[OOC] Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay (Rebooted)

[Lugubrious]

Why don't we call a time of death and move on with our lives?

[Cyclone]

Being honest, I do have a collab ready, but I've been lazy in coding it to be ready for postage xD

@Frettzo

I've been meaning to have Ferghus discover/invent something for the world. Not sure exactly how it would affect the world, tho I imagine quite a bit.

@Scarifar

Now would be a great time to do either of those things. A collab that I was working on has been delayed, but it's in postable condition now. I shall perform CPR to breathe the spark of life back into this RP, but we need to get a bit more momentum going if it's going to stay alive.

[Kho]

Guys, sorry for my long absence, but the academic year has been off to an intense start and I'm literally drowning under the weight of readings and various responsibilities. Sorry to everyone waiting on me with regards to collabs. Obviously, we've all invested lots of time and effort into this (and I don't think anyone can doubt that I have also invested a huge amount in this too) and I don't want to see it come to an end quite yet.

With that in mind, I think we have three options:

1) Continue like this

2) I'll withdraw as GM and let whoever has time take up the responsibility

3) We'll put this on hiatus till next Summer (around 5th-15th June 2016)

Would appreciate any thoughts on the matter.

[Lugubrious]

Certainly none of us want it all to go to waste, but since none of us want to put any more effort into it, are prohibited from doing so because of a lack of time, or both, it seems to me like the best option would actually be...

4) Give up

Failing that, maybe #3 has a chance.

[Scarifar]

I'm all up for #3 as well, but classes and stuff do take a toll.

If that fails, well, we may have to do #4. I do hope it doesn't come to that, though.

[ActRaiserTheReturned]

Summer. And then let this be 500 Days of Summer.

[Kho]

I, being a pessoptimist, hope that we will be able to continue this come summer. I will be putting this hiatus officially, but if anyone wants to tie up any strings, feel free to post. I'll see you all next summer if you're all up for it.

[Cyclone]

You know, rather than pick this up again on summer and let it suffer another slow death with whoever turns up again, I think we should just make a Divinus 2 or something come summer. Perhaps a fresh start, or perhaps with some of the stuff from this as a backstory; that detail could be decided later. In either case a shiny new RP.

That way we could get more people and revitalize Divinus.

[Scarifar]

That is a pretty good idea.

[Vec]

I am up for both Kho's and Cyclone's ideas. With D2, we could finally finish that time-skip. I for one, although I am at fault here for not posting, am not happy with my char's progress. If everyone has the will to continue this come summer, be sure that I'll be tagging along too.

[Rtron]

You know, rather than pick this up again on summer and let it suffer another slow death with whoever turns up again, I think we should just make a Divinus 2 or something come summer. Perhaps a fresh start, or perhaps with some of the stuff from this as a backstory; that detail could be decided later. In either case a shiny new RP.

That way we could get more people and revitalize Divinus.

@Cyclone

I support this.

[Kho]

I am open to what the players want. Obviously, we've all worked hard on what we have already so we'll have to work out how to go about with a new RP - what aspects of this one to keep, whether to have new gods or not. There is much that can be done.

We'll have a roll-call next summer to see who is still up for it. But I don't see why we can't keep the OOC alive. While I have no time to write up long posts and think out complicated story-lines at the moment, I definitely have time to post here, that's no issue.

[Patar]

Awwwwww... shit. I stumbled across this in Spring, but school got in the way before I could post. I remembered it today, and it's on hiatus ):. I'd definitely want to be in this next year.

...While I have no time to write up long posts...

Maybe you could lower the IC from "High Casual" to "Mid Casual". Then you won't have to write hella long replies. That's just an outsider's perspective.

[Cyclone]

Awwwwww... shit. I stumbled across this in Spring, but school got in the way before I could post. I remembered it today, and it's on hiatus ):. I'd definitely want to be in this next year.

<Snipped quote> Maybe you could lower the IC from "High Casual" to "Mid Casual". Then you won't have to write hella long replies. That's just an outsider's perspective.

@Patar

Yeah, in my eyes this was really an Advanced RP. That being said, I can see why it was put in this section to draw more people.

@Kho

As far as working out how the new RP should go, Divinus was pretty solid and we wouldn't need to change a ton. That being said, it would be good to identify the mistakes and things that held this back so that we could try something else next time. Here's a few things that I'd argue should be done differently:

1. Make the history of Galbar/whatever new world/the universe be thousands of years old, if not millions or more. Having the various races just appear on a gigantic world and slowly spread out irked me because it left a gigantic world sparsely populated with just a few tens of thousands of people. It also prevented much meaningful history from being created.

2. Allow more gods to join ar first/allow new players to join as gods later into the RP/make demigods more powerful/make demigods achieve god status much quicker. The issue here is just as the number of original people dwindled, it was hard to replace them. This led to us having less people and to the story being worse off as well since a lot of us couldn't really impact it all that much.

[Kho]

Awwwwww... shit. I stumbled across this in Spring, but school got in the way before I could post. I remembered it today, and it's on hiatus ):. I'd definitely want to be in this next year.

<Snipped quote> Maybe you could lower the IC from "High Casual" to "Mid Casual". Then you won't have to write hella long replies. That's just an outsider's perspective.

@Patar

Even if I did lower it, I would continue to post at my own level. The RP had posts ranging from Mid-casual to High Advanced (those collars...O.O)
I just generally don't have time to RP during the academic year. I thought I'd be able to handle just Divinus, but I thought wrong and don't want to bring the standard or story-line quality down. So next summer is our best bet. I'll be sure to call on you when them time comes, worry not ;)

<Snipped quote by Patar>

Yeah, in my eyes this was really an Advanced RP. That being said, I can see why it was put in this section to draw more people.

@Kho

As far as working out how the new RP should go, Divinus was pretty solid and we wouldn't need to change a ton. That being said, it would be good to identify the mistakes and things that held this back so that we could try something else next time. Here's a few things that I'd argue should be done differently:

1. Make the history of Galbar/whatever new world/the universe be thousands of years old, if not millions or more. Having the various races just appear on a gigantic world and slowly spread out irked me because it left a gigantic world sparsely populated with just a few tens of thousands of people. It also prevented much meaningful history from being created.

2. Allow more gods to join ar first/allow new players to join as gods later into the RP/make demigods more powerful/make demigods achieve god status much quicker. The issue here is just as the number of original people dwindled, it was hard to replace them. This led to us having less people and to the story being worse off as well since a lot of us couldn't really impact it all that much.

@Cyclone

I agree with you entirely with regards to number 1. As for number 2, I will have to see. I was actually planning for all demigods to become full-fledged gods by the end of the time-skip/as a result of Lugu's storyline, but we didn't quite get there. The inner laws of the current game-world also allow for new gods to appear, it's just a matter of Fate and Invictus allowing them in, which was the only thing preventing new gods entering the world and various dimensions within. Perhaps we'll have a more lenient immigration policy on all those gods seeking to cross the border into the game-world xD

I think some of the mechanics also needed adjustment but I never really got round to it. Will do that all in due time :)
For a (technically) Version.2.0 of the game, I think we did much better than Version.1.0
Lets see how the next rendition does - hopefully it's only up from here.

[OldManWong]

I'm all for returning this summer either for a continuation or version 3.0, although I have a surgery this summer, it may mean I have even more time to read and post since I won't be able to do any sports or travelling.

[LokiLeo789]

I am open to what the players want. Obviously, we've all worked hard on what we have already so we'll have to work out how to go about with a new RP - what aspects of this one to keep, whether to have new gods or not. There is much that can be done.

We'll have a roll-call next summer to see who is still up for it. But I don't see why we can't keep the OOC alive. While I have no time to write up long posts and think out complicated story-lines at the moment, I definitely have time to post here, that's no issue.

@Kho

I'd be in next summer also, I'm us ally able to roleplay during school just as well as during summer vacation but my access to the Internet has be, choppy, for lack of a better term.

[Rtron]

@Kho@Cyclone

I'm not so sure #1 will work. We'd have to decide who did what and who won what war. Unless you mean the gods arrive just as the earth is already populated?

[Cyclone]

@Kho@Cyclone

I'm not so sure #1 will work. We'd have to decide who did what and who won what war. Unless you mean the gods arrive just as the earth is already populated?

@Rtron

Well before we get into any specifics whatsoever we'd have to answer this question,

Perhaps a fresh start, or perhaps with some of the stuff from this as a backstory; that detail could be decided later.

Basically everything else would depend on whether we view this as a remake or a continuation. I'm dubious as to how successful this could be if it was a continuation so I definitely favor the idea of just restarting with a fresh and blank slate. Granted, I realize that everybody gets attached to the storyline and their characters and so just totally restarting might not sound appealing, but summer is a long ways down the road and I've already forgotten what I was going to do with Ialu. In any case, while it might not be ideal it probably has a much better chance of actually succeeding.

[Rtron]

<Snipped quote by Rtron>

Well before we get into any specifics whatsoever we'd have to answer this question, <Snipped quote>

Basically everything else would depend on whether we view this as a remake or a continuation. I'm dubious as to how successful this could be if it was a continuation so I definitely favor the idea of just restarting with a fresh and blank slate. Granted, I realize that everybody gets attached to the storyline and their characters and so just totally restarting might not sound appealing, but summer is a long ways down the road and I've already forgotten what I was going to do with Ialu. In any case, while it might not be ideal it probably has a much better chance of actually succeeding.

@Cyclone

Perhaps it could be both? A fresh start, but this millions of years of history with Galbar you're suggesting could encompass the storylines that happened here. Rise of Ialu, the battle for Garakai, the fall of Sauranath, etc etc.