[OOC] Eagleton High [Just Your Average, Everyday High School Roleplay]

[DestinyStar]

@OldManWong Also, sorry for the slow reply!! ^^"

[MissCapnCrunch]

@DestinyStar

REALLY? Hahaha.
I was nervous it wasn't going to fit then it'd seem dumb.

[Saz]

I don't know if I should post just everyone isn't in the auditorium.

[DestinyStar]

So... Is this RP pretty much dead, already? :(

[NuttsnBolts]

I'm willing to post but I just don't completely know what it is that I should be posting about. :\

[OldManWong]

So, I'm finally able to get back on, this year has been quite difficult to split away from irl responsibilities unfortunately. On a better note, I'm working on my post now.

[DestinyStar]

@NuttsnBolts You can just have them arrive at the auditorium? :) I know Saz's characters are waiting there for people to interact with.

@OldManWong That is ok! I know, life gets overwhelming sometimes. I just wanted to make sure people are still interested in this. :) No rush.

[NuttsnBolts]

I'll wait for @OldManWong's post then I'll make one myself.

@Saz did you want any interactions from me to help you out a bit?

[OldManWong]

Is there still a person to partner up with, if not, I can generate a new character and pair Gideon up with that.

[OldManWong]

Sorry for the short post despite all this time. I'm a little short on time, unfortunately.

[DestinyStar]

That's ok! It was fine. :) I should make another post back soon!

[NuttsnBolts]

So that I don't hold anyone up with their posts and leave without saying anything, I'm going to step down from the RP. At the moment with Christmas and new years coming up and most of my weekends being taken up with events, it is somewhat hampering my role playing efforts. (Actually get no time off work during the break this year due to how the days fall)

Sorry @DestinyStar.

[MissCapnCrunch]

I hate to be the person to suggest this-
But do you think there is anyway we can restart this rp or rejuvenate with new characters?
I love the characters we have, and I want some of the outcomes that have came already (ships galore)
But I do feel like it's trucking along very slowly :( and we lost many people from the start.

[impervious]

Yeah, restarting it would probably help it go faster. Especially if we got more people to join as well.

[Saz]

Yeah, I don't have a place in this roleplay. :(

[DestinyStar]

If everyone wants to restart, we can absolutely do that. :) @OldManWong are you okay with that, too?
If we did restart, it might be best just to keep the few people we already have and who we know will reply. Too many people results in too many flakes and waiting on too many responses (which makes it move way slow).

If I can be honest for a moment... I'm really disappointed as of late. I joined 8 RPs since coming back onto this site and only two of them are really active. Most people quit on me or just stopped replying. :( I only bring this up because I'm honestly curious - is that normal on this site, now? Do people do that a lot in the other RPs y'all do or have tried to do?

[DestinyStar]

@NuttsnBolts I'm sorry to see you go, but I wish you all the best!

[NuttsnBolts]

If everyone wants to restart, we can absolutely do that. :) @OldManWong are you okay with that, too?
If we did restart, it might be best just to keep the few people we already have and who we know will reply. Too many people results in too many flakes and waiting on too many responses (which makes it move way slow).

If I can be honest for a moment... I'm really disappointed as of late. I joined 8 RPs since coming back onto this site and only two of them are really active. Most people quit on me or just stopped replying. :( I only bring this up because I'm honestly curious - is that normal on this site, now? Do people do that a lot in the other RPs y'all do or have tried to do?

@DestinyStar

Thanks for the well wishes. Maybe in the new year I might rejoin or something but I'll have to see what happens with my schedule over summer.

I joined an RP a several months ago and it went on for a long while until the GM and Co-GM had personal problems (They were in a relationship and one lost his job, so it put pressure on them). I wouldn't say that it's a site thing for having RPs that fall off the radar as the community is just a group of people and generally RPs are a hit or miss depending on a variety of factors. Starting it towards the end of the year could be one with exams and Christmas coming up soon. Even my 1x1 Partner and I are having trouble with trying to balance work and play this month, when before we were daily posters.

Something I have noticed over my time is a key part that needs to be in an RP and that's motivation. The characters need to be motivated by a goal or event. It's partly why Fandoms do well as they piggy back this idea from the series and re-invent it into their own (A new Sith appears in a Star Wars RP, or, What if Frodo never made it to Mount Mordor). Fresh idea RPs need to have a bit of a motive for them for people to think of ideas and create a story to aim for a goal.

Something I might suggest is maybe shrinking that age bracket a little bit to maybe 15-17 or having mixed age classes. Something that I came across that was difficult was that I wasn't really going to be interacting with anyone other than 1 player due to the classes. It meant that I probably wouldn't have those awesome scenes in the cafeteria where everyone is messing about, but being 17, (especially with Aussie) teens tend to drink and experiment a little bit with their lives.

Your idea and school is good. I'm not normally interested in these kind of RPs and I started watching Nichijou when I joined, so I was a lil pumped for the idea. But I felt a little lost in what I wanted to do and what everyone had planned as well.

[AtomicNut]

Ahem, so this is giving life signals? Well, to be honest I thought I'd join too... as a "detox" from more bizarre rps as someone put it. But I thought this was dead.

If I may throw my two cents, I've got to say 95% of the RPS (number crunched out of my head) fail to get into a steady pace. For various reasons. Motivation seems to be the most important. After the initial rush, there might be a sharp decline of it. And this happened in ALL sites I've been.

[OldManWong]

@DestinyStar
Unfortunately, with this forum, it's incredibly hit or miss. There are only a select few that actually keep going for a long amount of time. My activity has been somewhat stinted due to a huge pickup in irl business due to a couple sports seasons, but it's not uncommon for people to simply leave or disappear.

On another note, I'd be down for a remake.