Fluxxation
The Axe
A summary is, by nature, not the entire plot word for word, it’s a succinct description of the important events and occurrences within the plot. You’re right, it won’t be like merging the entire RP into a new thread, even if that did happen, it would still leave the main issue that there’s just too much to know about TLRPPW. So many outdated plot points, dead ends, and misleading info makes it a mess to backread, only those discussing it elsewhere OOC really knowing what the hell is going on in full. It’s created a group of people who know, and a group who don’t, making it VERY hard to get into for someone unsure if they want to join. It has to be a blind leap for them, and some people just can’t do that, not when an RP has gotten as serious as this one.Personally, I would rather not. Moving RPs to new threads always feels very iffy to me considering it causes one part of the story to be harder to find (being in a completely different spot, and no, summaries/recaps/whateveryouwannacallthem do not solve this in the slightest)
A summary would be given and the story would immediately return to where it left off. You’ll have to backread the old thread maybe twice for recent posts right before the new thread until the plot has fully marched into the new thread.
Yes, you could, but at the end of that, I can assure you that you would still have no idea what’s going on, which plots are still going and which aren’t, and most of all, you’d have quite a lot of info that you don’t exactly need.and as such doesn't actually fix the problem of needing to backread. If anything, it makes it worse by needing to backread two shorter threads instead of just one long one. Speaking as someone with no attention span, and using let's plays as my example, I can actually watch longer ones in a short time when I actually try to do so. I could probably backread all of TLRPPW in a few weeks if not for the fact some parts hurt me inside.
If there’s 15 OOC posts required before actually understanding what’s going on, not to mention the several days it may take for all those people to find and provide said information, then don’t you think that makes the exact same plot disruption you dislike so much? By having them in an OOC or a master post, you can have instant access to all the baseline info you’ll need for basic plot points and characters, meaning you can ask IC for more info, keeping the plot going and offering newer and more relevant info to those backreading that they may need to hear.If the problem is that character descriptions are buried... *sigh* why does it feel like nobody realizes they can just, like, ask for a reposted description? Especially for my characters, all descriptions are stored on my computer mainly because it makes them easier to post when asked to, with the ease of updating being more of a bonus than the main reason.
And what of conflicting information or locations? We each hold some puzzle pieces of this RP, and if we don’t work to put it together so that people can see the bigger picture, they have to do all that work themselves just to participate.Same for plot-related things. Again, I could at least decently explain the things regarding my active characters (I keep these location notes for a reason...), and I doubt I'm the only one.
Please don’t let your emotions get ahead of the betterment of this RP though, I hope you can see my intent here. I love TLRPPW a lot and that’s exactly why I think we need to work on it. It’ll reinvigorate the RP too! For example:I don't want to go further into my opinion as I can tell my emotions are getting hard to keep under control and I have work to do in Minecraft creative.
I would have a higher chance of coming back to tlrppw if this happened but honestly I still probably wouldn't come back anyway.
Do I still even rp on the forums at all anymore?
Ehh whatever, personally I would appreciate this change (if I ever go back to rp) since its apparent as time went on, I started to lose track of freeform rps and preferred the more "plotted" kind.
Maybe I could pick back up old characters and start using ones I made off-forums if I can settle on their info.
and Flad hearting my message. That’s 3 people interested in joining if a new thread appears, a whole, what, half the size of the people still active, if it’s even that? If you want TLRPPW to continue to run at all, I think it’s pretty clear it needs this.