General RP General Chat

[Ziosa]

If most are in favour of resetting, who am I stop it. All I know is I won't devote any more time to this game if it does reset, what happens if it changes nothing? Will we just keep resetting the game until it does? Lol

if we reset ill possibly step down/quit lol. of course after we have settled things so im not leaving at a bad time; i wont like it though

 

[Oreki]

How are we going to get members after starting from scratch? Doesn't feel like people are thinking through this that people are not joining the RP in the first let alone levels or current players' accomplishment being an issue, I've yet to see new player complain about starting level being low or current players being too strong. Like it just something we are assuming ourselves without really taking the input of what exactly we're lacking to attract new people in this RP.

I think the biggest problem is that we aren't calling out to new people or not even trying.

 

[Einsauer]

If most are in favour of resetting, who am I stop it. All I know is I won't devote any more time to this game if it does reset, what happens if it changes nothing? Will we just keep resetting the game until it does? Lol

Most people in favor of a hard-restart are the people who don't participate in the RP anymore anyways; from what I've seen at least.

However now that I'm thinking it out, I think I am in favor of a soft-reset:
Player characters would remain untouched (with an optional free-change), Major plot points in the RP would remain untouched.
The 'reset' would be along the lines of:

• Overall uneventful islands or islands that have been inactive for a long time being reset.
• Unclaimed fruit going back into circulation of the world.
• Giving the current events a deadline.

Also, maybe giving some kind of a bonus to anyone in an underrepresented faction would help.
i.e. Playing as a marine when there are 0 marines would give you an exp and/or beri bonus.


At the end of the day though, I think everyone needs to chill and wait for things to go back to normal before jumping to the conclusion that the community is dead.

 

[Frayz]

I think we just need to add new content, such as islands of all difficulties and maybe an expanded economy so not everything is about getting stronger and claiming islands etc. Like people can set up shipbuilding companies in Water 7 and if somebody else wants a new ship then they've got to go through one of these companies to get it, same with weapons or science inventions lol

 

[Einsauer]

I think we just need to add new content, such as islands of all difficulties and maybe an expanded economy so not everything is about getting stronger and claiming islands etc. Like people can set up shipbuilding companies in Water 7 and if somebody else wants a new ship then they've got to go through one of these companies to get it, same with weapons or science inventions lol

I really like the idea of being able to have overall non-combative characters, I really want a reporter character but Gochi is illiterate.

 

[Gambit]

if you will allow me and my NPCs to be one of the RP enemies, I will be fucking glad..

 

[Icetime]

Most people in favor of a hard-restart are the people who don't participate in the RP anymore anyways; from what I've seen at least.

However now that I'm thinking it out, I think I am in favor of a soft-reset:
Player characters would remain untouched (with an optional free-change), Major plot points in the RP would remain untouched.
The 'reset' would be along the lines of:

• Overall uneventful islands or islands that have been inactive for a long time being reset.
• Unclaimed fruit going back into circulation of the world.
• Giving the current events a deadline.

Also, maybe giving some kind of a bonus to anyone in an underrepresented faction would help.
i.e. Playing as a marine when there are 0 marines would give you an exp and/or beri bonus.


At the end of the day though, I think everyone needs to chill and wait for things to go back to normal before jumping to the conclusion that the community is dead.

I think we should reset now rather then later. The fact we are in a pandemic which requires us to stay inside much more then usual should increase our activity but in reality activity hasn’t gone up at all. Plus waiting for this pandemic has a huge time we could be waiting, we could be waiting until August or 2021+. I agree with restarting or something, I don’t even play anymore because there’s no hosts and I honestly just don’t want to play in its current state.
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Ty icetime

 

[Frayz]

Resetting the RP is just going to be the final nail, it's kind of sad nobody's realising this

 

[Emperor Cross]

The only way we rest this thing is if everybody character is if someone ever find the OP. Certainly By then everyone will be lvl 100 besides the little fish.

@Frayz want I want is is island revolting against the pirates protecting them or the WG when they don’t get enough attention, kinda like in CIV

 

[Frayz]

The only way we rest this thing is if everybody character is if someone ever find the OP. Certainly By then everyone will be lvl 100 besides the little fish.

@Frayz want I want is is island revolting against the pirates protecting them or the WG when they don’t get enough attention, kinda like in CIV

At this point, I support any suggestion that isn't a reset or moving forums lol

 

[Emperor Cross]

Y’all talking about resetting when Daddy-Sama made a 1,75 B purchase.

 

[Frayz]

Y’all talking about resetting when Daddy-Sama made a 1,75 B purchase.

Oh yeah I forgot about this, let's restart the RP

 

[Oreki]

I'm not in the favor of reset although I like to know how many members think that resetting the RP being good idea and why

 

[Ranger]

I am in favor of restarting RP. Restart it in a different place, not here. Or advertise the section to OP communities while restarting.

I do not see how this place can be revived without a restart. Extra events or whatnot won't work.

Hmm or maybe there is a way to play that makes it feel more fun for everyone? Maybe that is the problem? Idk I would do whatever brings the activity back up. It kinda feels like we are slowly losing people

 

[Gambit]

i say let's wait till this shitty virus has ended.. once everything sets back to normal, we will try to figure out if activity will rise.. i am not gonna lie, my activity has gone low because of the pandemic.. i am fucking stressed and my work is affected. i couldn't see my mom who is still mourning with the death of my dad and she's living alone in a very far away place from where I am living.. maybe people are suffering same maybe not and they're having a different sort of problem..

it's better to suggest things that we think will help activity rise once again.. i love the idea of Frayz to harness people from other site in a different fashion.. Oreki has brought a decent approach, too to invite or link the RP to other forums so that we may have more people.. i say, let's bring back Guan and let him do the recruitment..

 

[Emperor Cross]

Hmm or maybe there is a way to play that makes it feel more fun for everyone? Maybe that is the problem? Idk I would do whatever brings the activity back up. It kinda feels like we are slowly losing people

What about my Goro's approval ???

 

[The Fool]

What about my Goro's approval ???

Likely to go through as long as your active and get some folks back in gear

 

[Dragomir]

Hmm or maybe there is a way to play that makes it feel more fun for everyone? Maybe that is the problem? Idk I would do whatever brings the activity back up. It kinda feels like we are slowly losing people

For me, I lost interest due to how boring everything got. The design of RP is too grand for the pool of users that we got. Less than a dozen won't make things enjoyable. I like RP the most at the start when the activity was high and everyone was ecstatic. It's the main reason I want to do a restart, to go back to that vibe.

But Frayz does raise good points about the restart. You can't just reset everyone's progress and you can't reset every time activity drops.

 

[Dragomir]

i say let's wait till this shitty virus has ended.. once everything sets back to normal, we will try to figure out if activity will rise.. i am not gonna lie, my activity has gone low because of the pandemic.. i am fucking stressed and my work is affected. i couldn't see my mom who is still mourning with the death of my dad and she's living alone in a very far away place from where I am living.. maybe people are suffering same maybe not and they're having a different sort of problem..

it's better to suggest things that we think will help activity rise once again.. i love the idea of Frayz to harness people from other site in a different fashion.. Oreki has brought a decent approach, too to invite or link the RP to other forums so that we may have more people.. i say, let's bring back Guan and let him do the recruitment..

Waiting for the virus to end is not a good idea considering that it could come back during the fall. Nobody knows if Corona will actually go away. If we wait for it to leave, this place will be completely dead.

 

[Dragomir]

Of course, having many sections alone does not guarantee activity. We're giving them layout, scenery, reasons to stick around, the lack of things people have here to discuss is disturbing. Once we have these things we move to another step which being trying to recruit new members, it's not easy but not impossible either, the most important thing we try and don't give up. Trying doesn't include erasing the progress of old players, it's betraying their 2 years of passion they have shown for this RP.

What we need is much like how zoos covet a panda to raise attendance. If the other forums mention the Thrillerbark as having one piece RP, bigger one Piece section, Mafia section with many other sections, that'll surely attract people's attention.

Still, Just attracting people was no guarantee of improving the RP condition. But I do believe it's not late what we need is to make right decisions

I understand what you mean. But the main problem is the advertising part. We can have all the scenery but if we can't get the attendance then there's no point right?

I don't see why another forum would want to advertise this place to their community. There's nothing for them to gain and they could lose members in the process. We can't depend on other forums to advertise for us. We're gonna be much better off just moving the data we got to those forums. A new home field. But I don't see that happening either.