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Post by Jina on Sept 24, 2010 18:56:59 GMT -5
Well, there are enough guilders on the forum to keep the guilds active, easily. It's just that the posting isn't happening.
I remember looking over it for a while. x3 Different people do it differently. But for the ones that do look over it before joining, being better organised and easier to look over would help us.
So we publicise to try and get more people involved, possibly get some more people as a result, and.... then what? Unless we actually have things for them to do, they drop off. I think if we're going to advertise, we should do it once those of us who are already here can keep interested in it through more than a short burst of activity.
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Post by Zylaa on Sept 25, 2010 7:05:28 GMT -5
Thing is, short bursts of activity have been the guilds ever since it was just the Ninja/Pirate struggle. For a given value of "short," of course. I don't think it'll change too easily. But hey, now that we all feel sufficiently guilty, mayhaps we'll actually stick to posting now? :3
The Informal Guild Wars and Guild Diaries thread have made me think-- what makes the games boards and Diary boards so consistently active (possibly the most active in the forum) is that people love simple games and people love talking about themselves. So if we can continue to harp on that, we're golden! XD
As for organization, I don't think we need too much of an effort really to make this organized. All we need, in my just-formed opinion, is two things. One, why not just change the Guild Rules board title to "Welcome to the Guilds!"? It explains things pretty well, I think (feel free to contradict me), and then it's more welcoming-sounding. Good PR, all that. :3
Second, Sarn, I like the newsletter idea, but why don't we modify that into making a "Current Events" thread for the forum? It's less work for the person who's maintaining it (I'll volunteer to do that), and that way the person in charge doesn't have to worry about people who request to drop off, keeping track of all the new members we are theoretically going to pull in, writing a new post every week/month, etc.
Since a current events board would just work if people are checking the guilds, we should also do a one-time newsletter to all registered guildies once we finish our discussions here. That way we make sure all the old blood is up to speed and drag them back here (kicking and screaming, if need be. =D )
(Also, Sarn, I now have "Mr. Cellophane" stuck in my head. XD )
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Post by Draco on Sept 30, 2010 16:25:22 GMT -5
I was thinking of something we could do in the future for whatever reason. Shadow Guilds. Unofficial guilds that are basically underground guilds. Ones that can't be turned into official guilds for whatever reason. Guilds like a Thieves Guild, Assassins Guild, Underwater Basket Weaving Guild, and any other type of illegal type of guilds you could think of. *shrugs* Just a random idea that could be used for future RPs or something ^^; I can all ready think of a character I can have from the Assassins Guild that can cause problems if needed  |
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Post by Zylaa on Sept 30, 2010 16:41:55 GMT -5
I think that would get in the same territory as "Too Many Guilds Already." We're putting a hold on making new guilds, so "unofficial" guilds would be another thing spreading everyone out. Plus, at this point, what would there be to distinguish an unofficial guild from an official one? :/
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Post by Draco on Sept 30, 2010 16:49:19 GMT -5
*shrugs* I didn't mean to make guild threads and stuff. Just that it could be used as story purposes in the future at some point. After all, we do need new villains for the future for whatever reason. They could have a background of being in one of these guilds, without being a real character/npc from our main ones.
It could also be changed to some sort of underground crime syndicate or something to XD
It was just a idea I came up with randomly, and wanted to throw out ^^;
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Post by Rikku on Sept 30, 2010 17:15:30 GMT -5
Wellll, it's good to have conflict and story-opportunities and so forth - but it'd be much better to just develop the guilds and world we already have, rather than making new concepts that'll automatically be under-developed, at least to start with. Our existing system actually has heaps of room for all sorts of fascinating things.
... Villains are good, though, of course. xD If more people played more morally-murky characters we wouldn't need to make so many NPCs. NPCs are useful, and we need them for Knights to save or catch and Pirates to pilfer from (more 'try not to get killed by', lately) and the other Guilds to ... also do things, I guess ... *trails into vagueness* But anyway, my point is that the main characters (or personas, of course) that people roleplay will automatically make for better story because they'll be better-developed and have more believable and interesting motivations.
*looks back at post* ... I'm not sure that I said what I wanted to say at all. >.>; Sorry.
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Post by Gelquie on Oct 1, 2010 0:35:05 GMT -5
I'm sorry it seems like I dropped off, but I haven't forgotten about this.
The reason I joined the Guilds in the first place was because it looked like fun. And it still is, though there are drops in activity. I concur with the whole thing about text-wall posts scaring people away. Even if you're not scared of text-walls by themselves, someone could still not feel comfortable jumping in when they only have so much time to read them, even if the text-walls aren't as long as people think.
At the same time, I kinda like text-wally posts. XD; *Guilty.* So... Not sure what to do there. >.> *Useless.*
I also agree that we should definitely work on developing the world, as it'll make it easier to roleplay things later on without too much argument. At the same time, we do have to be flexible so that more stuff can be added when needed.
One thing I've wondering about is plotting. How many actual, on-going story-arcs do we have right now? I know we have them, but there's also a lot of very open stuff right now. Which isn't necessarily bad, but it's also hard to find a foundation for stuff to do without something solid. Or maybe I just find following plot-lines easier. (Hence why I'm still insisting on the Mage/Spacefleet war that came up at the end of GWIII; it's interesting, and stuff can still be done with it.)
*Is still not entirely sure how everything works and may not be making sense right now due to the excessive amount of multi-tasking she's doing. Maybe I can form a better-worded opinion later.*
Also, remember guys, this is for fun; it shouldn't be too stressful.
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Post by Strife on Oct 8, 2010 11:52:42 GMT -5
So Hunty and I were talking on MSN, and we're thinking that we should start organizing the Guild boards so that they feel more like a storybook. That's essentially what the guild roleplays are at their heart - collective stories - so it makes sense to emphasize it. ^_^
Aaaanyway, to start things off, we're thinking that we can take all of the past RPs and move them somewhere that's easier to access. I'm sure there are plenty of people on the forum who enjoy reading the roleplays, even if they don't participate in them, so it'd make sense to have them in a convenient spot so we don't have to navigate several pages to re-read old RPs. :3 Perhaps a new subboard could be created for archiving these past roleplays?
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Post by PFA on Oct 8, 2010 13:44:37 GMT -5
So Hunty and I were talking on MSN, and we're thinking that we should start organizing the Guild boards so that they feel more like a storybook. That's essentially what the guild roleplays are at their heart - collective stories - so it makes sense to emphasize it. ^_^ Aaaanyway, to start things off, we're thinking that we can take all of the past RPs and move them somewhere that's easier to access. I'm sure there are plenty of people on the forum who enjoy reading the roleplays, even if they don't participate in them, so it'd make sense to have them in a convenient spot so we don't have to navigate several pages to re-read old RPs. :3 Perhaps a new subboard could be created for archiving these past roleplays? That could be fun. :3 Could be nice having an archived version of that old ninja RP. (Well, for me it would, anyway. ) I mean, y'know, if we're going back that far. Do the incomplete RPs count too? |
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Post by Zylaa on Oct 8, 2010 14:53:38 GMT -5
That sounds like a great idea! ^_^ And we should be sure to have a stickied thread telling people what order to read them in, back-of-book-style blurbs, that sort of thing.
((And srsly guys what do you want me to do about the Current Events Table/Welcome to the Guilds suggestion? I'd be happy to do it (if slowly), just want some feedback. ^_^))
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2010 19:19:51 GMT -5
*cattleprods everyone*  |
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Post by Draco on Dec 12, 2010 3:28:59 GMT -5
*cattleprods everyone* NaNo is over and those with school, from what I've been hearing from many, school is over any day now (if not all ready for some). So hopefully, things will come alive again.... |
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Post by Zylaa on Dec 12, 2010 9:29:38 GMT -5
My offer of revamping the Current Events/Welcome to the Guilds thing still stands, and is still waiting for feedback. XD Even with feedback, I won't do anything until Wednesday night at the earliest. Sunday is when I am home and have large gaps of blissful free time.
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