Traveller's Café: Discussion, brainstorming & advice

[Esternial]

I'm wondering; how would I do a good business-themed RP, doing an alternate history on an existing company or area (in my case the motor industry), and their products etc.
It's something different, I suppose, but since I'm new-ish to character RP (mostly writing factbooks or doing global economics and trade on here), how can I make it successful?

I know alternate history is successful on here, but RP'ing isn't always my strong point with them, yet I want to have good fun freeform RP.

Any advice is appreciated!

Maybe if you expanded the scope from auto industry to companies in general. You could pursue a Mad Men-esque RP? You'll have to do your best to keep the blade from going dull, though.

[Cylarn]

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This isn't your average RP involving a military quarantine. There are no zombies, no crazed infected; just normal people. After a biological weapon was released in Terminal C of Logan International Airport, the entire Terminal was quarantined, with over a thousand people inside. As the government races to figure out how the attack occured, the situation for the quarantined civilians worsens, pushing them to the brink.

This seems better suited for II, in my opinion, especially without the 'supernatural' involved. You could give it a shot, though.

It's not related to the NS world, as it is set in the real world, so I guessed that II would not be the most appropriate forum. Should I try posting the link and short description there anyway?

[Esternial]

This seems better suited for II, in my opinion, especially without the 'supernatural' involved. You could give it a shot, though.

It's not related to the NS world, as it is set in the real world, so I guessed that II would not be the most appropriate forum. Should I try posting the link and short description there anyway?

You're free to do so, I'm interested in seeing how it turns out, as I have no idea how to keep it interesting -- it'll be a challenge, I think. Maybe you could link it to your SCP thread? Have the infection caused by a new specimen or something?

[Cylarn]

It's not related to the NS world, as it is set in the real world, so I guessed that II would not be the most appropriate forum. Should I try posting the link and short description there anyway?

You're free to do so, I'm interested in seeing how it turns out, as I have no idea how to keep it interesting -- it'll be a challenge, I think. Maybe you could link it to your SCP thread? Have the infection caused by a new specimen or something?

It's not related to SCP, but it's my own, "original" RP. It's about a new, advanced form of Bubonic Plague that is released into an airport terminal, and it is mainly about a race against time to prevent more fatalities and to figure out how the agent was released. There's some controversy with the biological agent too.

[Asterdan]

Any comments?

Isn't this that Fable RP?

Scroll up a few post and check with Krumbia, he might have something to add to it

No, it's not.

[Wolfmanne]

Seeing as NationStates has never had one, ...

False.

Sorry. I wrote that whilst it was late. Reworded to seeing as NationStates has not recently had one.

[Astholm]

I'm wondering; how would I do a good business-themed RP, doing an alternate history on an existing company or area (in my case the motor industry), and their products etc.
It's something different, I suppose, but since I'm new-ish to character RP (mostly writing factbooks or doing global economics and trade on here), how can I make it successful?

I know alternate history is successful on here, but RP'ing isn't always my strong point with them, yet I want to have good fun freeform RP.

Any advice is appreciated!

Maybe if you expanded the scope from auto industry to companies in general. You could pursue a Mad Men-esque RP? You'll have to do your best to keep the blade from going dull, though.

The motor industry has been a bit dead on Global Economics and Trade, apart from Diamond Star Automotive, but it does need some new customers [not promoting the storefronts here].
I only went with the motor industry based on the maxim 'stick to what you know'. However, if there was a 1990s-set business RP, would that work?

[Strykla]

'Ello!

So I've had a problem with making P2M RPs. I've made several, in fact, and they all die out very quickly, even if I don't think they were poorly made - if you allow me to judge myself. Here is one I did a while ago that didn't make it past three IC pages.

Here is one I just started, and like The Die Is Cast, I have high hopes for it. I'd just like advice on how to prevent its dying like The Die Is Cast.

[Firstaria]

Mmmm, was I thinking, has anyone ever made a Lux Pain RP? Or people would find it offensive since how he would go hitting in these times?

[Forward Islands]

I have an RP concept, it´s about the exploration of an ocean with submarines.

[Maltropia]

I have an RP concept, it´s about the exploration of an ocean with submarines.

That's a bit... vague. Anything else about it? Fantasy setting at all, or are people just going to ram a few squid?

[Asterdan]

Should I go on and make the thread for the Nightblade Chronicles?

[Esternial]

Should I go on and make the thread for the Nightblade Chronicles?

Personally, I wouldn't, but it's your choice.

[Esternial]

'Ello!

So I've had a problem with making P2M RPs. I've made several, in fact, and they all die out very quickly, even if I don't think they were poorly made - if you allow me to judge myself. Here is one I did a while ago that didn't make it past three IC pages.

Here is one I just started, and like The Die Is Cast, I have high hopes for it. I'd just like advice on how to prevent its dying like The Die Is Cast.

Well, you had a small remaining amount of PC's at the end, which might explain its decline somewhat. Malshan had something come up - he dropped out of another thread I'm in - so it's a case of inactivity/loss-of-interest, I reckon. Some people tend to join RPs and without thinking ahead, of which I am the complete opposite: I rarely join RPs because I'm afraid something will come up (that's not good either, since I'm often bored, but nyeh)

I think you should find people who are willing to commit and, what I've noticed, turn the OOC into some kind of pseudo-chat thread. I've seen Elfen High and Zark's Seekers of Infinity exhibit this phenomenon and it seems to keep things going. An active OOC will definitely contribute.

Content-wise, I'm not very sure, maybe it didn't really meet up to people's expectations. All I want to add is that participants should know what they're getting into and not drop out in high quantities. In the end, everyone is to blame. How much depends on the situation.

An RPs fate seems to rest a lot on the people participating in it.

[Esternial]

Maybe if you expanded the scope from auto industry to companies in general. You could pursue a Mad Men-esque RP? You'll have to do your best to keep the blade from going dull, though.

The motor industry has been a bit dead on Global Economics and Trade, apart from Diamond Star Automotive, but it does need some new customers [not promoting the storefronts here].
I only went with the motor industry based on the maxim 'stick to what you know'. However, if there was a 1990s-set business RP, would that work?

Well, what I'm afraid of is that people might find it boring, so maybe adding something extra to it might help. Not sure what, though.

I had this, which is also based on the corporate world - somewhat - although marginally different from yours. Maybe you could extract something useful from it? I don't really plan to using it, unless I somehow change my mind and re-launch it.

[Strykla]

'Ello!

So I've had a problem with making P2M RPs. I've made several, in fact, and they all die out very quickly, even if I don't think they were poorly made - if you allow me to judge myself. Here is one I did a while ago that didn't make it past three IC pages.

Here is one I just started, and like The Die Is Cast, I have high hopes for it. I'd just like advice on how to prevent its dying like The Die Is Cast.

Well, you had a small remaining amount of PC's at the end, which might explain its decline somewhat. Malshan had something come up - he dropped out of another thread I'm in - so it's a case of inactivity/loss-of-interest, I reckon. Some people tend to join RPs and without thinking ahead, of which I am the complete opposite: I rarely join RPs because I'm afraid something will come up (that's not good either, since I'm often bored, but nyeh)

I think you should find people who are willing to commit and, what I've noticed, turn the OOC into some kind of pseudo-chat thread. I've seen Elfen High and Zark's Seekers of Infinity exhibit this phenomenon and it seems to keep things going. An active OOC will definitely contribute.

Content-wise, I'm not very sure, maybe it didn't really meet up to people's expectations. All I want to add is that participants should know what they're getting into and not drop out in high quantities. In the end, everyone is to blame. How much depends on the situation.

An RPs fate seems to rest a lot on the people participating in it.

Hmm. A Battletech RP I'm in seems to have all the activity in the OOC, though that is partially my fault for so rarely posting in the IC.

So if I like to make these epicmega RPs, I suppose I should know that few people will have the time to commit - I can relate, I suppose. Do you think some sort of discretion should be used when accepting apps beyond whether or not they are a good RPer? Like, willingness to stay with it?

[Esternial]

Well, you had a small remaining amount of PC's at the end, which might explain its decline somewhat. Malshan had something come up - he dropped out of another thread I'm in - so it's a case of inactivity/loss-of-interest, I reckon. Some people tend to join RPs and without thinking ahead, of which I am the complete opposite: I rarely join RPs because I'm afraid something will come up (that's not good either, since I'm often bored, but nyeh)

I think you should find people who are willing to commit and, what I've noticed, turn the OOC into some kind of pseudo-chat thread. I've seen Elfen High and Zark's Seekers of Infinity exhibit this phenomenon and it seems to keep things going. An active OOC will definitely contribute.

Content-wise, I'm not very sure, maybe it didn't really meet up to people's expectations. All I want to add is that participants should know what they're getting into and not drop out in high quantities. In the end, everyone is to blame. How much depends on the situation.

An RPs fate seems to rest a lot on the people participating in it.

Hmm. A Battletech RP I'm in seems to have all the activity in the OOC, though that is partially my fault for so rarely posting in the IC.

So if I like to make these epicmega RPs, I suppose I should know that few people will have the time to commit - I can relate, I suppose. Do you think some sort of discretion should be used when accepting apps beyond whether or not they are a good RPer? Like, willingness to stay with it?

Well, if you know people are busy, you might have to be the one to tell them 'no' because you and he/she both know he won't be able to keep up. Get some people that know how to 'work a crowd', so to speak, keep an OOC active and comment about the RP rather than just go with it. Best would be to contact those that you think would be a valuable addition to your RP, while also keeping in mind that these people have an interest for that particular kind of RP.

I wouldn't really know how to keep an OOC rolling, because I'm not really a champ at it myself. This is just my personal view on the matter

[Agritum]

I just noticed that there are more Character RPs than usual.

Sometimes, I miss the Forum 7 days. Nation RPs were the minority, at that time...

[Tiltjuice]

I just noticed that there are more Character RPs than usual.

Sometimes, I miss the Forum 7 days. Nation RPs were the minority, at that time...

Aren't Char RPs the diametric opposite of Nation RPs?

[Firstaria]

Even I don't get that. And I noticed now that we are clear of F7 stuff that things goes by waves, with probably some people just robbing ideas once they see them.

That suprisingly ends up killing the wave, by making good RPers disperse between several threads, sometimes with bad OPers.

[Olthar]

I just noticed that there are more Character RPs than usual.

Sometimes, I miss the Forum 7 days. Nation RPs were the minority, at that time...

I don't. I am so very, very glad that RPs are no longer on F7, and I have barely gone back to that forum since the change. F7 is now pretty much the ass-end of the forum that all the decent people try to ignore.

[Agritum]

I just noticed that there are more Character RPs than usual.

Sometimes, I miss the Forum 7 days. Nation RPs were the minority, at that time...

I don't. I am so very, very glad that RPs are no longer on F7, and I have barely gone back to that forum since the change. F7 is now pretty much the ass-end of the forum that all the decent people try to ignore.

Olthar, I went on F7 ONLY for RPs

[Olthar]

I don't. I am so very, very glad that RPs are no longer on F7, and I have barely gone back to that forum since the change. F7 is now pretty much the ass-end of the forum that all the decent people try to ignore.

Olthar, I went on F7 ONLY for RPs

As did many people, I assume, by F7's distinct drop in activity.

[Firstaria]

In 1994, an experiment did by several scientist in Tokyo by some scientist about a new strange wave of brain activity they found revealed a scary presence of a parasitic psionic life form of life inside some people who were diagnosed as mentally depressed or disturbed. They seemed to be able to feed and provoke emotions like Joy, Sadness, Anger, Hatred and Fear.
In 1995, a public report was presented to ONU. This creatures, called Silents, seemed to have detached from an original body and are impossible to localize until an emotion is formed whitin the host. They tend to create worms to feed on those emotions. Only few of the worms have a chance to survive by attaining the skill to provoke the emotion, usually bounding it to an object. The worm then overshadows the host feelings, and then his brain, transforming it in a dangerous or depressed subject, and usually bringing him to murder and suicide, or simply suicide.
In the same year, the FORT (Force for the Obliteration of the Rising Terror) is formed in order to investigate on the matter and find a cure, but the results are not encouraging at all. The few times a Silent infected is caught, the only possible solution then was the isolation or the elimination of the user, that pretty much didn't do any damages on Silents.
Only in 1997, a survivor to a Silent infection was found, his parasite died after the man managed to survive miraculously his suicide attempt. This man lost any memory of his past, but gained the ability to see the infected although he lost his normal view due to a stange defect to his eye on reading the light signals. Thanks to training, the subject was able to use his view to access psionic powers to remove the worms and read the mind of the infected.
This art was baptized as Sigmun-Anima (Cut-soul) and nicknamed SigMa. Thanks to Sigma, the subjects were able to read minds and finally fight back the massive outbreak.
In 1998, Sigma subjects in the world were around 50-60, most of them in japan, one of the most infected country. Sigma subject divided themselves, as most of them specialized in preventing and curing the infection of worms, but some of them trained their skill fiding a way to destroy Silents directly, but at the cost of the infected brain, reducing it to a vegetable. The first were called Seekers, the second Sweepers. The FORT was forced to regularly deploy Sweepers after test proved the extreme difficulty of a Seeker to remove a Silent, and for ONU human lives were an acceptable price to reduce the outbreak.
Story starts in the 2001, the outbreak has receded, but the hunt to the Originals, the most developed Silents able to completely control an human being and pointed on reproducing by creating new emotions and new Silents, has just begun with no great result, being those smarter and hiding by infecting anyone who could reveal them to FORT.

So, how is this as a stub of the idea?

[Asterdan]

Anyone willing to help Co-OP my Nightblade Chronicles? As ya'll have seen, I'm not the best OP, and could use some help... I'm excited about this one...