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Why Zelpha is so boring..
Topic Started: Oct 3 2005, 06:25 AM (181 Views)
Drake
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I was sitting in my bed last night and I figured out WHY Zelpha is so boring, and how we can perhaps fix it.

1) It's not the politics, we had those before.
2) It isn't even colonies, we had those too!

Compare this Zelpha to this one. I personally prefer the second one just because it has been more fun. Here's why I THINK it's so fun.

1) Carmen was talking about comfort zones, and how we needed to get out of them. Why is she even telling us!? In proboards, our characters DIDN'T HAVE COMFORT ZONES! THEY DID ANYTHING!

2) Our characters have become TOO realistic. Yes, developing personalities and appearances are good, but honestly, do you enjoy rping with your characters? I don't. Mine are..too realistic. I had just relized that Drake, A WARRIOR hasn't used his sword in nearly a year. That's sad.

We need to make a characters a bit more unrealistic, with odd ways of acting and doing things.

3) The politics are stale. Before this they were fun, but now-a-days I churn at the thought of taking part in them. They need to be much more simplier! We shouldn't worry about our people or anything..they are NPCs. The politics could stand a revamp again.

4) COLONIES are stale. Those used to be fun too..but now they are blah. Before this they were popping up everything, and there were even wars over them(Meiran colony in HL anyone)?

5) The characters are stale. They..do normal things normal people do. Isn't the point of RPing to well..escape reality?

6) Lack of members. Yes, this is considered a minor thing because before even with our small group we had fun.

7) Lack of RPing. Just me, or do people RP with themselves alot now..?

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This is how I think we can fix this.

1) SIMPLIFY. So many things are horribly complicated - THIS DOESN'T MEAN CHARACTERS! People tend to get confused, although 2) may solve this..

2) We need to finish the rules. They are incomplete, and such things could be moved(The Celestial guide for instance. Why can't it go in the HL forum) or deleted. With rules not finished..well no one knows what to do!

3) RANDOMNESS! Everything is so bland. An actual world isn't like this, and neither should be Zelpha! Stuff happens every-day! Maybe some-one is oddly murdered in Serdio! Perhaps a factory in Augusta burns down! Perhaps a crop of corn in HL goes bad, promting starvation unless elivated!

To elivate this, I suggest a Random event system(Or RES for simplicity), where admins create random situations in different nations(NOT their own) for the rulers/people to every once in awhile, kind of like sort mini-plot events.

4) DO MORE! Characters seriously need to get out more. Explore the world! There's more out there than sitting around at home.

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Okay I'm done ranting. Comments please?
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Actually, the only reason why if you trace it all back is the fact that everyone is too busy to rp as regularly. And we simply cannot go back to simplification, characters grow with us.
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Silent Dragonet
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Yeah, what Carmen said. Junior year is said to be the hardest year ever, I agree.

And well, sometimes I like semi-realistic/realistic characters and sometimes I'm not in the mood for it. That's why Pierre exists, he shall always be weird. xD

Also, I'm a person that goes do phases or whatever you called them. Whatever I feel like doing most (assuming it won't get in the way of something important like school), I'll do it. Currently, it's Harvest Moon. ^^; I repeat phases every so now and a then.
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I think that new members, new committed members, would help. However, that is sort of a dream. I don't think anyone but us is interested in this. I agree however, that it is slightly too complex. But, there is very little way of reversing the complexity.

The problem is just this:

We have modeled Zelpha exactly how we want it. However, it has taken thus long to get it that way. So, nw we are afraid of messing it up by having a giant war, or destroying all the major cities, or whatever. Thus, we are too attached to Zelpha the way it is, to make any changes. This takes away all the excitement.
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Yes, I think we need to enjoy having our cities destoried again. I recall when Esto Gaza got destoried(way back) that I enjoyed the rebuilding, because in the end it was the same as before the destruction..

We can't totally dumb everything down, but we can make things a bit easier.

And..did you all not see "no comments yet"? I was not done with my rant..oh well.
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Ah, no I didn't ^^;

And well, currently I have a big giant hole in my palace and it's flooded if that counts for anything

Bridge is gone and so are many buildings in various areas due to the insects. As for rebuilding, I'm lagging it hehe . . .
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I finished my rant. You can all finish commenting now.
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I guess that random event thing would work, but wouldn't that be difficult unless we all knew certain information about each other's countries? Like what crops they grow, what government (and it's problems), and etc.
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Some information would be needed, but not much I think. Most crops can be guessed based on climate(Eden with lots of Southern crops as Eden is the American South, HL with asian-esque crops being asian).

Over-all the random events should be simple and easy to deal with(or ignore if needed).

I'd like to impliment the system, but I think all the admins need to agree upon it.
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In don't mind as long as the events don't conflict with what my Master Guide will eventually say (I know what I want it to say, just to lazy to type all of it out right now ^^'). I'm not really good with coming up with random events though. :/ And I feel weird if I do it for other people's...things. Even when told to, I just feel weird. Like I don't trust myself with that stuff, heh.
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The RES would never interfere with guides, or anything else. The RES serves to be there as an "annoyance" to keep people on their feet. Not saying that thousands should just start dropping dead, but it should be simple things.

If you're not good with things, choose something uncreative. No one said it had to be brilliant..something as simple as a monster wandering into town and not wanting to leave would suffice.
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Drake, By the Grace of God,

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RES as in a random shower of bunnies drowning Garn kind of random? =D

I don't mind that at all (especially if you do that shower of bunnies sometime).
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Yes, exactly like that Carmen!

Just pure random events that people or rulers have to solve. These events could target whole nations, or just people(like the bunnies falling on Garn XP).
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