Post by The Commissioner on Mar 13, 2014 12:31:53 GMT -8
ANNOUNCEMENTS |
❖ General Sorry for the long period of time without a word. It seems these coming months have been busy for many of us, members and staff alike. This is going to be a long announcement, so do stay tuned. If you have any questions regarding any of the announcements, please don't feel afraid to drop a PM to one of the staff members — we're happy to answer any questions. Without further ado, here are the latest announcements! ❖ OTMs We apologize for falling behind with OTMs, but we promise to make certain OTMs are more regular. This months OTMs go to Antonio Fernandez-Carriedo for the suavest male, Cerys Anwyn Lewis-Kirkland for the most enticing female, Elizaveta Hedevary for the boldest badass, and Mona for the awesomest member! Please do go congratulate the winners in the cbox when you get the chance. Another update with the OTMs system is we will be incorporating rewards. If you ever have the chance to be OTM, you will be able to receive a creative work/award from a staff member, who will be randomly selected. You will be informed of which staff member will be producing your reward, and you could request something specific — though it will have to involve your winning character (though this is different if you are the awesomest member). We will be starting this system this month! Also, please vote for the next month's OTMs! You can vote for the sexiest lady here and the suavest man here. Please do not vote for yourself. Also, if you believe someone has been particularly badass or has contributed to the Tomorrow Never Dies community, you are free to nominate someone by PMing a staff member with your nomination and reason for nomination. ❖ Staff Changes As you may have noticed, there has been a change of leadership for Tomorrow Never Dies. Our fellow staff member, Bul, has decided to retire from the mod team. We appreciate the things she had done as a staff member, and it is quite a loss. However, she will still be on the forum as a member. The staff team has gained another staff member, Mona. She has been selected for her contributions to the board and her dedication. Feel free to PM her if you need anything! As staff, we pledge to do a better job, and we thank the members who have stuck with us through thick and thin. We appreciate it and we hope to make things better through improvements, such as improving communication between staff and members, being more active in making the forum more interesting, and making Tomorrow Never Dies a much more welcoming place, as it should be. If you have any concerns or would like to correct us on something, please do not be afraid to communicate with us. We really appreciate such corrections. ❖ AC Reminder This is a friendly reminder to complete your Activity Check! If you cannot complete the Activity Check, please make sure to inform a staff member to receive a hiatus. Remember that you must renew your hiatus when a new month comes. Once you have posted, please make certain to notify us on this thread! Also, the roleplayer of Ganbaatar Borjigin and Khenan Santiago should contact the staff immediately. ❖ Removal of Linear As it seems, the Linear is dragging along much too slowly and has not functioned as originally planned. As such, we are considering removing the Linear. But do not fret! We will still have missions and tasks to complete, as what is a spy without a mission? These changes will be implemented this month. This will not affect Liquid roleplaying, certainly. The only difference is you'll be able to accept more missions and be able to complete more than one at a time. As such, we are also dropping the arc. If you have something in the linear that you would like to keep, you are free to move it to a liquid thread as desired. You may request staff to do so. If you have any objections/questions on the topic, please contact the staff. ❖ App-Locking Consensus To address the app security issue, we have decided not to lock apps, as more members are opposed to locking the apps. Members have brought up some good points for both sides, but as feedback goes, it seems that most are not in favor of locking. If you notice an incident of plagarism, please inform the staff immediately, and we'll deal with the situation accordingly. ❖ Tumblr Tomorrow Never Dies now has a new Tumblr blog. Go give it a follow! ❖ Espionage Refocus We have decided that we need to focus more on more of the main theme of Tomorrow Never Dies: espionage and action. As such, we are placing an application cap on civilians, meaning no one can app a new civilian for now. We will need to jolt into more action, and so we really recommend that people start some action-filled threads. You don't even need to be an agent to do so! We will also be revising missions in the coming days to make them more interesting, cohesive, and not simply "filler events". We look forward to hosting your action-filled plots in this dangerous and sexy alternate universe. |
