Set our own persona
Right now, the persona/aura (can't remember the difference between the two) system is very hard to control. If we want to be known for a particular kind of activity, then we need to avoid doing other things we enjoy otherwise the persona will change.
For example, if you want to be known for Design but do a but of music making on the side, the Audio levels shoot up and now you're stuck as Audio for the next few years... as VinceKully can attest.
This persona is part of the creator's self-image, and how they are presented to the world. Feels like they should have control over that. (Same goes for the imp, but that's a whole other thing.)
This could be only allowed after a certain level, if you want to encourage people to not tie themselves down early on. And a setting that shows us what our "calculated" persona is, and allow us to go back to the calculated persona or choose our own that won't change unless we change it.
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And in addition to those two settings to display the user's choice of persona or the calculated persona, it might be nice to have another setting in between that displays the user's choice of primary aura colour with the calculated secondary aura colour.
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When you look at your own Aura, there is your main status, but then it will also say, "Lately you've been doing alot of.... " (or something like that).. Perhaps they could implement that sort of thing publicly, so that if you mostly design, that would show, but also, show what youve been focusing on lately, instead of it changing your entire Aura based on just your latest focus.
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bojoke You can. But it's still saying you're something different at the same time, which you don't have direct control over.
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I have never understood the purpose of these personas anyway unless it was a way to get people to try different aspects of Dreams and see the persona change. However once you have tried everything and played Dreams for years the persona becomes a complete irrelevance. I spend more of my time playing Dreams than any other activity but it has never chosen that for the main persona. With the new playlists categorising everybody as one thing or another it is also pretty terrible that we cannot choose which category we can be found under. If I had not won that impy I would not be listed under Top Curators at all, and because my persona is ART I am listed under Award-Winning Artists - which I most definitely am not. Scrap the whole thing I say - pointless, meaningless and as it currently stands, misleading.
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Persona can be used a search filter, for that reason allowing creators to their own profile could be very helpful - but I’d think better if that’s specifically a player’s stated interest and NOT represented as being tied to Dreamer level since apparently that’s not accurate.
I don’t entirely understand why the game calculates persona more accurately for some players than others. Has always seemed spot on for me, but my main focus has always been Art so only the secondary changes. Maybe where it breaks down is when people have more of shift in interest?
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