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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
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Greetings, Ten Forward.
Gabby here, with a sad announcement on behalf of your mod team. Before I go on, I'm gonna assure everyone this isn't a terrible April Fool's joke, just in case there was any suspicion of that. This is 100% serious.
After several months of careful consideration, Ten Forward will be closing. We're sure this isn't a surprise for some of you, but for others it's likely a shock and an upset. We know many of you, especially our newest members, have come to Ten Forward from other games that are closing and a lot of you have been working with the mod team to work out CRAU updates and the like, and now that effort must seem for naught. For you, all we can do is apologize and explain.
Back in November of last year your mods at the time were going through some shifts in availability, and the subject of closing the game due to a lack of time and manpower first came up. None of us wanted to do this, and that is why we posted our call for help looking for volunteers to join the team. It turned up three volunteer mods and a small number of people who were interested in doing small projects to help the game. Everyone has worked very hard, but unfortunately a shift in RL circumstances has happened again, and as it stands it would leave the game operating under a skeleton crew who have other RL obligations to see to as well, and after much discussion we have come to the unhappy conclusion that such a small crew would not be able to keep up with running the game as it is now, or continue the massive catch-up work we've been doing to correct the coding errors and game info omissions many of you have brought to our attention. We are only about 40% through those updates at present, which means we still have a long way to go.
We know for many of you, myself included, Ten Forward has been an ideal game in the relaxed AC rules and the friendliness of the players and the mods, and that losing the game is probably a very unhappy prospect (I'm not even gonna talk about the rain on my face right now). It is a setting and a concept I have poured my whole heart into, and I am so proud of what's come from it and so happy I've met so many wonderful players through it, and I know those feelings are mirrored by the entire mod team. As such, if there was a way to save the game we would absolutely pursue it, and will leave comments on this post open to members of the community so that YOU can tell us how you would like to see Ten Forward go. At present, due to our overwhelming RL responsibilities, there are no plans for an endgame, as we don't have the manpower to write and initiate one IC, but we absolutely do not want to pull the rug out from anyone by just ending the game. A suggestion has been made to keep the game open as a sandbox comm, and if there is interest in that we'd be happy to do so.
Ultimately this means we will not be opening apps April 1st-7th, with many apologies to those who have reserved with us (and personal notes will be sent to each of those reserves to let them know the situation). How and whether apps open at a later time will depend on the feedback we receive from you, but at present we only have plans to keep up with things currently in play, making sure everyone's CR comes to a neat resolution and the game stays functional until we have a firm decision on the community's future.
We can't apologize enough for this inconvenience. Thank you to each and every one of you, past and present, who have made Ten Forward the game it is. As I've said, I'm so proud and honored to have gotten the chance to play with all of you.
With Deepest Regrets,
Your Mod Team
Greetings, Ten Forward.
Gabby here, with a sad announcement on behalf of your mod team. Before I go on, I'm gonna assure everyone this isn't a terrible April Fool's joke, just in case there was any suspicion of that. This is 100% serious.
After several months of careful consideration, Ten Forward will be closing. We're sure this isn't a surprise for some of you, but for others it's likely a shock and an upset. We know many of you, especially our newest members, have come to Ten Forward from other games that are closing and a lot of you have been working with the mod team to work out CRAU updates and the like, and now that effort must seem for naught. For you, all we can do is apologize and explain.
Back in November of last year your mods at the time were going through some shifts in availability, and the subject of closing the game due to a lack of time and manpower first came up. None of us wanted to do this, and that is why we posted our call for help looking for volunteers to join the team. It turned up three volunteer mods and a small number of people who were interested in doing small projects to help the game. Everyone has worked very hard, but unfortunately a shift in RL circumstances has happened again, and as it stands it would leave the game operating under a skeleton crew who have other RL obligations to see to as well, and after much discussion we have come to the unhappy conclusion that such a small crew would not be able to keep up with running the game as it is now, or continue the massive catch-up work we've been doing to correct the coding errors and game info omissions many of you have brought to our attention. We are only about 40% through those updates at present, which means we still have a long way to go.
We know for many of you, myself included, Ten Forward has been an ideal game in the relaxed AC rules and the friendliness of the players and the mods, and that losing the game is probably a very unhappy prospect (I'm not even gonna talk about the rain on my face right now). It is a setting and a concept I have poured my whole heart into, and I am so proud of what's come from it and so happy I've met so many wonderful players through it, and I know those feelings are mirrored by the entire mod team. As such, if there was a way to save the game we would absolutely pursue it, and will leave comments on this post open to members of the community so that YOU can tell us how you would like to see Ten Forward go. At present, due to our overwhelming RL responsibilities, there are no plans for an endgame, as we don't have the manpower to write and initiate one IC, but we absolutely do not want to pull the rug out from anyone by just ending the game. A suggestion has been made to keep the game open as a sandbox comm, and if there is interest in that we'd be happy to do so.
Ultimately this means we will not be opening apps April 1st-7th, with many apologies to those who have reserved with us (and personal notes will be sent to each of those reserves to let them know the situation). How and whether apps open at a later time will depend on the feedback we receive from you, but at present we only have plans to keep up with things currently in play, making sure everyone's CR comes to a neat resolution and the game stays functional until we have a firm decision on the community's future.
We can't apologize enough for this inconvenience. Thank you to each and every one of you, past and present, who have made Ten Forward the game it is. As I've said, I'm so proud and honored to have gotten the chance to play with all of you.
With Deepest Regrets,
Your Mod Team