Awesome change, perhaps now we will start to see people having pride in their accomplishments again

Honestly I'm all for this - admittedly I've become disenfranchised with the auth thread my last few times up - but I have always felt it was a key part of the auth process. I generally have always done one but after your 24th...26th? Idk...auth it gets a bit...monotonous. But that shouldn't excuse me nor any other players from doing the right thing. And at this point in the games progress (after nearly 25 years) anything that adds quality to the streets and/or breeds new blood to make speech attempts is a good thing in my eyes. I'll be out on the corner as soon as I can.

It is set to locked status once you enter in a thread you created into your crew settings. Once it is entered, no one will be able to post in it while you are alive (we may unlock it upon death, still in discussion).  If you want people to reply to it, like the person who authed you for example, it should be done before you put it in the crew settings.

I guess you lost me on the purpose of the change with this.  If you're wanting to promote more street activity wouldn't locking the thread be counter intuitive?  So we'll just end up with like 15 useless 'I have auth' threads?  

Out of curiosity, what's the reason for locking the auth thread as soon as it's designated as one?

StandbyJudgeHarold its not a requirement that its locked right away. Users could write the thread and then wait the 23 hours before adding it to their crew details page, they just choose not to. 

I would appreciate if the timeline for having the thread up and assigned to be extended. Either to 5 days, so people aren't in such a rush to get it locked, or once you select it on the crew details page it starts a hidden countdown to when it would be locked. 

The point of the streets is engagement but because of the 24 hour limit we've seen that the majority of CLs write a thread and then just immediately lock it. 

I approve of a thread being required, but I think expanding the time would be beneficial in getting some more activity in the threads. People who don't know the history of a CL can see at a glance in the old auth threads when there are a lot of replies that a CL is well liked by the community, but as of now all we know is that they have fulfilled a requirement to having a protected HQ, just like completing jobs etc. 

Agree 100% Georgette

StandbyJudgeHarold its not a requirement that its locked right away. Users could write the thread and then wait the 23 hours before adding it to their crew details page, they just choose not to. 

Oh yes, I'm aware that you can choose not to designate it as your auth thread for a while, but I am specifically wondering why it has to be locked at all.

Like what's the reason behind / the benefit of locking it. Does it have to be locked?

Either to 5 days, so people aren't in such a rush to get it locked, or once you select it on the crew details page it starts a hidden countdown to when it would be locked. 

If the thread must be locked for some reason that I don't know of then +1 on this idea.

If there is no real reason for it: I'd propose abolishing the lock entirely.

Abolish the lock, why put anything in the streets that you can't engage with?

I like the lock being in place, but that's because its easier to find historical auth-threads to point newbies to if they ever get auth and need a guide. 

Perhaps upon death the thread that is picked as the auth thread in the crew details gets locked? 

Perhaps upon death the thread that is picked as the auth thread in the crew details gets locked? 

That's a much better idea imo, auth threads are typically congratulatory and celebratory events but have been turned into an obligation where none of that is permissible by design and that seems like an odd choice to me

We dont get new players that stay long. Using that as an angle for change is just ridiculous.

I didn't suggest a change to the lock - I explained why I liked the lock being there and why we should keep it.