Ahhh first of all thank you for taking the time to make all of these wonderful suggestions! ♥

I have actually been considering adjusting the activity, so I'm glad you mentioned that! I was thinking instead of doing 2 pieces per month maybe switching it to it HAS to be one network post or one log that YOU post? That way it'll up the number of posts in particular, since people seem to do a good job steadily replying to them when they occur at least (from what I've seen? If you've seen otherwise, don't hesitate to say so). I just have been hesitant because I know it can be a drag when more specific activity or more activity in general is required rather than done out of enjoyment. (I hope that makes sense?) I'll definitely poll before doing this, but having it come as a suggestion definitely has me considering it further. So, thank you!

I definitely concur that in increase of players and characters would help, I just haven't been very sure on how to get more to come in! The ATP ad I put up (which, sorry, I have been doing as just my own personal one instead of an official game one, but if you want me to start including Castle in it, you can drop a comment here and I'll edit them into my coding!) usually doesn't get turn-out, because like you said, word of mouth works much better.

I think this month I'll try (and I encourage other players to do the same!) to hound as many people on the character offers post as I can for people who're looking for small, plot-driven games to increase the playerbase.

And, I tried the scheduled thing for reserves/apps, but since they tend to trickle in pretty slow or come in at groups, I realized just doing a rolling acceptances/always open apps seems to work better because then I can just get to it ASAP instead of waiting unnecessarily when these people could be in the game and enjoying it. I realize this gives less structure, but I think it makes people more excited to be able to dive right in?

I definitely just ... failed at AC this month though, because up until this point I've just been doing it 1 week before the 1st of every month. Which is why I cut everyone a break on it this time (and also because there was a big rush of drops). But, yeah, that's usually got a schedule do it for the 23rd or 24th.

I can put up a plotting meme on the first though! Maybe make it bi-monthly, due to the pace of the game?

Yeah, I definitely see what you mean, so I'll put up a more significant discussion post for the activity requirements up mid-month thereabouts once we can see if ATP's done us some good or not. Thank you!

And I'll consider doing an official game ATP too. I know I've seen some games do it, I'm just always more hesitant to because I know (for me at least) when I'm game hunting, it seems less personal to just have the mods throw it up and tack things on rather than the cast scouting out castmates? If that makes sense. But since we're so tiny it really is something to consider doing that I hadn't considered previously. And yes, we do accept video game and anime characters! I think they're just dissuaded by how live action-heavy we are, but we had a few for a while there!

Usually I just do them whichever day I get to them because my sister's schedule works around a fireman's schedule and mine resultantly does too, which means every other day I'm with her and then I work weekends. So, I generally shoot for having them done by the Friday after they're submitted. But, if I'm around when they're submitted, obviously, I just read them really quick sometimes and approve them then. One time I accidentally archived them and it took two weeks and I felt awful lkjakglj but that's what I shoot for is to have them done by the next Friday. (I hope that explanation made sense?? I'm babble-y.)

And okay! I'll definitely throw a plotting meme up on the 1st then.