Warning: This thread might become very long. Plus it regards everyone in TFF who is a role-player, a fighter, or someone thinking about getting into either professions. For anyone else who does not care about RPing, you can exit this thread now.
Alright, I'm going to make this clear and to the point. After several weeks if not a month or more of being inactive, I have had an epiphany. It involves Factions, the one thing that was apart of the Club forum for a long time and helped bring out a lot of activity and interaction between the role-players. For members that are new, factions are more or less clans that added a combat element to role-playing, which acted as progress for the storylines. (Seriously, what story isn't progressed without conflict?)
So what was my epiphany you ask? Andromeda made a mistake. Two years ago he decided to ban factions, and understandably so. Back then, both RPing and the club forum was a dying breed that produced more drama than it did good role-playing. Today, I would like to rectify that mistake by bringing factions back, but with a couple twist.
1. Groups will be placed in subforums in the Club forum. (Privately, mind you.)
2. Factions will now have a sense of direction it never really had before. Back then, the Club forum was nothing more than a high school where kids grouped together to create stereotypical factions and fight each other. This time that's not how it's going to be. This new direction is going to be based on a DEFAULT storyline, except there will be almost no restrictions as to what type of characters people can create or what they can do. Basically, it'll be based on a world where everyone will live on the same role-playing world with whatever goal their factions promote.
For example, if someone wants to create a Shinra faction that wants to take over the world, they can. Just suspect groups like AVALANCHE to sprout up in rebellion. Oh, the suspense /sarcasm. (I should mention not all groups can be about combat. If you just wanna be a clan of ninja thieves, that's great to.)
3. Factions must be officially approved before joining the role-play world.
4. Stricter policies. I know Andro hates drama, so these factions will strictly be role-playing based. The faction group forums will not be used to simply chat with other members about OOC bullshit. If a faction wants to talk about boobs, do it on a messenger or VMs. A faction will get three warnings and then they'll be suspended and characters frozen until the suspension is up.
5. Special events will be added for everyone to join. From tournaments and such, factions will get a chance to show themselves off the same way a football team shows what they learned during summer practices.
Anyway, that's mostly what I have right now about the subject. If anyone would like to back me in doing this, contact me via PM, VM, or MSNM.
I know this will work. I've seen it work. All it needs is a direction and the communication between the people who would like to see the role-playing forums alive again. This is my last stand to breathe life into something that just needs an oil change to start running. If you give a damn about this site and these role-playing forums, you'll join me.
Rise up.
Originally Posted by Griffith
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