Post by President Bao on Apr 2, 2014 11:35:50 GMT
So, with Akio giving his farewell and the site having slowed I think it's about time we have another vote, this one to decide where we go from here. I thought of 3 main options myself, but if others think of more feel free to post them and I can ad to the poll.
Keep going - while we started off with a decent minimum amount of characters, most of those people headed off for various personal reasons, or registered characters and wrote their beginners post, but then didn't go any further. Unfortunately this happened a second time, leaving us with very few *active* members to work with.
Still, if those who remain are motivated to continue(which will require us all to pull together and step up), I will do my part to keep on grading threads and reviewing apps, as well as playing Bao.
Go back into standby - like when the site first started, we could revert back into 'standby' mode and attempt to drum up enough invested members again. I still strongly support it's 3 principals (player-driven, canon-faithful, and openly-democratic), though I'm realistic enough to see we clearly do not have enough people, and that by not allowing enough for these 'drop outs' we've fallen into the same ditch many other places do - unfortunately that means I'm not sure when or even if we'd be able to get enough interest for a reopening particularly soon, since we'd want to avoid a repeat of what happened first time (particularly positions like the rulers of arcose and vegeta).
Move to Awakening (dragonballawakening.proboards.com/) - Some of you (resurrection members) will remember Awakening, but for those of you who are new - before this site, a number of the members here were part of 'World of Dragonball: Resurrection'. When that site closed, and before Souls came to be, a few different successor attempts were made by different people.
The most successful of which is Awakening(operated by our pals from 'the protectorate'), not quite as active as Resurrection was, but still quite decent.
I've actually been chatting with them about the prospect of a merger for a little while now, seeing if their direction and our direction here was compatible. ((I've seen/been around for several DBZ RP startings and have gotten a feel for the pattern, as soon as we lost a number of our key starter players and no longer had 5 daily active posters I knew we were losing steam))
Unfortunately, they are not as open/democratic as our focus here, and have a few other differences in structure, but for the most part it is a lot like how Resurrection use to be run. It's looking like you will be allowed to 'transfer' your character to their site(keeping the pl and items you have earned here), with some minor retcons to your history to fit into their continuity - I'm about to conclude my talks with them, and they've definitely expressed interest in welcoming any who decide to join up and are a good bunch of friendly people.
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Personally, I feel the last option is the best one for you guys, as you'll be joining a healthy community and get to dive right into RPing like you want to, without losing your character from here, but the decision is up to you guys/gals Cast your votes and let your voice be heard!
Keep going - while we started off with a decent minimum amount of characters, most of those people headed off for various personal reasons, or registered characters and wrote their beginners post, but then didn't go any further. Unfortunately this happened a second time, leaving us with very few *active* members to work with.
Still, if those who remain are motivated to continue(which will require us all to pull together and step up), I will do my part to keep on grading threads and reviewing apps, as well as playing Bao.
Go back into standby - like when the site first started, we could revert back into 'standby' mode and attempt to drum up enough invested members again. I still strongly support it's 3 principals (player-driven, canon-faithful, and openly-democratic), though I'm realistic enough to see we clearly do not have enough people, and that by not allowing enough for these 'drop outs' we've fallen into the same ditch many other places do - unfortunately that means I'm not sure when or even if we'd be able to get enough interest for a reopening particularly soon, since we'd want to avoid a repeat of what happened first time (particularly positions like the rulers of arcose and vegeta).
Move to Awakening (dragonballawakening.proboards.com/) - Some of you (resurrection members) will remember Awakening, but for those of you who are new - before this site, a number of the members here were part of 'World of Dragonball: Resurrection'. When that site closed, and before Souls came to be, a few different successor attempts were made by different people.
The most successful of which is Awakening(operated by our pals from 'the protectorate'), not quite as active as Resurrection was, but still quite decent.
I've actually been chatting with them about the prospect of a merger for a little while now, seeing if their direction and our direction here was compatible. ((I've seen/been around for several DBZ RP startings and have gotten a feel for the pattern, as soon as we lost a number of our key starter players and no longer had 5 daily active posters I knew we were losing steam))
Unfortunately, they are not as open/democratic as our focus here, and have a few other differences in structure, but for the most part it is a lot like how Resurrection use to be run. It's looking like you will be allowed to 'transfer' your character to their site(keeping the pl and items you have earned here), with some minor retcons to your history to fit into their continuity - I'm about to conclude my talks with them, and they've definitely expressed interest in welcoming any who decide to join up and are a good bunch of friendly people.
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Personally, I feel the last option is the best one for you guys, as you'll be joining a healthy community and get to dive right into RPing like you want to, without losing your character from here, but the decision is up to you guys/gals Cast your votes and let your voice be heard!