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Nel Celestine · **07-01-2013, 04:55 PM**

(07-01-2013, 04:42 PM)Momoni Wrote:

The poll should be open to everyone considering new people are coming in.
It is an open poll with one vote per person.

The poll should be used to gouge interest, not play at unofficial status. With enough interest taken from current active userbase(including new members) and not total member base or simply total votes(if you don't want Balmung people to vote), all relevant statistics(which is, I believe, 15%?(so says my statistics boyfriend)) should be considered as unofficial until they slow down and decay/die. Then consider them defunct. We have almost two months to figure that out before release. Plenty of time to see what thrives and what doesn't.

If the poll was to include Balmung as a server choice, some people would claim to poll itself to be biased. Should there really be 12 new subforms just so there could be one per server? That's a lot of wasted space.

Moderators. If the member base is too much to handle, increase the number of people handling them. Dedicated moderators to dedicated subforums works if there is a lot of traffic(the opposite happens if there isn't enough traffic)

The Moderators are really not the concern here for this issue. Let's stick to the task at hand shall we?

Work as a hub. This isn't advertised as a site for Balmung, it sells itself as a site for RP. you must be willing to accommodate all RP, any interest within the relevant statistics(15% of more) has a relevant voice. Which means if six servers all get 15% of the vote, they all deserve a voice.

See the answer for your second point. You do have a voice, no one is covering that up. But if 3 people want to go to server A and 3 to server B and 3 to server C and 3 to Server D. Don't you think that eventually they would get tired of the lack of RP with others? having a secondary unofficial RP server that is non-legacy will help people better see where the /majority/ of people are going so they can choose for themselves where they would like to go. No one is forcing players to go anywhere.

Don't give priority. Legacy servers are clearly not going to appeal to everyone. Advertising with priority to a legacy server is counter productive. You can say the majority are there, sure, but emphasizing is silly. It comes off really badly and stuck up - let the players decide from the communities here on the forum but let those communities exist. People are just as willing to RP with the same 20 people(and even less, some thriving communities ive been a part of have worked off just four people for years, still ongoing) as they are 100 people. You get 20 people, and you're set, but let them know they can find each other.

If 15 people are on one server and 300 are on another, what would you suggest would be the best course of action? Say, "Here is the server with 15 people, have fun because this is the smaller server RP group. Stay away from the nasty larger crowd." ? no. That's just silly. Everyone does and can get equal advertising in the LS list. It just happens that it's more full of Balmung because that's where the current majority of RPers are.

Don't run the risk of thinking communities are idealistic. I'll reference WoW - a lot of the RP turned into guild centered things, where opposing that guild(even if they openly harassed literally everyone else) was meant with disdain and being ignored(because they found themselves superior.) Having enough members to have communities that exist within communities sounds awesome on paper - but it almost never works in practice.(WoW, for one. If anyone is old enough to have been around for the clan/kingdom wars on Eyechat, Teenchat, MSN group or rpghost you know what I mean.)

So, you are saying that communities within communities is bad. But that is what you are asking for. You want to everyone to split up into tiny groups across many servers or join together? The RPC has been about gathering RPers together. It always has been. By splitting them up into smaller groups across multiple servers, that only hampers things and causes the community to stifle.

Gilgamesh unofficial RP server?

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