July 5, 2017 - 5:32am — LowLights
I kinda had an idea for natural disaster events. They don't have to happen every year and such like the rut does. Everyone can participate if they want, do whatever they want with their character, if they don't want their character to die then they don't have to, if they want them to, they can even make a character up just for that event or toss in one they need to get rid of, etc.
By "natural disaster" I mean stuff like a famine, a plague, tornado, etc.
Since not a lot of bad stuff happens in RP that a large group of people play out like the rut and usually when it does, it's within a plot that other people did together and not really an open disaster event.
Just kind of an idea?? Idk what others will think of it though. It could maybe put characters to the test with their tactics or help character growth, maybe even set a little bit of TEF history?
I think it's been attempted
It's difficult. I grew up in roleplays where it was a rule that you can't ignore the characters of ooc people you dislike...so global roleplay flowed smoothly between faction and private roleplays in the same world. People won't allow that to happen here sadly. I tried back when I was new 5 years ago.
Maybe someday, if the player dynamics change enough. It would be very nice to have this. We already have rain, snow, and fog, as well as a twilight that occurs, and sometimes smaller random things for special events. The admins do those.
Yeah, it'd be nice if it can
I'd like to see natural disaster events happen. If it did happen, I myself wouldn't do it as I have no experience with holding events whatsoever and a small player compared to others on TEF so I doubt it'd attract much attention like when you said they'd need to be well-known and well-liked.
for something like that, all
Yeah, that'd be cool.
Yeah. Maybe not daily, but
Would be nice. A bit of flooding around the pond and lower-altitude land. Stuff like that.
Little minor stuff could
I think bigger stuff like a tornado, famine, plagues, maybe even forest fire?? would happen maybe once a year, maybe two-- who knows.
Yeah, that would be
Maybe some day. We could always hope.
Yeah, all we really can do
Be optimistic, LL. The
^what cyda said stuff like
stuff like this is great for keeping the roleplay part of the community from feeling stale, because we do sort of fall into a rut (hah) of where we roleplay slice of life stuff a little too much and some people want some action lol
in fact more people need to make some event type things happen more often...besides like the Rut and such. I remember a long while back someone hosted a ball? or did they call it the tef prom lol...either way it was a dance event that if I'm remembering correctly was a huge success. It might be cool to have holiday events as well, like for Halloween and such...damn, I might just join your efforts to get events rolling in the forest lol there's so many possibilities~
Usually what helps get people involved and interested in participating is if you have something tangible they can see and interact with. So if you wanted to have an event that affects site-wide roleplay, start a thread first, lay out the whole deal for people to see and think about, maybe have an example and start some story off yourself (your writing is actually very nice), and throw up some art on it or ask nicely if anyone wants to volunteer some art for it. And then once you get the ball rolling on the site you can probably figure out a way to host something in-game. If you show people you're putting in the effort to see something through they're more willing to join because there's something they can actually see that promises them if they join and put their on effort in, they'll get something back from it, no one likes empty promises so showing them you mean business is a good start!
In the early days of when I got here before you saw a bunch of traditional roleplay here I saw people do this sort of idea, but in story form. They'd have the whole event or story planned out, and then put out a call for characters to volunteer for certain parts or just in general, and you'd watch everything unfold from there. It was pretty cool and everyone back then seemed to enjoy it, so you never know, lightning might strike twice
The problem is with this sort of stuff is usually we're all so painfully shy and wary of stepping on someone's toes that we just never take the leap into anything, but some gentle encouragement and patience and you might just start something cool. It's always worth the shot because you never know until you try c:
I'd need a lot of help with
There's not a whole lot of action that's like an event besides the rut, but even then it's not something that's severe as natural disasters. Mostly all we get that the community takes part in is in-game it's a rainy day or foggy and you'll most likely see that in the character updates, I'd love to see how people made out with their characters in a disaster instead of "was dowsed with a bit of rain" it'd be really awesome and exciting for the community to take part and have something more dramatic or severe such as; "days into the plague and many had become zombified, their skin ravaged with fleas and parasites" such like that.
Holidays would be awesome too, like maybe for Christmas characters can exchange possessions, trading, gifting, etc.
Being shy is definitely something that would hold it back, since I was worse with being shy a little while back. After being shown that the majority of people are really chill and don't mind on TEF, it's gotten a bit better. So, if anyone is shy, maybe show them that it's perfectly okay, everyone can join and if there's problems then to contact each other in private but stay civilized? I also sometimes see people being a bit skittish with gifting people like art of someone else's characters, so maybe pre-permission on the event saying it's fine to draw whatever's happening or write it, RP it, whatever and chances are it could be shown on the event page??
Art and literature would definitely be a must, we'd have to show what the disaster looked like, explain it, how bad it is and how much it could affect the characters(who entered the event with consent of the player) in the event so nobody gets confused and has to ask just how bad it is and such.
Maybe there could be a discord group for when the events happen to?
(also ty for the compliment aa)
I can def see this happening
There are some problems I can see tho... might be weird if some players are avoiding the pond while others dive in aha.
Also as for discord, I think this kind of thing should be kept announced and controlled on the community site personally- it's just easier for everyone to see it, and less private.
Yeah, that's true. It'd
for Christmas we had a player
But I don't know. We could give it a try. Wouldn't hurt, right?
We could. Whether it's a
True. Possibly a good thing
Possibly a good thing to do would be to make a new picto (or use an old one), name it "Global Events", make just ONE post describing what the thread is for, then make a section-off that will tell everyone what the current global event is. We can even expand it past natural disasters and have just like an ultra-strong enemy in the forest that will need everyone (read: MANY) to join in to kill, like a raid of sorts. We can even have people to play the bad guy and maybe some weaker minions. Use pictos that don't really have a purpose anymore.
That'd be really interesting
Yeah basically. It would fail
Yeah, I might have to post
well, I'm certainly
I used to admin the TEF deviant art group and art and story development is part of my job, might as well use it for something |D, because if not here at some point down the line I was going to try and tie an event into the story I have planned anyways lol
And too many people don't
Yeah, I might make a journal
I don't have discord. I guess
Yeah, I got skype recently