[OOC] Where Angels Fear to Tread (Community Revived Edition)

[Steel fist]

Guys, I'm sorry! But not everyone have the entire day to sit in front of a computer! (for example I have in average 40-45 min. a day for RP).
And we do have big amount of people playing in this one!
I suggest that everybody except the GM will avoid posting too long posts, basically you're all very talented writers, but getting updated on the posts becomes very cumbersome.
I suggest that no post except the GM's will be longer then 10 - 15 rows (shorter is better), a good writer should be able to describe everything within those limitations.
About the GM, he has more to do in his posts, he is both controls a character, GMs the game and directs the flow of the game in order to avoid mishaps (like my 300 soldiers earlier), so his posts suppose to be longer then the others (but even with all that, Hamster manages to keep them relatively not too long).
Really guys, we have to keep it readable and playable!

[Wraithblade6]

Guilty Spark said
We did things so that stuff would happen and it led us to places where plans are unfolding for more things to take place which should have impacts on our characters' ability to do certain things as opposed to other things which could affect the way these things interact with things that have yet to be seen. Does that clear it up?

Right. I'll let Hamster add a bit to that, but I'll still start working on a CS.

[Nephriel]

Holy crap, that was a lot to read... XD You guys are awesome... Be to a computer soon!

@Shorus Not to pick a fight but I am pretty sure that only the actual GM, being Hamster and not you, can set a post length.... I am also pretty sure that he has yet to tell us our posts are too long and if he does that's cool, I am sure we would alter our posts accordingly. In the meantime everyone has their own writing style, someone posting more or less than someone else does not mean they aren't GREAT writers. Please be more careful how you phrase things and please... stop trying to gm when the gm is away. :/

@Hamster Sorry about the fuss... Do we need to tone down our posts for any new comers if you are still taking them? I am pretty sure that the reason most posts are currently so long is that we are all catching up to the change in our prior positions and our new locations and health.

[Guilty Spark]

Steel fist said
Guys, I'm sorry! But not everyone have the entire day to sit in front of a computer! (for example I have in average 40-45 min. a day for RP).
And we do have big amount of people playing in this one!
I suggest that everybody except the GM will avoid posting too long posts, basically you're all very talented writers, but getting updated on the posts becomes very cumbersome.
I suggest that no post except the GM's will be longer then 10 - 15 rows (shorter is better), a good writer should be able to describe everything within those limitations.
About the GM, he has more to do in his posts, he is both controls a character, GMs the game and directs the flow of the game in order to avoid mishaps (like my 300 soldiers earlier), so his posts suppose to be longer then the others (but even with all that, Hamster manages to keep them relatively not too long).
Really guys, we have to keep it readable and playable!

Hey, when was the last time I told you to make your posts longer? Oh wait, I didn't. So why don't you refrain from trying to stifle the creativity of others.

@thewizardguy, I think we have enough heavy hitters in this RP already.

[Lotta Pumpkins]

Rockette said
Your signature amuses me.

Thanks! :D

Naunix said
That signature just causes me to have flashbacks of all the deaths I've had via fiddle ult over the past 4 years of LoL-ing........stupid crows >_<

Fiddles too stronk

[Guilty Spark]

@Naunix, Latin is anachronistic to the setting.

[The Roman07]

I'll be on later tonight to post. Had one crazy couple days

[Steel fist]

Guys, I'm the one who prompted Hamster to take the GM role for this RP in the first place, have some respect for others, will you!
I also never said anyone is not a good writer, I actually said that you are good writers, don't confuse!

I also wrote that I suggest to shorten the posts, I didn't say I request it, I am not the GM.
Bottom line, if there won't be a length restriction for posts, people gonna drop out, starting with me (have a limited amount of hours in a day and have to complete others things besides the RP).

Spark, Nephriel please do not reply in a manner of : "Don't wanna play, then drop out and leave us alone!" , you're not the managers of this RP, after all.

[Guilty Spark]

The idea of setting a maximum post size makes me want to vomit, so if you do that people will drop out. Starting with me.

Steel fist said
Spark, Nephriel please do not reply in a manner of : "Don't wanna play, then drop out and leave us alone!" , you're not the managers of this RP, after all.

Quite frankly you're not the GM either, and I don't appreciate you making broad assumptions as to my behavior.

[The Roman07]

Damn what's with all the hate guys? Geeze love and peace bitchez!
@Shorus- I understand your concern for new players and others who don't have time but in all fairness this is an entertainment site meant for people who enjoy writing and want to further enhsnce their craft. Limiting ones post is like telling someone to play battlefield4 single player campaign but not the multiplayer. Sure it may be enough for some but others not so much. I get it was just a request, but I fear your request would get overruled due to people not enjoying the game nearly as much if they had such restrictions. Sorry ya big ox but that's just how the cookievwould crumble.. XD

@Everyone else- LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!! -er I mean Shorus :-P

[The Roman07]

I just finished reading the posts:

OMG SO GOOD IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL!

Seriously, all you guys are great writers and I literally got chills from Hamstrings post. You all have such distinct personalities for your characters and such rich structure its crazy. Its literally movie worthy honestly. I'll admit this is probally one of the best games I've been in. I want to personally thank you guys for helping me build Rin's character since I've always wanted to but never got a chance XD

I'll have to wait a couple hours before I can get a post up but believe me I don't plan on ducking out anytime soon :)

[camillethegnome]

Haha man, there's always so much drama here. Sorry I haven't posted in a while, I've been caught up with summer assignments and registering for school. I think I'm the baby of the group o.o. Anyway, I'll probably get a post up today.

I thought this was supposed to be a relatively community run RP, so having everybody shout out their suggestions should be a good thing, whether or not people agree with them. No one is trying to be the GM, but people have opinions and whatnot. Personally, I like reading both long and short posts.

[Steel fist]

Thank you cammile!
Now guys, stop trying to bash me, I'm a minotaur after all, that won't work.
As I said, the writers here are not beginners, you're good writers and no one tries to say different.
AGAIN: my point is that the RP is not a book (BTW, if any of you do writes a book, please tell me, I will gladly read it).
And by that I mean that it's a 2 way street, you need not only to write your character actions, but also to have other people read them and react accordingly.
And that means that the posts are need to be readable in a limited amount of time (unlike a book which you have an unlimited amount of time to read).
Too long posts basically mean that people won't have time to read them all and that will reduce the quality of their reaction and by that the quality of the RP.
Maybe my suggestion of 10-15 rows was to strict, but still the posts length need to have a limit.
Of course it's important to meet the creativity requests too, and the rules can't be too limiting, therefore I will send few suggestions in my next post, for your review.

[thewizardguy]

Guilty Spark said
.@thewizardguy, I think we have enough heavy hitters in this RP already.

You think so? I must admit, I've been unable to read all the CS's in detail (so many!), so I wasn't sure about it. I could change into something less combat-oriented, if you guys think that would work better.

[Steel fist]

My suggestions (not rules or demands, just suggestions) :

1. Try to describe your actions in a post of 40 - 50 rows (no one will kill you if you write more rows, but that will encumber the RP)

2. If the secondary significance things (not the character's main actions) are rather long, for example long descriptions of dreams or long descriptions of wandering in a maze etc.
put them in a hider (like we do with the character summary) and only summarize the consequences of them in the not hidden part.

3. The first rule applies only to things that are not covered by the second rule (together with the stuff inside the hiders, the post can exceed the 40-50 rows limitation),
the important thing is that the actions and main important things that have to do with the post are quickly readable and understandable. So people that have a limited time can still participate and enjoy the RP.

4. If your post doesn't exceed 30-40 rows, you don't have to use hiders.

[thewizardguy]

Personally, I have massive abundances of free time on my hands, and I'm able to easily read pretty much any posts. So for me, limited time isn't much of an issue. However, I think that it might be that we who have lots of time could place a little 'post summary' in the ooc or something of the like, to help you guys keep up.

I think creating a rules system like you're doing is a bit overboard, and I think people might ignore that just because they dislike someone trying to tell them what to do, as is a common reaction to such systems. I think it'd be best just to ask people to try and help out those with smaller quantities of free time at their disposal.

[Steel fist]

Summaries can work too, but people will probably just forget to write them.. :)
Thank you for understanding the idea of what I was trying to say!

[Nephriel]

Off to post I gooooooo!

[Nephriel]

>.> Darn interwebs dropped for a second and apparently I posted that twice.... My bad!

[Pathfinder]

thewizardguy said
You think so? I must admit, I've been unable to read all the CS's in detail (so many!), so I wasn't sure about it. I could change into something less combat-oriented, if you guys think that would work better.

I would say that if you really wanted to go with the heavy hitter route, then I wouldn't be abrasive to it. However as it stands we have 2 tanks, 1(?) mage, 3 sneakies, 3 warriors, and a nymph. If you were going to move out of the big guy rought we could use a healer of sorts because all our mage knows how to do is shoot death bolts, or maybe an explorer that doesn't really fight as much but can move in all terrains and knows a lot about said terrains. Just a suggestion but mull it over.