Not give completion credit for retired characters
It seems very peculiar that, when a story is completed, players whose characters retired from the story beforehand (often without ever making a single move) still have the story show as a completion in their profile.
miri
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Prester
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So I would like to point out that some games I've been in have retired a character when they're dead, or have exited the story by design. The player may even pick up a new one. Those absolutely deserve completion credit, so there has to be some nuance to this implementation (perhaps pair it with the 'completed characters' suggestion).
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Tacronicus
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Concur. Completing a game is a major accomplishment. Quitters shouldn't get credit.
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Boyd.Crowder
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This is messed up! It's like giving a deserter a medal for the very battle he ran away from! I definitely think this should be corrected.
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Anonymous
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I agree totally with miri's main point, as well as with Robert's comments. Sometimes a character is retired after a very satisfying run in the game. Other times (far, far too often), a player simply vanishes without explanation, and their departure degrades the entire game to a certain extent. If the game recovers and continues on to a successful conclusion at some point down the road, does that retired player who abandoned the game REALLY deserve credit for completion? Don't think so!
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Robert Mohr
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FWIW, though, I think there's a way around it if the player has literally made *zero* moves--I'm pretty sure until the player has made at least one move, the narrator can go in and *reject* their character, removing it from the cast of characters entirely. But if they made one move, then left, they can only be retired.
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Robert Mohr
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I agree with this--though I'd like it paired with my suggestion here: https://storium.uservoice.com/forums/211322-general/suggestions/8547388-add-the-ability-to-mark-a-character-completed-in
Sometimes a player leaves a story because his character's tale is truly done / he's done what he needed to do, such as with Beginner's Games, or when the story feels like it needs one of the main characters to die and that player steps up and offers his. For those players, I feel like they should receive a completion credit. But if someone leaves a story in the lurch or something, especially early on, it feels wrong for them to then get the completion credit when the rest of the players manage to carry on and finish the tale.