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We can raid role play severs and dm them the link with a copy and paste guideline. If we get 10 people to do it and they each dm it to like 50 ppl which takes like 5 minutes we could probably get a couple people. And steadily just repeat it over and over.
 
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Dragomir said:
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.
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True. In the end, the problem lies with the methods. Though we won't get anywhere if all we do is moan about how shoddily the section has become. So we're gonna need a very good reason for other forums to accept such an offer, It is as you say, we can't move that to another platform either when the entire point TB was to continue RP.

We have to think of some dangerous stuff to bring the activity and I alone can't come with something like that you know that if for once everyone stops thinking about reset, desperate attempt to bring activity without noticing the precautions of those actions we may very well able to come up with a good idea, I say everyone should start brainstorming to how to bring activity without those desperate attempts

Borrow from Frayz and Gochi
Frayz said:
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
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Gochi said:
  • 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.
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The best way to achieve consistent active RP members is to make them feel his RP is charismatic, but the question stands how are we gonna do that? This would be faith and love, blah blah blah just kidding.

If possible, during this time of pandemic we can use it to take our RP to another level, upgrade things, the reason our RP never introduced many new things is that "First let the current islands be conquered or explored" we need to introduce new islands nearly 30 to 50 IMO, we can give new players variety to explore, levels were never the problem but lack of island variety for low-level players since we can't force someone into "Finish the current islands first" we're not here to force someone into finishing the current islands we here to present an open world to them where they can choose something unique, something that caught their eye, why should we just limited to just these islands when we can present dozens of islands? that's one piece RP where you can introduce many islands to explore, this is the pirate world, we should use that theme to its fullest potential
 
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Oreki said:
The best way to achieve consistent active RP members is to make them feel his RP is charismatic, but the question stands how are we gonna do that?
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This^

A lot of the fun of an RP is how it has it's own unique history that you can be involved in, an environment of resets is simply going to remove this aspect from the game in my opinion.

I recently joined a game with a 21 year history and I feel like such a small fry because of that but the prospect of it is actually exciting because it'll be a bigger deal when I do accomplish something there. I wouldn't feel the same way if they had a history of resets though, so if it happens here I don't think it'll work like people want it to.
 
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Wow, even the RP is getting a reboot? :blobwat:

Jokes aside, I don't think I could get into RP if everything restarted. Considering how far along things are, I don't think a restart would achieve much apart from having to retread ground already covered. Now, that *might* give me an opportunity to give certain portions a rewrite, but honestly I don't know if I would want to do that. I want to move forward with the story, and restarting would be the opposite.
 
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Dragomir said:
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.
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Yeah I agree with all of that
 
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Ziosa said:
not when you have other stuff to do in the day. i spend around 35 mins doing a posts, but i try and concentrate on just the post so it would be more otherwise; ik others spend like an hour or more on just one too.

its not about being fast or successful; its about having fun and enjoying it, which is the entire point of playing it
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If only i could write a post in an hour. I need three hours for a small post, plus days of mental preparation.
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I'm all caught up now. I also don't like the idea of a restart.
Just restaeting whenever activity gets low will have very diminishing returns.
I think a strong continuity and history are very big draws for this RP.
Though i do like @Gochi's and @Frayz's ideas.

Some suggestions from me:
-Custom islands created by the community in the Gen Chat, maybe one per month
-Allowing custom devil fruits (with a hefty exp cost)
-Store item: "Second Player Character" 300.000 EXP
Raising the max level to 120 with a very steep curve

Promoting activity for Thriller Bark as a whole:
-New custom backgrounds (I don't 100% like both options. I liked ojs orange)
-Advertising on YouTube. (Its not in direct competition, maybe a anime youtuber could do a sponsored video. Dont know how much they might take. I first got into my first forum through YouTube)
-Power level discussions? Gaimon 0-diffs Zorro and Sanji!

Thats one of my two cents. Here is the other:
I myself have been very inactive again due to being busy and needing a certain mindset to write, so I decided to blackmail myself.
I bought animal crossing, and i am not going to open the package until i get activity. And after that, every week without activity will result in one week without animal crossing/letting one of my villagers go.
 
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