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Post by Kai on Mar 31, 2010 7:23:52 GMT -5
Your post is the first anything I've received on the topic. I have given up on trying to motivate, because it has been proven time and again that it does me no good. No self-motivation to look at the board/comment/ect. = no interest, in my mind. It's such a waste... and it puts a dark light on everything that I did put together for this and... hell, the previous games too. Since I was convinced by a friend to start playing World of Warcraft again, I have investigated the RP community on one of the RP servers that I was messing around on last time I was playing, and have put together a pair of characters to try to do something with. At least with an MMO, there's a combination of realm forum, message board (x 2 in this case), plus in-game spontaneous and planned RP. More outlets and, if nothing is going on, one can just go quest. ._.
That's not to say that it's actually occurred yet. I'm hesitant about real-time RP because I haven't done it in forever. But... eh. We'll see how it goes.
I don't really know what to do or say about this here, though. Since it seems to have played out that I have done a whole lot of what amounts to be nothing... I'm just sort of numb about it.
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Post by Steff on Mar 31, 2010 16:31:53 GMT -5
I feel bad that everything has put a dark light on everything you have put together for this and thus has left you feeling numb. Whereas no one can really do anything in order to encourage self-motivation of others to look at the board, comment, etc., I find it a shame that everything you put forth could not hold the game together even if we all saw everything that was being done to further advance the plot and setting.
I have never played WoW and have no idea what it entails even if I have heard about it and know that it is quite popular. I have never participated in a real-time RP, either. Either way, it looks like you have choice as to what you could go on to do; it is always good to have creative writing outlets. Even if I'm totally bummed that apparently nothing is going to play out here despite the awesome setting and fun ideas we all supposedly had for characters, I know I can find other outlets, too.
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Post by Kai on Apr 2, 2010 10:57:19 GMT -5
Outlets... but it's difficult trying to get things going. e_e I know, for one thing, I would definitely appreciate just 'being a player' again, as opposed to the mod thing. But I haven't so much as gone and looked for other RPs, ect., on boards. I know there's an advertisement section on the ProBoards main forum that I opened up a while back just to look at. (And let me say GD the Harry Potter RPs. OMFG there are 4083857328863 katrillion billion of them. >.<)
One thing that I find particularly odd about this current situation, though, is that I clicked the wrong link and opened the old board yesterday. ._.; As of then, there had been more guest activity on those boards than on this one. I'm almost tempted to go back, log into my mod account, and see if I've been sent any PMs since I last actually looked at it. Just to see. ... Then again, I don't wanna bother with it, either. It's just kinda weird.
In any case, WoW is... WoW. The benefits are as I listed before. (At least for the Sisters of Elune server.) The game world is, actually, about to change with the new Cataclysm expansion that is coming out later this year. On the other hand, it is the whole real-time RP thing, which takes getting used to again and also is helped out by having a link/page of the animated 'emotes' handy. Although the '/em' lets you just write out text versions, which I presume is most often used, since the pre-set ones are limited in scope. Another problem is learning to use the communication channels in game... and also the proximity of 'griefers' in the game itself. (i.e. the anti-RP folk.) Additionally, even being able to create a character requiers some research. The realm forum, the WoWWiki, and other online sources help with that, but it's a bit of reading that is required so you don't 'lore break' anything with a character. Fastest way to not get to participate is to make some character that doesn't fit in to the lore or, on the other hand, is far to close/related to/ect. characters that are especially important in the lore.
All that reading is something I'd said to Monet on the topic of 'setting/character type change' when she was talking about the D&D world of Faerun. I'm pretty sure neither you nor my sister knows anything about it, and my knowledge is limited, so it would take research. I'm not convinced that anyone would do that research, given that it's far and above the amount of information I provided for the setting of this board.
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