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Post by Reiqua on Jan 23, 2017 2:10:53 GMT -5
Make a swarm of Weewoos one of the new challengers. New challenger: Weewoo Flock, unlocked by certain obscure random chance when reading the NT (think Edna avatar), has a rare chance to drop NT multiple-of-50 issue prizes? And in the next challenge, you have to fight the boss of the Weewoo Flock - an enormous and benevolent fluffy white Weewoo named Lord Woo who is intent on flooding the uneducated people of Neopia with millions of copies of the NT! (Causing major traffic congestion, etc, etc) xP Only thing is that as someone already said, it's almost impossible to make ridiculous villains since the villains from series 1 and 2 are already so silly that it just doesn't register XD
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Post by Rabbit ♠ on Jan 23, 2017 10:52:36 GMT -5
New challenger: Weewoo Flock, unlocked by certain obscure random chance when reading the NT (think Edna avatar), has a rare chance to drop NT multiple-of-50 issue prizes? And in the next challenge, you have to fight the boss of the Weewoo Flock - an enormous and benevolent fluffy white Weewoo named Lord Woo who is intent on flooding the uneducated people of Neopia with millions of copies of the NT! (Causing major traffic congestion, etc, etc) xP Only thing is that as someone already said, it's almost impossible to make ridiculous villains since the villains from series 1 and 2 are already so silly that it just doesn't register XD That doesn't mean we can't try to make a ridiculous villain. Now I sort of want to make this totally ridiculous villain for the April Fools issue. XD
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Post by Serene on Jan 23, 2017 23:53:37 GMT -5
I think the key to a good NT April Fools joke is one that gets people riled up. Either by exciting them like Faerie Wars or NeoQuest III, or by just upsetting the status quo.
I was thinking for a second about how the Altador Cup is only a couple of months after April Fools Day. What if we wrote about the canceling of the Altador Cup in favor of a new site-wide/global activity?
Personally I am not sure if DoN #3 would stick simply because the consensus seems to have been that DoN #2 was never complete.
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Post by Reiqua on Jan 24, 2017 2:40:28 GMT -5
I think the key to a good NT April Fools joke is one that gets people riled up. Either by exciting them like Faerie Wars or NeoQuest III, or by just upsetting the status quo. I agree, but my concern with a topic like 'cancellation of the AC/introduction of a new activity' is that it's a bit meta. As in, it's limited in terms of what in-universe short stories and comics you can write about it. But perhaps if we focus more on the 'new activity' itself, rather than cancellation of the AC, that could still work?
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Post by Liou on Jan 24, 2017 11:51:15 GMT -5
Messing with meta site features is what the site prank already does, so I think NT pranks work better if they focus on in-world site lore. The type of lore that has an impact on gameplay, of course, but there's not much point if the prank is something that could be pulled off without the writing+comics aspect. That's why Def3 is my favourite idea so far, it's the one that has an impact on both lore and gameplay.
I do agree that it's good to get people at least a little riled up. So we need to target things that people are really attached to. SO, regular players, what's popular on the site at the moment? >_>;
(I kind of wish that the Obelisk could be involved somehow, but that's my bias as an Obelisk fan, and we've already had the Oracle games anyway. xD)
Hmm, maybe something could be happening in one of the Neopian lands that haven't been revamped yet? There's always Kiko Lake. Oooh, the Alien Aishas' world has been mysterious for a long time. =o But we've already had Goldrun and Wraithland as strange new lands...
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Post by Serene on Jan 24, 2017 12:47:32 GMT -5
I agree, but my concern with a topic like 'cancellation of the AC/introduction of a new activity' is that it's a bit meta. As in, it's limited in terms of what in-universe short stories and comics you can write about it. But perhaps if we focus more on the 'new activity' itself, rather than cancellation of the AC, that could still work? I think there are a good number of short stories that could arise from the cancellation of such an embedded global event. How do the teams and fans react? What will they do in the off year? Life for the athletes after retiring. So on and so forth. However, I merely through that out as an idea. Messing with meta site features is what the site prank already does, so I think NT pranks work better if they focus on in-world site lore. The type of lore that has an impact on gameplay, of course, but there's not much point if the prank is something that could be pulled off without the writing+comics aspect. That's why Def3 is my favourite idea so far, it's the one that has an impact on both lore and gameplay. I do agree that it's good to get people at least a little riled up. So we need to target things that people are really attached to. SO, regular players, what's popular on the site at the moment? >_>; (I kind of wish that the Obelisk could be involved somehow, but that's my bias as an Obelisk fan, and we've already had the Oracle games anyway. xD) Hmm, maybe something could be happening in one of the Neopian lands that haven't been revamped yet? There's always Kiko Lake. Oooh, the Alien Aishas' world has been mysterious for a long time. =o But we've already had Goldrun and Wraithland as strange new lands... I think DoN #3 could work, it just would be weird that TNT decided to reboot DoN without finishing DoN #2. Although that could always open up an interesting article idea as well. (Questioning why DoN #2 ended so short.)
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Post by Geo 🇺🇦 🌻 on Jan 24, 2017 12:47:54 GMT -5
How about all the leaders in Neopia decided to go on strike because they are no longer interested in ruling?
Perhaps that's more appropriate for our Royalty and Leaders collab though.
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Post by June Scarlet on Jan 24, 2017 13:13:10 GMT -5
Me personally? I don't really care so much about trying to fool the readership as much as having a fun topic to write about. I mean, I know that's against the point of April Fools, but I've never really been much into pranks anyway.
So that said, I think Defenders 3 sounds like a fun topic to write about. But I also happen to run a series about Defenders, so I would think that.
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Post by Serene on Jan 24, 2017 17:19:27 GMT -5
So that said, I think Defenders 3 sounds like a fun topic to write about. But I also happen to run a series about Defenders, so I would think that. Defenders 3 would have an epic amount of available content to us if we operated under the assumption that all chapters, or a lot of them, were released this time.
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Post by Duke Pikachu on Jan 24, 2017 17:31:10 GMT -5
Maybe part of the joke should be JS have remade the previous Defenders of Neopia and to celebrate they're releasing Season 3 (we could also joke how they released the rest of Season 2, at most hinting what the other villains were). Course this would only be something an article would briefly mention, stories and comics maybe referencing the other villains.
But why bring this up? Well how much detail do we want to go into about what the missions would be? Season 1 villains were just general Evils of Neopia while many of Season 2 were like comic book super villains. So what would Season 3 be themed? I see us going two ways: Being silly and having the missions be based on "normal" heroics like saving a Kadoatie from a tree, helping an elderly pet cross the street, returning a lost wallet, etc.. Or we can go more unique like have the villains be based on forces of nature. Or we could do both, either having a mix of silly and serious missions or combining them together.
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Post by Liou on Jan 24, 2017 17:34:49 GMT -5
I think DoN #3 could work, it just would be weird that TNT decided to reboot DoN without finishing DoN #2 Starting a new thing without wrangling the unfinished old one seems like a TNT thing to do, actually. As Tiger nicely explained earlier, working with someone else's code is no fun. So if JS really wanted to recycle the concept of DoN, it would probably be easier to start a fresh new one and sweep the old one under the rug. I'd find that more realistic, anyway. I was serious when I asked what was popular on the site at the moment, though. I don't remember anything of note happening in the past year, and it would be cool if the prank was somewhat relevant to recent events.
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Post by Twillie on Jan 24, 2017 17:49:07 GMT -5
I was serious when I asked what was popular on the site at the moment, though. I don't remember anything of note happening in the past year, and it would be cool if the prank was somewhat relevant to recent events. From what I've seen talked about on the pound and art boards currently, a lot of users right now are concerned about UC's. Either, they want to adopt/trade for one, or as many are trying to petition, they want a UC paint brush or lab zap. Also, since one hasn't come in a while, a lot of people have been wanting TNT to do a new plot rather than a small plevent or what have you. This is where the new BD event that's been hyped comes into play; no one knows what it is, but people are curious to see what it may be. Whether they believe it'll be a huge plot like TFR or TOW, though, I haven't heard anyone say that. Smaller mentions of potential new paint brush colors with Elephante Day, but it's not a huge phenomenon or anything. Other than that, I'm not highly aware of anything else that has caused much buzz. I'm with you in that I don't remember much happening in the past year, probably because there hasn't been much to note. I think that's what users want the most; something new to happen x3
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Post by Reiqua on Jan 24, 2017 18:20:32 GMT -5
I was serious when I asked what was popular on the site at the moment, though. I don't remember anything of note happening in the past year, and it would be cool if the prank was somewhat relevant to recent events. Like Twillie said, those are the only event-ish things that people are interested in. The other thing that gets people talking are the scandals. Things like copyright concerns, etc. Although those are definitely no-go topics for the NT. As Serene suggested, things that upset the status quo are also good. A bunch of people might be distressed if food club went on hiatus, if all the UC pets were suddenly converted, if the stock market crashed (quite a fan of sending panicked people off to check their portfolio, actually xP), or given our audience, it'd be fun to pretend it was the end of the NT. Stories about distressed pets, articles paying tribute to however many years of the NT. How awesome would it be to have a couple of people submit series in the preceding weeks that would all come to an end abruptly on April fools' with an author's note apologising for wrapping it up so shoddily but explaining that they had to because the NT was finishing up, and they'd only had a week's notice to shorten their story if they wanted to... (I'm not seriously suggesting that, btw, was just a thought experiment) But as I said a while back, pranks that attack obvious site features that people use all the time are pretty transparent. All it takes is for someone to know that food club was working fine yesterday for them to realise that this is all bogus. The only one immune to that is end of the NT because we could conceivably have known something that others wouldn't. Still not sure if CQ would okay it, though. The other thing that seems to get users excited is references to pop culture. So if we were to write about a plevent that was heavily Steven Universe inspired (eg), that would be sure to get people talking. Whether CQ would let it into the NT is another question, and it would also be a considerable lockout for people like me who know very little about Steven Universe except that they talk about semiprecious stones a good bit...
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Post by Shinko on Jan 24, 2017 19:54:09 GMT -5
I personally don't much favor the idea of something referencing the UCs because there aren't many places you can go with that. It's purely an aesthetic thing on the site itself, which lends very little to writing stories. Remember guys, not everybody who submits to the times will wanna do an informative article or a gag comic. It isn't fair to pick something so limiting.
And I dunno about end of the NT because it seems... a little mean-spirited honestly? Pranks ideally should be funny, at least once you've gotten over the initial "Auuugh, you got me!" But I wouldn't find that funny. Not at all.
And on the question of referencing IRL things, I got a story rejected over and over and over again because it was inspired by a song. I don't think taking heavy inspiration from a popular TV show would fly. D=
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Post by Rabbit ♠ on Jan 24, 2017 20:25:43 GMT -5
I really suggest not doing anything UC related. There are some jokes in it, I've seen a few comics about UCs, but you can't go far with that. Plus if you go too far, I'm pretty sure the Pound Chat will have something to say about it and I don't think it'd be nice.
There is talk of a plot or event happening soon, but I wouldn't want to do that, either. If there really is a plot or event coming up, then we have no clue when this could be. It could come up next week for all we know at the moment (pretty sure it's not, but you get my point). If the plot at least starts, then we can't go far with the impending plot because it isn't impending anymore. I do have a comic in the works about this and I want it done as soon as possible because of that.
It would be awesome if we knew if the supposed plot was going to start after the April Fools issue and if it did, it would be a great idea, but I just don't think it's worth risking losing our theme if it happens before. Does that make any sense? (If not, I'm sorry, just a bit tired from classes.)
Also, there have been rumors of a purge of old accounts going around. I don't know if they're true or not, but they're certainly going around. I really don't know where this would go if it was the set idea. That and I'm not sure if the idea of making an issue about an account purge would be fine with TNT, April Fools prank or not.
I do like the idea of DoN 3. We could make some sort of canon for that like we did with Wraithland and the idea is broad enough to make a variety of ideas.
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