Human Roleplay Switches

[vellichor]

I definitely agree that radiation is a bit difficult to deal with. I know that irl obviously it has some p bad consequences but maybe it could be a from a weapon custom made for BoB? I know ya'll were talking about the Cold War and possibly going from there but what if on top of everything going nuclear and all that, there was some kinda weapon the general public didn't know about at the time? Or the mass destruction could've caused an atmospheric change that brought in some kinda foreign material that caused the powers and mutations? For example, it could've been a weapon made from some kind of new element that was created and it was intended to be some kinda biological warfare but then it went wrong and rather than causing people to get sick, it made people gain powers or something like that? Idk that's just something kinda random but I thought I'd throw it out there.

Personally I feel like if we had some kinda alien species it'd def have to be limited? Also tbh I don't love the idea of having pre-made groups, as I feel like that was kinda the problem with the human rp before. Having all of them so close together and with such similar history will prob make for some p similar groups, which was definitely a problem we had with the old human rp imo. I feel like the members should honestly come up with the groups as a whole so that they're more invested in them overall and so that each one is very distinct from the others, especially with us only having around 2-3 groups. I can also see the v intense sci-fi elements pushing some people away? Whereas if we just do general post apocalyptic with subtle fantasy and sci-fi elements that can be worked in if someone wanted to, that'd leave a lot more open to everyone. I also feel like having hundreds of years of custom made history is going to make things harder for people to jump into, for the reasons some stated before about not having a good reference of events and whatnot.

To be totally honest, I feel like our world-building should be less concerned with making a complex, detailed history, and moreso just setting up a place where people can rp and make their own history. I think the simpler and easier to stand history and 'lore' we have, the better off we'll be in the long term. I know we need a reason for powers and we need a reason for humanity being sort of torn apart but I don't think adding a bunch of lore is a super great idea for future roleplayers. We don't want them to feel burdened by a bunch of pre-determined plots and groups. Instead, I think it's better to leave it more open and just in a simple map so that people can determine what plots they want and what they want to do. If they decided to do a massive world plot later on, they can, and that history would be added, but I feel like custom history is better made through just rping. As for different groups having different history, if we don't have cars and things, it's very possible they haven't talked to each other since the fallout. I don't think they all need to have the exact same formation story or the exact same ideology, because that's very limiting for people trying to find the right group for them. To be totally honest, the more complex and restricted we make this, the more difficult it will be for people to rp in. I think for now we just need to focus on making a world that it's possible to rp in without having to worry about if someone's messing up the lore or something like that. It just needs to be friendly for people to jump into imo.

Sorry that this is so rambly but basically I think that we need to give the world variety while making it easy to jump into for new people. I agree we do need some explanation for why things are they way they are, but I think in order to give us the variety we didn't really have the first time around, we need to let different groups be voted on rather than pre-made by members or by staff. It can be said that, at some point after the fallout, everything sort of fell apart and the remaining people weren't in as much communication, hence why they develop different ideas about the new powers and whatnot and why we can have a variety of groups.

edit;; ah i believe this has been said before but I wanted to add it. If we're making a totally new world, that can take tons of time. While we obviously don't want to rush anything, I also don't think it's realistic for the member base to wait for months on this. I think the closer we stick to the real world, but with deviations in the history at some point (like the Cold War idea) is our best bet tbh. We can always find reasons why things were added to the world but making an entirely new one would be extremely difficult and time consuming and honestly it could get confusing for new members.