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[twistdfateangel]

Okay, I don't have the polling ability on here, but I'm going to ask it here and hope that people respond.

Should I shut down Arcadia? Nothing is really happening and I'm not really sure how to encourage people to start playing again. I hate to see it die, but maybe it's just time.

I mean, I've been thinking it over a lot lately. Then Ren posted and I realized I had to answer that question. Maybe a change of format is in order or maybe I need to reboot it. Maybe it's just dead in the water.

I'll be on AIM later this week, and will probably be starting a chat to ask what people think. If you want to play expys of characters, I may have other options to open, but I want to talk to people first.

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[tatterpixie]

I think part of the problem is that people don't know what the metaplot is, so they're hesitant to write anything that might either 1) interfere with what you have planned or 2) end up being non-canon. I know Sage, Angie and K are ready to start a log that would be considered canon. And Ren's certainly rarin' to go with things.

I'd hate to see Arcadia die too, and while shutting it down is certainly an option as it's your baby, I think perhaps other ideas could be explored first. If your heart's not in it any more, for whatever reason (and goodness knows real-life and RP burnout are completely legit reasons!), perhaps you could do an info-dump and turn the actual running of the game over to someone else, with you as the Idea Person/Master Controller?

Ultimately, though, the decision is yours. *hugs*

[twistdfateangel]

Well, that sounds smarter than my plan. There's also the fact that it needs a format change. I'm thinking of taking a leaf out of Kol's book.

I'll write up the meta-plot, and I think I'm going to throw out the episodic format (it's holding things back) and fix the youma issue. If that still doesn't work, I have a few older ideas I can resurrect that may allow for expy's, at least. ("World of BSSM-craft" is tempting, but that one's a wee bit hokey).

[tatterpixie]

Yeh, getting away from the chapter/episode format is an EXCELLENT idea. Even if you state up-front that canon side stories are encouraged outside the chapters, people tend to not want to do that in case something happens in the episodes that would affect what they'd write outside of them. It's part of what killed CC, in my opinion, and it nearly killed Gesma.

The Kingdom format works because it's like "here's the time frame we're looking at, here's the major metaplot points, KNOCK YOURSELVES OUT <3". It lets people create at their own pace instead of feeling constrained to a perceived linear format. Way more flexible.

And YAY FOR METAPLOT! <333 I think I can speak for everyone in the game when I say we LOVE the world you've created -- and we'd love for you to crack open your cranium and spill the rest of your ideas and plans on the screen for us. <333

[twistdfateangel]

The trouble is, I'm getting hung up on how to explain how it all happened and why. I know the how and why, but I can't put it in words so well!