Pax Nerdvana wrote:I don't even have Discord.
I have one, but will never use it for a RP. An OOC having a Discord seems to be a major contributor to thread death.
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by Hanafuridake » Thu Mar 14, 2019 1:47 pm
Pax Nerdvana wrote:I don't even have Discord.
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by Grenartia » Sat Mar 16, 2019 12:42 pm
Finland SSR wrote:Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States wrote:Yeah, and it creates two classes: those who are available at the same time as the OP, who can contribute massively to the RP and the world building, and those who are not. Those who are not get left behind quickly, as discord is not at all easy to read back on.
This is not a Discord-exclusive concept, the exact same thing can and does develop in roleplays which do not use any sort of extra-forum communication and do all of the planning on the OOC. I can personally attest to that - I live in the worst possible timezone for role-playing, as I'm available when it's night and morning in the Western Hemisphere, so 90% of all chatter takes place when I am asleep, and back when the Infinite Justice series was big and moving quickly, I would always miss important planning and story discussion because all of it would take place during my night and I'd wake up to a complete discussion with nothing to add.
Perhaps this is because I hold no nostalgia for highly active OOC threads (waking up to four pages of OOC chatter every morning and having to shift through it for any information which may be important was never something I liked), but I believe that Discord is a better method of OOC communication than OOC threads. But only as long as you use Discord right, instead of just slapping down a basic server and calling it a day. Pins and separate announcements channels allow all the participants to quickly find important information in one place, and mentions allow them to find where they are personally required instead of shifting through pages of pages of OOC to find anything they are needed in. The Discord search function is a lot better than the NS one, too.
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by Barapam » Sat Mar 16, 2019 12:44 pm
Grenartia wrote:Finland SSR wrote:This is not a Discord-exclusive concept, the exact same thing can and does develop in roleplays which do not use any sort of extra-forum communication and do all of the planning on the OOC. I can personally attest to that - I live in the worst possible timezone for role-playing, as I'm available when it's night and morning in the Western Hemisphere, so 90% of all chatter takes place when I am asleep, and back when the Infinite Justice series was big and moving quickly, I would always miss important planning and story discussion because all of it would take place during my night and I'd wake up to a complete discussion with nothing to add.
Perhaps this is because I hold no nostalgia for highly active OOC threads (waking up to four pages of OOC chatter every morning and having to shift through it for any information which may be important was never something I liked), but I believe that Discord is a better method of OOC communication than OOC threads. But only as long as you use Discord right, instead of just slapping down a basic server and calling it a day. Pins and separate announcements channels allow all the participants to quickly find important information in one place, and mentions allow them to find where they are personally required instead of shifting through pages of pages of OOC to find anything they are needed in. The Discord search function is a lot better than the NS one, too.
Oh, and, custom emojis too.
Here's the thing, though. The most successful RPs have active OOC threads. Having the OOC thread pop up often whenever someone clicks "view your posts" is a constant reminder that the RP exists, and there's probably developments to pay attention to, or at least just fun bantz, and that they should be thinking about their next IC post. And, more often than not, the IC is conveniently linked to in the OOC (or else also pops up in the egosearch, near the OOC thread).
Discord, while allowing immediate chat and bantz, actually has a bit more of a bad search function, no linking to posts, etc.
The only solution to the active disco/inactive OOC problem is if the person running the server and RP decides to actively restrict the kinds of conversations happening on the discord, which comes across as a dick move to everyone else, making them less interested in participating in the RP at all, even just shitposting in the OOC.
by Finland SSR » Sat Mar 16, 2019 3:53 pm
Grenartia wrote:Finland SSR wrote:This is not a Discord-exclusive concept, the exact same thing can and does develop in roleplays which do not use any sort of extra-forum communication and do all of the planning on the OOC. I can personally attest to that - I live in the worst possible timezone for role-playing, as I'm available when it's night and morning in the Western Hemisphere, so 90% of all chatter takes place when I am asleep, and back when the Infinite Justice series was big and moving quickly, I would always miss important planning and story discussion because all of it would take place during my night and I'd wake up to a complete discussion with nothing to add.
Perhaps this is because I hold no nostalgia for highly active OOC threads (waking up to four pages of OOC chatter every morning and having to shift through it for any information which may be important was never something I liked), but I believe that Discord is a better method of OOC communication than OOC threads. But only as long as you use Discord right, instead of just slapping down a basic server and calling it a day. Pins and separate announcements channels allow all the participants to quickly find important information in one place, and mentions allow them to find where they are personally required instead of shifting through pages of pages of OOC to find anything they are needed in. The Discord search function is a lot better than the NS one, too.
Oh, and, custom emojis too.
Here's the thing, though. The most successful RPs have active OOC threads. Having the OOC thread pop up often whenever someone clicks "view your posts" is a constant reminder that the RP exists, and there's probably developments to pay attention to, or at least just fun bantz, and that they should be thinking about their next IC post. And, more often than not, the IC is conveniently linked to in the OOC (or else also pops up in the egosearch, near the OOC thread).
Discord, while allowing immediate chat and bantz, actually has a bit more of a bad search function, no linking to posts, etc.
The only solution to the active disco/inactive OOC problem is if the person running the server and RP decides to actively restrict the kinds of conversations happening on the discord, which comes across as a dick move to everyone else, making them less interested in participating in the RP at all, even just shitposting in the OOC.
by State of Yelm » Sat Mar 16, 2019 5:12 pm
by Vanquaria » Fri Mar 22, 2019 12:20 am
State of Yelm wrote:do yall think a modernish day life/organized crime RP would thrive or do these not exist anymore
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by Talchyon » Wed Apr 03, 2019 11:22 am
Barapam wrote:Right now, I don't know what to post at all in any of the rp:s I'm in. My mind is completely blank. I still enjoy checking the forums, and creating characters, but when it comes to actually writing, it's like it's almost pysically impossible sometimes when I stare at the screen and try to come up with something. The worst is that it in a way feels like I'm letting my co-rp:ers down.
I guess this is just writer's bloc, but I don't think I've had such a bad case of it as this before. Any tricks to fix it?
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by G-Tech Corporation » Wed Apr 03, 2019 1:27 pm
Barapam wrote:Right now, I don't know what to post at all in any of the rp:s I'm in. My mind is completely blank. I still enjoy checking the forums, and creating characters, but when it comes to actually writing, it's like it's almost pysically impossible sometimes when I stare at the screen and try to come up with something. The worst is that it in a way feels like I'm letting my co-rp:ers down.
I guess this is just writer's bloc, but I don't think I've had such a bad case of it as this before. Any tricks to fix it?
by Vanquaria » Wed Apr 03, 2019 1:33 pm
Barapam wrote:Right now, I don't know what to post at all in any of the rp:s I'm in. My mind is completely blank. I still enjoy checking the forums, and creating characters, but when it comes to actually writing, it's like it's almost pysically impossible sometimes when I stare at the screen and try to come up with something. The worst is that it in a way feels like I'm letting my co-rp:ers down.
I guess this is just writer's bloc, but I don't think I've had such a bad case of it as this before. Any tricks to fix it?
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by G-Tech Corporation » Mon Apr 22, 2019 3:20 pm
Kaziimar wrote:Would anybody be interested in a navy RP (fictional navy of course) where you start as a midshipman and you try juggling your life with rising through the ranks as an impending war starts to come up?
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