Bingellia wrote:I don't usually comment here, but I lurk often enough.
Since the Andromeda group RPs were recently mentioned and Discord seems to be a common theme here as of late, I'll add a dissenting opinion, since I co-op for a few of the RPs and I'm the most active mod in the discord. I personally don't think we would be as successful without it. It's really helped us build a community through the fact that the discord isn't limited on topic, which, as mentioned before, is key to longevity
To back this up, our least successful RP, The Endless Knot, had the least proportion of players who joined also join the discord. I'm not going to say that it has helped with the immediate short-term attrition because I simply don't have the data to back it, but I do think I can say that it has helped keep a core player base involved. And perhaps Knot's failure was a result of certain players actions rather than the proportion active on Discord (though for reference, they did not join the discord).
Oh that's nonesense. If you aren't going to have an NS RP with just NSers, then what's the point of having the RP on NS, huh? Does the Mafia still call itself the Mafia if it's not purely Italian?