I agree with a lot of what's being said, but like Jessie said, I think along with just more frequent things for characters to DO, I feel like the game itself needs a shake up on a structural level. Darrow isn't TR and even if the game drew a lot of inspiration from that one, it's evolved, as have our players. It doesn't make sense for a lot of those rules to still apply to this game. For the most part, this game is full of players who are older, many of whom have RPed together for over a decade. We're an old style of RP. We're not attracting new players, nor are we trying to. I wonder if it's time to seriously rethink both our req system and our app system.

At this stage, we know who our players are and that they can write. We all have a sense of how many characters we can take on. The long and complicated app that we currently have feels like a bit of a relic of an older time. I realize, I'm saying this as a player with many extended periods of inactivity, but I also know that we have actually lost players from the game because of our app and req process.

I'd like to make the radical suggestion that we revamp our apps to something much simpler for current players and keep the current app for new players if we ever happen to get any.

I don't have a current suggestion for how to revamp reqs, but like Jessie said, for a game that is so much slower, making reqs is an unwieldy process. I don't think it's at all representative of whether someone is regularly playing, since so many people often cram all of their reqs into the last week or so of the month.

I also think another way we can help facilitate new interactions is to actually keep character pages on the wiki up to date. I know it's bit of a chore at times, but just basic information like how a character speaks and moves, and basic physical characteristics can go a long way to making tagging a new character easier.