Well, I'm not one of the PTB by any means...

DCPS Questions! by Hawkelf on 2011-05-18 22:38:00 UTC Reply

Hey, folks. So I've been poking around the wiki, particularly the DCPS-related sections, and because I was involved when it first got off the ground, Nesh has asked me to help expand the information there.

Well, the DCPS that I remember is quite different from the DCPS featured in surviving missions. That's fine and all, but I was hoping to pursue something more similar to the original idea. That is, agents/workers working more closely with characters pulled so OOC that they need one-on-one but not severe enough to go to CharPsych. The difference, if you will, between a counselor and a psychologist. The department was formatted to a large room full of semi-spacious, heavily customized cubicles (there was only an LotR-focused presence at the time, presumably large fandoms would have their own rooms full of cubicles and tiny fandoms would share space and potentially workers).

In the end, I have three(ish) questions:
- Is anyone still active who has/is work(ed/ing) with DCPS, and if so what can you tell me about its current form, and about its Flower?
- Would it be considered Officially Cool by the PTB for me to go ahead and redevelop the old school DCPS and write missions for that format of a department?
- If the answer to that is yes, then my instinct is to develop it as a separate division within the department. Are we Cool with that too?

Well, I'm not one of the PTB by any means... by L'Homme Arbre on 2011-05-19 00:51:00 UTC Reply

...Nor am I very familiar with the DCPS. However, I can tell you that making new divisions is generally frowned upon, especially when an older division would only require the slightest of tweaks to serve just as well. That may explain why your memories of the DCPS are different from what's currently the case; someone tweaks it a little, someone else tweaks that a little, suddenly everything's changed. It happens.

That said, there's really not much preventing you from tweaking back in the other direction, towards what you remember. That would probably be easier (and more PTB-friendly, from what I can gather) than making a whole new division.

That makes a lot of sense... by Hawkelf on 2011-05-19 01:39:00 UTC Reply

...and I would quite happily do it that way. It certainly makes it easier for me. The only reason that I am inclined to make a distinction of divisions is that the two concepts are almost wholly different from each other. The original DCPS had practically nothing to do with a traditional mission format, whereas the stories still in existence are very much set up that way.

Departments and Divisions by Phobos on 2011-05-19 02:12:00 UTC Reply

As I understand it, making a new Department is generally frowned upon. Divisions are created to fill in the gaps of a Department, which I think is what you are trying to do here. There is nothing stopping you from making a new Division.

I, for one, think this Division would be a good idea.

-Phobos (Who is not one of the Powers That Be, but who may be a Force Of Nature)

*FicPsych (nm) by Hawkelf on 2011-05-18 22:41:00 UTC Reply