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Tyriont · **08-05-2010, 10:17 AM**

Good stuff as always. I have a thought on the in-character segment proposal, assuming the discussions are still open in this regard.

I completely agree with you in relation to an "in-character" segment not being that great of an idea. That type of thing came up during the thread on voice communication and most people agreed it just lead to increased problems. But there is a way I can think of to hit something similar.

Pretty much everyone is familiar with the concept of books on tape. What if the various guilds were encouraged to submit either a thread from their forums or a story style write-up of an event they held that could be read in that regard? It would give a feel for the type of RP the guild in question uses and might help bring in new members as well as maybe going some ways towards achieving the goal of having an in-character statement that was requested. There would need to be a minimum and maximum length of course, as well as possibly some restrictions on content. Submissions could be evaluated and selected by those running the podcast (as putting it to a public vote runs the risk of the larger guilds running roughshod over the smaller ones simply due to the likelihood of people voting for the story that came from their own guild). Of course *cough* someone would be needed to fulfil the role of narrator *cough* and in the event *cough* someone from the guild in question either isn't available or doesn't want to play that role should their piece be selected *cough* I woud be happy to offer my smooth, soothing English tones for the task. Cough.

Monadi · **08-05-2010, 10:41 AM**

Kashemia Wrote:Very true ^^ I thought every podcast was required to have at least one gamergirl for attention?

This is always true.

Asyria · **08-05-2010, 11:10 AM**

I think Tyriont has a very awesome suggestion, in addition to his awesome pirate face avatar.

ArmachiA · **08-05-2010, 11:23 AM**

Tyriont Wrote:Good stuff as always. I have a thought on the in-character segment proposal, assuming the discussions are still open in this regard.

I completely agree with you in relation to an "in-character" segment not being that great of an idea. That type of thing came up during the thread on voice communication and most people agreed it just lead to increased problems. But there is a way I can think of to hit something similar.

Pretty much everyone is familiar with the concept of books on tape. What if the various guilds were encouraged to submit either a thread from their forums or a story style write-up of an event they held that could be read in that regard? It would give a feel for the type of RP the guild in question uses and might help bring in new members as well as maybe going some ways towards achieving the goal of having an in-character statement that was requested. There would need to be a minimum and maximum length of course, as well as possibly some restrictions on content. Submissions could be evaluated and selected by those running the podcast (as putting it to a public vote runs the risk of the larger guilds running roughshod over the smaller ones simply due to the likelihood of people voting for the story that came from their own guild). Of course *cough* someone would be needed to fulfil the role of narrator *cough* and in the event *cough* someone from the guild in question either isn't available or doesn't want to play that role should their piece be selected *cough* I woud be happy to offer my smooth, soothing English tones for the task. Cough.

ddooood that would be awesome. I'm sure you'd even find people who would want to read for it. Like a radio show!

Renaise · **08-05-2010, 01:55 PM**

I call dibs on getting Stephen Fry to read for Spectral Wardens...

Seriously Tongue

Kylin · **08-05-2010, 05:15 PM**

I don't really see how splitting up the forums more is going to help in the slightest. A 15 page thread is still going to be 15 pages. We have a chatty group and having tons of forum sections really wouldn't change that. That said, we have been splitting posts from threads that get too off topic. That's about all we can do really. I can understand how it's all overwhelming though. Even I have to "mark topics as read" every now and then. But again, there's not much we can do about it unless we tell people to outright stop posting >.>. It'll slow down eventually.

Also...hang the sellouts! You little traitors! Laugh

Seriously though, I'm really excited that Eorzeapedia has taken the RP community under its wing for the podcast. It'll give us so much more needed exposure to the general community (and maybe even SE). When I suggested to FusionX to cover the RP community a bit more from time to time, I didn't anticipate he'd take it this far. So that's really awesome. My ONLY fear though is that you guys might eventually start drifting from your roots/purpose (the RP community) and slowly become more generalized over time. I really hope that doesn't happen but I just wanted to toss that little concern out there.

We need more group discussions like in episode 3. Those are really neat.

Shamadconde · **08-05-2010, 07:40 PM**

Guess what Armi? It's all your fault. Laugh

You brought the Crimson Blades here and we made the forums explode.

Asyria · **08-05-2010, 10:25 PM**

It's not exploding as much as a Michael Bay movie, at least!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKrQ0umHUGA

ArmachiA · **08-06-2010, 07:10 AM**

Shamad Conde Wrote:Guess what Armi? It's all your fault. You brought the Crimson Blades here and we made the forums explode.

:oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:

I don't even consider this a big community. Wait till September, you'll see big then.

Tyriont · **08-06-2010, 10:22 AM**

ArmachiA Wrote:Wait till September, you'll see big then.

Oh, they all promise that. I'll believe it when I see it, darling. Wink

ArmachiA · **08-06-2010, 10:33 AM**

^ hot.

Aveline · **08-06-2010, 02:15 PM**

Breaking up the forums:
I will be honest, there are a lot of times when I just log in, look at the topics, and click "Mark as read," particularly when it's on topics like the "Lumiel Refuge Camp" or "For those of you who have forgotten.." However, looking over the forum's structure I think at the most we could split up "Lounge" a bit, since it seems that putting non-RP matters, game mechanics discussions, AND site/forum discussions into one sub-forum is a bit much.

As for 12-page topics... forum members here all just go way off topic constantly. I know some of the forum mods have had to split topics a few times to trim off the off-topic stuff into new threads (the anime discussion thread was 3 pages of off-topic discussion by the time I noticed it, and it quickly spread to 3 more pages soon after the split), and I don't think adding new sub-forums is going to do anything about that. We just need more people with bright blue names patroling the forums to split off-topic discussions into the proper sub-forum, and we need all members to be more mindful of staying on topic.

Server queues and population:
Even at FFXI's peak, there were never server queues. There may be more people playing FFXIV but I still doubt it will be like WoW where they have a hojillion servers and there's still server queues. Even then, the only time I ever had an issue with server queues in WoW was when I had a character on the highest population Latin American server (for better Spanish language aquisition. Ã‚Â¡Para la Horda!), and even then I had to wait maybe 15 minutes at peak times. My personal stance is, the more people on the server the better. I don't understand all this anti-social talk for picking our server. >_>

Podcast Big News:
Congrats on becoming part of Aetheryte Radio! That is excellent for you guys. Like you said, it will definitely help make roleplayers and our community more well-known to the general FFXIV population. I do have some concerns that moving the podcast (and changing the name of it) away from the RPC will lessen a bit of the RPC community's vitality, but from the interest expressed by others on this forum, it seems like there will likely be a new podcast or two to fill that gap and keep a podcast focused on the RPC and its members specifically.

Tadir · **08-06-2010, 02:21 PM**

I want to touch on the subforum thing. I don't go to them. I find them annoying and hard to navigate. If something is important enough to have it's own section then give it it's own forum. That is what a subforum is anyway. So it's the same thing, just not nested in another forum, which I, personally, find obnoxious.

((So many commas.))

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