I was thinking for the past week and noticing how ‘slow’ things are moving, and by slow I mean the pace of character development is moving with other characters. There really isn’t a chance to explore other relationships with characters because this board limits one thread per character, which I personally find constricting. I am all for managing blurred and inactive storylines, but I find this pace stifling to my person character development.

And I propose, modestly, that the limit of character threads be extended to at least three, with descriptions of when it is so that way it does not conflict with the present and both players know when it happened. We are all responsible players here, and I think a bit of trust is awarded to people here. Or if that is found to be hard to consider, then a forum for ‘flashback/history events between two characters. That way it can speed things up for plots and interaction. It gets rather dull waiting for someone to post, or sitting there after a post and wanting to write more but you can’t really.


With my modest proposal, I hope you’ll consider my inquisition.

I can't say I agree. It would get really confusing if we had our characters in tons and tons of posts. Things would not be going slow if every member put an effort into posting once daily. At least once daily. :highfive:

Which is why I said at least 3. But your opinion is your own, and mature, responsible people could pull it off, I have seen it work before. But because people don't post every day, it isn't fair to that one person that does to be sitting there tapping a foot.

Don't worry, I'll post with Madeline soon enough, I'm just waiting for Matthew Connors to post first...I want to see his reply, lol. :P :D :lol:

I know how that goes. I get impatient with people a lot.

And then I usually go and make a new character. It's a bad habit and one that I am determined to stop before I go overboard.

Anyways: My personal take on it. I agree with Madeline that it would get really confusing to have several threads running at once for the same character. A whole lot of new rules would have to be instated, to keep things making sense, and even with that you'd still get weird things going on occasionally. I'd be totally :blink: trying to keep track of things.

Of course, I've also been on the wrong side of my own belief and have been completely frustrated by having a character stuck in a slow thread, when I wanted to do something with her/him.

I'd love to see more people posting at least once a day :-D That would be the ideal solution in my book.

I have to say I sort of agree with Julian though I can fully see the argument for only having one thread at a time. It would be nice to be in more than one thread at once but it would be confusing. Maybe two threads or somehting.

The ball, which we'd planned to start tomorrow, will be multi-post. :)

Oh good! I was really looking forward to the ball thread :D I've been kind of inactive as far as RP-ing is concerned :/ But that's just because I need Alice to further my plot and she's currently in another thread.

Also, I kind of do agree with Julian on the more than one thread at a time thing. I personally don't think that it would get all that confusing, considering a lot of sites do that and I've never really been confused on that kind of thing, but it's not my site, so all I can do is submit my opinion :)

AWESOME!!

I can't wait to get in on the ball!

Let me first of all say that I understand your frustration, to a degree.

I'm ever so sorry, but that is not going to happen.

I can promise to consider having more threads like the upcoming Easter Ball, that will take place at a certain point in time and where all other threads must be before it. I'll even promise to think about extending to two posts at a time, but I am very skeptical, and the answer will most likely be no. Sorry.

The thing is, though, that there are often more than only two players in a thread. And some of us have more than one plot-thing going on in our characters' lives. Where Jack states that "I need Alice to further my plot and she's currently in another thread," I personally would have my character run around doing something else until they had a chance to meet again.

Also, sometimes people pop into several threads within short periods of time. This would not be possible if you had to keep track of when all threads were set. There are already some slight mess-ups in timelines in the game, but they don't matter much. If we were to extend the thread-number for characters though, they quickly would. I don't know about other games, but I know about this one. The interaction here is very networked - seldom involving only two people in one plot, and that's really how I'd like to keep it.

It's not an issue of me trusting you. For that; new players might appear that are not at all responsible. But mostly it's an issue of what kind of board I wished (and still wish) to make and run.

"Slow" is a relative term. I disagree that all players should have to post at least once a day to be a member on this site. In fact I think it's one of the worst suggestions that have come up concerning the site so far. I (and many others) have school, a social life, hobbies, a lot of things to do and read and spend time on. There is no way in hell I would have time to post for my characters every day, let alone READ and follow all the threads if everyone else did. And that is not the kind of site I want to have, either. I had a site in mind where the activity level was steady, but where people could spend time coming up with posts if they needed to, and where no one would be excluded because they were not quick enough or had less spare time than others.

That I can definitely consider. ;)

It isn’t so much frustration, I would call it an irksome concern, rather. And It does not have to be three per say, it was just a number. Perhaps a number more than one, that way your character has at least another chance of interacting with other characters. Personally, I have scene boards that run this way, not to be of an insult, but their boards did not last very long because people grew tired of waiting for their current plotters to post. With more than one thread circulating, it at least gets another active thread going. Honestly, I do not see where there is a problem. I have run my own board before, a bit of background so you know that I am not some ‘newbie’ spouting random bollocks. My board lasted for a year and more, and we followed a storyline in order, and at the same time, there was no problem of ‘confusion’ or worry about it not being in chronological order. It already is, but I suppose I will not fully understand the doubts you have about allowing more than one thread.

As far as the description goes, it was a suggestion to help your ‘order’ out, to unconfused those hat would join it. By description I do not mean “so and so only”. No. But something some the players know if they enter when it is. Of course all threads will be in order at some point, I mean that is just common logic. If someone posted in open thread first, interacted with characters, then posted in another thread and met the same character, why do you think would happen? Logically, the second thread would be a second meeting, since the two already men so to say.

Another thread = a different day.

I understand that no one can post everyday, that is impossible. I don’t even do it, so of course I will not agree with it. BUT because that it is a one post one character rule, you could be waiting a long time for someone to post, and while your character sits there, you watch others play. You don’t get to know other characters well, and it could fatten up the plots. I think at least TWO post per character is reasonable, that way other people can interact with other characters that are in another thread instead of having to leave the one your in just to role play with that person. I find it rather constricting to character creation, but that is my humble opinion, and it should be read as such.

Some of your points do make sense, but I find everything much more orgnaized this way. Although there is something in the 'One thread-One day' policiy that attracts me, picture it this way:

Firt thread-James and Jolene meet in the park
Second Thread-James and Tanya are talking about Jolene, and he mentions he is ignorant of her maritial status

But, as the first thread progresses, Jolene tells James she is married.

Wouldn't that appear rather confusing?

Ah, but that is where the creative aspect comes into play. If in the first thread later she tells him that she is married, but in the second thread they are discussing her, would it not be simple to say that

"James is ignorant of her marital status, for even though Jolene told him that she was, James simply forgot for the moment, or chose to ignore it."

Is that not simple? There is always a way to right an error, you just have to be creative. All I will say is this: I am a part of a few boards where this rule is not in play, but there is no confusion or whatever. Perhaps you should look into those other boards and see how they work, but it is all a preference, and it is a mere suggestion.

I don't think it's simple at all, since most of my characters are very interested in other people, very observant, and it would be completely out of character for them to forget something like that. It's a good example, Madeline.

Julian: I am not a newbie to roleplaying either. Yes, I know some boards make the multiple-thread thing work and some do not. I know some boards have made the one-thread rule work also, while some others have not.

As you yourself state, it is a preference. And as I have said, I promise to take it into consideration.