hi city hall 8D
i have a few things to talk about, but seeing as i only have a formulated plan for one of them now, this post will be about that and ill discuss new things later if i can find a way to do them.
okay so. if you havent noticed, there are a few stickied threads (located
here and
here if youre lazy like me) that are super out of date and/or we should probably revamp them, seeing as
Holly isnt on the taco anymore... and also that's his old account anyway. so nobody but the mods can edit it, which is kind of annoying, considering most of this information (at least in the museum) is several years outdated and/or broken and honestly we need new stuff. it'd be annoying to the mods to ask them to fix everything, every time we needed something added or removed or changed. SO. after a chat with
PFA, and later a chat with @torkie10 and pfa heres what im proposing:
Guides:
—FAQwe need a faq. im not sure whats going to be in it, thats where you guys come in. (aka please suggest stuff HOWEVER, this brings me to my next point, which we should put in the faq...
--TACO CITY: BUILDING PLACEMENTone thing i know that for-sure needs to be in it is a well-known list of places. torkie had like a nice little text map. however, there's some places (like a pokemon gym) that arent listed there.
it's also helpful to note that while there are a LOT of locations, everything in taco city, as well as all of its placement, is up to the imagination of the writer. they can choose what they believe taco city looks like. however, this can create a bit of confusion (as referenced in
this post, which conveniently is in the city hall thread, posted by
Draco back in 2011), and
Elcie told me that the same thing confused her when she first began tacoing. therefore, it would be nice to have something that the newbies could look at. torkie has begun to make her vision of taco city in minecraft.
i believe that things like this could help people, especially newer people, even if everyone has their own, seperate vision of what the taco should look like.
—Self-demonstrating guidethe first link waaaaaay up there has the self-demonstrating guide. hunter made it waaaay back, and it features some of his characters trying to explain the writing conventions in the taco. while they havent changed much in themselves, it would be easier on all of us if we could maybe rewrite them, if there's someone that we know will not delete their account like hunter did, so that it would be easy for us to edit if anything changes. also, just because it needs an update anyway because its old. 2011 was a long time ago, believe it or not. and we dont really use the phoenix wright
OBJECTION things thaat much anymore.
—Directorywe all have our DPs, i know that. however, we were thinking that it would be nice to have something like there is in the icy taco museum (in the broken post). short, spoilerless lists of everyone's characters. however, the difference between this and the ones in that post
(found here) is that everyone can post their own stuff. as you probably can tell, that post was last edited Feb 13, 2011 at 6:44pm (EST). 3 and a half years is a very, VERY long time for a place like the taco. people in that post have left, people not in that post have came in. some regulars dont even have a section in that post. plus, it's extremely broken. so what im suggesting is a new thread, where we can link to our DPs if people want the long versions (... my DP hasnt been updated since 2011 anyway, BUT.), but otherwise, short descriptions of characters that you might see on the taco in that person's post. stuff like...
that's something pfa would put in hers. see how that's nice and spoiler free?
we might also benefit, in that, a short description of yourself if you want to give one, in case someone is like a total newbie in every sense (new to the forum, doesn't know anyone, etc). that might help newbies who want to start tacoing a better chance at getting to know people here, so that it seems less scary? i remember being totally afraid of the 'bloids when i was a newbie, and i know that with the long-standing roleplays the taco has been doing in the main thread, even taco regulars are hesitant to join. imagine how it must feel for a newbie.
—Archiveokay, so we all know how much people love their mini arcs. long standing stories like ITAA and looong standing arcs like MoDEoN are really intimidating, even for people like me. so, one of the suggestions we came up with is, in a thread or two, have story summaries (similar to
this post in the taco museum!) this makes it easier for people who came in late to get a good grasp of what's happened in these daunting, intimidating things. also, people who have no time to read stories they may have missed could benefit from it, too. i like the style of having a shorter, less detailed plot summary and another, more in-depth plot summary, as seen in that post. it could also help to have links to the things if they're available.
okay, so yeah! i believe that this is stuff that we should at least discuss. if anyone has anything to contribute, if there's anything you wanna see happen, pleaaase post it. also, if ur newer to the taco pleaseeee suggest things!
(im going to tag people who havent been already tagged now. sorry in advance. (if u posted in the most recent taco or are/were a tacoer ur probably tagged)
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