Hammel News - March 29

[Admin!]

It's been a long month.

Recently, staff has been approached in various ways by members with a lot of concerns over how Hammel is doing. Due to real life and the day-to-day of running a site of this size, it has been hard to respond to everything in a timely fashion. But we have heard you and your concerns. After some discussion, staff has decided to revamp Hammel's rules. We won't be changing the fundamentals of the site, but we will be clarifying rules and policies, as well as creating some new documents to help streamline the application process.

This is big project for us, but we hope it will make things easier. That said, we will need time to make sure we do this correctly. When the new rules and policies are ready, we will let everyone know via announcement and mass PM.

In the meantime, we are going to be using some suggestions recently presented to us. Check out this thread for information on housing in Pilot Ridge, and this new board where your characters can play on social media.

[Tony *]

Addendum: April 8

A couple of things:

1. Staff are working on the rules and policies revamp. Please bear with us!

2. When accounts are created proboards forces the choice of choosing male or female. However, we have characters who do not fit in that binary. So we have made a change to the account profiles. The proboards default gender choices won't show on account profiles anymore, nor will it appear in the miniprofile, below avatars and next to posts. Instead, there is now a new gender field where you can type however your character identifies. You can now update this by going to your profile, then edit profile, then the personal tab.

(Yes, we are aware that the miniprofiles now look like this "Gender::" It is a symptom of coding. We'd rather have a stray punctuation mark and be inclusive.)

3. We are restructuring residences! If your character lives in Pilot Ridge and has a residence board, please reply to this thread so we can move the boards to the correct neighborhoods.

Thanks!

[Sean *]

Addendum - May 13:

1. We are still working on the rule and policy revamp, and we apologize for the delay.

2. In exciting news, we have a shiny, new application guide! This is a non-mandatory read, but for any player - new to Hammel or seasoned veteran - with questions about how to make profiles fit, we have this documentation that is as comprehensive as possible.

Thank you for bearing with us.