Cbrpg

[Ai]

I know its being worked on at the moment, However in the mean time hide the section so it doesn't look like a gigantic dead spot on the forum.

Or alternatively soft delete every thread in teh section move them into the GM's area for archiving and in the mean time run the rpg as a limited rp. As in very simply stats and only thirteen divisions.

From what I've seen and heard from jaran and kaze etc is that they're trying way too hard to go overboard. Which is nice but first you need to build up the membership of the Brp again.

If you put in a massive complicated system initially it might frighten away less confident Rp people such as myself.

[Vampyrelord]

We need Sarteck back before we can continue with our plans for that area.

I'm not sure why the bleach bit of it isn't locked down, however, I'll have to find out...

[Ai]

So because one person is away/inactive/dead/commiting various criminal deeds the whole thing dies?

Thats a bit of a poor excuse..:/...At least tell me the people involved in recreating the CBRpg are in contact with sar and have spoken with him in the last month?

[Vampyrelord]

I've tried.

Anyway, he was working on a forum update which would have allowed us to automate some of the RP process and thus make learning the rules less important and making the game more accessible. Unfortunately, as far as I know, no one else has the time, inclination or know-how to do this themselves.

[Ai]

/me has tried sar also.

Something like that takes time, In the mean time you can run a less intensive rp concerning bleach to build the membership of the rp back up and hook in some new people..Theres already the gm's for the area...Me thinks that they should be working for it instead of relying entirely on Sar who noone knows when he'll return back to activity or reply to anyone. He's been moved into the dormant admins usergroup so other avenues of restarting the RP should be looked at now in my opinion.

[Ethanol]

There's even people who would probably volunteer to help with the rpg in some way. Hell, even I'm one of them and would love to help out in anyway I could.

On another note, do you guys know anything about the Naruto Rp as well? Some of us also wanted to bring that back but its kind of in limbo. :S

[Kazmiz]

On another note, do you guys know anything about the Naruto Rp as well? Some of us also wanted to bring that back but its kind of in limbo. :S

Seff and Yata lost interest in it.

[Vampyrelord]

If people want to run their own unofficial Bleach RP, then that's fine, but the problem the official RP has always had is - flurry of activity at the start, then people slowly lose interest. If we can get most of the rules hardcoded into the forum so we can effectively automate the system and not require people to learn + work out masses of rules, we might be able to grab people for longer.

Sarteck was also working on a sort of IRC equivalent so people could interact "live" rather than through posts (we were going to use it in debating as well :p)

[Analog]

Yeah I would wait until we get word from Sar since he has been "working" on this for awhile. Or at least has said he would. This is something we should wait on since I think it would be a great addition.

As for the other sections, if you are interested in it then I would make a thread there and maybe PM a admin if you want to change the leadership.

[Kazmiz]

If Sar comes through with this, we will have a fully automated system in which you will not be required to calculate states, type out attack rolls. You'll be clicking a button instead. The interface should include a sort of chat application which would enable players to RP with whoever is on at the time, thus preventing the inevitable waiting between one post and another that would sometimes take more than a full day.

That's the main idea anyway.

[Ai]

Nice idea, sounds great but you shouldn't be relying all your efforts on the actions of just Sarteck. At the moment you've had no contact with him for around a month or so, you've had no idea how far along he is with this coding, you've got no idea how long it might take or when he'll get back.

What i'm remarking upon is that in the mean time you need to have a fall back plan which would be that you run the RP in a simplistic state for the time being. Only a small set of Character stats so anyone can get it easily instead of the pages and pages of stats that I saw last time and instead of having VEQ in it, maybe just go with the gotei 13..Or failing that. Go with the academy and a single division. every other division can be rp'd by the gm's and anyone who enters the rp will be a part of that division and sent on missions/hunts for that specific division..I suggest Div 1.

This would give the gm's of the CBRPG something to do now and also give activity in that area as well as opening the rp up to those of us who wouldn't mind being in it..Because currently I personally don't want to wait an indefinite amount of time for you guys to wait for Sarteck to come through with the coding.

Once he has come through with the coding it'll be a simple matter of closing the rp for a week tops and transferring peoples characters over. At the moment as far as i'm aware i'm sorry to say, all I see is a bunch of empty titles.

[Vampyrelord]

Right now, it's too much work for too little community interest - until we can automate it, I don't think our forum has enough people interested to sustain it. And it's rather depressing to have put lots of work into something only to see it die a slow death - as one of the original GMs, I saw this happen. Until we've made the developments necessary to make the RP appealing to ordinary users (rather than just to hardcore RPers like us), it's simply not worth the effort.

[Kazmiz]

Rawr.

http://forums.bleachportal.net/showthread.php?t=59718

[Vampyrelord]

Bear in mind that everyone wants an RP, no question, but not everyone has the time, cranial capacity or interest to learn the rules and devote lots of time to it.

[Kazmiz]

That's their problem, though, not ours.

:)

[Seff vi Britannia]

As for the NRP, i did PM Blitz about giving Kefka and co. the permissions and powers they need to run it. It seems, however, that Blitz has gone walkis. ¬,¬

[Ethanol]

As for the NRP, i did PM Blitz about giving Kefka and co. the permissions and powers they need to run it. It seems, however, that Blitz has gone walkis. ¬,¬

Ah ok, I was wondering what had happened with that. Hopefully Blitz sees it soon. Thanks for answering my question.

[♥ Tess]

As for the NRP, i did PM Blitz about giving Kefka and co. the permissions and powers they need to run it. It seems, however, that Blitz has gone walkis. ¬,¬
Ah ok, I was wondering what had happened with that. Hopefully Blitz sees it soon. Thanks for answering my question.


PM me the details and i'll take care of the rest :)
(since blitzy been busy lately)

In the future, please don't wait weeks/months for one administrator to reply or take care of something. Simply PM another (preferably one that's active :P)

[Kabane]

ouch Tess. lol

or PM me, arguably the most active admin in terms of RPing.

[Ai]

ouch Tess. lol

or PM me, arguably the most active admin in terms of RPing.

/me :D...

Anyhow cool thread Kaze, hope that shows how many you could be getting if you were running one at the moment.

[Vampyrelord]

Ok, it looks like you have a green light to set up the ad hoc RP, but without Sarteck IDK when we can start automating things.

[Dark Fire]

which RP game system (as in like D&D or D20 modern) will it use?

[Vampyrelord]

Where have you been, we gave up on the D'n'D system years ago...

Far too complex for regular CB members, also far more complex than necessary, not to mention we'd have to heavily edit the rules.

Although now you mention it I think that if and when we manage to automate the rpg, we might well use a variation of the Dungeons and Dragons system, rather than the system we made up which was simpler - if it's automated simplicity isn't needed.

[Dark Fire]

sorry I never followed the Bleach RPG I tried to get into it but I couldn't figure out the dice system you used...

[Vampyrelord]

Exactly the issue everyone had - the rules were complex and people understandably didn't have the time or inclination to learn them - that's why we need automation.

[Ai]

Or...you just use simple to understand rules.

20 hp 20 hp
10 attack vs 10 attack

Roll dice player one sided 10, the amount rolled is subtracted from the hp of the other player, player then returns the favor.

[Dark Fire]

yeah but that negates evasion, defense, and accuracy, taking chance and skill out of the game.

[Kazmiz]

Don't listen to Ai. The man has not yet RPed using our system.

I'd link you the thread that contains the rules, but it appears that it's been moved from the public area due to the updates that it's undergoing. It should be ready soon, though.

:)

[Vampyrelord]

I agree with Kaze, if it's too simple it's just stupid and pointless. Of course, a balance is to be had - if memory serves the simplified version of the rules we made last time were still too complex.

[Dark Fire]

you should look into open source RPG video games for something to base your stat automation programing off of, what basically would basically seem the biggest challenge for user would be calculating damage stats relative to opponent stats and vice versa. Most Video RPG game have the same relative stats as Pen and Paper RPG, the difference is that Video RPGs have a program to calculate the users stats.