Post by lavulpe on Jul 16, 2015 3:46:13 GMT
If you are too lazy to read all of this, get the hell out. Delete your forum account and leave this group alone. If you can't bother to read this, this isn't the server for you. If you give a flying crap and want this to work, get pumped and read this shit, because we are going to get shit done.
OK everyone I am leaving for Atlanta in 3 hours and I am getting messages of concern that shit is going to hit the fan without me. As such here is a list of stuff I NEED done by the time I get back. Not want, or would like, NEED. We need to get things done right now if we want this server to survive more than a couple weeks with minimal people.
LETS GET SHIT DONE
This is an HCRP server, it’s time we started acting like it. We should have had this shit months ago, but we don’t. Let’s get it figured out right now.
LORE
I have the entire WRP lore on file, in-game laws, religion, everything. I also have the map memorized and can re-create it to a T. If you were on WRP you know how great Ithlor was as a balanced map, although the system for food will make sense because bakery opposite on the map of the wheat field was retarded. ANYWAY this was a tried and trusted map and lore and it is still amazing.
If you don't want WRP lore, MAKE SOME AS A GROUP. Make a thread, get the community together, and lets crank that shit out. If we get our own lore, we can modify it as WE like, when WE want, to fit what WE need. And we can make it as badass as WE want it to be.
CLANS ARE GOING TO DISAPPEAR. Clans are from PW RP-less cluster-fucks that are based on bad RP and with back-rounds in bad RP. They ARE NOT GOING TO TRANSFER OVER. Why? Because then you have a group of mentally insane people acting like nobles and getting ungodly butt-hurt whenever one of them takes a CK and they proceed to just magically insert another family member that does the exact same thing as before. Clans will be replaced by FACTIONS, with LORE BACKING THEM UP, AND NOBLES THAT REQUIRE APPLICATIONS. This will result in a group of DAMN GOOD ROLEPLAYERS that everyone will look to as a fantastic example of how to properly RP.
Logically they are going to be role-models for everyone else, ESPECIALLY NEW PEOPLE THAT WE REALLY NEED. I’m part of a generation of role-players that is disappearing, the only reason I am even on this is because I am in college with a part time job that is flexible. Out of my original RP group, I know FOUR that are still around. And I am the most active out of all of them, and I am still on M&B MAYBE an hour a day. If we don’t bring in new people, nobody is going to replace us, and it is going to die. Moving on.
EVERYONE WILL NEED AN ACCEPTED BIO IF THEY WANT DIDDLY SHIT. If you are not rocking a bio, you are spawning onto the server with barely enough money for a tool. You will work and grind your ass off until you can maybe afford something halfway decent eventually, and it is going to suck because no factions will accept you. IF YOU HAVE A BIO you can get into factions, get starting gear, starting money, hell you may even get a house or shop if your bio is good enough. If you want to modify the map in some way or pull of a CK, you will need a bio. If you are not rocking a bio, you are not in the lore, and not in my field of concern. THAT BEING SAID all of our new players coming in will be these pub-scrubs, they will still have a chance, but it will be easier if they get on the forums. We need to be inviting.
ECONOMY
It is going to be hard. Damn hard. As in it is going to take you a week or two before you get an Aketon by yourself because you don’t have the money hard. Stockpiles will either give nothing or just flat out not exist. All your money will come from RP work, or being a noble. Basically the only time you get cash is if somebody else pays you for something, nobles and merchants will bring money onto the server and will be the source of funds at first until people can become independent, which will take MONTHS. Armor will be for the wealthy, and the officers. Weapons will be likewise crazy expensive. At first it is going to suck. A lot. Like really fucking suck, especially if you are not used to this and are not patient. However, nothing feels better than leaving the merchant’s dock the richest man on the server because your plan worked perfectly and 20 minutes ago nobody had any idea you had anything. I have done this before and it is marvelous walking into the shop with spare weapons and cloth armor that people didn’t want, then walking across the street and strutting your shit in full mail with a halberd on your back.
FOOD IS GOING TO BE VITAL. We WILL find a form of food script, even if it means moving to another mod just to do that. You will EAT or you will STARVE, THIS WILL DRIVE THE ECONOMY, PEOPLE NEED FED.
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO
We NEED IDEAS. If you want new lore, BRAINSTORM IT. Figure it out and make something.
MAKE A GOOD BIOGRAPHY. LIKE DAMN GOOD. Look at mine, ceki’s, or Mozart’s for examples. For a lot of people, this means a brand new character. Like totally new. I have at least 10 characters saved on my computer from different RP’s because mixing it up is FUN. Don’t name them after yourself, make someone completely unique doing something you never planned before. Make that character a legend to the point that when people talk to you on steam and TS, they call you by your character’s name, not your steam name. The reason I am LaVulpe on everything is because everybody knew me as Felix LaVulpe, people enjoyed that character so much that I had to change my steam name to it so people didn’t get confused because nobody knew me by my steam name. And I made up LaVulpe as a hunter at 11 at night because I needed SOMETHING on WRP. Things you may never expect may shape your RP in ways you never imagined.
WE NEED TO DECIDE ON A MOD TO SWITCH TO.
Just us on the team talking to mods isn’t enough. If we can get 30 people on someone’s forum saying “Hey, here is the community, we have our lore and everything ready to go, just tell when.”
Right now we have 3 big options.
Feudal World, it is empty, the mod is up for grabs, it has great RP scripts like horse breeding and smithing where you actually smith. We can take it over in a heartbeat.
Persistent Age, has gear and textures out the ass. They are willing to let us make a community, but we need to prove we are interested. Once we do that, we are in.
GoT, work in progress, has scripts and textures. We may move there eventually, but for now we need something else.
WE NEED TO HELP EACH OTHER OUT
If someone made a crappy bio, give them tips and suggestions. If someone is a crap fighter so they can’t be a soldier, take them to a duel server and teach them, or ask an admin for wooden weapons. Be great guys whether you hate each other or not.
IN CLOSURE
Everybody needs to turn on some rock/techno music, get pumped, grab a mountain dew or something, and start getting shit done. Because right now I’m pumped but I don’t have time, I need to leave in 2 hours dressed in a suit with 3 more suits in a bag so I can sit on a bus for 8 hours. You boys are hopefully more available.
Come on boys, let’s make a fucking legend. Let’s make a server where 5 years from now, all the old farts are trying to make a group like ours on BANNERLORD, because ours was the best they ever saw. Let’s make a group where you get so attached to someone’s character that you ACTUALLY cry at their char’s funeral. (I’ve seen that happen 3 times.) Let’s make a group where you can sit down and talk to a made up character for hours about events that never happened, and enjoy every second of it to the point that you become friends with that player for the rest of your life. Let’s make a server so great that we will tell our gaming buddies about it 20 years from now, they will be sad they missed out. Let’s fucking do it. LET’S GET SHIT DONE.
OK everyone I am leaving for Atlanta in 3 hours and I am getting messages of concern that shit is going to hit the fan without me. As such here is a list of stuff I NEED done by the time I get back. Not want, or would like, NEED. We need to get things done right now if we want this server to survive more than a couple weeks with minimal people.
LETS GET SHIT DONE
This is an HCRP server, it’s time we started acting like it. We should have had this shit months ago, but we don’t. Let’s get it figured out right now.
LORE
I have the entire WRP lore on file, in-game laws, religion, everything. I also have the map memorized and can re-create it to a T. If you were on WRP you know how great Ithlor was as a balanced map, although the system for food will make sense because bakery opposite on the map of the wheat field was retarded. ANYWAY this was a tried and trusted map and lore and it is still amazing.
If you don't want WRP lore, MAKE SOME AS A GROUP. Make a thread, get the community together, and lets crank that shit out. If we get our own lore, we can modify it as WE like, when WE want, to fit what WE need. And we can make it as badass as WE want it to be.
CLANS ARE GOING TO DISAPPEAR. Clans are from PW RP-less cluster-fucks that are based on bad RP and with back-rounds in bad RP. They ARE NOT GOING TO TRANSFER OVER. Why? Because then you have a group of mentally insane people acting like nobles and getting ungodly butt-hurt whenever one of them takes a CK and they proceed to just magically insert another family member that does the exact same thing as before. Clans will be replaced by FACTIONS, with LORE BACKING THEM UP, AND NOBLES THAT REQUIRE APPLICATIONS. This will result in a group of DAMN GOOD ROLEPLAYERS that everyone will look to as a fantastic example of how to properly RP.
Logically they are going to be role-models for everyone else, ESPECIALLY NEW PEOPLE THAT WE REALLY NEED. I’m part of a generation of role-players that is disappearing, the only reason I am even on this is because I am in college with a part time job that is flexible. Out of my original RP group, I know FOUR that are still around. And I am the most active out of all of them, and I am still on M&B MAYBE an hour a day. If we don’t bring in new people, nobody is going to replace us, and it is going to die. Moving on.
EVERYONE WILL NEED AN ACCEPTED BIO IF THEY WANT DIDDLY SHIT. If you are not rocking a bio, you are spawning onto the server with barely enough money for a tool. You will work and grind your ass off until you can maybe afford something halfway decent eventually, and it is going to suck because no factions will accept you. IF YOU HAVE A BIO you can get into factions, get starting gear, starting money, hell you may even get a house or shop if your bio is good enough. If you want to modify the map in some way or pull of a CK, you will need a bio. If you are not rocking a bio, you are not in the lore, and not in my field of concern. THAT BEING SAID all of our new players coming in will be these pub-scrubs, they will still have a chance, but it will be easier if they get on the forums. We need to be inviting.
ECONOMY
It is going to be hard. Damn hard. As in it is going to take you a week or two before you get an Aketon by yourself because you don’t have the money hard. Stockpiles will either give nothing or just flat out not exist. All your money will come from RP work, or being a noble. Basically the only time you get cash is if somebody else pays you for something, nobles and merchants will bring money onto the server and will be the source of funds at first until people can become independent, which will take MONTHS. Armor will be for the wealthy, and the officers. Weapons will be likewise crazy expensive. At first it is going to suck. A lot. Like really fucking suck, especially if you are not used to this and are not patient. However, nothing feels better than leaving the merchant’s dock the richest man on the server because your plan worked perfectly and 20 minutes ago nobody had any idea you had anything. I have done this before and it is marvelous walking into the shop with spare weapons and cloth armor that people didn’t want, then walking across the street and strutting your shit in full mail with a halberd on your back.
FOOD IS GOING TO BE VITAL. We WILL find a form of food script, even if it means moving to another mod just to do that. You will EAT or you will STARVE, THIS WILL DRIVE THE ECONOMY, PEOPLE NEED FED.
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO
We NEED IDEAS. If you want new lore, BRAINSTORM IT. Figure it out and make something.
MAKE A GOOD BIOGRAPHY. LIKE DAMN GOOD. Look at mine, ceki’s, or Mozart’s for examples. For a lot of people, this means a brand new character. Like totally new. I have at least 10 characters saved on my computer from different RP’s because mixing it up is FUN. Don’t name them after yourself, make someone completely unique doing something you never planned before. Make that character a legend to the point that when people talk to you on steam and TS, they call you by your character’s name, not your steam name. The reason I am LaVulpe on everything is because everybody knew me as Felix LaVulpe, people enjoyed that character so much that I had to change my steam name to it so people didn’t get confused because nobody knew me by my steam name. And I made up LaVulpe as a hunter at 11 at night because I needed SOMETHING on WRP. Things you may never expect may shape your RP in ways you never imagined.
WE NEED TO DECIDE ON A MOD TO SWITCH TO.
Just us on the team talking to mods isn’t enough. If we can get 30 people on someone’s forum saying “Hey, here is the community, we have our lore and everything ready to go, just tell when.”
Right now we have 3 big options.
Feudal World, it is empty, the mod is up for grabs, it has great RP scripts like horse breeding and smithing where you actually smith. We can take it over in a heartbeat.
Persistent Age, has gear and textures out the ass. They are willing to let us make a community, but we need to prove we are interested. Once we do that, we are in.
GoT, work in progress, has scripts and textures. We may move there eventually, but for now we need something else.
WE NEED TO HELP EACH OTHER OUT
If someone made a crappy bio, give them tips and suggestions. If someone is a crap fighter so they can’t be a soldier, take them to a duel server and teach them, or ask an admin for wooden weapons. Be great guys whether you hate each other or not.
IN CLOSURE
Everybody needs to turn on some rock/techno music, get pumped, grab a mountain dew or something, and start getting shit done. Because right now I’m pumped but I don’t have time, I need to leave in 2 hours dressed in a suit with 3 more suits in a bag so I can sit on a bus for 8 hours. You boys are hopefully more available.
Come on boys, let’s make a fucking legend. Let’s make a server where 5 years from now, all the old farts are trying to make a group like ours on BANNERLORD, because ours was the best they ever saw. Let’s make a group where you get so attached to someone’s character that you ACTUALLY cry at their char’s funeral. (I’ve seen that happen 3 times.) Let’s make a group where you can sit down and talk to a made up character for hours about events that never happened, and enjoy every second of it to the point that you become friends with that player for the rest of your life. Let’s make a server so great that we will tell our gaming buddies about it 20 years from now, they will be sad they missed out. Let’s fucking do it. LET’S GET SHIT DONE.