Post by Chris on Oct 30, 2007 17:22:03 GMT -5
Hey everyone.
I used to be a member of a very, very active Star Wars RP site; we lasted somewhere around 2.5 years before everyone started to leave.
But, I see some potential and hope in this place.
And.. I also have some suggestions. Where I used to RP, things would die, and someone would come back to "fix" it and get the ball rolling again... but things would just keep dying, and we finally figured out what the problem was... but by that time it was too late.
A lot of what makes RPs not continue is the fact that new recruits don't keep coming.. and a lot of what keeps new peeps from joining is the fact that boards can sometimes be very overwhelming. I know for me just looking over everything here, I have no idea where this takes place, who the people are, what the overall, "goal" is behind RPing here.. so it's very hard for me to just jump in.
So this is what I'm suggesting:
Take all of the old threads and archive them. Start the board over and provide a back-story "The lands of ____ just came out of a terrible war..." or something, so that people have an idea of the factions, and the places and the time-frame.. that way it's a lot easier to not get lost in thousands of threads.
Also, I know it's kinda "everything goes", but I think there should be some restrictions as to classes and races and all that (and a thread explaining some races to people, cause Idk what a were-dragon is).
But I think with a back-story that kinda leads into where we're at now, and a fresh start so the people here now can begin to create a story, would give everyone a lot better focus for where to begin.
If I'm completely off, please, someone explain everything to me.. and my apologies if I offended anyone, it was not my intention.
Cheers.
I used to be a member of a very, very active Star Wars RP site; we lasted somewhere around 2.5 years before everyone started to leave.
But, I see some potential and hope in this place.
And.. I also have some suggestions. Where I used to RP, things would die, and someone would come back to "fix" it and get the ball rolling again... but things would just keep dying, and we finally figured out what the problem was... but by that time it was too late.
A lot of what makes RPs not continue is the fact that new recruits don't keep coming.. and a lot of what keeps new peeps from joining is the fact that boards can sometimes be very overwhelming. I know for me just looking over everything here, I have no idea where this takes place, who the people are, what the overall, "goal" is behind RPing here.. so it's very hard for me to just jump in.
So this is what I'm suggesting:
Take all of the old threads and archive them. Start the board over and provide a back-story "The lands of ____ just came out of a terrible war..." or something, so that people have an idea of the factions, and the places and the time-frame.. that way it's a lot easier to not get lost in thousands of threads.
Also, I know it's kinda "everything goes", but I think there should be some restrictions as to classes and races and all that (and a thread explaining some races to people, cause Idk what a were-dragon is).
But I think with a back-story that kinda leads into where we're at now, and a fresh start so the people here now can begin to create a story, would give everyone a lot better focus for where to begin.
If I'm completely off, please, someone explain everything to me.. and my apologies if I offended anyone, it was not my intention.
Cheers.
