Heartless Hìppíe
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Post by Heartless Hìppíe on Aug 4, 2012 20:28:48 GMT -8
Please keep in mind that this topic is not a "Let's punish people thread", or a "Let's call people out for doing something we dislike", This topic is meant to be a "What can we do to encourage growth for our community".
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Post by lovely corte on Aug 4, 2012 20:30:26 GMT -8
You lie.
Guys, guys.
It's all Hippie's fault.
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Post by Heartless Hìppíe on Aug 4, 2012 21:15:34 GMT -8
It usually is >;D
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Post by lovely corte on Aug 4, 2012 21:21:49 GMT -8
This is why we can't have nice things.
You're fucking the neighbours and we can't even get cable.
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Post by JW% on Aug 4, 2012 21:40:18 GMT -8
Aw man... I shouldn't have logged on... I'm sore, I'm tired, and I left notes saying I wasn't going to be on again until Monday...
I was wrong, my weekend managed to suck hard enough that I gave up Saturday evening, so I logged on, when apparently I shouldn't have.
The titles here is apt. "Not another one" was the first thing that popped into my head when I started reading this. This is old news, and in my opinion outdated.
It may have been relevant earlier this year, like during the spring. But we've fixed stuff since then. No, the forum isn't where I'd like it to be. It's not at the height of it's popularity by a long shot, and it's not really even a comfortably active forum really. But it's not as bad as where it was.
Formerly, way back during JANUARY, only the HWYCA was the only thread active and moving. The posters on that thread were the only people who visited this forum, and new arrivals, as I felt I was at the time, were being less than politely ignored. I watched several attempts at starting something other than HWYCA wither on the vine. That was January. We had this thread back then, it may have been viable back then. This is not January. Heck, even into April we had a number of threads with RP suggestions, but nobody really got moving on them.
As Samedi said "I don't really like the DnD type stuff that goes on around here." and that, quite frankly, summed up everything, in more than one way. For one thing, there are no DnD type RPs going on. Samedi is dismissing everyone elses work out of hand without even knowing what it is. During March I intentionally posted a number of suggestions for potential games. They didn't even get VIEWS. During that month there was easily five times more post in the one thread, HWYCA, than there were VIEWS of four different threads. I honestly don't care if the ideas were good ones or bad ones, and I'll readily admit that some weren't the greatest ideas, but the point was that HWYCA wasn't even looking. Outside ideas were being dismissed without consideration. That was March. This isn't March.
It took until May before we really got anything besides HWYCA got moving. And I'd like to thank corte and Anya for helping it get going, because I somewhat doubt that Warrior of Light and Alastor would have been active enough on Triumph City to make it worth starting out. corte and Anya looked beyond HWYCA and joined Triumph City, despite the fact that, as corte says, that one takes a bit to wrap your head around. That one is probably the most organized a game on this forum can get and still be playable(not that I'm not willing to go more complex, I just don't think the forum would like it). That was May. This isn't May.
This is AUGUST for crying out loud!
Triumph City is active. More active than HWYCA! Both with more frequent posts, and at least an equal number of people posting in it. We have other active RPs going(Farndis and Greek Mythos), and more waiting in the wings to start as soon as they have confirmation that people want to join them. And they are at least getting views! The HWYCA, with at least one exception who has posted here and given his say on things, has come out of their shell. The RPU, while not flourishing, is growing again. We're on the road to recovery, and what we have to do is THANK the HWYCA posters for this! And possibly thank Al for posting this thread back in March, because it may have inspired some of that branching out we're thanking you for. But, as I said before, this isn't March. The whole thing with HWYCA being "enemies" or even "outsiders"(or I guess "insiders" makes more sense, as it was the outsiders who were being discriminated against) is MONTHS outdated.
Is the RPU recovered? No. The forum is still somewhat of a ghost town. We have four active threads going. That's not really that much. The exodus idea would be unthinkable on an active forum, but was actually deemed potentially necessary here. Enough that Al posted the link. I personally don't think it's necessary, but just the fact that it wasn't unthinkable means something. Four threads are not that much. Plus, of those four threads, Anya is in all four, court is in three, and I am in three(and a number of people are in two. The entire cast of Farndis is also in Triumph City for example). The RPU is not that actively populated.
Those of us who are active are probably going to reach our limits when the new OOC threads kick into IC. I'm eagerly looking forward to Prime Spinosaur's Nexura Wars, even if I'm not sure I'll be participating(my first "character" was thrown out, I'll need to work up another one before I can join). And yes, I feel somewhat guilty about not being able to join that, the "Reclaim the name 'Edward'!" RP, or really ANY new RP that crops up. I don't even have that much interest in the "Reclaim!" RP, it's puppet heavy and sounds like rather blunt humor, but I've been working it over in my head to come up with some way to join simply because it was a new idea, and I didn't want to discourage something new.
The RPU has branched out since January. HWYCA still has the most number of posters who haven't posted in other threads, but more than half(depending on how you count it) of them have branched out and are hopefully enjoying the RPUs recovery and growing prosperity. What we need now is new blood. stormcat, Adlai Stevenson, dhampircarmilla,(even Smokescreen and Junkie if the Ask subforum counts) these are the people we've attracted with our growing momentum and expanding horizons. Even if they're not all "new"(known names on the forum and all), they're still people who weren't posting in HWYCA or Triumph City, or Farndis last month or the month before(correct me if I'm wrong). They're new, and we should encourage more new people to join.
The forum isn't yet populated enough that I feel good about ignoring an RP. I feel like I may actually be killing "Reclaim!" because I haven't joined, so it hasn't reached critical mass and started moving. EVA hasn't started up because there haven't been enough people joining. Are they getting views? Yes! That's progress! Is it enough? No, I'd like to see this forum able to support a broad range of RP preferences and tastes, and we just don't have the active population to do so. Enough that when something like "Reclaim!" comes up, I can shrug it off without guilt. The "I don't have to join, somebody else will." attitude would be a healthy one to have, but at the moment it still feels like there isn't enough "somebody else" around to have that kind of attitude.
But, I'm sorry Al, HWYCA has done it's share. You can't get blood from a turnip. The regular posters(of ALL the threads, not just HWYCA but also Farndis, Triumph City, ALL the threads) on this forum are going to start being stretched thin when several of the OOCs go IC. The solution is to look outside the RPU for fresh faces to draw in and welcome.
TL;DR
This thread unneeded. We need to welcome new posters.
Gah, that rambled far too long, my neck is going numb from my shoulder sprain. Need to log off...
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Post by Penny Royals on Aug 4, 2012 21:50:39 GMT -8
Okay. I think ALL of us need to bow down to Per for summing up something we were all slightly trying to get to but weren't really able to state.
Or at least that's how I feel we were all kinda getting at. /shot
But yes. Per's right. We need to encourage new members, not just ourselves.
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Post by lovely corte on Aug 4, 2012 22:05:17 GMT -8
Gurl, get yo' shoulder sprain worked out. I love what you're doing with your hurr too, gurl. Go on, Bon-Qui-Qui, pat yo' weaves.
But for real, we're making this sound a whole lot worse than it is. The problem isn't we're not branching out, the problem is we don't have enough people to branch out.
TL:DR, Anya doesn't wash her pubes.
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Post by Alastor on Aug 4, 2012 22:10:35 GMT -8
Y-you can't?! But I...
...MY WHOLE LIFE HAS BEEN A LIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
Jokes aside, I have to agree. We need to get new blood to branch out more.
And probably figure out how, as well.
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Post by Darth Pichu on Aug 4, 2012 22:12:11 GMT -8
Yes! Thank you Per, and as I said, I will do my best to stop being lazy/easily distracted and finally get some profiles up. As I said, I've tried three times to make a profile for your City of Triumph RP (since it DOES take a bit of reading to figure out some of the feild requirements and such) (Did I mention I'm easy to distract as fuck? Prime's been asking me to post a profile for Nexura since it's conception as well. I am notoriously slow at signing up for things and again, I'm sorry for it. It seems already that I've missed out on some of the fun! D=)
But as it stands the fun is what we should be focusing on. Not whose RPs are getting the most posts or how many different topics how many people post in. They're just games. They're meant for fun. That's all.
Al, next time will you PLEASE talk to me before you post one of these about HWYCA so that we can talk about things that are going on. It gets the members riled up and honestly, it makes me a tad embarrassed that our one topic has managed to cause so much unrest. I asked you once before to talk to me if you thought HWYCA was causing any more problems and we could work things out from there. Please next time come to me first? We're supposed to be partners in a sense and trust me when I say I WILL work with you if given the chance.
But if you don't tell me anything then I can't do anything.
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Post by lovely corte on Aug 4, 2012 22:14:29 GMT -8
'Kay, so I have an idea.
What we do is we go to an orphanage, and take all the little Asian children. Then we raise them nerdy, roleplayers, DnD, WoW, LoL. That sorta' thing, y'know?
And then we take them to this forum.
And we force them to pair their characters together and do weird sex scenes.
Ya' heard?
No, but really. I tried getting some people on another forum I go to involved, but they liked the idea, but didn't really want to register for the site and attempt a roleplay they had no idea to do.
This was way back when HWYCA was the only active forum, so I'm not sure how it'll go down now. I told them about Triumph City, piqued some interests, but that's it.
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Post by SkeksisGirl on Aug 4, 2012 22:42:11 GMT -8
JW was interested in a World of Darkness game a while back... I might be able to put together some free form rules for the board if anyone is interested.
Also, I'm a fan of TV show based RPs, my current obsession is Supernatural.
Anyone interested?
Or... I could pull Midnight out from the Mecha/Pony war.
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Post by Darth Pichu on Aug 4, 2012 22:59:17 GMT -8
<_< >_>
Alsoifanyoneisintohomestucki'mtotallygameforthatkaythanksbye.
My class/aspect is Mage of Life. ^_^ And I'm from the land of Summits and Peaks.
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Post by SkeksisGirl on Aug 4, 2012 23:00:29 GMT -8
...Tenchi and Sailor Moon FTW? ::Ish oldschool.::
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Post by Penny Royals on Aug 4, 2012 23:13:06 GMT -8
Well, Al, Per, Meka, Adlai and I all have a magical girl and sentai (power rangers, essentially) game...
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Post by Alastor on Aug 5, 2012 0:06:50 GMT -8
That implies it's more than just me and you playing the majority of the cast, Pen...
I've had a vague idea for an RP as well- basically takes place in a faux-Victorian era in the distant future, where relics of the past are being discovered. ...Said relics being remains of things from other games.
Kinda of based on Turn A Gundam in that aspect, and was meant to be a celebration game for an anniversary.
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Post by Anya the Purple on Aug 5, 2012 7:13:35 GMT -8
Actually, I wouldn't mind more games that didn't involve mechas. Maybe I'm just noticing them too much, but it seems to me that there are mechas of some sort or another in a LOT of games right now. And nnever having been into, well, any of that (and thus knowing nothing of how they're supposed to work), I feel like I can't really participate in a lot of those (hell, even the Ensongs in Farndis confuse me XP).
Supernatural sounds pretty good, though. Or something similar. Buffybuffybuffybuffy
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Post by SkeksisGirl on Aug 5, 2012 8:01:08 GMT -8
Actually, I wouldn't mind more games that didn't involve mechas. Maybe I'm just noticing them too much, but it seems to me that there are mechas of some sort or another in a LOT of games right now. And nnever having been into, well, any of that (and thus knowing nothing of how they're supposed to work), I feel like I can't really participate in a lot of those (hell, even the Ensongs in Farndis confuse me XP).
Supernatural sounds pretty good, though. Or something similar. Buffybuffybuffybuffy
I've done Buffy/Angel RPs also. <.<;
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Post by samedi on Aug 5, 2012 8:06:51 GMT -8
@per: Yeah, the DnD stuff is mostly being sorted out in the OOC. As for the last time Alastor brought this whole thing up, we already had atleast 13 other things going on another forum. And dude, I wasn't born in my shell. I had to MAKE that armour, forge it myself.
Going back to the initial point of this thread, the few players in HWYCA who aren't expanding beyond that either have a LOT of other stuff going on other forums, have uber important stuff going on IRL, or feel a little alienated every time they're called out in big threads by big scary board staff that they have to start pouring themselves into other rps or the RPU will die.
For me personally, it's all of the above. I will say this, JW has stopped this from exploding.
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Post by WolfBloodRei on Aug 5, 2012 9:58:55 GMT -8
@skeksis: I know very little about Supernatural sadly. =(
@anya: Buffy, huh? .....>> .... << .. -throws Jagger at Anya-
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Post by SkeksisGirl on Aug 5, 2012 10:01:36 GMT -8
@skeksis: I know very little about Supernatural sadly. =( @anya: Buffy, huh? .....>> .... << .. -throws Jagger at Anya-
Netflix is your friend. ::Nods sagely.::
Maddy> ::Watches as someone gets thrown at Anya.:: As long as I can kill Buffy I'm happy.
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Post by Anya the Purple on Aug 5, 2012 10:13:56 GMT -8
*Flattened* Thanks, Rei. -_-
Hey, as long as there's sufficient Kennedy bashing, I'm happy.
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Post by Darth Pichu on Aug 5, 2012 10:16:55 GMT -8
I've seen how hard Anya fangirls about Buffy (which I still have to watch ISORRYANYA)
It's pretty scary stuff.
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Post by WolfBloodRei on Aug 5, 2012 10:37:44 GMT -8
@skeksis: I can't afford Netflix =(
@anya: XD lol. You're welcome!
@pichu: Watch iiiiiit.... Also. Homestuck? Yes. Yes. YES.
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Post by Anya the Purple on Aug 5, 2012 10:39:54 GMT -8
It's okay, Pichu. I still have to read Black Butler too. XD
And yes, I take pride in my scary fangirling.
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Post by WolfBloodRei on Aug 5, 2012 10:44:55 GMT -8
It's okay, Pichu. I still have to read Black Butler too. XD
And yes, I take pride in my scary fangirling. Speaking of fangirling, guess who I'm using as an avi and sig now, Anya? =3 YesIrealizethisisgettingderailedoops
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Post by Penny Royals on Aug 5, 2012 10:55:47 GMT -8
Anya: Yes, I agree that there are way too many mechas for my taste ._.
How does everyone here feel about punkpunks- Steampunk, Cyberpunk, Atomicpunk, Deiselpunk, etc?
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Post by SkeksisGirl on Aug 5, 2012 11:01:01 GMT -8
I'm so so about the punks.
Looks like we're well on our way to doing a Buffy RP though.
::Drags Anya to PMs to see HOW bad the fangirling of Buffy is.::
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Post by Penny Royals on Aug 5, 2012 11:04:44 GMT -8
I know very, very little about Buffy, myself. Though, my mind DOES go to vampires... but I don't think they're the same between Buffy and my own vampire fandom. Vampire Hunter D /shot
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Post by Anya the Purple on Aug 5, 2012 11:17:44 GMT -8
I don't have much experience with the punks (like, my entire Steampunk experience is having watched Legend of Korra), but it seems kind of cool.
Hm... Maybe we could have some sort of big supernatural beings crossover rp? With, like, all the different types of supernaturally involved people trying to understand each other's specific types of vampires and whatnot? And then there shall be much fourth wall humor and Twilight bashing.
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Post by Penny Royals on Aug 5, 2012 11:19:31 GMT -8
^I had something slight like that a long time ago on another site, but it was ended because people thought it'd be too big (we had only 3-4 active members). I... might be able to bring it over or link you to it to see, and we could tweak it to add in more species and such?
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