[quote=Pepperm1nts]
Forgive me if this comes off rudely - I've been wanting to say this after witnessing a lot of the roleplays some of you have participated in sit around for ridiculous amounts of time before starting up, only to fail shortly after that. I am not going to claim I know exactly why that is, but I have a theory.Your sheets/apps are too detailed.You sit around for literally weeks sometimes, talking about what your faction has or doesn't have, does or doesn't do, will do or won't do, and then spill literally every detail about said faction into a ridiculously long sheet. All your ideas wasted on a sheet. By the time the RP starts, you have nothing interesting to reveal about your faction. There is no room for story/faction development because you have already told us everything there is to know about your faction. For some of you, it's like the RP is played in OOC in the weeks leading to the actual start of the RP. You drain all your energy and creativity writing an unreasonably long sheet, and debating/arguing amongst yourselves in OOC when you should be saving all of that for IC, so you actually have things to reveal and play through.I'll go a step further and straight-up say that a lot of the information some of you provide is pointless anyway. Nobody cares what your tanks are like. Or at least no-one should. It's irrelevant unless you are planning to play the RP like a video-game, which you shouldn't be trying to do because all that breeds is conflict. When you try to one-up people, or claim you have this and that, and are able to destroy this and that, in this many shots, all you're going to do is start arguments about why this and that is OP. And then what you get is a massive dick-waving contest that stalls the RP, and often times even kills it. You shouldn't be playing like it's a video-game. You should be playing like you are trying to write a good story that people are going to want to read. This means being willing to lose, to be outgunned, outsmarted. It means not going into stupid shit nobody cares about, like what your tank is able to withstand, or what its cannons are like. Or, at least don't do it in the sheet. If for whatever reason you have to specify the caliber of the gun, or the thickness of the armor, or the name of the tank, while you are actually writing a post about it, then by all means do it. But otherwise, nobody cares what the Bumbuster Panzer tank is like. When you spend unreasonable amounts of time and energy going into the details of a tank, or every single type of unit in your military, you are not only wasting energy and creativity that could be put towards a good post, but you are also telling us "Hey, look, I am playing this like a game! I don't care about story, all I care about is how cool and powerful my guys are! Look! Look at me wave my dick around!"Half the time, you don't even have to name tanks and guns, anyway. This:"The machine-gun nests roared to life as the tanks began to rumble forth." Is preferable to this undecipherable mess of meaningless characters:"The T47 Bumblasters opened up with their AT78 guns just as the Spitfeur-800s began to fly over the battlefield."The second example leaves the reader wondering what the fuck T47, AT78, and Spitfeur-800s are, whereas the first example is clear in its message. Machine-guns are firing, and tanks are rolling forth. Cool. So if you are going to name your tanks, or whatever, there is no reason to do it in the sheet. You're just making your sheets unbearably long for no reason. Do it passively in posts if you have to.Your sheets should be to the point. Don't tell us too much to where there is nothing left to add later. Tell us just enough, and then reveal more in IC. That way you have shit to write about when the RP actually starts. If you tell us every goddamn detail about your people's culture in a sheet, there will be no room for you to tell us more about it in IC. And then you all sit around wondering why no one is posting and the RP is dead. The answer being that everyone already wasted their creativity and energy writing their sheets and fighting over who has bigger guns.A bit of a rant, but I had to say something. And when I say 'you guys' and such, I don't mean all of you. I am talking in general.EDIT: If you absolutely MUST archive every detail about your faction, do it in a separate post from your main sheet. And add to that post as you go. Not all at once. Add to it after IC posts. So if an IC post talks about culture, add what was talked about in the post into the 'Archive' post later. That way, people who care to read about it, will do it. People who don't can just read the main sheet.
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Yes this does come off rudely. 

If you think I burn out all my ideas on a sheet then I'd only ever roleplay once. 

Yes I enjoy fleshing out my nation. You don't have to read all of it. I personally love reading them. 

Now if you'd actually taken the time to read the IC posts from "us people" you'd notice cleverly worked ideas, detailed character development and well written dialogue. 

I'm a writer by trade, part time and spend all day coming up with new ideas and being accused of being stale does come as quite an insult. 

The real reason these tend to fail is the sheer size and ambition of them mixed with the effort of having to organise a large number of people. 

In six years of RPing I've Gmd and participated in dozens of RPs that have been seen to completion. 

Now from your perspective I can see what you're saying and how it may seem. You're exaggerating it and laying blame.