(05-17-2017, 09:29 AM)ExAtomos Wrote: Every night there are 3-8 publicized RP events; this isn't counting FC/LS events that aren't put on the calendar.Â
Yup, there are 37 weekly recurring events on my calendar, that isn't counting the monthly, bi-weekly, or one offs which we seem to have 3-10 of every week.
Currently over 100 discord servers (I don't really know his this related to FCs, some are linkshell based) have the RP Calendar discord bot broadcasting events of the day. Â Balmung has grown well beyond what most games call RP servers and taken on a life of it's own. Â Communities have subcommunities, which have groups inside of those. Â
It's kind of awesome to watch.
What another server really needs is about 100 or so highly active RPers to seed a community. That's about the minimum I'd go for any sort of sustainability.  In my experience once you go below that you start to experience problems due to players being a scarce  resource.  Even 100 is pretty small, all things considered, but it's enough to get a solid foothold going. That's bout 5 decent sized groups to interact.  To maintain any sort of inertia they need infrastructure (groups need to be able to find each other easily and to communicate) and people pushing the social side.  You also need your movers and shakers who spend their night coming up with events and helping to facilitate those of others.
I'm personally too old and don't have the desire to push any of that on my own, but for those looking to establish a new community on another server, I think that's about what it would take for another RP server to get a solid foothold and survive long term.
(edit: I am the lord of typos.)
