[OOC] Mass Effect: Spectre Strike Force

[Silly Cybin]

*Puts away cutlass and withdraws the plank* Aha, fair enough, I'm sure Vandy won't have ditched!

[Vandy]

Ok guys, I've been really busy lately but I'm going to make an effort to keep this going. I wanted a co GM in the first place but since there is only like four of us left i guess we could all work on it. So I'm thinking we could start a new thread and reboot this since we never really got anywhere in the first place. We'd have to put out another interest check and go on a recruiting run as well. Also we could set up a "GM council" in a pm convo for us all. We would vote on where the story goes from there. And with more than one GM it would be easier to keep everything going. Thoughts?

[Frettzo]

That's perfect in my opinion. GM Councils work the best, in truth.

[Dervish]

Hi, it's me again!

I notice you guys are having some troubles, which I encourage you to work through, but allow me to offer a couple suggestions for things that I notice tend to make ME RPs die off before they begin, and things that can help keep things going.

The first is that most ME RPs I see start everyone off as strangers on the ship; don't do that! Every time I see an RP start off that way, people lose interest or things get bogged down with characters interacting without knowing each other, and the minute somebody vanishes while another player is trying to interact with them, the game grinds to a halt. If you have players who vanished, do NOT wait for them indefinitely. You have to keep things moving, even if it kills off a conversation right in the middle of it. What's worked for Nova (we've kept this incarnation going since I think June last year?) is having the characters have known each other for an indeterminate amount of time BEFORE the RP starts. That way, instead of stumbling around trying to meet as many people as you can before a mission, there's already that familiarity with them. Do some OOC in-character activities to kind of flesh out how characters behave and act around each other before the game even starts, it should help everyone mesh right away and build a bond before you even start.

One thing that's worked EXTREMELY well for us is having all the players kind of have GM powers during missions and what not where they're free to create or alter encounters as they come. It keeps players invested, and believe it or not, back before Nova became Nova, it was a game called Mass Effect: Surge where the GM disappeared indefinitely, leaving the small handful of players behind. We decided to just push on, since we knew what the mission was, and we literally winged the details as a group. From there, everything really gelled with the players and we started alluding to character history as a team that never was roleplayed; somebody would mention something that happened (say, a bar fight) and another player/character would flesh out details from their perspective. It actually was a lot of fun doing that, and I think it made the group gel really well and it gave birth to some of my favorite character moments in any of the incarnations of the game.

Either way, anyone who's in this thread reading this; don't give up on your RP just yet. Work together to see if you can't give it the boot in the ass to continue as you need to!

I also want some stuff to read when my games slow down, so do it for your audience. ;D

[Frettzo]

:o Awesome! Thanks for the tips, Dervish! I can see how such things work, strange that I had never thought of those measures before, huh? Guess it's the simpler things that make something stand out and last.

[Silly Cybin]

I'm up for the reboot and I'll gladly help GM whenever needed. This all sounds good to me, thanks for the advice Dervish! I'm hoping we can get this team into some serious shenanigans at some point.

[jbeil]

Having our humble little thread visited by the famed Dervish, blimey!

Agree with everything above this post though!

[Dervish]

I'm famed, eh? Does this mean I get discounts if I endorse this thread? :P

Glad you guys found it useful! I hope to see this pick up and if you have to reboot, sometimes that's for the best!

[Vandy]

Yep advice is always welcome. So reboot yes or no? Official voting time!

[jbeil]

Reebot please. :)

[Silver Fox]

Vandy said
Yep advice is always welcome. So reboot yes or no? Official voting time!

If you think its best. I don't mind either way though we already made some good interactions. XD

[Vandy]

Alright, we should start up our GM PM too.

[Silver Fox]

Vandy said
Alright, we should start up our GM PM too.

We already did xD

[Vandy]

So we did, I didn't even see it lol.

[Silver Fox]

Vandy said
So we did, I didn't even see it lol.

Check Pms often. New ones aren as noticeable of your not counting xD

[Nib]

I am interested in this RP if it is still open?

[Frettzo]

I don't recommend spending much time on a CS idea, given that this is dead at the moment. Thank you for the interest, though :p

[Earthstorm]

Do I submit my RP here or do I pm you it? I have no idea :/