Hello Idols! We’re back in business here on the main and we hope that you’re excited! For those of you who aren’t privy to the OOC blog, we basically let everyone know that the scale of the site as it was before was just toooooo big for your little tired admin team. So, rather than risking complete burn out, we did a general scaling back and adjustment. We’ve become aware over the months that things are a bit dauntingly wordy and scattered, so we’ve just generally gone ahead and streamlined everything. Many groups existed without a huge amount of narrative purpose and tended to step on each other’s toes, and so on. And, of course, we’d been getting consistent questions and complaints about various aspects of solo artists, how careers worked, who could do what and when and why did this person do x and not this one. So we thought, if it’s this confusing to people, we should probably carefully examine the way we’ve been doing things and see what we can do to improve.
The result is a scaled back roster, taking us from near 100 spots to the mid 70s range, and given that we tend to average between 60 and 70 active muses in general, we think that’ll help keep things closer knit. The first place you should stop by at the moment is probably our new NARRATIVE page, which provides a comprehensive (and lengthy) rundown of the general progression of all groups since 2010!! Wowza! Of course, all of that information can be found in more specific detail on everyone’s companies, but this narrative page gives you a more comprehensive idea of how the whole puzzle fits together!
As far as specific features that have made changes, we’ll lay those out for you here:
In general, canons have made a big change. They’re no longer just fun tidbits (though any canon you previously incorporated that related to your personal background narrative can of course be kept provided it still makes sense narratively) but canons are now directly tied to the trajectory of muses. Particular things have become canon locked in the way that they were formerly locked to secondary skills. These are high fashion modeling, solo work, producing, lyric writing, and acting. This way it can be easily discernible which groups allow which sort of things, where the focus is for various groups, and what each member in a group is generally focused on, without having to read over four or five biographies and then check out the shop to make your best guess when creating your muse or planning in general. As a result, many really desirable things have been tied to canons- such as nation’s titles, of which there are now 9 available for reserve! You can check out further information on career paths HERE. (please note this page will only be up temporarily! This information will be transferred to the shop once that is done being updated)
We’ve also placed a much bigger importance on gbs, which stands for “group based solos” (think groups like Loona that have solo content for each member, but not as much as a full solo debut) and units to give more muses the opportunity to show off individual skills without it being inundated by solo acts. For information on how solos have been adjusted, you can check out THIS page.
The shop has made / is making a big change. A lot of things that were once more small scale purchases will now be free and openly incorporated however you like, especially for the purposes of various prompts. This includes things like single photoshoots and music video appearances (just be pleasantly vague about what exact video it was, and thread away, with a happy suspension of disbelief!), and single episode solo variety guesting (just be realistic and vague~). Some things will become incorporated in flash events (see below) such as viral moments. Some things will be canon locked such as acting (although things like webdramas are still readily available). Further information will be available when the shop is back up and running on or before June 16 KST. We’ll let you know as soon as we can, since we’ll be adjusting everyone’s purchases and such up until then.
Speaking of delays, the storylines will make a reappearance by that date as well, along with updated awards!
We’ve got a new system of various narrative development elements/prompts/tasks that will replace the current opportunity and schedule format. You can find all of that information on THIS page.
The rules have changed with the scaling back to restrict to 2 muses per mun. However, if you had three muses prior to this rule implementation (e.g. this moment) you’re fine to keep them! But since we cut down so many positions we thought it best to change that as well, at least for now!
As mentioned on the OOC blog, you all have 48 hours to confirm your current masterlist position or to send another reserve. We’ll hold acceptances for “continuing” members this weekend and next at the usual time, so if you can’t adjust your biography by Sunday, you have until the next Sunday to get it finished. At that point, we’ll reopen roles that haven’t submitted. We’ll also take reserves as usual for incoming members, so feel free to check us out.
A reiteration on points: if things have changed for your muse and you have to give up some claims, you’re welcome to refund yourself up to the point of 100 EXP points (because otherwise your admins would just end up giving themselves over 350 points a piece back and that seems super crazy). For further details on that you can check the OOC blog post, so that we don’t clog up the main.
As a final note, for some fun statistics on what is now available, check this out. Out of 79 positions there are: 3 stand alone solos, 21 group based solos, 10 canon based solos, 18 unit spots (some of which also have gbs spots), 16 acting spots, 15 spots for producing or lyrics, and 9 national titles!
So, feel free to send in some reserves and confirmations! We’ll gather them up over a few hours and then make a major update later tonight or tomorrow morning because we’re about to head off for the evening. So, don’t fret if it isn’t immediately reflected! As we said before, be sure to send it to us on the main THROUGH ASK FROM YOUR CHARACTER ACCOUNT so that it’s all readily available chronologically. Send it twice or three times if you’re worried it’ll get eaten! But that’s the easiest way for us to ensure we can be as fair as possible for things that might be up for open reserve! If you send it to us in IMs or personally there’s a chance we’ll miss it or not know exactly when it came up!!
Thank you kindly for your patience and support and, as always, for your activity and engagement in making this site everything that it is! ❤️ As always, our inbox is open for any concerns, questions, or comments! We’re sure to have made some mistakes here or there int he transfer process but, we’ll get to them soon- now is time for a little rest for us ;) !
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