Moving forward?

[zer0]

I needa read this thread. I'll comment once I've done that. On it now.

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Oook. As far as 42. Staff hasn't been working very hard to get a meeting in the air so we've been grounded for a while.

I'm inclined to make some OOC event to encourage people to come back more often but haven't shot at it. Do you guys think it's a good idea?

Side story is something I think may be interesting. Ideas for a side story shoot, we can collaborate and friggen lay some scenarios down.

Stats or no stats... I prefer statless but I haven't been RPing so my point makes little value (plus I'm not one of the people who are 'losing' a lot of 'earned' stats so my opinion matters less in the issue)

Statless RP is governed by role player etiquette and I'm not saying that we can't do that. It's just difficult to take a loss sometimes and stats help roleplayers in general lose with honour.

I was in a Naruto RP board back in my heyday and it was both Statless and had something even more powerful than Qi (ninja abilities, endless, unregulated abilities) and everything went quite fine. So it's definitely possible to have Statless AND Qi if we have faith in the idea.

For now, that does undermine the progress of the currently developed characters and so I deem going statless or restarting a BAD idea in my humble and sole opinion.

I like this new tournament idea. Basically the boosty item is a trophy of the current champion of the tournament. It will be of use in quest situations later on but in tournaments, everyone has their fair chance at it without the boosty item's stat effects in play.

I'm for that.

Shall we get this rolling then? This tournament?

and also Side Story ideas

[Emi Hitokata]

It feels weird for me to post in this thread since I lost my muse for Xin roleplaying. Though, I would hate to see this board die. I'm really impressed with the dedication that some of the staff show to this board like Marianne, Albert, and anyone else I've failed to mention.

A lot of the activity has been going to Chula and 552, from what I can tell.

All I can suggest is to maybe come up with something unique.

Or you can just advertise at other boards. I'm sure that there are plenty of people who are unaware of the awesomeness of Xin. Just advertise and tell people that roleplay at other fan bases and members will start flowing in.

Maybe I'll stick around in ooc just to hang out in the awesome spam thread or maybe tell a few online buddies who might be interested in Xin.

Good luck!

[Matrim Gallagher]

My idea is to eliminate the Pillarship altogether, break all ties with Xin in that sense, and actually have the hierarchy of the school become a voted thing. For instance an IC/OOC vote for characters. Each character would vote for who they wanted to be their Student Body President While sports based characters would vote their Team Captain and maybe that'd be all you know? there could be a vice SBP, treasurer, you name it. But it'd be more like a normal school.

Then cut ties with xin with the teachers abusing students physically. sexually would still be accepted from winklewood and just sorta go back to a basic HS RPB. Not necessarily a school ruled by fighting, but definitely one with a lot in it.

From there for tournaments I would make an item or two or three, possibly even as many as 8 items. Ranging in power from who gets first to who gets second, third, so on. The way for determining that would be to do a losers bracket. For instance two people go out in semi finals, they fight to determine who's third and who's fourth.

The winner would be named Arena Champion. In addition to these items I believe another should be given out, you'll see what I mean when the items for the current tourney are given out and I'll explain more of my point then since me and Greg had a really good idea with these items that actually rewards a person based on activity and not just how good a person is. It also takes a bit of luck to get what you want with this system. I'll post more later after Greg has awarded and finished the current tourney, and I will work in the next tourney soon kay guys?

<3333 Much Love, anyway back to my vacation!!!!

Joe

[Adrian]

There's always talk and talk and talk about 'moving away from Xin' like Xin is some kind of curse or disease...

But all you have to do to take the Xin out of Xin is to just stop calling it Xin. Let's be fair, here, Xin as a concept isn't incredibly original, it's just entertaining. The series as a whole is gone and not coming back, and I don't think anybody who joins the boards anymore is more than vaguely aware of the subject matter.

Besides, a more basic high school RP sounds boring, and appointed positions would be dumb. Well, maybe not dumb, that's harsh, but, like... would people be voting in an OOC or IC fashion? If they were meant to vote IC, I'd imagine most would vote OOC anyway, turning every position into a popularity contest, even more so than it tends to be in real high school anyway.

Generally, I just think staff communication was one of the biggest issues, and if we can shakedown and shape up the staff here and just get things rolling again, stuff could/should pick up.

Xin roleplaying, to me, was never about the school system and always about the larger than life characters inside of it. If we tried to make it more like a real high school, it would make me, at least, feel like my characters should be more toned down to reflect the setting, and from there, we may as well just devolve into one of those dorky HS rp's that, like, just all about girls cheating on their boyfriends.

[zer0]

I'm just seeing a lack of impact or potential impact that a character can make on the plot so far.

... then we need a plot that one is actually fearful of, intrigued to do something or be mm... annihilated... obliterated... destroyed... (other famous archon quotes).

It's not XIN itself... it's just the way we've structured it to be where fighting is such a huge focus.

... and now I have an idea for a thread...

How does a sports day sound?

... co-operation (or sabotage) abound... and imagine all that Qi that might come in handy...

Though admittedly, it sounds like a filler episode in some cheezy High School Anime... but I'd have to say XIN is a High School Anime... it's just HardCore and not Cheezy!