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Topic Started: May 14 2016, 04:52 PM (98 Views)
Eli
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As some of you may be aware we've had a number of criticisms from a select few folk concerning how the site runs and whatnot. I don't wish to be bitchy or anything so I see no actual need to name these few, what I'd rather focus on here is the opportunity it presents us as a site. We're a small, dedicated member base so really when it comes to things like this it's pretty much better to sound all of you guy's views than just kinda assume everything.

First up, here's the accusations... I'd like you guy's views and really, no quibbles here, say what you like here. I may be a hormonal wreck but I can accept honest feedback here.

- Me, Mar, Shuri and Lilika basically force y'all outta cbox with constant shenanigans
- We're super serious all the time and need to be less serious so people can have fun
- We've basically walled ourselves, not letting anyone else get involved and interact with us.
- The site is dying and we're losing members super-fast
- Other than us three there's limited activity in CBox and hardly anyone uses the forums
- The site's history is a huge stumbling block for new people!


Now without stating my own views on some of these... there are actually some pretty valid points in here and I've already begun discussing a few changes to help streamline some things along. However I would love to hear your opinions 'cause let's face it, it's your site too and I'd rather we all had a unified "This is what we think is wrong/needs changing" and thus find a way to push our site forwards. Especially with summer coming up... oh gods how I've waited for summer <3

On that note... please, air your gripes here. Any suggestions, any "Well since ya mention it.... X pisses me off" would be appreciated.
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Tunodra
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- Me, Mar, Shuri and Lilika basically force y'all outta cbox with constant shenanigans

I don't really think so, to be honest. It seems as if you guys do a lot of things with each other, but in no way do I feel as if I'm being repelled from Cbox, although sometimes when it becomes a bit lengthier, perhaps it could be moved to IC Cbox instead. Still, that's only a minor thing, and I don't really mind it all too much. That just means your characters have strong bonds or whatever, and that goes for anyone who's character actually has friends. Asking you four to stop wouldn't make sense.

I'm assuming this refers to IC. OOC, yeah, occasionally you guys get into conversations that I can't really join, but I'm not really bothered by it. I can't be apart of every conversation and I'm fine with that.




- We're super serious all the time and need to be less serious so people can have fun

Once again, I'm not particularly bothered by this, although I do personally think characters shouldn't be extremely serious all the time, but you guys aren't. I will say you're frequently very serious, but I can name a few occasions that you aren't. I don't think this is a qualm that stands proficiently well.




- We've basically walled ourselves, not letting anyone else get involved and interact with us.

I guess you kind of have. The few times I've attempted to interact with your characters didn't turn out particularly well. Not absolutely atrocious, but never exceedingly well like with others. It's a clique that's viewed upon but I feel as if I have no hope of joining it, and for now, I'm not too terribly troubled by that fact since I do have other characters to interact with, but at the same time, I do think it's a somewhat valid concern.




- The site is dying and we're losing members super-fast

I don't think I've been around long enough to properly comment on this, but it does seem like the member count is dwindling. From what I can tell, it looks as if there are less and less staff members frequenting Cbox. Blues is off doing his own thing, Gree got banned I think, Forte's interest has died off and he only pokes his head in occasionally, and Aesperus' interest seems to be fading as we speak due to being far too weak to tussle with anyone stronger than him while also being far too strong to interact with anyone weaker. He's in a power level limbo, so to speak.

So yes, I do think members are leaving. I can't specify the speed at which they are, but I can say with certainty that it is happening. Whatever the solution may be, I honestly do not know.




- Other than us three there's limited activity in CBox and hardly anyone uses the forums

It does seem as if the forums are rarely touched, yes, but what on Earth can you actually do about it? Cbox is quicker to use, it doesn't require that you make an application for it, so that's where everyone's interest lies. It's more of a community issue than anything staff can easily deal with. Perhaps if there was a push, some sort of temporary reward for making threads during a specific time period, like all threads made from day A until day B will have plus 50% gains on it or something, that could get more people interested in threads, but at the same time, interest might once again fade after that special event is over.




- The site's history is a huge stumbling block for new people!

Yeah... not gonna lie, things here are a bit confusing history-wise, to say the very least. There's no official threads on the site's history, and there really needs to be. There's one or two I believe in the Guide to the Galaxy, but it doesn't seem like they properly go over everything. Some custom planets don't even have descriptions of what they're like. It might seem daunting to new players to go there at times for, if they don't have pre-existing knowledge, they're completely lost, and thus those planets don't get touched.

Also, apparently it's, what, age 840-something? Z took place around 760-ish, and canons are a bit perplexing to look at while trying to properly place them in today's setting, and doing so without proper thought just makes it seem as if we're disregarding the age altogether.




To be quite frank, the fiasco that happened on the 13th is what's bothered me more than anything else on this site. I had not the slightest idea of the time and energy you put in behind what was planned in the thread. Hell, I've even read someone else say that a DM is only really there until they're no longer needed. I believe it was said by either Baron or Beardy, I'm not quite certain. I didn't think you were needed, and without knowing you still had more you wished to contribute, I went ahead and finished it.

It's your reaction that bugs me the most, and here's why

I'm only fifteen years old. You're twenty seven.
I've been rping on sites for a little less than a year, you've owned one for, what, four?
Altogether, I've been rping for a year and a half now, if we're to count Miiverse and Minecraft and things about that nature.

First off, I would've much preferred if you had taken it to Skype to bring up your qualms with me so your ridicule wouldn't have been so public. Secondly, this was only my second thread that someone had DMed for me, and the first one was with Aes acting a fool. You could've taken that moment to enlighten me, help me in some areas that I was a bit ignorant in when it came to role playing, but you didn't. Rather, you chose to verbally tear into me.

I don't have to stay. I choose to because I have friends here, but if my welcome is worn out or something like this happens again, easily I can switch to Legends, rp on DCRPG, go back to Superhero-RPG, which is where I came from before I joined here, and/or start working on Rebirth a hell of a lot more. I'm not without options. For the entirety of the night before and yesterday morning, I felt like utter garbage. I can look past a lot, but there's a limit to that.

All I ask is that next time you take a moment to rationally think out what you'll say. I don't believe this is the first kerfuffle you've been in with another, the other that comes to the top of my head being that thing with Baron's character double dosing a drink, although I can't remember if you went off on Baron or Beardy.

Going back to members leaving at a fast rate, that may possibly be apart of the problem, going off the assumption you do this often.

Side note: I will recognize that one point here may be a bit hypocritical, saying that I disliked you practically publicly ridiculing me while I go ahead and write a portion of my reply geared towards something you did that irked me. So, if you wish to continue section of the conversation, I simply request that you take it up with me on Skype.




Hell, that's my second personal complaint. I have trouble recalling if it was Baron or Beardy exceedingly often. I know the difference between the two and their characters, I just get them jumbled up in my mind. I request that one of them gets their nick changed(jkjk).
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Eli
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Well, there's a somewhat large lack of responses however after a fairly lengthy skype chat tunodra's final issue has been somewhat sorted and... when I am back and active in cbox, we can always up the number of hooks/chances to interact with Eli and co. I mean I can't guarentee things will go well with said interactions, since that's kinda down to the characters in question, but I'm more than happy to do more 'open' stuff to provide those shots~

Also there is a master history thread... it's been here for a month or two I think, it's like the one-stop shop for working out what's happened across the site's multiple years.
Edited by Eli, May 16 2016, 05:53 AM.
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Marula
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Well i was gonna add my thoughts and bits but... Some peeps did ask me to be patient.

However hopefully tonight ill be able to add a patch notes thing up. Ideas on what some of us have planned for some changes that need to be addressed.. Like death timers... 'les we already did that one... I don't remember.. To many work hours and 14.
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Aesperus
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I offended people by what I said to spur this on, it wasn't necessarily made to offend people, but the way I worded it made it seem like that. Anywho, thanks to Baron, I see a lot of what I said was wrong. Regardless, we can still improve by quite a bit. I have a suggestion. Much unlike what I did a few days ago to make me disliked by a number of you, we can hold a civil discussion about what can be improved, what all of us can do to help improve the site, etcetera. I've got to explain something, some of you may have noticed already. When I'm passionate about something, my words tend to get offensive, violent, all of that. My intentions were to explain some things I have noticed by my own observations, not cut people so deeply. I ask of your forgiveness, and if I do not get it, I understand fully.
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Eli
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This man owes me no toh, that is all
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Wait Wut?
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