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#1 Walter

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Posted 10 January 2014 - 01:55 AM

University Days will be having a reboot series.

[confetti & fanfare]

 

I have devised a (not-so-)complex system of topics that will be allocated to certain towns/villages/cities. The story starts directly after your Uni Days have been completed. Choose a topic based upon which place you will live.

 

Canterlot

Yanhooyer

Las Pegasus

Baltimare

Fillydelphia

Manehattan

Ponyville

Dodge Junction

Apple Loosa

Tall Tale

Hollow Shades

 

(As described in: http://static2.wikia..._April_2013.jpg)

 

It will be basically a Family RP - With separate topics for separate towns. Suggestions greatly requested. This is basically a social experiment tied together with a great 'franchise' to see if we can handle things like this so I know what I can post.

 

Or we could basically scrap it and start with a new more similar/extremely different idea like we did with the Articles of Confederation. 'MURRCA.

 


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Posted 10 January 2014 - 01:58 AM

 

It will be basically a Family RP - With separate topics for separate towns. Suggestions greatly requested. This is basically a social experiment tied together with a great 'franchise' to see if we can handle things like this so I know what I can post.

 

Or we could basically scrap it and start with a new more similar/extremely different idea like we did with the Articles of Confederation. 'MURRCA.

A separate topic for every town could get spammy in a forum where the towns aren't already subdivided, as it is on FIMrpg proboards. It would probably be more suitable to just have a single 'reboot' topic, as opposed to many. Otherwise, if you could provide some backstory for those of us who were not in Uni Days until the end or so that the new people can have somewhere to start, that would be helpful.


Edited by RunningWolf251, 10 January 2014 - 01:58 AM.


#3 Walter

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Posted 10 January 2014 - 02:12 AM

 

 

A separate topic for every town could get spammy in a forum where the towns aren't already subdivided, as it is on FIMrpg proboards. It would probably be more suitable to just have a single 'reboot' topic, as opposed to many. Otherwise, if you could provide some backstory for those of us who were not in Uni Days until the end or so that the new people can have somewhere to start, that would be helpful.

 

Sure. We could put it all in one topic, I just thought it would be a good idea. Now that I think about it it would probably be easier and more organized to keep it all in one topic. Would be kinda boring though, just going through "everyday life" day by day. We could ramp it up a bit.



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Posted 10 January 2014 - 03:27 AM

Would be kinda boring though, just going through "everyday life" day by day.

You wouldn't be wrong there. Living life on a forum in the same sort that you would live a regular life while also living a regular life outside the forum is rather boring. Thus the reason for a story, something different and new from the everyday hustle and bustle of life. But, as you've proven yourself, slice of life rp's can exist and succeed, they're just less likely to do so because of that boring factor. I'm in college myself, so the whole 'going to college and then in my free time writing a story about going to college while actually going to college' kinda got a little boring and more monotonous than it already was. Maybe it wasn't for those who weren't in college, they could dream of what it's like and make their own little fantasy about it.

 

But, if they're like me, they rp for something different. Something they haven't particularly done before or something that appeals to them. The school aspect might appeal to them as much as anything else, but it's your story.


Edited by RunningWolf251, 10 January 2014 - 03:29 AM.


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Posted 10 January 2014 - 06:07 AM

The concept is nice, but there's just too much coincidences and work that have to be put in place for this to happen, in my opinion.

Firstly, Uni Days ended with everypony going their own ways. How is it that we can arrange for enough of the previous RPers to join and pick a town, dorm style? Not to mention Uni Days was clocking over 80 posts per day at it's average speed, which turned out to be so fast people left because of it. Next, how are we supposed to jump towns to visit old friends and such?

In Uni Days, the dorms were close enough for normal interaction, but now we would be talking about entire states. For my own OC it would be easier, since he has no particular affinity, but for those with more reserved personalities they might as well never meet.

Also, we will never get enough skilled RPers to flesh out a town, let alone the world. Two spin-offs already exist, one more popular than the other, but the fact still remains, Uni Days will be the first and last of it's kind.

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Posted 10 January 2014 - 09:27 AM

The concept is nice, but there's just too much coincidences and work that have to be put in place for this to happen, in my opinion.

Firstly, Uni Days ended with everypony going their own ways. How is it that we can arrange for enough of the previous RPers to join and pick a town, dorm style? Not to mention Uni Days was clocking over 80 posts per day at it's average speed, which turned out to be so fast people left because of it. Next, how are we supposed to jump towns to visit old friends and such?

In Uni Days, the dorms were close enough for normal interaction, but now we would be talking about entire states. For my own OC it would be easier, since he has no particular affinity, but for those with more reserved personalities they might as well never meet.

Also, we will never get enough skilled RPers to flesh out a town, let alone the world. Two spin-offs already exist, one more popular than the other, but the fact still remains, Uni Days will be the first and last of it's kind.

 

Sounds like it was too fast for a forum-based RP...especially thinking how generally people tell me they do it because it's more calm-paced than server ones.



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Posted 10 January 2014 - 01:52 PM

Sounds like it was too fast for a forum-based RP...especially thinking how generally people tell me they do it because it's more calm-paced than server ones.

 

 

The concept is nice, but there's just too much coincidences and work that have to be put in place for this to happen, in my opinion.

Firstly, Uni Days ended with everypony going their own ways. How is it that we can arrange for enough of the previous RPers to join and pick a town, dorm style? Not to mention Uni Days was clocking over 80 posts per day at it's average speed, which turned out to be so fast people left because of it. Next, how are we supposed to jump towns to visit old friends and such?

In Uni Days, the dorms were close enough for normal interaction, but now we would be talking about entire states. For my own OC it would be easier, since he has no particular affinity, but for those with more reserved personalities they might as well never meet.

Also, we will never get enough skilled RPers to flesh out a town, let alone the world. Two spin-offs already exist, one more popular than the other, but the fact still remains, Uni Days will be the first and last of it's kind.

The game would be much more fun if it were in the server or in a game, like Blockland, that has a local-chat addon. It would probably be easier in Blockland because there are vehicles like the "Train" by Kalphiter but IDK If I'd be able to pull off something as big as introducing people from Uni Days to a whole new game. Plus. the server player limit is I believe either 32 or 64.



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Posted 11 January 2014 - 12:08 AM

Not to mention most of the original Uni Days core RPer's are gone, banned, unable to post frequently or have moved on.

If it was to be moved in-game, it would cause more trouble than it was worth.

Not all of us can afford to stay 24/7, and there are bound to be moments when the server would be empty or only have one or two lonely dudes who are sooner or later going to get bored of trading conversations with only each other.

Also, the point of forum RPing, at least for me, is because it's easy to pick up and post, without having to use any other medium besides my phone.

My schedule makes it so that I wake up at 6am, peek at the new RP posts, note them down, and spend the empty moments in school drafting my posts. When I finally return home at 2, frankly I'm too tired to do anything besides post, let alone go to the computer and have to log on.

Oh, then I have tuition for the rest of the evening.

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Posted 11 January 2014 - 02:03 AM

This could work incredibly well as a server RP if and when Canterlot High is built. Of course, it would be a high school setting, but you can't have it all (unless you want to build something to be exclusively for Uni Days.

 

However, I really don't think this RP should be resurrected unless you are to come up with a newer concept that doesn't just bring the characters further apart than before. If you're going to do this properly, there has to be love triangles, drama, deception, et cetera. I want to feel angry, not sympathetic or cheerful. I want a reason to stay in this RP, whether it's that I want to pick a bone with somepony else or to hook up with somepony special. Until you guys stop sopping about with cliché romance, death and mobile phones, I don't really want to see this RP revived. I hate when things go to plan in RP.



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Posted 11 January 2014 - 05:38 AM

Uni days was great while it lasted, I think we should let stay dead out of pure respect.  We have NTBO and PI, which are continuations (sorta), I for one, don't think I would want another reboot/continuation



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Posted 11 January 2014 - 04:44 PM

Uni days was great while it lasted, I think we should let stay dead out of pure respect.  We have NTBO and PI, which are continuations (sorta), I for one, don't think I would want another reboot/continuation

I guess you're right. I've got a few things going on right now as well like exams and midterms, plus another RP that I really want to succeed "Royal Conscripts" and it appears that nobody wants to join. :/




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