Possible Ascendants reorganization?

[vellichor]

So!! it has come to my attention that maybe the current way of running a clan in Ascendants (and on BoB as a whole tbh) is not effective for the actual audience here, but instead intended for a younger, much more active audience. So I decided to try reworking some things to better reflect the community here. These are all just a bunch of suggestions to help out with Ascendants and will hopefully help improve RPing here and the overall expereince! This is an ongoing discussion in the Ascendants but I also wanted to get overall site opinions and all that jazz. So basically I’m just looking for any thoughts/opinions on all this!

Ranks

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The primary idea I have for this is simply to reduce our positions all the way down to only two to three positions. Currently, I feel like oftentimes positions just act as titles rather than being a way to encourage meaningful involvement, or only encourage someone to post quickly on a board but not to actually engage with anyone there. Also, I feel like there’s honestly a very toxic idea of the expectation of activity. RPing is not a job. RPing is not anyone’s responsibility. It’s a game that should be fun and I think positions oftentimes add more stress than they do fun.
All that being said, I’m thinking I would only keep the leader and deputy position, and then possibly a medic position (although tbh I’d LOVE to see this incorporated as a development challenge where the character has to gradually learn the skill and then earns a title after a certain amount of time).

But yeah! So basically the idea is to shift the emphasis on ranks to titles in order to make for a more open environment rather than one where people feel obligated to engage.

Development Challenges

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So this is actually the simplest section and it ties in with the previous one. Basically there would be a development prompt every week and completing them would get various OOC and IC rewards. I don't have a fully fleshed out idea of what these rewards are but I'm thinking IC ones will be special titles/items and OOC ones may just be some gems or, if badges are added by then, badges for various events. I’m definitely up for discussing what these rewards look like and what they are exactly, but I’m kind of leaning towards titles just because we already have a pretty good system in place for those and they have both IC and OOC value.

Characterization Threads

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This one is sort of a combination of what I’ve seen utilized well on other RP sites that I’d love to see have it’s own version on BoB. It’s sort of like an open storage thread that doubles as a plotting thread. You’d be able to store a bio/tags there, as well as any images, playlists, one-shots, etc there and there would be a lot of encouragement from the Ascendants for other members to take a look at them and plot through these means. The whole idea is that I really want people to actively seek out plots they’ll enjoy and to make an open environment where everyone is comfortable doing that, as not everyone has a Discord (or is on it consistently) and not everyone likes being messages directly on site. 

OOC Challenges

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This ties in with the previous section. Along with the direct development challenges, there would be OOC challenges directly related to the characterization threads. This might mean you have to make something specific to put in yours or it might send you off to someone else’s characterization thread in order to create plots. Like the other challenges, there would likely be gem rewards for these or some sort of badge. The entire purpose of these is to encourage development and communication in the community.

[arcy]

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already posted in the asc thread so just tracking here ^^!