POLL! Time-hopping & time-stamping?

[Seya.]

TL;DR: Time-hopping will speed up the story by hopping small events the administrators deem less important. Time-stamping will prevent confusion among dates.

Now, if you're not lazy, please actually read this.
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So, it seems tSD has neared a stand-still because it's been taking so long for people to reply, or threads to finish, which makes getting from 'event' to event a rather difficult process. There's so much to do, and as it looks, so little time.

Some cures?

. . .Time-Hopping
A controlled, administrative[/u] action that automatically sets our storyline to a more useful place of continuation. It's a more effective way of handling dates, and, of course, speeding up the site.

Right now, we are stuck at Larketh's party just having had reached Lehaita; Kham'hur and Desarith seem uneventful, and that is a problem. (I'm not here to insult all the threads currently going ON in these places, what I mean by 'uneventful' is that there's nothing major affecting the areas at this point in time.)

I was hoping to possibly set in motion Deception getting in touch with Vengeance-- or at least, getting the communication across there. The Hand of Deus will be called together by their leaders. I plan on talking to Pandora about some possible stirrings with the virtues, to get something going there for the time being.

This gap will allow anyone to leave their current threads, and start new ones.

This leads me to the next action.

. . .Time-Stamping
Simply enough, the creator of a thread must post in the title of their thread, the in-game time of year/day the thread takes place.

For example: Arrival [ Night, late of Stone.]
This could be way off, it's just an example. The first underlined bit is the title of the thread. The second, the time of day it takes place at. Third, the month-- we're not going to track individual days, so just state whether it's early, mid, or late within that month.

Personally, I support both, and time-hopping may be necessary now matter what. But I do like opinions, so please cast a vote?

Also, feel free to comment.

[Sean]

hopping seems easyer and simpler than stamping.

[crxunch* ;]

I think time-hopping is easier in the short, but time-stamping is a lot less complicated to sort out in the long run. Just my opinion. =]

[Ariadne]

Hallelujiah! This needs to be done Seya, I am in complete support of both! Timestamping will make it much easier for everyone to know exactly what is going on when and time hopping will make it way easier to have a progressed storyline. I just wish we had this system going on in PoS!

[Zee ♥]

I support both, cause while Time Stamping -is- complicated, it'll be helpful reference when in need.

[Seya.]

Alright, then that makes sense. We'll start dating them from here on out. Should we start in the month of Body (April) or Earth (May)? Since we've never really had a dating system, we can make it work either way.

I wish we had this at PoS too XD Better late then never. Anyone propose an event we start with? It'll be easy to get the Kham'hur sins up to Lehaita, that can be done without too much struggle, but what will we do to get the virtues up there? Kidnap Purity? (hahahahhaaaaa....) J/k. Sorta. Or we can get the sins up there first, get Taint back, she'll warn Purity....? I can make whatever happen, but I want opinions on what to do. Everyone should have a say.

[project-daemon]

I have pretty much nothing to say, 'cause currently, all I've got is Animosity and he couldn't care less about what anyone besides himself and the people immediately around him do.

I really need to make Charisma.

[Winter]

Absolutely no support for either concept, at all.

I can't really speak for other people but the reason I haven't been posting is that I haven't had the time to get on and even churn out a paragraph. And honestly, no amount of time distortion is really going to change that.

Time-hopping is going to lead to a ridiculous influx of "I can't remember, does my character know / has my character done this yet?" which I don't really care to have to account for.

Timestamping, eh, it could sound good in theory, but I doubt I'd ever remember to do it even if I did want to.

Someone can timestamp my threads if they want to, that's their choice. I won't be, nor will I be joining any alternate-time threads. It won't matter at all when people have less to do, it's midterm time for us in highschool, and nearing final exam time for University students, so obviously there's not going to be too much activity. Doesn't mean we have to start clutching at straws to squeeze out some half-decent story as opposed to waiting a week to permit for coherence. There's just way too much that can go wrong in time continua, and retconning is not at all desirable to have to go through, it'll just piss people off.

Others can try it if they like, I won't be.

[Pandora]

I agree, it sounds like a good way to add depth and organisation, but it's not for me. I'm all for people time-stamping if they want.

[Seya.]

Erghflagrimph. ㅎ_ㅎ

Edit: Okay, a bit more literacy.

Maybe instead of timestamping each thread, we'll have a single thread where it becomes the duty of the board moderators to update whenever a NEW thread is started in their area. This isn't a big job, really. A new thread isn't started every single day.

And, instead of narrowing down the stamping into individual days, we'll just sorta them according to month. Or, even better, our "stamping" will consist of ONLY the SEASON-- ie., ( Arrival [Early Spring] ) etc. It'll be a lot less hassle, because it's all generalized and doesn't need to be pinoint, but it's still great for organization.

I'm trying to find a method that will work here that everyone will use without argue or difficulty. I hope I'm really not the only one seeing that without something to help keep track of what is going on WHEN, we will, very soon, diminish. I don't know why but it seems to be going in that direction. It's not even the exams that get in the way, it's the fact that even after midterms and exams are over, people don't return.

I'm almost tempted to say, screw it all. I really don't want things to continue how they are, it's like watching your dog get older and sicker and knowing that you probably should put it out of its misery, but you can't, because you love it so much. It's painful. Lucky for us, tSD isn't a dying dog, it is able to fight time and doesn't have those kind of limitations. We can stop it from dying. I just keep asking myself if it's worth it. You can hand it painkillers, but the problem will keep coming back if nothing is done.

I think I messed up explaining what I mean by time-hopping, too. I'm not expecting Taint to be back by next week. Hell, I'm not even expecting the Kham'hur sins to even leave their new home by then. But something needs to happen in order to continue. I want to know what.

[project-daemon]

I can understand how you feel about the state of the site. I now it may sound rude of me to act like I really know what it feels like, seeing as my site has only be around since February, but it doesn't have that many members to begin with, and, at the same staggering pace as tSD, it's falling in activity.

I like this new, revised idea for the time-stamping. I think it's easy enough to do, and it doesn't require every member to have to remember to time-stamp all their threads.

Now, as I've said before, Animosity (my only character, though I'm finishing up Charisma as we speak) doesn't care much about anyone else and other events going on (outside of his small world). But, I too would love to see something big happen, even not monumentally, but large enough to be notable.
And I'd love to help with it, if I knew how. Like, honestly, if you have even some vague idea of what another character could to do that make something happen, I'm all ears. (which is gross... imagine if someone's body was entire comprised of ears? .... *shutters*)

[Winter]

Apr 10, 2010 22:08:14 GMT -5 Seya. said:

But something needs to happen in order to continue. I want to know what.

How does me posting sound? Cause it kinda happened. What you say has some merit, but keep in mind the midterm/exam thing isn't over yet, so we can't exactly be expecting people back from it just yet. It is in the process of ending our midterms though (hence me being back on here, hi everybody by the way). I say we give it a week or two to kick back up. I've been stalling some major story threads which....not good, and I apologize for that, but I think getting those moving again will help.

Insanity is supposed to actually learn what she's doing at some point (Taint can help her with that hopefully? - Mental message or something?) and I've already set Deception up to be able to meet his new guests. New main threads help new secondary threads start rolling, and then they start combining and crossing, and the whole storyline is back on track before we know it.

Deception needs to address Lust specifically due to her absence (and talk with Restraint I should expect), Insanity needs to kinda realize what Sins are and all since she's apparently supposed to be looking after the Indafell Sins temporarily? It might also not be a bad time to have the Kham'Hur people start considering coming back, but they'll probably need some kind of direction from Taint to start making that preparation, and perhaps as a new short story arc, the villagers who worship them are quite intent that they don't leave? Just a thought to get some immediate action in.

I can't even pretend to know what's going on with the Virtues at the moment, but stirring things up there somehow (under the assumption that they aren't stirred already, again, I don't really know) couldn't hurt probably. As for Rhodanus....the same kind of boredom threads and possible scouting missions will probably have to suffice again until the main storyline is ready to accept them, but I'm sure it'll merge wonderfully when that time comes.

Anyway, that's my take on what's going on at the moment.

[Seya.]

Apr 13, 2010 20:15:40 GMT -5 Winter said:

It might also not be a bad time to have the Kham'Hur people start considering coming back, but they'll probably need some kind of direction from Taint to start making that preparation, and perhaps as a new short story arc, the villagers who worship them are quite intent that they don't leave? Just a thought to get some immediate action in.

I was thinking that too-- but it'll make it a lot more straightforward that, when Lust arrives with her "news", if Deception could see to it immediately for Rapacity to get in contact with Avarice, and from there we'll have the Kham'hur sins getting ready.

As for the suggested short story arc, I like it. I don't know how it would conclude, but I guess we'll have to see?

Any input Zee?.... XD Or Pandora, as I need to help you do something with the Virtues, as well.

[Zee ♥]

... Kristin has to get back first in order for Rapacity to contact Avarice. As you can see, she has been... absent. D:

As for the short story arc, I like it too XD Yes, I suppose the villagers will be hell bent on not letting their new 'Gods' leave. We need to do something on that. What say the people who have Sins in Kham'hur? We could do a random thread about the Sins having a gathering or something, and some of the oldies talk about wanting to go back, and have them overheard. By a kid or some wandering villager. Then blah blah, commotion starts, and hopefully in time for Rapacity to contact Avarice and spark the whole chain of events.

I miss Gea. I want to get her back into her sarky-self. She's been too mellow lately.

[Seya.]

Lol. I know how you feel. To me it's like Taint hasn't been around for centuries.