About the Future of TST

[saltybirds]

Hello, The Sky Tides! The mods would like to thank each and every player we've had for making the game a success! That said, this post is about the future of the game. In the past, people talked about the possibility of a reboot, and recently some other players have mentioned their own continuation. Since it seems that everybody has their own ideas

Comments

[electro_phoenix]

Unless you took this Reial and sent it several hundred years into the future, I don't think a continuation would go very well, with some characters crucial to another's CR being unable to return because of life, or muse loss, or what have you. A reboot might be better in the long run, honestly. Fresh world, fresh histories, fresh CR. It'll also open it up to newcomers better than a continuation would.

Should a reboot be planned, I'm all for helping get the world set up, but right now I can't actually mod-mod. Maybe be a human FAQ or something but XD;;

[windsofdaytime]

Speak for yourself. *haunts Reial forever*

[fangofjustice]

I second all this.

It'll need a snappy subtitle, though, so people know it's a whole new ball game.

[electro_phoenix]

Or a new name with the same acronym.

[fangofjustice]

I think I'd prefer it stay The Sky Tides. That way the old communities can be reused.

Though I think I'd like to see another community made for journal posts. Ever since I've tried a comm-based game, I've felt it's ridiculously more convenient than journal-based.

[edge_of_honor]

I do agree on making it a comm based game. When we started this version of TST, it wasn't really something we considered. In hindsight I think we just made it journal based because we were so used to that format that we simply took it for granted.

[electro_phoenix]

Keeping the same name implies the same game, if it's a reboot. It might throw some new people off.

[nique]

I... don't think that's necessarily true. Does your life end every time your friends have to leave? Besides, It's sort of insulting to those of us who lost major CR while the game was in progress, and had to learn to cope with it.

I'd really prefer a continuation over a reboot. I have characters with three years of effort in them that would make me want to continue. With a reboot, I have zero reason to hang around, especially when I'm playing with so many of our players in other games.

[drinkitlovelife]

The thing is, some people don't plan to play their characters anymore because they've lost the muse or they're frustrated with the canon, but for the sake of the happy ending, stuck with them this long. In some of these cases, these characters are officially stated to be with their friends. An official continuation would cause that a lot of problems.

[myworknotme]

I wonder if it might be possible to do a restart, but let some people keep CR? I'm not even sure how that would work at all, but it would seem to me that if there were a way to do it, it would solve both problems.

I can definitely understand how it is for the folks who don't want to play some of their characters any more--I'm getting fairly burned out on Dimo myself, and endgame is a marvelous place to leave him and let him go off exploring the world below. However, I came into the game only a little over a year ago with Ari, and am at that place where there's just enough CR that's been started that I don't want to have to re-RP it all over again, and would prefer to keep it if I can.