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Forums and RP

AnashelAnashel Member UncommonPosts: 200

Agent Moiren sent me an email wiht tons of great idea for the game, one of them was to have RP forums in our forums system.

Right now for the duration of the campaign we use MMORPG forums and down the line at some point we probably going to have to gear ourselves with our own support forums. We do gain a of expertise when we created the Eternal Crusade forums.

That said, on the topic of RP Forums, It bug's me. I hate to see RP segregated on a sub forum somewhere. I think that RP should be part of TBW and content created should increase the lore or get propagated throughout the game without having to be limited to and external isolated section.

Call it player crafted mission. Now I understand that all RP cannot be a mission, and that all player do not RP at the same intensity, but if you were to integrate in part or in full such a concept within our PARG, how would you like to see it and interact with it?

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  • Crow-EaterCrow-Eater Member Posts: 3
    I just read the post about this today and it sounds awesome! I have however never done an ARG before so I am a little confused. RP for it sounds like a blast.
  • MoirenMoiren Member UncommonPosts: 34

    Hello! When I suggested a sub-section of the forums it was more so that there would be a clear place to roleplay, and also a clear place to have a discussion about the ARG as well without having to use OOG at the start of posts, for example. For instance this thread, unless we are RPing right now in some sort of ARGception it's out of game.

    It's nice to keep everything all together to look over later. Plus, sometimes we figure things out fairly quickly. There wouldn't be anything stopping from you from tossing out a little mini RP thread about picking up a package during "downtime" but it could also be a way for people who might feel left out because the mission was completed while they are at work, or sleeping. It doesn't always have to be a mission, cracking codes; sometimes it might just be someone who needs to pick up a package.

    It could be a place for IC communications between Agents, or a place to have an RP of Agents meeting in a bar after a mission. It really depends on how much someone wants to get into it. Some people will just want to know there is a new mission and stumble through it on their own. Some people just want to solve the puzzles. Some people, you will find will be more interested in the RP than the ARG. A section that is IC only wouldn't segregate people so much as have a place to keep it all together and allow players to create their own stories.

    Generally a first post to start the RP thread would be the only one that would be Out of Game; it would detail things like if it is an open RP, how many people they are looking for, where it's set, what they hope to accomplish. RP of this type is usually more of a collaborative story with each participant taking turns to "pose" and make a post.

    A dedicated IRC or other web based channel could be used for an in game, real time RP.  It could be a bar, or headquarters or somewhere people could meet and RP with the "Logs" for other people to read either on the forums or a wiki. Wikis are a great place to not only store information on past missions, but they are great for character bios and RP logs as well.

    There are lots of ways to RP online; various  programs designed specifically for that, RP by forums, Play by email, over a voice chat and pretend everyone is sitting around the table.

    I agree though that whatever is done, it should be contained, if only to keep all the information together. I think it should also be distinct enough to know the difference between In Game information and Out of Game information.

  • AnashelAnashel Member UncommonPosts: 200

    I like the idea of a Ten Forward were you could hang out between mission and chat with other player or NPC who may randomly drop a mission on you.

    And to tie everything in, we would obviously play the TBW Radio Stream there... =)

  • PFVScalenePFVScalene Member Posts: 15
    Originally posted by Anashel

    And to tie everything in, we would obviously play the TBW Radio Stream there... =)

    All Rick Rolls and Mad World there, hmm?

    I like the idea of somewhere I can go on the forums to have a little 'downtime' RP. A sort of Ten Forward does sound very nice, and it'll foster some contacts that maybe otherwise wouldn't meet in the general chaos of an IRC channel during a mission. I mean, I'm coming into this knowing a chunk of the player base from The Secret World, but especially moving forward that connection won't be there for a sum of the playerbase. Connections foster conversation, conversation helps solve puzzles.

     

    Otherwise, I plan on treating this ARG like a long-running LARP.

  • DraconianStormDraconianStorm Member Posts: 10

    I really like the idea of RPing as my agent on the forum as it's been a while since I did since serious RP somewhere, I may even create a specific RP twitter account for it as I've been thinking about that since this ARG started.

  • ArcadiusRexArcadiusRex Member Posts: 2

    I'm of the mindset that, while it shouldn't truly be segregated, a Subset in the Forums for RP will help keep things a little bit more clean. I'd like to say that, while things will be kind of slow for right now, it may ramp up very soon, and suddenly there might be a huge pile of RP threads mixed with official communications concerning the game, and the only thing separating them from the rest of the forums is a tag at the front that says "Open/Closed RP" or something like that.

    So, I'm for a forum-subset.

  • AnashelAnashel Member UncommonPosts: 200
    Originally posted by DraconianStorm

    I really like the idea of RPing as my agent on the forum as it's been a while since I did since serious RP somewhere, I may even create a specific RP twitter account for it as I've been thinking about that since this ARG started.

    Yeah, I think Ten Forward concept is the general idea so we don't get swarm like Arcadius predict, and he will be right. The mix of RP thread with ingame RP related to a mission + general communication will end up in a mayhem.

     

    As to avoid segregation, I would actually love the idea that this forums is also available in game as the Ten forward quarters. So you chat in game or in the forums, it's the same RP section. just a different device to access it.

     

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