Your three LSG mods are here. Sorry for the radio silence -- we've been working behind the scenes to try and get things ready for you guys.
First thing's first...
What's coming up next?
Well, we're glad you asked. In the next couple of weeks,
Survivor: Red, Purple, and Green
will be going into signups! This game is moderated by zoraster
and PrivateI
, with xRECKONERx
as the listmod in charge. Zoraster has been working on a Survivor game that is actually procedurally generated and dabbles with an interesting stat-based challenge scheme. He'll be sharing more details on it very soon, so keep an eye out, because it's gonna be lit, fam.After Survivor: RPG gets going, we have a huge event in the middle of the Summer... Haschel Cedricson's
Survivormeet III
! Due to the presence of players at the meet in real life, we're aiming to have Survivor: RPG wrap up before the meet, and then we'll hold off on launching anything new until after the meet has concluded.Following that, with a targeted start date of August 16th,
Disney's World Domination
will be hitting the queue! This game will be moderated by CuddlyCaucasian
, Cephrir
, and Save the Dragons
with xRECKONERx
as the listmod in charge. This is not a Survivor game, but is instead a new large social gametype made completely original by the mods of the game. More will be revealed as we get closer to launch.After that? Well, we have plenty of games in development. We're waiting to see which ones get further along first, but from what we've seen, there's a lot to be excited for as we close out 2019! Now, another important update..
What's the deal with finding a new forum host?
Righto. We all know Zetaboards going down was a bit of a blow to the community. Several mods have dabbled in other potential board formats, with most of them being
adequate
but not ideal. After getting feedback from the Equestria mods on how their forum functioned, and learning how Haschel was able to work with Kison to come up with a hosting solution, the LSG listmods went to Kison and asked for a longer-term solution. And so... we're gonna have boards again
! The LSG listmods are hard at work setting up a board template using the Simple Machines forum software. The best part of this is that after we're done setting it up, Kison is cloning about a dozen installations of the board on the MafiaScum servers, and then handing out the admin names/passwords to me, xof, and CC. This means that when your game is ready to officially have a Listmod in Charge assigned, they'll come with the keys to a shiny new forum that has 90% of the arduous setup stuff already done for you!
This should greatly increase the ease with which new mods can set up their board and run their first game, and it lets us standardize guides and processes for this software. Once we start to run low on keys, Kison will clone a few more instances of the boards, but we think that first dozen or so will set us up for at least a couple of years. HUGE thanks to Kison for working with the listmods on figuring out a solution that makes sense.
That's great! What else!?
That's all we have for now. We really appreciate the community busting out some fixes for the forum disaster. Right now, both Survivor RPG & Disney's World Domination are set to run using Freeforums/Proboards. The next game to run after that will be able to use the new forum installations -- so let that be a wink wink nudge nudge to be first to the queue with your new game!
Thanks all. Much love.
- Reck, CuddlyCaucasian, and xofelf
