i am the ultimate masochist
So. Oh god I should not be posting this right not. LAB REPORT. Hnnnnnnnnng.
ANYWAYS.
Everyone. Y'all need to slap me for being too ambitious. I mean, I still have those ten college essays to write. By next week.
So what's the logical thing for me to do?
That's right.
COME UP WITH AN RP IDEA
The premise is simple enough: Your character wakes up the the lonesome Old, Wild, Wild, West. It's a historically based RP (based on a time I don't even really enjoy, oh god why am I doing this), which means I have to do a shit ton of my PHD-level history research (no joke here guys, seriously. I read primary texts from Muslim historians dating back to the 1100's. For fun). HOWEVER. I THINK THIS WOULD BE AWESOME GAME BECAUSE OF HOW IT WOULD BE MANAGED.
So, there's a main comm, right? Which is all: Yaaaaaaaaaaaay~ We're the main comm~ Here's the premiiise~ You're character's inthe wildwildwild west! A New Frontier! There is only ONE TOWN. AND THAT IS THE TOWN YOU START IN, aka the off-shoot of the main comm or something. And, while your character can stay in the main town. Here's the kicker. The thing that makes it different, and probably near-impossible to manage.
You're encouraged to have your character explore the area. Settle new towns (new comms which link back to the main comm/follow the same rules of the main comm/follow continuity of the main comm but are otherwise completely independent). The towns would be player-built. Player-run. Each with it's own politics.
Think those life simulation/settlement games. Yeah. I want to try to adapt that into an rp. People always complain about jamjar rp's. Well, I want to make the complete opposite.
I want to make a sandbox.
I'm seeing it as an experiment on how things develop/where people would take things. BECAUSE I FIND THAT INTERESTING.
Sooooo. Any of you interested in this? Anyone got tips on how to actually start this up?
Anyone want to tell me this is a shitty idea, greer why are you doing this when you've got ten bajillion other things you've got to get down like those college essays or those lecture request letters to ben templesmith and david hadju and jon j muth and oh dear god.
ANYWAYS.
Everyone. Y'all need to slap me for being too ambitious. I mean, I still have those ten college essays to write. By next week.
So what's the logical thing for me to do?
That's right.
COME UP WITH AN RP IDEA
The premise is simple enough: Your character wakes up the the lonesome Old, Wild, Wild, West. It's a historically based RP (based on a time I don't even really enjoy, oh god why am I doing this), which means I have to do a shit ton of my PHD-level history research (no joke here guys, seriously. I read primary texts from Muslim historians dating back to the 1100's. For fun). HOWEVER. I THINK THIS WOULD BE AWESOME GAME BECAUSE OF HOW IT WOULD BE MANAGED.
So, there's a main comm, right? Which is all: Yaaaaaaaaaaaay~ We're the main comm~ Here's the premiiise~ You're character's inthe wildwildwild west! A New Frontier! There is only ONE TOWN. AND THAT IS THE TOWN YOU START IN, aka the off-shoot of the main comm or something. And, while your character can stay in the main town. Here's the kicker. The thing that makes it different, and probably near-impossible to manage.
You're encouraged to have your character explore the area. Settle new towns (new comms which link back to the main comm/follow the same rules of the main comm/follow continuity of the main comm but are otherwise completely independent). The towns would be player-built. Player-run. Each with it's own politics.
Think those life simulation/settlement games. Yeah. I want to try to adapt that into an rp. People always complain about jamjar rp's. Well, I want to make the complete opposite.
I want to make a sandbox.
I'm seeing it as an experiment on how things develop/where people would take things. BECAUSE I FIND THAT INTERESTING.
Sooooo. Any of you interested in this? Anyone got tips on how to actually start this up?
Anyone want to tell me this is a shitty idea, greer why are you doing this when you've got ten bajillion other things you've got to get down like those college essays or those lecture request letters to ben templesmith and david hadju and jon j muth and oh dear god.