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Post by - [s][w][a][y] - on Apr 21, 2010 20:52:19 GMT -5
I think encouraging everyone to post more often would be good xP BUt yeah, Loners really do need to post. I know I have Sway and Felisity who have yet to make a decision about Lucid... Sway will probably avoid him and Felisity is too naive to know any better...
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Post by nogardifer on Apr 22, 2010 12:47:57 GMT -5
Wait, so if Lucid's a vampire. Doesn't that mean his weaknesses are things like, the sun, getting stabbed through the heart, and garlic?
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Post by - [s][w][a][y] - on Apr 22, 2010 21:18:00 GMT -5
Nope. He's my own kind of Vampire. However, no one but the wolves in Nigori that were present when Lydia was told to speak know of that unless you've talked to Kerrigan, Zephora or Lydia otherwise... or any of the wolves that were present... though the wolves that were present don't know everything about it, just the basics, while the three previously mentioned wolves know everything that Lydia has to her knowledge about what and who she is.
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Post by nogardifer on Apr 23, 2010 2:32:31 GMT -5
One last thought about getting people to be more active. I noticed an immediate drop in activity, and i mean within hours, after the posting rules were changed, so where now you only get cash from RP posts. Its like, ok I get it, pretty good idea, make it so where you HAVE to roleplay to get cash, problem is, no one talks in the OOC boards anymore, the only ones who do, are a couple staff members, and a couple other individuals. Where I know I personally am discouraged, and I know where others are too is that, now, since we don't have cash, getting more is a PAIN. While Sway, Punk, and other members who've been here for a long time, have TONS of cash because they got a lot of it from OOC posting. That, combined with prices of powers zooming up, (twice for 3rd power, three times for fourth) means its a total pain in the ass to get even the most pathetic powers for your characters, while Sway, only had to pay....what, $1600 for all Lucid's powers, telekinesis, $1000, healing $500, and theres no way you bought fire as your third power.
And yes I know, it sounds like I'm bitching about this because I'm unhappy because I can't make over powered characters, get off your high horse and deal with it. I know what makes sites tic, I know what I'm talking about.
My point being, now he's so over powered, its just, well, boring. I mean come on, that combined with the collar which doesn't let his powers be negated, and as a vampire he doesn't have any weaknesses, how are we supposed to kill him, even 100 to one?
Also, I know you've said we're welcome to do stuff to advance the plot with Lucid, Sway, but you might want to recast the auditions for Mira and Haven, mainly because, I haven't seen hide nor tail of Darklight or Skylar, yes I know Skylar's posted in the activity checks, but other than that there hasn't been so much as a C-box peep out of him.
Once again, I know it sounds like I'm bitching, I'm just shedding a little starlight on that which seemed to be in shadow before. Even if you, Sway, and Punk noticed, not everyone else did.
Thats about the last of my thoughts on this matter.
Comments? Questions? Rebuttal?
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Post by - [s][w][a][y] - on Apr 23, 2010 6:48:21 GMT -5
Well, first off, I'd like to say that probably 80% if not more of my posting is RP posting, so I kind of take that as an insult that you would think it was mostly from OOC posts.
Secondly, the powers thing isn't going to change. It gives members something to strive for and it does keep overpowered characters out. Lucid is overpowered for reasons that I have stated in the past, but that I"m hoping that members come to on their own time in conclusions. I know how I plan on the scenario playing out and Lucid IS possible to kill, you will just have to figure out how to do so through roleplaying and whatnot.
He has weaknesses, you just have to find them. I"m not going to give everything away for the plot.. I want you guys to actually think about it and have some sort of challenge with it in order to figure things out.
And I've thought about recasting, but with the activity, I'm thinking that it would be pointless at the moment. Perhaps if I got a little bit of motivation from the members showing that they wanted to keep things going and that they were interested in perhaps taking some initiative and showing they wanted to attempt to re-audition for the parts of Haven and Mira, then perhaps I'll reopen auditions.
Now, there are other ways to make Aelyn cash, from contests and there are other things in the works as well, so its not just RP posts that will get it for you. The reason I limited it to ONLY RP posts was because there were a lot of posts going in the OOC area that really were only to raise post counts, which is not what I want this forum to be about.... it is a ROLE PLAY forum, thus the main focus should be ROLE PLAYING!
And members don't HAVE to post in the chatterbox. Its there for mainly OOC posting so the boards aren't cluttered with them.. or just casual chatting.
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Post by [.Trix.] on Apr 23, 2010 9:46:32 GMT -5
I too, was thinking of putting my wolf Estrello in the post with Lucid and Vanya once he is accepted. Also, I believe it would defiantly be a good idea to open the auditions again. But when they end. First evaluate their submissions, and then check wether they're active or not. If they are not active, then don't give them the wolf.
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Post by kerrigan on Apr 23, 2010 11:29:40 GMT -5
I'm don't know. It's not that big of a deal. School is big right now. Exams are coming up in only a few weeks and people need to study. At least I'm dealing with that sort of thing. I post when I can, but sometimes I have nowhere to post. I have a post for Trinity and that's it. I'm waiting on Sorey, and Tio, and Spade, and whoever else I have backed up. I don't know, the activity has been slowly declining over the last month or two.
I can see if I can get the news of Lucid-is-a-vamp-holy-shit to Fukai since Chi seems to have ltitle time to post. Go there first. But I don't know. Would Cinder reply? Would TIo? I don't know. I don't want to waste my time posting if no one replies. And I was going to have Minou talk to Lucid since Vanya hasn't answered. Do you want me to since she's Betess? I was going to wait until after Vanya stepped in and just have Minou fly up, but I can be the first one to post. [/blockquote]
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Post by - [s][w][a][y] - on Apr 23, 2010 17:25:56 GMT -5
Whatever you'd like. He's calling for Vanya, and its Lucid, so if that's what you want to do, go for it. It'll be interesting to see how he reacts I guess to the Betess approaching him, rather than the Alphess.
And I totally understand the exams and whatnot... Aelyn tends to lose a little bit of activity around this time of year as well, though I always forget how bad the activity was lost. Perhaps its just me seeing so much activity in Aelyn this year than ever before and it freaked me out a bit, but either way, its still cause for a bit of worry.
And anything related to the plot is entirely up to the members. I'm going to interfere as little as possible with decisions from here on out.
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Post by ĢoτђikaFøx on Apr 23, 2010 17:51:12 GMT -5
Hi ^^ seeing as exams came up I thought I'd make a note here as well as on the absence board closer to the time. My 1st exam is on the 11th May, following that there's one on the 24th and my last one is on the 16th (I think) of June. I'll get on when I can, I'm often on even when I should be revising XD so I'll be sure to log on for activity checks ans posts when I'm needed and have sufficient muse ^^
While I agree that the removal of money from OOC boards is a great way to encourage RPing sometimes if there's nothing for people to reply to and no contests up or giving rewards at the time getting money can be hard through no lack of activity. I mentioned to Sway an idea for an out of plot RP area so any wolf from any pack can RP with the others, if that ever was made it could also give money for posts cause that could be nice for fun and money making while still RPing. Just a thought, no offence meant or anything though I'm sure Drake meant none either.
I think that's everything so I'll see you all soon Happy RPing and don't worry, Aelyn is awesome, we won't let it die out! Fox xx ^^[/b]
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Post by - [s][w][a][y] - on Apr 24, 2010 18:39:09 GMT -5
The miniature RP area was a no go at this time.
And there are currently, what, 2 or 3 contests going on right now that members can participate in? Not to mention, I've got a few in mind myself that I'm going to run by Tio and Cinder.. ones that will be weekly contests hopefully. I'll even help out with those. I have lots of ideas for Aelyn to get her up and revamped a bit, its just a matter of setting aside the 10+ hours that it will probably take to do so... lol.
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Post by Celestic on Apr 25, 2010 0:33:35 GMT -5
^Not to mention the member motivation to assist and help these ideas come to fruition. I think the main thing we need to remember is to stay calm throughout this. We know that the prospect of Aelyn dying makes us all a little tense, and that school/work/life is a bit insane with a lot of people right now. We need to keep in the back of our minds that Aelyn isn't a responsibility, it is a place we enjoy coming to not only to role-play but to interact with other people (friends and whatnot).
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Post by xwhispersx on Apr 29, 2010 21:21:27 GMT -5
*meek little inactive member voice* ok a little out of the swing but i feel the need to blab...
Firstly, the idea of aelyn dying is horrible, no one wants this and if inactivity is the problem then people should be stiving to solve that problem however... And i am not taking sides or being cruel but the lucid plot does at times seem a little one sided. I'm sure the members are feeling this way too. For the most part we are un-aware of the possibilities so it could help to sort of *spice* things up a bit for awhile.
=S
What i mean is there are several people participating right now no? even more since this thread have come on board but we should encourage extras on the side too, avoid direct confrontation with lucid and the plot. EG a thread made as simple as "taking a walk" but the random person could then create a sort of sub-plot in character.
im not explaining myself well... In character: takes a walk, feels something not right, asks around packlands, eventually leads to the main plot in a subtle way and viola suddenly this little walk has become a war???!!!
From this, perhaps this thread could be mentioned in some small way elsewhere in the forum like...
could more wolves be discovering dangers? etc
It would make members feel even more involved, the thread they started had no intentions of becoming part of the plot yet it did! Wow! look at that! Also maybe key wolves from the plot could join random RPs i mean lucid himself walking in to some random thread like "catching butterflys" how do you think members would react to that?! but yea. does anyone understand? lol
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Post by nogardifer on Apr 29, 2010 21:29:59 GMT -5
xD Nice. I must say Whisper, you pretty much hit the nail on the head for that one.
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Post by xwhispersx on Apr 29, 2010 21:32:33 GMT -5
=D yea im pretty pimp like that.
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Post by Legion on Apr 29, 2010 21:57:25 GMT -5
Dude i totally agree with this, it sounds bad ash in my opinion.
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Post by - [s][w][a][y] - on Apr 30, 2010 2:14:04 GMT -5
I've considered this possibility... I've just been only able to do so much at the moment because I'm currently down with a cold that is draining all the life from me.
I guess I was hoping that some members would take some initiative on things themselves... but I guess it doesn't help with Mira and Haven currently not active... >.< I'll see what I can do.
I also believe that I have done such things in the past, and they often just get forgotten or lead nowhere...
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Post by Celestic on Apr 30, 2010 2:23:48 GMT -5
I think school gets out for high schoolers (which is like 90% of Aelyn) I think it'll get a lot more active. As long as we keep discussing and trying to think of ideas we'll be fine. The death of ideas = the death of a site.
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Post by nogardifer on Apr 30, 2010 2:29:56 GMT -5
I'd have to disagree with you on that Celestic. Two things, first off, I'm guessing activity will about average to the same, some people get out, spend all their time on Aelyn, which is what i plan on doing for the first month of summer, than I go to the states, and camp, which means I definitely wont post for, if im lucky, 5 weeks, and probably wont be on more than 2 or 3 times over the whole course of my trip. I'm sure I'm not the only one who goes to camp or on vacation or whatever during the summer. Also, just because there's ideas doesn't mean there's action. I could sit and think about stuff all the time and never get around to doing it. We need to at least make some minor advances towards plot stuff, otherwise, as much as I hate thinking about it, the site will die.
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Post by Cinder on Apr 30, 2010 11:41:14 GMT -5
Well Sway, you keep saying everyone is more than welcome to participate in the plot now. But do you know how hard this plot is to participate in?
D:< I mean, Carabella is basically dead to me, because she has not mate now that Mira is gone, and no muse for her, no job, no nothing. No one posts wanting her, or anything like that.
Cindershock is incapacitated. I would LOVE to have her go to Nigori, and Toko to talk to the alphas, I even started to write a post about it, but then remembered she had pups that were just born, and its not like they can come with her!
Kori...Well...I've got nothing for him. I tried.
Acclya, is in Toko...but STILL not accepted even though my first thread was posted for Ty on November 1st of 2009. And not accepted then, because Ty left. Then I posted a new one, since Chi hadn't replied to it, probably because she thought it was done when she saw it was so dang old. So I posted a new one on Febuary 15....It was to Eli, since he needs to be accepted as well, I thought it would be easier for Chi to accept two wolves in one post. Shall we say kill two birds with one stone. Which I need to reply too....
Bhrin...Is a pup.
So what can I do...Nothing? I can't think of anything. So Yeah. I fail.
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Post by kerrigan on Apr 30, 2010 13:44:58 GMT -5
I can send Kerrigan over to Toko if you wish? He needs something to do and so do I. The news needs to be spread.
And can I just mention something, since it's been kind of bugging me. And also because Whis was talking about things that could be mentioned in threads dealing with plots. Why exactly is Needles labeled as the first fight scene? Because, it certainly is not. I know for a fact that Kerrigan fought with Whiplash a year or two ago, and while it was not completed, it was still a fight. As well as that, the fight in Nigori with Lucid and Mira was definently a battle of sorts that could have been expanded on elsewhere. There's no real reference to anything that happened, except for the fact I have to figure out how the news is getting to other packlands.
Which I have a hard time doing because I have school all the damn time. I'd have it done if I could, but with the SATs tomorrow for me I have to work hard on that, so posting usually a no.
And I for one would be more active if I had more places to post that people replied to. I'm not making a long post to get no response or some crappy one that's not even worth answering again. But I'll see what I can do tonight, posting things in Fukai for Cinder, and just telling Chi to use some backup thing in her posts so her wolf knows, but I don't have to tell her. I was thinking of having an alpha meeting, but Chi is so busy there's really no point.
Random topics all in one.
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