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Jul 28, 2011 13:23:02 GMT -5
Post by King Marcel de la Courcel on Jul 28, 2011 13:23:02 GMT -5
This is a thread for people to brainstorm any thoughts/ideas they have on a wide range of topics for the new board, from setting up to rp to ... well, anything. Obviously we won't be able to implement *every* idea, but we do want to hear them!
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Jul 28, 2011 15:00:28 GMT -5
Post by Queen Coretta de la Courcel on Jul 28, 2011 15:00:28 GMT -5
For an idea of what we're gonna have thus far, is a welcome page, explaining what the site will be, that it'll be mature 18+ only, etc. Another page for the FAQ, one for rules, one for getting started.. a few more likely, but this way our forums aren't clogged up by them (yay!).
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Lessandrie de Mereliot-Romanov
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Sovereign Duchesse of Eisande, Lady of Marsilikos *Voted Member of Best Storyline 2010*
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Jul 28, 2011 15:13:57 GMT -5
Post by Lessandrie de Mereliot-Romanov on Jul 28, 2011 15:13:57 GMT -5
Perhaps we can link to the family tree there as well? Or a who's who? And staff/player intros could be fun...
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Jul 28, 2011 15:19:34 GMT -5
Post by Queen Coretta de la Courcel on Jul 28, 2011 15:19:34 GMT -5
Oh def! I saved the link to the family tree (love you Heather!), and player intros are a definite plus too. Love it ^^
I *love* the idea of being able to change things about chars if we want, too, or drop chars we're not having fun with in coming over.
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Jul 28, 2011 15:25:02 GMT -5
Post by King Marcel de la Courcel on Jul 28, 2011 15:25:02 GMT -5
Yeah, I like idea of changing/dropping too, just b/c some things haven't worked and some things are just kind of stale and I would like the opportunity to freshen things up.
As for pages, I like idea of having a Night Court page, with maybe links to the bios of the adepts of the different houses or something? Sort of like RAW, but not a page per house, just one for the Night Court. And a Cassiline page, even though there are so few of them lol. But it's also a good place to give info about the Night Court, Cassilines, etc. that we can refer people to when they have questions about the order or something of that nature.
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Jul 28, 2011 15:35:04 GMT -5
Post by Queen Coretta de la Courcel on Jul 28, 2011 15:35:04 GMT -5
Oh how about instead of a Cassiline page, we can have one for Priest/Priestesses? That way if someone is looking for one in particular, like a priestess of Elua for marriage, they can go there and tada. I like having links to individual characters too Because it will be a LOT of updating for the people with access to the database, what I suggest there is people create Wikis of their characters, and we can put a pic up an a link to their wiki page to learn about them. It won't be a required thing, but just something fun if someone wants to jazz up their char/promote them?
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Jul 28, 2011 15:36:41 GMT -5
Post by King Marcel de la Courcel on Jul 28, 2011 15:36:41 GMT -5
Yeah, I personally don't see myself bothering with wikis for my characters, that's what the bio is for, and so in the case of someone like me, would we just link to the bio?
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Lessandrie de Mereliot-Romanov
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Jul 28, 2011 15:39:24 GMT -5
Post by Lessandrie de Mereliot-Romanov on Jul 28, 2011 15:39:24 GMT -5
Yeah, if I was going to make a wiki I'd just do that instead of all of the other information pages that are planned or something, to prevent repetition. But I do like the fact that we can change things. Has there been any decisions on what will be allowed in that area, as in changes to history, or status, or just age and physical descriptions?
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Jul 28, 2011 15:47:47 GMT -5
Post by Queen Coretta de la Courcel on Jul 28, 2011 15:47:47 GMT -5
I'm personally for allowing people to make changes anywhere. If it affects another directly, then talk to them about it, but if not, who cares? Like I have Noelle, who dated Denis de Trevalion and is bff's with Gauvain. Since Denis is no longer played by anyone, if I decided she wasn't going to have dated him before, then I should be allowed to drop the fact that they did date.. however it affects Alex who plays Gauvain, so I'd ask him if he'd mind. If he doesn't, great! But if he does, because it affects why Gauvain did something or reacted some way which led to another event, then I should respect that, and not change that part of Noelles history.
(No worries though Alex, I have no interest in changing Noelle. <3 I rather like where she is with Vain now xD)
Edit: Oops, forgot to add, we could link to profiles too! That would actually simplify things lol.
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Jul 28, 2011 15:49:23 GMT -5
Post by King Marcel de la Courcel on Jul 28, 2011 15:49:23 GMT -5
What Carol said lol
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Jul 28, 2011 15:55:11 GMT -5
Post by Lessandrie de Mereliot-Romanov on Jul 28, 2011 15:55:11 GMT -5
And I think in the other thread we covered whether we could have characters get married, give birth, die, etc. What if the character wasn't currently involved in the relationship/pregnancy in the current timeline? Say in those years a whirlwind romance of randomness swept through, etc? Is that up to the individuals involved as well?
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Jul 28, 2011 16:00:46 GMT -5
Post by King Marcel de la Courcel on Jul 28, 2011 16:00:46 GMT -5
I think it would just be up to anyone it affects, like let's take my character Camille, since she is not involved with anyone lol. So let's say I want to make her a few years older and give her a baby, I would just change her bio and there we go!
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Jul 28, 2011 16:03:15 GMT -5
Post by Queen Coretta de la Courcel on Jul 28, 2011 16:03:15 GMT -5
Right, but if she wanted Camille to have Balens baby, she'd have to talk to Trish about it to make sure it was ok xD
Just courtesies.
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Lessandrie de Mereliot-Romanov
Noble (Staff)
Sovereign Duchesse of Eisande, Lady of Marsilikos *Voted Member of Best Storyline 2010*
Wife of Fydor Romanov
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Jul 28, 2011 16:08:39 GMT -5
Post by Lessandrie de Mereliot-Romanov on Jul 28, 2011 16:08:39 GMT -5
It would probably be a pretty baby.. but she's too young yet and that's creepy!
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Jul 29, 2011 16:58:07 GMT -5
Post by Silvana de Lucca on Jul 29, 2011 16:58:07 GMT -5
Wow, so much discussion while I was away doing academia! I love this. <3 <3 <3 I like the idea of the warning first page – I was wondering if perhaps it wouldn't be a good idea to have the smut locked to members? I'm asking because I feel a bit weird about random strangers reading it. >.> But maybe I'm the only one who feels that way, er. I don't know what platform people have in mind, so it makes it a bit hard, but I think a wiki could accomplish a lot of what is discussed above. That single platform could host biographies, guild pages, house pages, whatever you want, and would have the wonderful benefit of being editable (so, for example, people could have a section on their character bios where they list important events in RP, sort of thing?) I could see the wiki being built as a community effort, with everyone copy-pasting their own content, which could lighten the work load for the mods and staff, and the wiki could well be sufficient as far as character pages go, which would also take a load off the website. And for a Wiki, I recomment WikiSpaces , which I'm pretty familiar with for using it elseplace, and would be happy to help with if there's anything else. Also: I like the flexibility for the transfer, and I like as well, very much so, the principle of mutual player agreement, I'm all for things like that. I think retcons are adressed with the character change discussion, which is awesome, so picking up on Trish's post in the other thread, would resuscitations be possible, when the death hasn't affected anyone in current play? It's almost a moot point. Almost. Regarding more prosaic things, one feature I'd like to know is going to be on the new platform, because I CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT IT, SERIOUSLY is email notifications. Must have, no, really, it's just so wonderful to get poked about threads by email. For me, anyway. ;D And will we have chat room abilities, or? Maybe an IRC room? It's certainly helpful to have such a commodity, I'd definitely keep that feature. And private messages are nice too. *nod nod* Also, I think the family tree is pretty out of date – is there a thread where addendums can be posted?
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Post by Queen Coretta de la Courcel on Aug 1, 2011 9:09:12 GMT -5
Not sure right now what all will be available, but it's phpbb, so I would assume that if PB has it, phpbb will have it as well. Can't make any promises til I'm actually able to get in there and check it out, but I would assuummeeee! Heather is the one who thought of and created the family tree back when, Miss Bev. I'm pretty sure it's editable though, if she has the time - I don't want to obligate anyone into doing something as I have no right to. But! If she's unable to (which is understandable with her heavy schedule!) then perhaps we could create a new one to update. Good thoughts!
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Aug 1, 2011 12:45:38 GMT -5
Post by Juliette L'Envers de Montegue on Aug 1, 2011 12:45:38 GMT -5
I have tried to keep the family tree as up-to-date as possible, but if I've missed something, please let me know. I have been quite busy, so the fact that my record isn't perfect is no surprise, lol. But please keep in mind that it only encompasses those characters who can somehow be linked to the House Courcel. (If we were doing a Wiki, I would happy do a page for the order of succession for the throne ) My request would be to establish the current year. It doesn't have to correspond to anything historical in RL history (perhaps instead of AD we could have AE - the year of Elua?). But I've always been interested in establishing a stronger history for our little fantasy world especially in terms of character creation, but it's hard to do that when there aren't any hard numbers to base character age/etc off of.
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Aug 1, 2011 14:50:05 GMT -5
Post by Yue nó Valerian on Aug 1, 2011 14:50:05 GMT -5
Some have already touched on this with the wiki, but a lot of the boards I post on have "relationship boards" where players can keep track of who's dating who, spouses, children, the works. In fact, on one of my recent boards, on member drew up quite an elaborate one during an OCD moment that included the following for each of her characters:
Personality traits (both positive and negative) Likes and Dislikes Lovers Friends Enemies Family Offspring Current updates (job changes, milestones, etc)
We could even add in things like rumours. In Zephyr's case, I would add "Contacts/Connections" because he needs those things for his job. Now, certain characters probably won't have much to fill in, but it might be useful if someone wants an at-a-glance look at a character that includes info that might not be in their bio.
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Aug 1, 2011 23:28:13 GMT -5
Post by Silvana de Lucca on Aug 1, 2011 23:28:13 GMT -5
Some have already touched on this with the wiki, but a lot of the boards I post on have "relationship boards" where players can keep track of who's dating who, spouses, children, the works. In fact, on one of my recent boards, on member drew up quite an elaborate one during an OCD moment that included the following for each of her characters: Personality traits (both positive and negative) Likes and Dislikes Lovers Friends Enemies Family Offspring Current updates (job changes, milestones, etc) We could even add in things like rumours. In Zephyr's case, I would add "Contacts/Connections" because he needs those things for his job. Now, certain characters probably won't have much to fill in, but it might be useful if someone wants an at-a-glance look at a character that includes info that might not be in their bio. I love this idea - and I've seen it done elsewhere, and it really helps with figuring out the networks etc. The other place where I've seen it had a canvas like this: Family: Lovers: Score card: Friends: Enemies: Allies: Affiliations: Punting it here in case it helps.
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Aug 4, 2011 22:28:12 GMT -5
Post by Sébastien de Loréan on Aug 4, 2011 22:28:12 GMT -5
A random thought, because I have a lot of those, but this one seems like it wants to stick: maybe it could be fun to have an AU subboard on the new site. It could be a subboard on which optional, non-canon storylines are played out, for the fun of it. The AU subboard could be used as an event, kept open only during "AU weekend" or "AU week" or what, and things going on there could be absolute crack, for those of us who feel the need to RP out absolutely cracktastic things, like, say, for example, a Modern Day AU, or a In Space AU, or or or. Or it could just be there all the time to toy with when someone needs a crack fix, too. I have no idea if this is interesting to anyone or not, but it could be a ~for the lulz~ sort of subboard where people write out things that are completely mad and wouldn't fly on the ordinary board, sort of thing. And these were my crazy 0.02$ (0.01 €? 0.01₤? 1.57¥?) of the night.
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Aug 27, 2011 21:26:26 GMT -5
Post by Zephyr de La Valette on Aug 27, 2011 21:26:26 GMT -5
I can't believe I didn't think of this earlier, but what about an in-character cbox? I like to do a "test run" with another player to see if our characters would work well together, and an IC cbox would be perfect for that sort of thing.
Or, well, if you just wanted to do something random with a character, give the muse some exercise or something...
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