Certainement! Forgive the lack of agreeable ideas in my first post, but I just hoped that we could continue this discussion and wanted something on the table to be discussed period, bad or good frankly. I guess I would say that it would be nice to hear from maybe the less active of the Groups on their opinions rather than just the leaders of the clearly active (both here and within their own groups) and established groups. Not to say that I think it is pointless, but just to get a better feel for those groups who may need help sticking around? I am so happy to hear that some of you have so much going on as far as RP goes, but I think that a lot of this planning has more to do with growth rather than establishment.
That being said, I agree that it has always been a corner stone of the site hat this was more a connection making engine rather than a place for a ruling body to be enacted, and with that sentiment, and in that spirit we need to connect. This site in the coming months is undeniably one of our best resources for growing the community and organizing what we already have, better. Grand events, IC or OOC could be organized here for those groups who feel that they can work together on some larger scale, new LS can be given some recruitment priority, and those who have enough members can keep closed recruitment as it is now. Restructuring, or cleaning up I think is sort of integral to that, insofar as the new members can see oppurtunities better whether they will come back or not, I think from a community standpoint that looking organized and in contact will help foster members we have into coming back as well as better encourage new members to keep faith in our community as a whole.
I know I know, maybe we don't want to people who give up at the drop of a hat, but even I came back and was a little discouraged though certainly willing to keep eyeing the situation around the site. I think I will come back to the group merging idea that I originally posted, and agree that with many of the groups this is not possible unless they give up some of their major foundational points, and therefore not a valid solution, but I think that idea came from the spirit of group communication between at least the leaders to form a stronger unified presence here. I think that has a possibility of better handling recruitment organization and group degradation in the long run IF the leaders can be agreeable and share info and ideas. With that does come the statement that it isn't the leaders of he groups to actually conform to such and idea of community with increased communication and organization, but I think I would say to that maybe we need to bring out that sense of natural community that lies within most Final Fantasy (any game) gamers. So felt in FFXI, a gaming community that I feel is unlike most others I've experienced, where we actually take the time :joker: out of our day to interact wh one another and help one another towards our individual goals, a scenario I have experienced many times.
We need to find the spirit which Is necessary to counteract the widely known and greatly disheartening flare for drama in any RP community, much less one where it is amongst fellow gamers who then bring RP into that fold. I will admit, I am a bystander of this situation of course, I am not a member of a group, and not a leader of anything here, but I do hope you take my sincerity in that I wish all of us to succeed in our future paths wih this amazing world and these great people I know are around us
~Momo~
Edited to fix iPhone typing errors...
That being said, I agree that it has always been a corner stone of the site hat this was more a connection making engine rather than a place for a ruling body to be enacted, and with that sentiment, and in that spirit we need to connect. This site in the coming months is undeniably one of our best resources for growing the community and organizing what we already have, better. Grand events, IC or OOC could be organized here for those groups who feel that they can work together on some larger scale, new LS can be given some recruitment priority, and those who have enough members can keep closed recruitment as it is now. Restructuring, or cleaning up I think is sort of integral to that, insofar as the new members can see oppurtunities better whether they will come back or not, I think from a community standpoint that looking organized and in contact will help foster members we have into coming back as well as better encourage new members to keep faith in our community as a whole.
I know I know, maybe we don't want to people who give up at the drop of a hat, but even I came back and was a little discouraged though certainly willing to keep eyeing the situation around the site. I think I will come back to the group merging idea that I originally posted, and agree that with many of the groups this is not possible unless they give up some of their major foundational points, and therefore not a valid solution, but I think that idea came from the spirit of group communication between at least the leaders to form a stronger unified presence here. I think that has a possibility of better handling recruitment organization and group degradation in the long run IF the leaders can be agreeable and share info and ideas. With that does come the statement that it isn't the leaders of he groups to actually conform to such and idea of community with increased communication and organization, but I think I would say to that maybe we need to bring out that sense of natural community that lies within most Final Fantasy (any game) gamers. So felt in FFXI, a gaming community that I feel is unlike most others I've experienced, where we actually take the time :joker: out of our day to interact wh one another and help one another towards our individual goals, a scenario I have experienced many times.
We need to find the spirit which Is necessary to counteract the widely known and greatly disheartening flare for drama in any RP community, much less one where it is amongst fellow gamers who then bring RP into that fold. I will admit, I am a bystander of this situation of course, I am not a member of a group, and not a leader of anything here, but I do hope you take my sincerity in that I wish all of us to succeed in our future paths wih this amazing world and these great people I know are around us
~Momo~
Edited to fix iPhone typing errors...
