The Balmung wall being up is what has shaped my FC's philosophy. We're always open to having new members and we have a slow trickle that appears every now and again, but we realize that with the way things are, it's going to be better to branch out and be active with the community itself. We've run one open community event this month with another coming up next week.
Out of the auction events we run, we offer DM'd RP events to people who win certain prizes at the event to keep the RP chain going and open up more situations for interaction (I have one tonight as a matter of fact with a group of people I've never met). This community outreach thing is to hopefully try to create a more collaborative community because, while it's statistically impossible to have met everyone on Balmung, it is still very possible for things to get stagnant for some people. My FC wants to try and foster more collaboration and more coexistence between groups of RPers.
That's not to say such a thing isn't available on Balmung already, there are plenty of groups that work together, but every little group working toward a similar goal can create a much wider and much easier to engage net of opportunities for the folks who are otherwise a little nervous about approaching new people.
Out of the auction events we run, we offer DM'd RP events to people who win certain prizes at the event to keep the RP chain going and open up more situations for interaction (I have one tonight as a matter of fact with a group of people I've never met). This community outreach thing is to hopefully try to create a more collaborative community because, while it's statistically impossible to have met everyone on Balmung, it is still very possible for things to get stagnant for some people. My FC wants to try and foster more collaboration and more coexistence between groups of RPers.
That's not to say such a thing isn't available on Balmung already, there are plenty of groups that work together, but every little group working toward a similar goal can create a much wider and much easier to engage net of opportunities for the folks who are otherwise a little nervous about approaching new people.
