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rubycity_ooc2017-07-01 10:11 pm
rubycitymods) wrote in rubycity_ooc2017-07-01 10:11 pm
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July Announcements
Hello, Ruby Citizens. Instead of your regular State of the City, your mod team has an announcement to make.
As you all know, our head mod, Fi, recently stepped down and left the game after a long time keeping this ship running. In the time that Fi and the current mod team worked together, we set a few pretty exciting plans in motion to revamp the game, to make it more dynamic and to help draw in new players. Our hope was to be able to move forward and continue working on those plans in order to keep the game running in Fi's image and with the same fun, lowkey spirit the game has always had.
However, given the changes that we are still working to implement, a two-person mod team will not be sufficient for the next stage of the game's development--especially since both mods will be in school full-time come fall. Since we didn't receive any response to our open mod applications post, we have spent some time thinking about next steps for Ruby City. With the drops to apps ratio as it is, along with the above and other factors, we have come to the difficult decision that it is time to say goodbye to Ruby City.
The official last day of the game will be Monday, July 31. There will be no Activity Check this month, and our event this month will be a bit different than planned. Instead of the I Am Not A Robot event previously scheduled, the first half of the month will be freeform. Starting on Sunday, July 16, we will have a redux of the Trousers of Time event--with a twist. This time, when the tears open, they won't just go to the worlds of current characters; they'll go to any world there is, from any canon. And familiar faces will start to show up, too: people you've lost, people you've missed, people who used to live in this city and have long since disappeared. It's up to your characters to decide where they want to go for good, before the tears close up permanently at the end of the month. Staying in Ruby City is not an option, as it will become clear very quickly that the strain of having all those tears open is breaking this world apart.
This event will be open to any character who has played in Ruby City in the past. A plotting post will go up on Monday, July 10, and a catchall log will be posted on July 16. Again, the last IC day of the game will be July 31, which means all character will need to decide where they're going permanently by the 31st. Other than that, please use the catchall as much as you'd like! While we're sad to be closing up shop, we want to make sure to leave all of our players, new and old, with the best good end we can.
As a mod team, we'd like to thank all of you from the bottom of our hearts for being an amazing group of players. Thank you to everyone who's played here in the years this game has been open, to the original mods, and to Fi. Let's make our last month a great one!
As you all know, our head mod, Fi, recently stepped down and left the game after a long time keeping this ship running. In the time that Fi and the current mod team worked together, we set a few pretty exciting plans in motion to revamp the game, to make it more dynamic and to help draw in new players. Our hope was to be able to move forward and continue working on those plans in order to keep the game running in Fi's image and with the same fun, lowkey spirit the game has always had.
However, given the changes that we are still working to implement, a two-person mod team will not be sufficient for the next stage of the game's development--especially since both mods will be in school full-time come fall. Since we didn't receive any response to our open mod applications post, we have spent some time thinking about next steps for Ruby City. With the drops to apps ratio as it is, along with the above and other factors, we have come to the difficult decision that it is time to say goodbye to Ruby City.
The official last day of the game will be Monday, July 31. There will be no Activity Check this month, and our event this month will be a bit different than planned. Instead of the I Am Not A Robot event previously scheduled, the first half of the month will be freeform. Starting on Sunday, July 16, we will have a redux of the Trousers of Time event--with a twist. This time, when the tears open, they won't just go to the worlds of current characters; they'll go to any world there is, from any canon. And familiar faces will start to show up, too: people you've lost, people you've missed, people who used to live in this city and have long since disappeared. It's up to your characters to decide where they want to go for good, before the tears close up permanently at the end of the month. Staying in Ruby City is not an option, as it will become clear very quickly that the strain of having all those tears open is breaking this world apart.
This event will be open to any character who has played in Ruby City in the past. A plotting post will go up on Monday, July 10, and a catchall log will be posted on July 16. Again, the last IC day of the game will be July 31, which means all character will need to decide where they're going permanently by the 31st. Other than that, please use the catchall as much as you'd like! While we're sad to be closing up shop, we want to make sure to leave all of our players, new and old, with the best good end we can.
As a mod team, we'd like to thank all of you from the bottom of our hearts for being an amazing group of players. Thank you to everyone who's played here in the years this game has been open, to the original mods, and to Fi. Let's make our last month a great one!