[OOC] Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

[Lady Seraphina]

cut back on the meme arrows champ

@HereComesTheSnow

It's like an addiction. I CAN'T STOP!!!!!!

[Krayzikk]

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Well, it's because I'm incompetent, clearly. I thought I was getting at what you all wanted; things that might help set this right. A good example of this might be that I just don't understand what you mean by people not being on the same page. If teams aren't on the same page, I'm thinking, how can they interact with one another?

I'd say something like I'm not one for self-pity at this point, but I really, really am. I feel like the scum of the earth. The realization I probably am makes me feel sick. I've just shown that I can't make competent arguments or decisions or do anything to help people. If someone smarter than me could just take over this mess I've made right now, please please do. I'd love to just sink back into the hedges and not have to think about this anymore. I have to get off the computer and go to sleep. I'm sorry for ruining everything.

@Lugubrious

Lugu, it wasn’t my intent to call you incompetent, or to make you feel incompetent. I didn’t explain my point as clearly as I would like (chalk that up to my headache and late night), so I’ll elaborate now so you can see it when you’ve had a chance to get some rest.

I, with a team of two others, successfully run a game with a playerbase that is, on paper, in the three digits. In practice it’s more like the high tens, but the point is that it is a number much, much higher than what this game has. I wouldn’t advise you to do everything we do, because they’re two different games. But a few of the principles and practices we use would do wonders here, I think. They’re things I and some of my compatriots from that other site have discussed pretty often with regards to games on Guild.

Take a step back, and let things go organic. When you have a game of a certain size, running things on a stringent schedule becomes so time and energy consuming that it becomes practically impossible. Keeping things to a strict schedule clearly doesn’t work, and clearly makes people unhappy. At the same time, cutting characters down to meet that level is going to make just as many people unhappy. People don’t want to give up their senior characters (in fact, some people only have senior characters), and I know of people on the waiting list that would still like to take part. But if you can’t manage the number, and you can’t reduce it, you’ve got to change your management style.

So take a step back. Go a little more hands off. Maintain a loose schedule of what day it is, but don’t worry about where people are during it. Let individual characters, and individual teams, roam about as they want to. Let people move at their own pace. Interact with different people and different teams, be in class if they want, don’t be in class if that isn’t their thing.

Rather than have missions and combat classes be things that happen when people want to “cut to the action”, have them be scheduled. For example, once a month combat trials will happen. People can wrap up their sparring session at their own pace, and then get back to other things when they’re done. Same for missions. When it’s mission time, people do their missions at their pace and rejoin the flow as soon as they’re done. That way people know when they’re coming, and don’t feel pressured to have things done by a certain time.

In short, a lot of what Harine said. Instead of trying to enforce order, let people find their own order. Keep a wide-view scale of when things are, but let everyone march to the beat of their own drum.

In short, relax, take a step back, and let people do their thing.

[harinezumikouken]

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It's like an addiction. I CAN'T STOP!!!!!!

@Prince of Seraphs

YES. BE BITTEN BY THE IMAGE SPAM/SHIT-POSTING BUG! FILL THE OOC WITH POINTLESS BUT FUNNY AND COOL VISUALS!

Rumor has it that was a nordic saying of some sort. That taking an 'arrow to the knee' is a euphemism for becoming wed.

ARE YOU IMPLYING SAPPHIRExOSWALD IS CANON AND THEY ARE BETROTHED?!

[MULTI_MEDIA_MAN]

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YES. BE BITTEN BY THE IMAGE SPAM/SHIT-POSTING BUG! FILL THE OOC WITH POINTLESS BUT FUNNY AND COOL VISUALS!

Rumor has it that was a nordic saying of some sort. That taking an 'arrow to the knee' is a euphemism for becoming wed.

ARE YOU IMPLYING SAPPHIRExOSWALD IS CANON AND THEY ARE BETROTHED?!

@harinezumikouken

I don't think I'm ready for that kind of commitment just yet. Sapphire has to prove herself to be a good Huntress first :P

[HereComesTheSnow]

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It's like an addiction. I CAN'T STOP!!!!!!

@Prince of Seraphs

and you can just go right now buster brown

[harinezumikouken]

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I don't think I'm ready for that kind of commitment just yet. Sapphire has to prove herself to be a good Huntress first :P

@MULTI_MEDIA_MAN

I think you just implied that she hasn't proven herself to be a 'good' Huntress.

Daresay, I think you just called her...

Naughty.

[MULTI_MEDIA_MAN]

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I think you just implied that she hasn't proven herself to be a 'good' Huntress.

Daresay, I think you just called her...

Naughty.

@harinezumikouken

We ain't talkin' about that naughty professor of yours, boy, calm down.

[Abillioncats]

[harinezumikouken]

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We ain't talkin' about that naughty professor of yours, boy, calm down.

@MULTI_MEDIA_MAN

Who the hell are you calling 'boy' fuccboi?

[Lucius Cypher]

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It's like an addiction. I CAN'T STOP!!!!!!

@Prince of Seraphs

Right back at cha.

[HereComesTheSnow]

1

nothin wrong with me

[MULTI_MEDIA_MAN]

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Who the hell are you calling 'boy' fuccboi?

@harinezumikouken

Sit down, you're embarrassing yourself.

[harinezumikouken]

1

nothin wrong with me

@HereComesTheSnow

2 - Nothing wrong with me

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Sit down, you're embarrassing yourself.

@MULTI_MEDIA_MAN

Ah. Another one of my anime waifus.

[Guess Who]

Me after coming home from work to find the OOC suddenly gain several pages in length:



(Not sure if I should add my opinion, though I think Harine's post on the last page described it quite beautifully, or if that will only fan the flames of the argument that seems to have ended. So for now I will just smile and nod and wait to see what happens next.)

[Ryonara]

Big ol Wall of text

I lied.

Just stopped by and skimmed the posts, and I just wanted to say that I usually rely on Cypher to keep me updated on the RP cause honestly speaking, RPing isn't a priority in my life. I have a family and business to run and often times that's on my mind 24/7. I rather like the fairly lax pace we're going because I feel less pressured into trying to juggle RPing into my hectic life. I'd rather not have my free time also feel like some sort of job.

[harinezumikouken]

Me after coming home from work to find the OOC suddenly gain several pages in length:



(Not sure if I should add my opinion, though I think Harine's post on the last page described it quite beautifully, or if that will only fan the flames of the argument that seems to have ended. So for now I will just smile and nod and wait to see what happens next.)

@Guess Who

I love that gif. Still need to finish that movie. Only watched half of it so far.

@Lucius Cypher - Posted for Shiro.

Annnnd....MOAR ARMSTRONG!

[Guess Who]

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I love that gif. Still need to finish that movie. Only watched half of it so far.

@Lucius Cypher - Posted for Shiro.

Annnnd....MOAR ARMSTRONG!

@harinezumikouken

With the exception of one particular scene that involved Bruce Willis in a pawn shop or something (If you've seen it you know what I'm referring to), I thought it was good. Still preferred Reservoir Dogs if we're talking favorite Tarantino films. I'm disappointed that I won't be able to see Hateful Eight thanks to him sharing some, admittedly wrong, political beliefs and a boycott that stemmed from that announcement.

[harinezumikouken]

@Ryonara - What's that?...We need to go...Lewder?

[Lady Seraphina]

I don't think I'm ready for that kind of commitment just yet. Sapphire has to prove herself to be a good Huntress first :P

@MULTI_MEDIA_MAN

What are you implying...?

Also Sapphire at age ten.

[MULTI_MEDIA_MAN]

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What are you implying...?
-SPOOKY AS FUCK PICTURE-
Also Sapphire at age ten.

@Prince of Seraphs

I FUCKIN' HOPE NOT, THAT LOOKS LIKE ALMA OR SAMARA.

FUCK THIS SHIT, I'M OUT!