(12-30-2013, 04:59 PM)Xefjord Wrote:(12-30-2013, 04:41 PM)Kismet Wrote: If our RP community was waaaaaay bigger, then I would support this idea. We do not have the numbers of... let's say GW2RP, for example. For the size that RPC is right now, a communal discussion place seems to work just fine.But honestly Gilgamesh and Balmung have nothing to do with each other. We are both RP servers but we cannot really RP with each other. We are similar worlds but have no connection with each other. All this communal discussion place ends up doing is making it harder for the Gilgamesh community to stay connected within this maze of Balmung. Balmung seems very populous and always growing but I believe it will be difficult for Gilgamesh to grow unless we can stay connected and handle ourselves. It simply annoys me that people try to say they do not want to divide the community but really what is keeping this section blended going to do? Show how successful Balmung is doing compared to Gilgamesh then everyone will want to switch to Balmung. It also makes it harder for Gilgamesh to stay connected. Maybe because you all are Balmung players you do not understand very well but Gilgamesh does not seem to benefit at all from this layout. I want to see my server grow and be successful like yours but it is difficult to do with the system we have now. We will never get a bigger community unless we can show some organization and work ourselves to make the community bigger.
Separation of forums will not foster growth in Gilgamesh's RP community and having a communal discussion forum does not foster decay. Players themselves are the cause of a community's decline or flourishing. Something as insignificant as how these forums are organized has nothing to do with how large or how willing to collaborate Balmung's population is.
Likewise, if you really feel that Gilgamesh is having so much trouble "staying connected within this maze of Balmung" and "will have difficulty growing unless it can stay connected and handle itself" as you say, that is the fault of the community itself. It's not the fault of a lack of a Gilgamesh-only subforum.
