i enjoyed the concept of H7 as much as arachne and maina did. the idea of it, basically. i think the idea of an internationally important hub of supernatural activity makes way more sense as a big city than a sleepy seaside town.
i just didn’t enjoy how much of it was ai-generated. and while crayon says the ai npcs were opt in, they were unavoidable if you rped in faction hubs at all.
haven has always had many faults, but what kept me coming back was stories and a desire to write with other people. H7 stole that. realistically that is a player culture issue as much as it is a design issue, because even undoing it won’t stop people from flooding a redux with countless ai slop-shops. i tbh don’t see myself playing any version of haven going forward unless policy aimed at addressing this is at least semi-successfully implemented.
in theory, i would take big city haven over small town haven.
in practice, i would take every lovingly hand-written desc and 3-sentence lore helpfile over every 6-paragraph ai desc & half-hallucinated lore file.
i will play any version of haven that has real human creativity at its heart.
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