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| Topic Started: Nov 14 2015, 11:28 PM (197 Views) | ||
| Jance | Nov 14 2015, 11:28 PM Post #1 | |
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Most folks have expressed a strong desire to have modded threads back so we've been discussing how posting'll work on the site overall. Some of our current varying options are: - Bring back canon, modded, single thread posting system, keep or remove open, non-canon threads - Stick with open, non-canon threads as the main posting system, have options for volunteer modded threads and special modded events + Stick with the single World forum or go back to individual forums for all areas and cities + Keep Homebases, with a canon thread system only those posts would count toward Homebase counters, or go back to keeping track of all your counters and things in your canon thread limiting the amount of counters you can have at a time + Bring back Freeforms that are graded and rewarded or have Freeforms only as a means for sharing character stories or come up with a system for rewarded Freeforms that doesn't require a moderator grading it My own personal preference would probably be this - Have a single, canon, mod guided thread (thought, perhaps call moderators 'guides' instead?) - Keep open, non-canon threads, players can have as many as they want with as many people as they want, but posts in them do not count toward counters and items can only be collected once the thread is completed and closed - Keep Homebases but they won't be a completely non-canon location, and can be located anywhere, and all non-canon items are stored here once the thread they are received in is complete; players will either have to visit a PC in a Pokemon Center or the Homebase itself in a canon thread to collect any non-canon items and other stuff from the Homebase - Bring back Freeforms, they can be used for obtaining special items such as rare pokemon or fossils and things or any sort of plot based device, we'd drastically reduced the grading system making it less about how many words you can throw in there and more about if your story just makes sense and was legible - Try to have at least one site wide event going on at all times - Stick with one World forum, all non-canon and event threads would take place in 'the World' and then have separate sub forum sections for the areas, maybe with cities as sub forums of the area forums sections; could move the canon thread to each section as the player reaches that section so instead of the player creating a new thread their old thread just follows them from section to section? Any other thoughts, ideas or suggestions folks? Edited by Jance, Nov 14 2015, 11:35 PM.
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| Maverick | Nov 15 2015, 12:16 AM Post #2 | |
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Bring back modded threads but limit it to one solo-thread (I'm starting to doubt how well canon and non canon really apply these days). Endless co-op style threads. I'm ok with Free-Forms. HOWEVER: wherever we place the how to for these, its need to be clearly understood that modding is slow on solo travel and free-form are even slower to get looked at. About free forms and rewords - the old idea that anything goes for an award has got to go. Just because a person asks for it, doesn't mean it belongs in the game. LESSON LEARNED. We need to be able to tell a person no. We also need to be able to define what will off-balance the game. How threads should run and when you collect rewards. We never got a chance to test the boomarang theory of actually setting a goal, making it happen, and closing the thread. In the same line, the purpose of the homebase didn't get tested either. So when should those posts really be collected for your homebase counters (cause I'm totally for keeping counters in one spot whether it be homebase or profile). Should you have to close a thread? Is it important where you start on the map and if you've been there before? I'll admit I'm stuck here. On one hand I'm all for saying screw it, we have five people ready to play the game - who cares where you start, or where you've been or what HMs are. On the other hand that stupid little voice is nagging at me "What about the GAME!?" So I'm going to leave this up to everyone else. And whatever goes here sort up controls how to divide up the world forum again if need be. I'm all for more events but try to remember who ends up running and finishing them. More events could be easy to accomplish if we can get more folks interested in driving a story rather than being steered. |
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| Jance | Nov 15 2015, 12:46 AM Post #3 | |
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Yea we could put a few limits on Freeforms. Simple story progression Freeforms could be unlimited but perhaps you could only do 1 'reward' Freeform a month or something. And perhaps for reward Freeforms you could only receive things already obtainable in the world such as items and pokemon and stuff. Other things such as special powers would either have to have special permission or be very limited or something. *motions at the My Personal Preference above* I touched on the counters there a little. My thoughts were this: None of your posts from the open, co-op threads count for counters, only your modded thread posts. Posts in your modded thread would count immediately, just like it would when you were lugging that berry pot around with you, but once that counter filled up, like you hit 5 posts and now your berry tree is ready to be harvested, you can't collect that berry and reset that counter until you either physically go to your homebase in your modded thread or you visit a PC somewhere. Which could be irritating as you'd have to be running to a PC every 5 posts, but it would help to limit the amount of berries you're raking in at a time as Homebases do allow you to produce twice or three times the amount of berries you could originally just carrying a couple berry pots with you. I'm confused on how starting point or revisited location would have an impact on counters? |
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| Maverick | Nov 15 2015, 07:42 AM Post #4 | |
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That reinforces the solo-modded thread as the primary means of progressing on the game and that feels like going backward too much. You might as well say you can lug pots and eggs around with you in your solo thread but nowhere else. At least then you do away running backward to make progress early in the game. As for starting points it was late and Iwent off on another trail. I started thinking about the boomarang travel path we didn't try out VS the never-ending thread and the uses of HMs and things not pertaining to post counters but collection of items in either the homebase/solo-canon or PC (noncanon). When should stuff like that happen and what's easiest to grasp if you're reading everything for the first time. Edited by Maverick, Nov 15 2015, 07:49 AM.
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| Jance | Nov 15 2015, 08:01 AM Post #5 | |
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Right, yea that would be my suggestions if we decided to go back to a main canon thread system, with co-ops being as a side option. In the case of keeping both types of threads as equal methods of progressing then I'd say for open, co-op threads we go with the you collect everything, including posts, when the thread is completed. But perhaps keep the requirement that you have to visit a PC or the Homebase in your modded thread to acquire items from other threads, thus treating your modded thread as semi-canon? Ah so you were thinking on how to progress through an area? Where does your co-op thread start and how do you move around in it? I was thinking of putting up another post focused on travel itself though we hadn't discussed that much yet. Edited by Jance, Nov 15 2015, 08:03 AM.
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| Maverick | Nov 15 2015, 08:09 AM Post #6 | |
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Another thread would be good for that. lol Actually, since you've mentioned using the PC and we're talking about collecting things - some of that might be tailored to the theme if we venture into Dystopian or Pre-Tech Age themes. Your PC would not necessarily be connected to an internet but be a personal means of storage making a homebase more important - unless you want to lug around a bag with hundreds of pokeballs... Again that's a Mechanic thing and not really post related. |
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| Jance | Nov 15 2015, 08:32 AM Post #7 | |
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Yea that might require another thread as well lol. The main focus of this thread is mostly just to get everyone to decide on what system we want to focus on going forward. Edited by Jance, Nov 15 2015, 08:33 AM.
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| Curtis | Nov 15 2015, 06:29 PM Post #8 | |
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Homebases & PC's Spoiler: click to toggle Mod-Threads Spoiler: click to toggle Freeforms Spoiler: click to toggle Co-op Threads Spoiler: click to toggle Down to Berries Spoiler: click to toggle
Edited by Curtis, Nov 15 2015, 06:30 PM.
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