that he saw Gerard drinking the blood and Josh seeing it but the two don’t know that he was there.
   Example: Malcom is part of the crew and every one like him, but they don’t know that Malcom is an agent of the secret society and will back-stab them after they lead him to the lost treasure.
   Example: players can write their own secrets cards (after the narrator approve it)
   1. (Before the start of the game) I saw all my family butchered in front of me which left me with serious bonding issue
   2. (In course of the game) I fell in love with Haley and now I want to spend more time with her

   A card that narrator can give to one player or more without anyone seeing it or knowing about it.
   It will create a “Game of Throne” kind a story
   
   Example: Josh saw Gerard drinking blood from a man they just killed.
   1. The narrator can give the card to Josh character and Gerard character, they both know that the other one know about it and it create a “cat mouse” relationship between the two, Gerard can't do much about it and need to be careful with his approach to Josh and Josh can use it to his advantage.
   2. The… more

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3. Change how NPC characters work

   I know that there is already a suggestion to: "Allow narrators to pick NPC characters for scenes without making them obstacles." But I don't think this goes far enough. Right now, characters are identical to obstacles and in many cases that does not make sense.

   How this game handles NPCs as obstacles makes no sense, even when they are supposed to be hostile. When you write an NPC card, you naturally want to write a description of who they are. However, when you play such a card, your players have no idea how he/she is an obstacle. When you play Vampira, the sexy vampire queen, you then have to add extra clarification somewhere to specify if she is attacking the party or trying to seduce them or if the party must interact with her in some way to try and get something.

   Even if we forget the fact that this does not allow for helpfull friendly NPCs, it is still a stupid system, because everytime you play the same NPC in a story, you have to write an additional clarification explaining what he/she is doing this time.

   WHAT I SUGGEST INSTEAD.
   NPC's can be attached to places and obstacles. They do not have Challenge points, but are instead classified as helpfull, harmfull or neutral.

   Attaching an NPC to a place has no effect, as they are simply flavor text. Attaching an NPC to an obstacle however, does have an effect. Helpfull NPCs count essentially as a strength card, while harmfull NPCs count as a weakness card. However, NPC's do not influence how many cards players need to play. A 3 point obstacle with a harmfull NPC attached to it is resolved as a 4 point obstacle with one weakness card played on it.

   To ensure that players can always sway the outcome on an obstacle, the challenge points of an obstacle must always be larger than the number of characters attached to it. A 2 point obstacle can have one character, a 3 point can have 2 etc.

   REASON
   This system allows the same NPC to be played in multiple scenes without the need to rewrite the card everytime. Instead, you simply attach him/her to an obstacle and specify if she is helping or harming. You can then leave the card description for describing the character.

   I know that there is already a suggestion to: "Allow narrators to pick NPC characters for scenes without making them obstacles." But I don't think this goes far enough. Right now, characters are identical to obstacles and in many cases that does not make sense.

   How this game handles NPCs as obstacles makes no sense, even when they are supposed to be hostile. When you write an NPC card, you naturally want to write a description of who they are. However, when you play such a card, your players have no idea how he/she is an obstacle. When you play… more

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4. Notification email choice

   It would be great to be able to check what types of notification emails you get - I don't want to be notified every time someone edits a move, but I would still like comments and moves to be emailed. Customisation of emails would be great and save me from having to make a million different Gmail filters!

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5. Play non-Strength, non-Weakness cards on top of Strength and Weakness cards

   I'm never quite sure what to do with Assets, Goals, and Subplots. Talking with Judson last night, he had a neat suggestion.

   Instead of playing up to three cards of any type on any challenge, make it so that players can play a Strength or a Weakness and then play Assets, Goals, or Subplots on top of that Strength or Weakness.

   The move always swings the result towards a Strong or Weak outcome, but it swings it by the number of cards. So if I play a Strength, an Asset, and a Subplot, that's +3 for Strong outcome.

   This allows me to create layered moves of my own that still have a distinct direction to their influence. It's not sort of a positive thing, now I can build a powerfully positive move or a minor positive one depending on how many cards I lay down, which also tracks to how invested my character is in making that happen.

   I'm never quite sure what to do with Assets, Goals, and Subplots. Talking with Judson last night, he had a neat suggestion.

   Instead of playing up to three cards of any type on any challenge, make it so that players can play a Strength or a Weakness and then play Assets, Goals, or Subplots on top of that Strength or Weakness.

   The move always swings the result towards a Strong or Weak outcome, but it swings it by the number of cards. So if I play a Strength, an Asset, and a Subplot, that's +3 for Strong outcome.

   This allows… more

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6. Unlimited Challenge Points

   At the moment, I find that this limit on challenge points means that the narrator can easily fall into "railroading" their players to follow one linear path with a pass or fail outcome.

   As a GM who likes to give his players choice, I'd like to offer numerous challenge options to players in one scene, beyond the limit of their cards, and see which ones interest them as the scene progresses. When their cards run out, the challenges that they couldn't spend their cards on will either have an uncertain outcome or just not be brought up at all (since they may have had no interest in seeing them through at all). I think this could provide a greater sense of player agency to the scenes.

   At the moment, I find that this limit on challenge points means that the narrator can easily fall into "railroading" their players to follow one linear path with a pass or fail outcome.

   As a GM who likes to give his players choice, I'd like to offer numerous challenge options to players in one scene, beyond the limit of their cards, and see which ones interest them as the scene progresses. When their cards run out, the challenges that they couldn't spend their cards on will either have an uncertain outcome or just not be brought up at all (since… more

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7. add a function: Player is finished

   We found that it might be handy to have some kind of an option, where players can indicate that they have nothing else to contribute to the scene. Once all players have activated this option, this indicates to the narrator that he can close the scene. That way nobody is left out just because they are not back from work yet ;-)

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8. Consider Branches, Sub-Areas, and Setting Decks

   This mechanic would address situations normally approached by creating multiple games to contain private, individual, or side action. (If what I'm typing sounds convoluted, I've visualized the larger ideas with my extremely pedestrian MS Paint/GIMP abilities for clarification).

   The feature would add a "Create Branch" option to the narrator's game interface that effectively splits a single scene into two or more smaller, contemporaneous scenes with individual settings.

   The narrator would have UI controls allowing them to:
   (A) Assign/move characters to sub-scenes and control whether or not the players can move themselves freely between scenes (e.g., the difference between moving between rooms of a house vs. locations in a city)
   (B) Control the visibility of the branches (e.g., "Players can only view branch activity that took place while their character was present" / "The following characters can view this scene" / "Players whose characters are not present for this branch may only view it after the scene is complete") for the sake of private conversations between characters and character prologues

   Challenges and Branch Decks
   This feature would also allow the narrator to add Sub-Areas to a Place card and have the option of opening all areas of the Place to players from the get-go so their characters could move freely between them.

   For example, the hypothetical Dive Bar used in the attached image might be introduced as a single setting or have sub-areas like Patio, Restroom, Interior, etc., from the beginning of the scene, between which the characters could move freely.

   On the issue of challenges, the narrator's UI would allow them, at branch creation, to select which branches would include challenges (e.g., a branch created for private dialogue between two characters may not require challenges). During the scene, the narrator would divide their allotment of challenge points among its challenge-enabled Branches.

   This mechanic would address situations normally approached by creating multiple games to contain private, individual, or side action. (If what I'm typing sounds convoluted, I've visualized the larger ideas with my extremely pedestrian MS Paint/GIMP abilities for clarification).

   The feature would add a "Create Branch" option to the narrator's game interface that effectively splits a single scene into two or more smaller, contemporaneous scenes with individual settings.

   The narrator would have UI controls allowing them to:
   (A) Assign/move characters to sub-scenes and control whether or not the players can move themselves freely between scenes (e.g., the difference between moving between… more

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9. Play This Card As Weakness / Play This Card as Strength

   So I have Strength cards which lean towards a good ending, and Weakness cards that lean towards a bad ending, and I have Assets and Subplots and Goals that lean towards… an ending.

   So first, let me own up and say I'm not terribly certain what playing a non-strength, non-weakness card is supposed to represent, exactly, in the story. So maybe this is based off of a lack of understanding on my part.

   However, I'd really like to be able to play Assets, Goals, and Subplots as strengths and weaknesses. I really want to be able to play them as weaknesses, as a way to flag "Hey, this is a part of my character and it's not helping me right now." For parallelism's sake, I guess I'd also like to play them as strengths occasionally.

   So I have Strength cards which lean towards a good ending, and Weakness cards that lean towards a bad ending, and I have Assets and Subplots and Goals that lean towards… an ending.

   So first, let me own up and say I'm not terribly certain what playing a non-strength, non-weakness card is supposed to represent, exactly, in the story. So maybe this is based off of a lack of understanding on my part.

   However, I'd really like to be able to play Assets, Goals, and Subplots as strengths and weaknesses. I really want to be able to play them as… more

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10. Allow narrators to start new games with characters from the old one

    Sometimes in a game you reach a point where it would be dramatically appropriate to end the story, but would like to allow players to carry on later with characters as they were. I'd like a function that would allow you to end a game but start a new one with those characters, complete with all cards they had at the end of the last one.

    Alternately, make it possible to start the chapter numbering over in the same game when a dramatically appropriate end point has been reached.

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11. Allow users to change usernames

    Right now we're stuck with the one we chose when we sign up, and it might be good if Storium could allow users to change their usernames, but put a limit on it so things don't get too confusing. Or perhaps have a display name separate from the username entirely.

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    AdminStephen Hood (Co-founder, Storium) responded

    If you email support@storium.com we will be happy to change your username! Please include the following info:

    - your current username
    - the email address asssociated with your account
    - you first and second choices for a new user name (just in case the first is already taken)

12. 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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13. Narrator notes area on a game

    A private text area for narrators to keep notes about the game (such as future plot ideas or plans), that they may want or need, but player's don't need to see.

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14. The (Editable) Lore Page: Our Stories' Origins

    The way a story starts in storium is through a first scenario, based on what? Theres no place to describe the lore on which the story is dependent on. It would be nice if there was a dedicated tab within the game where there was an editable lore. This would give a solid visual of the world in which the story is based in.
    It would be great if it had a controlled edit, where the host could assign certain users, or all trusted users in a private game, the ability to edit the lore as well, so that everyone could proofread and check for plotholes to avoid, as well as a written world to follow. Giving the users a framework to follow would establish fluidity between the world, the scenarios, and the characters.

    The way a story starts in storium is through a first scenario, based on what? Theres no place to describe the lore on which the story is dependent on. It would be nice if there was a dedicated tab within the game where there was an editable lore. This would give a solid visual of the world in which the story is based in.
    It would be great if it had a controlled edit, where the host could assign certain users, or all trusted users in a private game, the ability to edit the lore as well, so that everyone… more

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15. Add "active on" and "vacation" options to user profiles

    I've come to the conclusion that saying in chat that I only log in on certain days of the week (in every game I join) is all well and good, but not only is the effort tediously redundant, but once that first scene is done, the information is left back there with it.

    I propose a line be added to the user profiles that is something to the effect of "Active On:" and then auto-filled with what the user checks in their settings. They can select certain days of the week, or other encompassing options like "Daily" or "Flexible". I think the formal addition of this information on player profiles would be enormously beneficial to all, as it would be quick reference at any time of when to expect a player's activity.

    On this same vein, I think it would be a good idea to employ a "vacation" or "hiatus" option to profiles. By this I mean it might replace the "Activity" line I proposed above, or maybe it would be additional, maybe as a banner under the account name. Anyway, what I'm thinking for this is a way for a player to project on their profile that they will be inactive. The vacation/hiatus setting could have the prompt to include a date of return and offer a checkbox for unknown or indefinite. Thus, on the profile view it would say something like "On hiatus until 4/9/15." This would, I think, be a very clean way for players to clearly project temporary or extended absences from Storium.

    (If an activity-tracking mechanic gets added, too, it would be nice to see long-inactive player profiles be automatically given a little banner saying so. Like "Inactive since 12/23/14" which only shows up after someone doesn't log in for X amount of time straight. But that's another suggestion entirely.)

    I've come to the conclusion that saying in chat that I only log in on certain days of the week (in every game I join) is all well and good, but not only is the effort tediously redundant, but once that first scene is done, the information is left back there with it.

    I propose a line be added to the user profiles that is something to the effect of "Active On:" and then auto-filled with what the user checks in their settings. They can select certain days of the week, or other encompassing options like "Daily" or "Flexible". I… more

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    started  ·  Adminehardee (Admin, Storium) responded

    Users can now set ‘vacation mode’ through their profiles with an optional return date. When set, this displays an icon on all instances of their avatars (Narrator or player) and when clicked will display the return date so that absences can be more easily communicated. Thanks!

16. Provide Hosts with a "Please Hand Off Your Character" button

    A lot of Hosts have run into the problem of players that disappear on them and the only choice you have is to force retire the character. When the character is one you genuinely need, it's highly annoying! So what if there was a way for the Storium system to provide the player with a polite way to complete the hand-off without having to suffer the embarrassment of interacting with the Host whom they have let down, or having to do anything more than send a hurried "Yes" in response to an email? Or click a button within that email? And have doing so complete the hand-off which for whatever reason they just cannot bring themselves to complete in some other way? Wouldn't that be nice? Some way to politely nudge those disappeared players that doesn't even require an acknowledgement in words from them? And maybe, the feature could have some sort of limit like, you use it three times at one week intervals and at that point, it allows you to force the hand-off? What do you think folks? Hrm?

    A lot of Hosts have run into the problem of players that disappear on them and the only choice you have is to force retire the character. When the character is one you genuinely need, it's highly annoying! So what if there was a way for the Storium system to provide the player with a polite way to complete the hand-off without having to suffer the embarrassment of interacting with the Host whom they have let down, or having to do anything more than send a hurried "Yes" in response to an email? Or click a button within that email?… more

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17. True Shared Narration

    Single narration is great. And rotating narration adds a fun bit of chaos to proceedings...

    but there are times when two or more people want to narrate a story together... and while handing narration back and forth is perfectly functional... games with more than one regular or even semi-regular narrator would flow much more smoothly if we could share narration duties with someone right from the start without either handing back and forth or manipulating the rotating narration system to get that to work.

    So... yeah... another narration button in the game management screen would be great... that lets us share narration with someone later on. Also, probably a good idea to implement a way for the host to rescind that responsibility if necessary.

    Single narration is great. And rotating narration adds a fun bit of chaos to proceedings...

    but there are times when two or more people want to narrate a story together... and while handing narration back and forth is perfectly functional... games with more than one regular or even semi-regular narrator would flow much more smoothly if we could share narration duties with someone right from the start without either handing back and forth or manipulating the rotating narration system to get that to work.

    So... yeah... another narration button in the game management screen would be great... that lets us… more

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18. Remove Scenes from the Mechanics of the Game

    In discussion with another player last night, we were reflecting on some of the hitches we're seeing with Storium. Games lag repeatedly (and I suspect: wither and die), and often because scenes are a problem. We've seen a number of games where a single big challenge meant that the players couldn't successfully complete all the challenges in a scene (especially if one player wasn't feeling it), and games where GMs continue scenes that should have changed...

    Currently, a Narrator has a challenge limit per scene, players have card play limits per scene, refreshes and bonus wilds are between scenes. I think that's all?

    So: keep the idea of scenes (and chapters) but make them purely narrative. The Narrator frames a scene, and decides when it's over, but cards and challenge points aren't affected.

    Specifically, I'd suggest that:

    The three card player limit be changed to a 3 card lead - you cannot play more than 3 cards more than the next count of card plays.

    The 3 points/per player be changed to a limit on the number of outstanding challenges. In a four player game, if I make a 4 point obstacle, those are 4 points out of my challenge pool until the challenge is completed. Once it is, I have those 4 points back.

    Refreshes are a Move - when I'm out of Strength/Weakness cards, my Move can be "Refresh", with a prompt for some kind of recovery or reflection - Refresh is important to a character, and including it into the narrative would be powerful.

    Bonus wild cards are received right when earned, full stop.

    In discussion with another player last night, we were reflecting on some of the hitches we're seeing with Storium. Games lag repeatedly (and I suspect: wither and die), and often because scenes are a problem. We've seen a number of games where a single big challenge meant that the players couldn't successfully complete all the challenges in a scene (especially if one player wasn't feeling it), and games where GMs continue scenes that should have changed...

    Currently, a Narrator has a challenge limit per scene, players have card play limits per scene, refreshes and bonus wilds are between scenes. I… more

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19. limit how often a game can appear on the 'Looking for Players' page.

    Some games seem to reappear on the Looking for Players page with monotonous regularity--usually the ones with essays for descriptions. There are several that I seem to scroll past (and past, and past) on a daily basis.

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20. Allow us to 'clean up' our own profiles.

    I'd like us to be able to, individually, edit which of our games show up on our profile.

    I was mostly concerned with the "Completed Games" list because there are games on that list which, for varied reasons, I do not think I've "earned", if that makes sense. As such, they don't reflect "me" as a writer.

    I brought this up on the following thread: https://storium.com/forums#/category/general/thread/409pvw

    On there, it was also suggested that there are games on the other lists that would be good to showcase, even if they were suspended, etc.

    So not exactly "hiding" our histories, just adding the ability to pick out which games we showcase on our profiles so that the ones we're most proud of aren't drowned out in a sea of games.

    I'd like us to be able to, individually, edit which of our games show up on our profile.

    I was mostly concerned with the "Completed Games" list because there are games on that list which, for varied reasons, I do not think I've "earned", if that makes sense. As such, they don't reflect "me" as a writer.

    I brought this up on the following thread: https://storium.com/forums#/category/general/thread/409pvw

    On there, it was also suggested that there are games on the other lists that would be good to showcase, even if they were suspended, etc.

    So not exactly "hiding" our histories, just adding… more

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