Another beta testing update

[utopiamods]

Hey, everyone! We're now three and a half weeks into rakuen's beta period. There've been some bumps in the road, but thanks to you guys being so awesome, it's gone pretty well so far.

Round -1 ends next Monday, and the beta period ends next Friday. As you might be able to guess, that means Round 0 is going to be a little... unique. There'll be more on that when it gets closer to Monday. For now, we have a few announcements!

Applications are currently closed.

Due to the nature of Round 0, we're going to hold off on processing new apps until Friday, January 28. If you currently have a reservation, you may still apply. You may choose to have your character show up during the current round or at the beginning of Round 0, or you can wait until Round 1 starts. It's up to you!

If you don't currently have a reservation, you can still post apps, but we won't be looking at them until the 28th.

We have a HMD.

It's here. Whilst it's mostly there to serve as a way to fine-tune your characters before the end of the beta &c, there are also threads for mod feedback - any comments about how we as moderators are doing - and game feedback - issues related explicitly to the game, rather than our handling of it.

The character limit will be increasing.

After the beta, the maximum number of characters any one player can have will be increasing from three to five. Anyone currently at the limit may place reserves from Round 0 onwards.

For our records:

Is anybody planning to drop or reset their characters after the beta period? You're free to do either, though of course you can also keep them around if you'd like! Whilst we're assuming (and hoping!) that most of you will be carrying on with your characters through to the game proper, we just want to get a headcount of anyone who's thinking about doing otherwise.

We are now advertising for the game.

As mentioned in the HMD last week, we would be delighted if anyone wanted to post our ad in their own journals. We're also looking for ideas on which communities to recruit from, fandom or otherwise. You can get the code for the rakuen ad here at Ketsu's journal.

App cycles.

For now, we're planning to keep applications open constantly; however, after the beta period ends, new students will only be able to arrive at the beginning of the round, probably on the free day between rounds when no character is a Player or a Weapon. The tram arriving will be a weekly event.

Speaking of "weekly"...

We've decided that the simplest OOC:IC time ratio is two real weeks to one game week. This means that rounds will last one week in-game, and two weeks out of game. Of course, you're always free to back-tag threads from earlier in the week, or even from the previous round, so feel free to do so!

Questions?

If there's anything confusing or anything you want to bring to our attention, do so here! We're always here to listen.

OH ALSO

[womenwouldgrieve]

Ketsu here with a third character, Edgar from Final Fantasy VI. He's a king who likes to hit on women and build awesome machines, though he's forgotten how to do the latter, and is taken from after the game is over, but he's also forgotten about that and thinks he's from just after the Floating Continent.

Now scroll down and read the modpost. ♥

/sigh

[awildcatappears]

I did it. I finally did it. I broke down and got a second character. Now you will be seeing less Kallen (maybe). [that's your cue to be fake!disappointed].

It's celsius and I bring you a new character. Now this girl here is VASTLY different from Kallen. Meet Mikoto Minagi, 14, was a cat her in past life female, and wields a sword taller than her. Well I guess she won't be wielding it herself now.

I would like to add that if you see Mai, Mikoto will be there... probably clinging to her. Problem is well... Mai and Mikoto were taken from different points. So Mikoto is sure that Mai hates her and sees her as an enemy. So Mikoto will be wearing .__. a lot on her face. But once things are okay, she'll cheer right back up!

Warning: do not feed the cat spicy food.
Spoiler: I hope you guys like a female in your dorm room considering she's the ONLY female in there.

And~ You probably won't see her around until round 0 so~

And since I'm doing another intro post. A fun fact about me since I didn't do that with Kallen. So maybe I owe you guys two.

1. I like eating roasted seaweed laver. In fact, I'm eating it now.
2. I used to be like Mikoto and not be able to handle spicy food. But my love for Korean food kinda dissolved that and I can handle it better. Restaurants should really learn to give people milk, not water, when eating spicy food. Water makes it worse.

/kinda late lalala

[drivesahonda]

ALOHA EVERYONE, i'm kashmir and i'll be playing ieyasu tokugawa from sengoku basara! despite being from a hack-and-slash game, ieyasu is a pretty likable guy who enjoys things like peace and bonds and punching things absurdly hard. he is also a bit of a woobie but i never told you that

he also happens to be based on a rather prominent historical figure, so if your character is familiar with japanese history, feel free to make them recognize his name! on that note, ieyasu here will probably be a bit clumsy with the academy's technology, as being from feudal era japan will do that to you ;w;

if anyone should need to reach me, feel free to hit me up on AIM! my sn is foppery and whim.

as for fun facts, well, um, I PLAN TO READ 50 BOOKS THIS YEAR SO WISH ME LUCK OK (OR REC ME STUFF IF YOU READ TOO)