I still have sincere concerns for how the game functions, when situations such as Kaberou's work were quite literally told to me to be just a joke that the mods weren't interested in pursuing. This halted my own questioning, and left me even more confused when more information came out about Kaberou in later investigation threads at Tanabata itself, and then in regards to the raid on Kaberou's office.
I understand situations where a modteam has to operate on the fly, and doesn't have something fully written. I could also understand a lack of interest in getting in to nitty-gritty, but this is a crime game about connections and businesses, with an NPC clearly coded as important to keep tabs on, so I admit I don't understand the choice to tell me it was a dead end, when a simple "we're still working on that!" could have sufficed. I would also expect a crucial NPC for the kidnapping plot, like the financier of Sutoku and parent of the abducted, would have had details hashed out ahead of time. And the one lead I was given, about the moon rabbits arriving "soon", never...happened this month? I wouldn't expect it to be next month, either, so I truly don't know if my clue is a dropped thread.
Obviously this is just one example from one stretch of plot, but it's the most direct example of my experiences with the game.
My broader question is thus...how are we meant to interact with story prompts, besides react to them? Our actions with substories especially feel too loose and without weight; there's no way to thread out a resolution to the drifter, or the magpies, and have any of it impact the game in a meaningful way. How are we meant to interact with situations like the celestials, or NPCs like Jiro, who lost souls might theoretically have more contact with than the faction leaders? And then there's other things getting a much larger mod response- like, where and how the heck did the Dandelion raid factor in to any of the plot? What is the status of that, is it concluded, was it directly involved in the bombing or just timed alongside it?
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I understand situations where a modteam has to operate on the fly, and doesn't have something fully written. I could also understand a lack of interest in getting in to nitty-gritty, but this is a crime game about connections and businesses, with an NPC clearly coded as important to keep tabs on, so I admit I don't understand the choice to tell me it was a dead end, when a simple "we're still working on that!" could have sufficed. I would also expect a crucial NPC for the kidnapping plot, like the financier of Sutoku and parent of the abducted, would have had details hashed out ahead of time. And the one lead I was given, about the moon rabbits arriving "soon", never...happened this month? I wouldn't expect it to be next month, either, so I truly don't know if my clue is a dropped thread.
Obviously this is just one example from one stretch of plot, but it's the most direct example of my experiences with the game.
My broader question is thus...how are we meant to interact with story prompts, besides react to them? Our actions with substories especially feel too loose and without weight; there's no way to thread out a resolution to the drifter, or the magpies, and have any of it impact the game in a meaningful way. How are we meant to interact with situations like the celestials, or NPCs like Jiro, who lost souls might theoretically have more contact with than the faction leaders? And then there's other things getting a much larger mod response- like, where and how the heck did the Dandelion raid factor in to any of the plot? What is the status of that, is it concluded, was it directly involved in the bombing or just timed alongside it?