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Arashin Kujqai · **05-26-2017, 10:27 AM**

(05-26-2017, 01:29 AM)Zhavi Wrote: You know what's a good way to create a hub?

By consistently and reliably being somewhere. Â By making sure people know you're there. Â By getting a group and just grinding that shit out every. Â Single. Â Day.

You know how the Quicksand got so busy? Â Because people were there. Â Aya waitressed. Â Warren and Crofte (edit - crofte, right? Â aghaghagh why am I so bad at names) stood at their pillars. Â For awhile the brass blade peeps were rping their thang, and they'd swing through. Â People were actively rping in Ul'dah, and they consistently stopped into the Quicksand. Â Their contacts would come in to rp with them. Â Word spread, and people came to expect that there would be rp in the Quicksand, and so it became a self-fulfilling prophesy.

You want a hub elsewhere? Â Do the same thing. Â Even when it feels dry and stale, even if you don't feel like it, you gotta have people there on the reg. Â It also helps if it's a place where lower level characters can get to without having to travel a huge distance, but hey, depends on what you wanna build and where.

But if you want my unsolicited advice, don't come to the community asking someone, anyone to make it a reality. Â Build it. Â Nothing is stopping you, man. Â Sky is the limit.

Just be prepared for the long haul.

Do you think it's possible for 1 person though?... Kinda takes at least 2 to tango or RP so to speak XD. This sorta thing is definitely not an easy job, though I wasn't so much as asking for someone/anyone to do this for me either. This was more-so to ask where else people would like to see a hub form, for whatever purpose, for specific groups, or just to see another form of the quicksand spread elsewhere. Building it will take time and I can definitely do it, I already started by hanging in the thaumaturge guild often but again, it takes more than one I feel for this.

Overall, I agree with you entirely, it's just something I felt could be helped via knowing what the rest of the RP community would like to see and where too. Better odds of it happening/building if it's more than just me ya know? lol(I'm starting to feel like Raijin from FF8... ya know? LOL)

(05-26-2017, 01:35 AM)Virella Wrote:
(05-26-2017, 01:17 AM)Valic Wrote: It'd be harder for some to just casually meet and hang around. Props to you if you can keep it a constant thing though, even in Ala Mhigo
Yeah, I get people being 'locked out'. I totally get that. But if I can get a handful of people enjoying that type of RP? I'm happy with that already, really. Doesn't need to be some huge ass hub to be successful.

Hells, one of my best RP times was from me constantly being in Coerthas Central Highlanders pre-HW. The Observatorium also wasn't considered a noob friendly place, but eh, the Ishgardians and folk interested in RPing with Ishgardians would find a way to get there. I'm pretty sure it will be the same in SB. So I'm not too stressed about it.

And all we did? Just RP there in the open, and people will come sooner or later. (that said I did notify people in several LSes about it, but that was about it.)

Fair enough, it's like Zhavi said, just has to be a constant to actually develop as a hub. I'd just love to get something started that'll be lasting rather than an occasional thing.

(05-26-2017, 10:04 AM)Hilde Wrote:
(05-26-2017, 01:29 AM)Zhavi Wrote: But if you want my unsolicited advice, don't come to the community asking someone, anyone to make it a reality. Build it. Nothing is stopping you, man. Sky is the limit.

Just be prepared for the long haul.
It might be a hard pill to swallow, but many players already have their agendas and story lines, and building a hub might not be ideal for their time. It's a nice thought, but you cant force people to play elsewhere, especially when many players already have places they frequent outside of Ul'dah. If your own experiences feel lacking because of this, talk with the other player and move your interactions elsewhere.

If you want a new hub entirely, though, like Zhavi said - be prepared for the long haul if you work to establish that.

Of course, and no one can be expected to force themselves anywhere either. However I know Ul'dah isn't just "a setting" anymore, some even new players (myself included when I transferred) just went there because that's just the place to go supposedly. It's kinda similar to how people RP on other servers but at some point they want a bunch of RP available to them rather than the little bit that even exist, so they end up moving to Balmung(though not now of course considering the server lock).

I'm not really asking people specifically "STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND COME OVER HERE", especially for those who already know how to branch out even if they start in quicksand and somehow end up in sea of clouds. No, what I mean to accomplish is just to develop a new train of thought other than "Eh, Ul'dah has RP, guess I'll head there". Definitely gonna need time but, well... my reply to her I feel applies here as well. There's definitely people besides myself who wouldn't mind another place they can just show up at, at any time and see at least a lil RP too. So I'm sure it can happen, it just is gonna need dedication and interest is all.... Besides just myself I mean >~>;

[Balmung]Can we get more "RP hubs"?

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