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Post by Zucceta on Dec 10, 2013 18:41:49 GMT
It's come to my attention that, often on starting a new forum, activity is slow to begin with if there are too many separate regions/planets that geographically separate roleplayers. Often this is dealt with my everyone migrating to the most popular region (for DBZ, this is Earth) - but this leaves the other planets mostly devoid of activity, again. And, often, forcing people to start on their homeplanets is discouraging.
So this time it's up to you to vote! Should Earth be the only available region, with all races starting there (with a race limit in place, and a good IC reason in the character's history as to why they are on the planet/arriving at Earth if they are a non-Earth born species) or should all homeplanets be readily available from the start, potentially leading to slower initial activity (but acting as a barrier between, say, a noob-level Human and an Arcosian)?
Your vote has as much weight as a staff vote, so don't be scared!
Planets will be unlocked, and race limits removed, once we have a certain amount of members or a certain level of roleplay occurring.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2013 22:18:14 GMT
You know what. Let's go with Earth as the starting place for people. I like that idea.
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Post by Pieter Wolfbane on Dec 13, 2013 9:08:09 GMT
Get to explore the planet first, then later on, get to go exploring space... I like it!
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Post by President Bao on Dec 14, 2013 3:37:29 GMT
Not sure if it's worth doing/a good idea or not but one possibility (to mitigate slightly the kneejerk 'wtf, only earth?' reaction) would be to have like arcose and namek listed (like earth is with it's two sub-sections), except give the other 'closed' worlds no sub-sections to post in yet. That might give the idea that they're out there, and the other races can be coming from them to earth*, but the focus just hasn't turned to them yet/nothing interesting for the players is happening there yet.
*(perhaps a few settlements on earth to help justify why they might come/know of earth of all places, I could imagine a namekian town or two for example, and a few aliens living amoung the people.)
Another thought, with earth as the focus, should the whole forum take on a more dragonball/very early z type theme to begin with, rather than the later dbz style theme?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2013 4:00:16 GMT
I think you're onto something swg. I think we really should do a late Dragon Ball setup. The reason being Goku was an alien, Piccolo was an alien, and Kami was an alien. They all wandered around the globe doing whatever they needed to advance the story, however, Piccolo and Kami were characters one could clearly not mistake as human. Still Kami and Piccolo made a good story because both showed how non-humans could effect the world. One was good and the other was clearly evil and for that reason their rivalry to gain control of the other or stop the other was a good setup for Dragon Ball.
After him, well, I think most of the non-humans were entirely evil. Thus making it a real downer. At least that's how I see later DBZ stuff since Goku spent so much time killing non-humans instead of trying to befriend them. None seemed to want to be friendly with Goku and thus he made it a big deal to show he was not going to be friendly with them when he had to. I actually have not seen too much of Dragon Ball itself after their very first tournament so I'm actually trying to go back and watch the entire series from the beginning to understand why so many people like DBZ a lot. Overall though, I believe a Dragon Ball setup would be a great way to attract newcomers. They could understand the entire series from its base roots and get a quick lesson in basics about the series. I.E. we would make the place beginner friendly a bit.
Of course, I think the issue with this might be we would be working possibly with a continuation of WODR's standpoint from what I know of what Boliko has said of the plot. It's not in full swing yet though so it could easily change to accommodate newcomers. All I know is something basic is better to use than say the kind of confusing, jumbled writing I've just posted here.
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Post by Zucceta on Jan 1, 2014 13:28:58 GMT
If those who'd voted Earth and ? would like to suggest the ? to me, thanks.
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Post by Jeska Ketsu on Jan 1, 2014 16:06:19 GMT
Well if we are only starting with Earth where would the Saiyan King be? So I suppose the ? could be Vegeta.
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Post by Zucceta on Jan 1, 2014 17:38:44 GMT
Everyone's heading to Earth for the starting plot.
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