14.05.2020, 19:15
It's not your fault; there has been a flood of puzzles in the portal lately, and so some solvers have to be more selective about which puzzles they solve, and unfortunately the highly unorthodox are often low on the priority list.
About the story-telling - I can completely understand why you might want to do this, but story-telling in puzzles doesn't generally equate to as many rules as possible: for me the real storytelling is in the logical path. After all, that's what makes a puzzle interesting. Maybe if you toned down the ruleset a bit for your next puzzle and focused more instead on a nice logical path, your puzzle would get a lot more solves!
About the story-telling - I can completely understand why you might want to do this, but story-telling in puzzles doesn't generally equate to as many rules as possible: for me the real storytelling is in the logical path. After all, that's what makes a puzzle interesting. Maybe if you toned down the ruleset a bit for your next puzzle and focused more instead on a nice logical path, your puzzle would get a lot more solves!