Tomas Elliot

Dobby, the more introvert you are IRL, the more you tend to talk and get stuff off your chest on the internet. I think the Ace-exclusive section of this very forum is all the proof you need of this. So, before this turns into the usual, Reborn-style quarrel about how people feel in regards to minor issues that have absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand, I take it upon myself to get back on track: there IS a lack of playerindependance in our roleplays. This has to do with 3 factors: 1) Personal issues (some people just aren't good at taking initiative) 2) Game-related issues (some people just aren't good roleplayers, I know one thing or two about that from my experience with the YGO roleplay) 3) Forum-related issues (the fact that each roleplay takes place in a single topic, which I expanded on in a previous post of mine) We should try and find solutions for each of these points. Topics like this, possibly even a formal guide and a stricter set of rules, can help with oint 2. Point 1 cannot really be solved, and as far as point 3 goes... Again, that is pretty much a fatal flaw of roleplays held on forums whose main focus is not the roleplay itself. I don't really think Ame will be willing to branch the RP section into God knows how many sub-sections... ... Unless, you know, we play it cleverly. I mean, you know how each roleplay would need many sub.sections? I was thinking that ALL the roleplays would need more or less the same amount of sub-sections, and for more or less the same goals. We can even go as far as to narrow it down to 3 kinds of sub-sections: plot-advancing roleplays, personal interactions and combat. SO yeah, having such sub-sections for EACH roleplay is absolutely imposible, but what about having 3 sub-sections used by everyone? Like, we divide the roleplay section in 3 sub-sections: "plot-advancing", "personal interaction" and "combat". All roleplays that start the topics that are now known as "IC topics" post them in the "plot-advancing" sub-section. People willing to have separated roleplays for interaction and character development post them in the "personal interaction" sub-section, and everything related to combat (be it YGO duels, Pokemon battles or D&D-style combat) goes... You get the idea. With strict rules as to how each topic needs to have not only specific labels in the title, but also specific tags, we can make it work without it getting too chaotic IMO.

Well I do understand that it would be incredibly difficult to do here, and I wouldn't be surprised if the idea is ultimately shot down. I was simply pointing out the obvious: many subsections in which people can post freely encourage personal initiatives. An entire roleplay in a single topic... Not so much.

While I do agree with the OP, I also need to point out something: when a forum is dedicated to a roleplay, like, when the entire forum IS the roleplay, then it's easier to take personal initiatives. Allow me to elaborate: I used to be part of a YGO roleplay community (I have been part of many other such communities over the years, but I'm just gonna bring that particular one up as an example). The setting of the roleplay was a duel academy akin to the one in GX. Now, the ENTIRE FORUM was the campus: we had a sub-section for the red dorm, one of the yellow dorm, one for the blue dorm, one for the classes, one for the garden area and so on so forth. People was free to post new topics in each section as they pleased, meaning that, while we did have important topics started by staffers, with plot-advancing events in them, we also had posts dedicated to interaction, in which two or more people would meet simply to interact and develop their characters. Doing so was actually be encouraged, and as a result posts like these ended up being the majority. In such a context, taking personal initiative was very easy and in fact, even newbies and people with no previous roleplay experience did it all the time. But here, we have a single sub-section for ALL the roleplays, and each roleplay has a single topic to it. Meaning that, if there are 20 people in a certain roleplay, all 20 of them have to do their stuff in the same topic, which causes major issues (respecting turns, waiting for this or that guy to post, finding the posts that are relevant to you in the sea of stuff that gets posted etc), limiting the room for personal initiatives in the process. I am not blaming anyone for this, I am simply stating a fact: this one issue is the bane of roleplays held on forums whose main focus is not the roleplay itself.

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A tip: Carbink has Explosion. That can help in bringing in Regigigas while screens are up, without risking the switch (if they see through your strategy and use something like Toxic on the switch you are in troubles). With Light Clay, the screens should last enough to get Regigigas going, which means that you wouldn't need to bring Carbink in again anyway...

Hey we are working on it <.<

I am literally can't evening

Lol thanks... But please don't quote an entire post just to say a single line, it makes it painful to read specially on a phone...

No "Y'all are drunk, go home" option?