Planning Guild War 2

[Omni]

I generally agree. It's good to have some guidelines and a general idea of how to start, but we should have at least some flexibility. It's more fun if you can do stuff spontaneously, though if you don't know what to do, it takes forever to start. *pokes GW1*

As for when to start, for quite awhile now, I've been wanting to start mid-January/early-February. …And we're coming up on mid-January.

[Kengplant]

LOL Strife!

Ok. I do like Kit's on the spot scenario. If he'd be willing to start it I'd be happy to follow it. For the first little bit anyways.

I'd like to throw one more thing out. And I'd need volunteers for this as well. Something like a support group for people who aren't sure how to get their character into the RP. My idea is that we have a list of willing people who would be willing to accept PMs from the people who are new to roleplaying but still want to join in and aren't sure where to fit their character in. A group of people for conspiring.

[Huntress]

...darn you, Strife, now that song is haunting me xDD *sidles off to MQ*

Keng, I like that idea :3 Could've used something like that in the first GW. Though that'd take really, really active roleplayers. People who are fully into the War and know the RP like the back of their hand. I'd volunteer but I doubt I'll be able to keep up on that level >>;

[Crystal]

keng said:

LOL Strife!

Ok. I do like Kit's on the spot scenario. If he'd be willing to start it I'd be happy to follow it. For the first little bit anyways.

I'd like to throw one more thing out. And I'd need volunteers for this as well. Something like a support group for people who aren't sure how to get their character into the RP. My idea is that we have a list of willing people who would be willing to accept PMs from the people who are new to roleplaying but still want to join in and aren't sure where to fit their character in. A group of people for conspiring.

I don't think Kit plans to participate in GW2. xD

[Rikku]

Ooh, the group of conspirers sounds good. Not that I'm volunteering, since I'll probably be one of the ones that needs help. If my excuses for not entering the action sooner when I've been on holiday or something are as bad as they've been, I'll probably end up eavesdropping on a lot of battles. XD

[Bacon]

Okay, as far as plot is concerned, I have a concept, not to say this is what we have to do, if we even use a linear plot, but as an idea of how it could go:

1. Pirates/Ninjas fight each other
2. Ninjas get overpowered; hire Mercenaries to help them
3. Knights/Mages feel threatened by the concept of Mercenaries, and join the war premptively
4. Spacefleet joins once everything's chaotic

[Kengplant]

I vote we have a small back story of things that have already taken place, and we're plopped into the middle of the situation. That way we don't need anything planned out for the plot line of the RP, it's just a boost to get things started.

edit: and I'll start a list of conspirators in the persona thread. Anyone who'd like to be added let me know here, or through PM

[KitClairvoyance]

frostcrystal said:

keng said:

LOL Strife!

Ok. I do like Kit's on the spot scenario. If he'd be willing to start it I'd be happy to follow it. For the first little bit anyways.

I'd like to throw one more thing out. And I'd need volunteers for this as well. Something like a support group for people who aren't sure how to get their character into the RP. My idea is that we have a list of willing people who would be willing to accept PMs from the people who are new to roleplaying but still want to join in and aren't sure where to fit their character in. A group of people for conspiring.

I don't think Kit plans to participate in GW2. xD

She's right. xD ..I've got another roleplaying-related project that's taking up my attention right now. Hence my hiatus on most roleplays. That and well, I'm not particularly keen on GW2 as it is.

The only reason I posted what I did was because Shade seemed a little frustrated, for good reason too. This whole planning thing was getting ridiculous.

Just randomly write up a starting post, it's not that hard! Surely someone can do it. xD

Having said that though, I do not mind helping out new roleplayers find their feet. Partly because I would like to see more decent roleplayers, partly because it has something to do with my project. I'll be willing to give them basic pointers about roleplaying in general. It should be enough to help them find their own way into the roleplay.

seduphe said:

Okay, as far as plot is concerned, I have a concept, not to say this is what we have to do, if we even use a linear plot, but as an idea of how it could go:

1. Pirates/Ninjas fight each other
2. Ninjas get overpowered; hire Mercenaries to help them
3. Knights/Mages feel threatened by the concept of Mercenaries, and join the war premptively
4. Spacefleet joins once everything's chaotic

I'll resist taking out the triangle of mockery, but you have apparently missed the entire point of my earlier post. Y'know the long one which explains why planning out a plot doesn't work. And that there is no such thing as a "linear plot".

I'm not trying to put you down, but until you understand the basic concept of roleplaying, you'll find it hard to roleplay effectively. The problem with your idea is that it's plot-centric and not character-centric. Roleplayers can't join straight from the go, it relies too heavily on plot-development, and there isn't any underlying motive for any form of conflict.

[Scar]

May I make a little suggestion? Nothing really major in the pre-planning department.

Maybe the roleplay could be split up into chapters? Start with a Prologue where everyone can introduce each other into the RP and build up to the main story. Then onwards with Chapter One and so on, with each chapter consisting of a day inside the RP. I mean, I doubt everything in the roleplay takes place in 24 hours. This isn't the Da Vinci Code >_>

That and it'll be much easier for poor Wolf (or whoever is responsible) to make the summaries. What do you think?

And again I say a Mod should start and end the roleplay. I nominate Kit myself x3

[Shadaras]

A note to everyone planning this: If GW2 doesn't start soon, I probably won't join. Not because of being busy or anything like that, but because I've stopped caring about this. I was as enthusiastic as most everyone else about this up until it got, as Kit said, ridiculous, which was about three pages ago, I think.

It's not that I don't like the idea. It's that I've stopped caring. So.. either start it or don't. By this point, it matters more how other people respond to the actual roleplay than that 'Ooh! It's Guild Wars 2! Of course it's going to be as awesome as the first! Probably even better, since they've been planning things out for a month!'

Sorry if this seems mean or anything else of the sort. I'm not trying to be, I just want to let you all know how idiotic I think this is getting. I'm not saying I won't join. I'm saying that if I join GW2, it will be based on how much I like the roleplaying that goes on inside it, not on how much planning you do or the hype that's built up.

.. and yes, I probably changed what I was saying somewhere in this post. xD Ignore it if I did.

[zhunter]

kittengriffin said:

A note to everyone planning this: If GW2 doesn't start soon, I probably won't join. Not because of being busy or anything like that, but because I've stopped caring about this. I was as enthusiastic as most everyone else about this up until it got, as Kit said, ridiculous, which was about three pages ago, I think.

It's not that I don't like the idea. It's that I've stopped caring. So.. either start it or don't. By this point, it matters more how other people respond to the actual roleplay than that 'Ooh! It's Guild Wars 2! Of course it's going to be as awesome as the first! Probably even better, since they've been planning things out for a month!'

Sorry if this seems mean or anything else of the sort. I'm not trying to be, I just want to let you all know how idiotic I think this is getting. I'm not saying I won't join. I'm saying that if I join GW2, it will be based on how much I like the roleplaying that goes on inside it, not on how much planning you do or the hype that's built up.

.. and yes, I probably changed what I was saying somewhere in this post. xD Ignore it if I did.

Shade's voiced out some of my thoughts and concerns on this RP, albeit more thoroughly and perhaps extremely than I would have. But it's been so far into planning and conceiving that I've lost the urge to do this. Of course, I'm still excited & willing, but it seems some people may be weary of getting into this. I say we start this. Very soon. In fact tomorrow would be cool as long as a Mod starts it.

That's just my voice, but if anyone agrees with me...I'd love to begin this so I can be exhilirated again.

[Arista~]

I agree with Shino and Shade. Let's start it soon.

[Kengplant]

If no one else has started it by the end of next week I will then. As we all seem to be getting on edge about this. We don't want it to blow up before it even starts. I know the general consensus was late Jan/early Feb, but this thing is starting to self destruct, and I don't think holding it off until then will benefit us at all at this point. So, at about the 18th or 19, 20th at the latest, I WILL start this if no one else does. My apologies to the people who wanted it to start later, but we're killing this with all the planning, I'm guilty of it myself, and we're all so excited about this that we'll just keep posting here in anticipation until it's started, killing it even more.

[Rider]

[glow=red,2,300]Keng, you've my full support. <3 Shino-san, get on it if you want to kick it off! XD[/glow]

[Strife]

I would have expected Shino to kick things off a long time ago. I sense a serious lack of initiative here. From everyone. I don't know if it's because everyone is busy and has more important things to attend to, but the least we can do is start flying this airplane, lest it run out of gas before we even get off the ground.

As I type this message, i'm in the middle of writing the start of the roleplay. I'm writing it not because i'm a Mod (which Shino requested), but because I refuse to let this thing explode and watch as everyone gets a hissy-fit about how we overplanned things and what-not. So if there's no objections, I will continue writing and start Guilds' War 2 tonight. (Or tomorrow, if I get writer's block and am unable to finish tonight. ^^; )

EDIT: And Shino, you don't always need a Mod to get things rolling. Modship is just a rank, and it doesn't make us any better than the regular members when it comes to RP skills. ^_~