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Post by The Rising Dragon on Jan 4, 2011 20:00:24 GMT -5
First off, I'll reiterate: No more fighting, no more rudeness. If I see a fight all participating members get kicked off the site for 24 to 36 hours.
Now, for the subject at hand: Risk has proposed some ideas for the site; namely a few additional RP locations, focusing on job-applicable locations including, but not limited to, stables, inns, arenas, and theaters, to be added to population-heavy areas.
Another possible addition is the creation of a rewards system based on member activity during roleplay, with continued posting resulting in the awarding of graphics and other assorted online items.
Discuss, and keep it civil.
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Post by Risk on Jan 4, 2011 20:01:51 GMT -5
That's quite a better way to put it, RD. A reward system, and I think it might clear up the confusion about that topic. However I'd still like us to focus on the board addition instead of that.
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Post by Evil McBadGuy on Jan 4, 2011 20:03:48 GMT -5
Civil? Very well. namely a few additional RP locations, focusing on job-applicable locations including, but not limited to, stables, inns, arenas, and theaters, to be added to population-heavy areas. Keep it to topics and don't do the job apps. Won't work out.
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Post by Risk on Jan 4, 2011 20:06:27 GMT -5
Why wouldn't a reward system work, and why are you so concerned about adding a new board if it has no effect on you at all?
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Post by Evil McBadGuy on Jan 4, 2011 20:10:12 GMT -5
Why wouldn't a reward system work, and why are you so concerned about adding a new board if it has no effect on you at all? This has all been explained already, but fine. To state this all again. In short: The reward system won't work because not only is the site not even close to large enough, but all the possible rewards that've been thought up so far are very small and don't seem worth it. Why work for something you could have for free? As for the new boards... what warrents a stable to have its own board in the first place? Is it in the middle of a demonic forest away from everything else? How would that be efficient? Not to mention, they're so simplistic they can be topics easily. Basically, all these ideas seem to do is make this place more complicated than it needs to be.
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Post by The Rising Dragon on Jan 4, 2011 20:13:48 GMT -5
A reward system likely wouldn't work here due to the fact that reward systems are generally geared towards large member bases, like on major forums like AnimeSuki and the like. Places with hundreds of members. We barely have 20 and half of us aren't even active currently. Most of us won't be too concerned with winning pictures.
To put it crudely, when there are fewer people, people have a tendency to think more individually. Larger groups are less likely. Riot mentality, if you will. People are more susceptible to competition and the like if there are actually a group of people to compete against.
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Post by Risk on Jan 4, 2011 20:16:15 GMT -5
There's nothing complicated about adding one more board to a city. It's just another place to post a thread that is less generalized to keep things organized.
The rewards system doesn't have to be used in a large community forum by any means, and when you have talented members who are willing to design special rewards for other active members, in a closed and friendly community like ours those things become warranted and sought after.
But. Once again...and I'm getting really tired of reiterating this...
I didn't post a suggestion for a rewards system, I posted a suggestion for a stable board, which has already been expounded upon to make it more universally friendly.
So please. Let's move on to what we were actually supposed to be talking about. =P
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Post by Evil McBadGuy on Jan 4, 2011 20:21:09 GMT -5
There's nothing complicated about adding one more board to a city. It's just another place to post a thread that is less generalized to keep things organized. Which draws things out more than what's needed. Why would a generic stable be needed as a seperate geological location? Then why not just give gifts? Considering how small the place is, about half of us can just make our own stuff. So should we just tease the other half by making them work for what we could get easily? Seems unfair to me. Except RD is the one who presented it in this topic. So now you have even less say in the matter. Instead of trying to kill something off, why not discuss it civilly, like he suggests?
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Post by The Rising Dragon on Jan 4, 2011 20:26:01 GMT -5
I think what DS is trying to iterate is that a single board dedicated to a single building or such in a city would seem out of place and unnecessary. So, we have a city board, and then inside that board, we have a board for a... stable. It'd be out of place. A more generalized area including numerous locations, like a marketplace or something, would be more appropriate.
But the flaw there is that one could consider the entire city board just that: a generalized place holding numerous locations, like stables and inns and theaters and such. Our imagination is the only limit to that. DS's earlier comments on using it only in topics is a practice already put in place on the site.
For example, the Treasure Hunting thread. It is in the Highways board, but so far, about a single post has actually occurred on the eponymous Highways, the rest is in a desert location nearby. And the way things will go, the remaining action is as likely to occur farther away from the Highways as it is on the Highways.
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Post by Risk on Jan 4, 2011 20:27:17 GMT -5
Funny you mention that DS. I was actually discussing it civilly. You misinterpreted my tone.
Specifying zones isn't that big of a deal. Stables are fairly busy and complex places, so using the theme of our forum and describing a stable within a city isn't that farfetched. If every other complex area needs description, I don't think a stable would be any different. Especially if RD wants to add other things onto the structure as he stated earlier.
And it doesn't really matter if RD started the topic this time. =P He was trying to refocus the topic I started. It's still pretty much my thread. =)
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Post by The Rising Dragon on Jan 4, 2011 20:30:57 GMT -5
The two of you are sliding off into that "civil vs. uncivil" argument again. Let's slide it back and forget about it.
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Post by Risk on Jan 4, 2011 20:31:34 GMT -5
I wasn't being uncivil. I was clarifying.
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Post by tk on Jan 4, 2011 20:31:50 GMT -5
okay, I've had a rough night, but I guess it's as good as any to start taking part.
fresh start, new home, new life, new attitude.
okay, I know I don't RP(I just like RP itself. consider it a spectator's perspective(and the uses for it), but I've been on boards for 7 years. gotta be something worthwhile in my trunk of experiences.
personally, I think stables are too basic. they're something that is vital to other elements, and should be more of a background element.
it's an okay idea, but really, I have to wonder how much use would be gotten out of it. and as big as the boardlist is, one more name on the list isn't going to hurt anything.
I think it should be left in the "considered" pile until the community is bigger and there's reason to believe people would want to RP as that sort of thing.
perhaps instead, an "employment setting" RP board should be added. boards are better suited to being largely genre-based, with people sorting things by tread after. perhaps a stable-based subboard is could be listed under a main board "employment-based RP"?
on the topic of the rewards system, I'd have to feel it's impractical to expect any sort of benefit to be gotten out of it, as most people online really wouldn't bat an eye at it.
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Post by Evil McBadGuy on Jan 4, 2011 20:31:57 GMT -5
Yes. Funny you mention that DS. I was actually discussing it civilly. You misinterpreted my tone. I didn't give you one in the first place. I was simply giving off what RD had started. Except you're not the one who made this thread, therefor it's still his. And even then, the previous topic did include the reward system. That's like saying if one RP thread were inspired by another, it's the original person's' topic regardless.
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Post by Risk on Jan 4, 2011 20:36:31 GMT -5
STOP TALKING ABOUT THE FUCKING REWARDS SYSTEM!
lol Really. It's not going to happen, that's already been stated. Enough of it. xP
I like TKs idea of adding an employment-area board. That has a lot of potential to flesh out characters and make this less of a, "AKOETJIJGPOWJGIEOJO I PWN YOU WITH LAZERS!" board and more of an RP based on relationship and interaction.
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