Castiel Wrote:This crossed my mind as well. But I figured maybe -we- could become the new "history of Vana'diel" site for FF14. That way, Rpers and non-RPers alike would be coming to us for the info and thus increase traffic quite a bit. It only makes sense that the RP community would organize and maintain all of the lore for the world. It may also help in getting SE's attention a tad bit more since my hope is that we eventually can act as a liaison to them. Perhaps that's wishful thinking though since we all know that SE isn't known for their open communication >.>
I think a lore section with links and such would be easier to maintain. Have a person chosen to handle it and keep it up that's an admin.
Kes Wrote:A good idea, but might result in some conflict, particularly if peoples' guilds have opposing viewpoints on how they RP and stuff. I can foresee too easily a potential for a lot of cross-guild mudslinging and flame wars with these. Maybe with some very specific rules about how guild policies are different and to keep opinions and discussion respectful. Are you planning on keeping an area of these forums for story posts themselves, like for people to copy/paste from their own guild forums if they choose to share with the larger community? Or do you think it will be assumed that their forum systems will allow for public viewing of said story posts. I realize not all RP happens through posts, but a lot of times the background stuff does, and may be useful for everyone to know (so long as nobody metas or anything).
First off even if you don't post a section for them topics will eventually be posted by people discussing RP styles they like and don't like and some will become heated. You're living in a fantasy world if you think you can prevent this. I think a section with a clear statement by the admin that if threads get into "heated" arguments they will be locked will give you control. It worked on Starsider.
Meta-gaming is also not 100% preventable and if it happens an LS should deal with it. Not having a story section would be stupid over meta-gaming fears since most people will write them and be made to feel by the community its wrong and have to share them on some other forum or something where there fellow RPers aren't there to see them.
Quote:That's a fairly valid concern. It's one thing to have RP story discussions on a guild/linkshell forum since everyone there has pretty similar styles. But it's another to put it somewhere as diverse as here. Anyone else have any opinions on this?
Journals will be added as well, but much later (like after the game launches probably).
Edit: Since the Roleplay category will likely have a lot of sections under it, I'll likely divide it up into two different categories eventually: Roleplay (Stories, events, interactive RP) and Resources (Library, Directory, possibly Resource Room).
Every LS I was ever in posted journals and there was never-ever a fight over them. Nor was this ever-ever-ever a problem in Starsider in the journal sections. This was argueably the most popular section. People who never rped with a character would read and keep up on the journals. It was great fun and you'd be missing out on a lot because of these, in my opinion, silly fears.
If you are parnoid about meta-gaming you personally don't have to post a journal or a story. Don't force others not to because of your own fears.