[quote=@strikeforce] Great! Thanks for sharing the information. That is very helpful for increasing my knowledge in this field. [URL=http://strikeforceheroes3game.com]Strike Force Heroes 3[/URL], [URL=http://happywheels3game.com]Happy Wheels 3[/URL] [/quote] Hi, I'm pretty sure you're spamming. [quote=@Arawak] By any chance have you noticed the cycle of intensive world building, progressive loss of thematic focus and eventually player drop out sprees that seems to affect sci-fi NRPs?[/quote] Yes. Apparently [@Darkmatter] and [@Terminal] maybe involved in fixing this! Hopefully this journal can help them and this problem, thanks for bringing up this topic. I addressed it in the journal as the third question to HeySeuss' RP that I reviewed: [quote]It would be to the benefit of this journal to explore how often players leave, how player leaving impacts a game and the community, why players leave and how the community and game masters respond to player leaving. An article can be created to present to the community after proper research has been conducted and examined. This topic has potential to introduce similar, but specifically different, questions such as; [indent]‘how big of a problem is players leaving, on a micro (among the ASFR community on RolePlayerGuild) and a macro (among the RolePlayerGuild’s community, among forum RolePlayers, among RolePlayers in general, etc) scale.? ‘what strategies are used to deal with players leaving or to prevent players from leaving?[/indent] [indent][indent]How can we organize these strategies? (For instance: dynamic and static, short term and long term, authoritarian or equalitarian, etc) What works in theory as well as in practice? Does a specific strategy fail because of the theory or the practice? How often do these strategies succeed or fail? How long do these strategies succeed until they fail?’[/indent][/indent][/quote] [quote=@Arawak]Interstellar Ascension is perhaps the most interest case study of such NRP cycle.[/quote] I definitely want to take a look at this RP and I even got to speak with Darkmatter about it. I'd be interested in interviewing not just him, but also the participants, but first I need to get a good idea for what the RP was about. The first post in the OOC was on 14 Aug 2014 and the last was 30 Sep 2014, so the RP technically lasted about a [b]month and a half[/b]. The IC lasted for [b]9 days[/b]. Here's the list: [hider=Interstellar Ascension's IC] 28 Aug 2014 11:09 Darkmatter 28 Aug 2014 13:28 NewSun 29 Aug 2014 13:41 Kyelin 29 Aug 2014 15:21 darkwolf687 31 Aug 2014 3:09 Kangaroo 2 Sep 2014 20:36 Monkeypants 6 Sep 2014 7:42 Serpentine88 [/hider] I'd like to take baby steps, review the RP and take time to really understand what occurred in this instance of time. Darkmatter is also going to be looking up the piratepads that never got uploaded to the forum, so that's another important thing to note. This is an on-going investigation as of now, thanks again for bringing it to my attention! Nothing official, but hopefully I can help create an article that can address the problems stated above; Interstellar Ascension is a good place to start. [quote=@CowboyCommando] Ooooh, I was in one or two of the Rps on the list. :hehe Anyways in my case I've only had experience in one sci-fi NRP. The second one civil space OCC I jumped in with alot of superfluous tech talk that I really wanted to blurt out for some reason. The GM/OP was a bit grumpy to say the least, rightfully so actually. I noticed however that he didn't set any iron ground rules and rather threw things to the wind and wanted everyone else to decide what sort of RP they wanted. I didn't really track down what happened after though.[/quote] I will keep that in mind when I get to it, thanks! If you'd like I'll keep you updated when I get around to it so I can tell you what happened afterwards. [quote=@CowboyCommando]Faction : Martian Front was actually a really pleasant experience. Open ended yet thematic. But sadly the RP stopped due to inactivity me included. I had a blast though before that happened. Sometime this week the Sequel Faction 2: Jupiter Referendum will be up and running IC. I just hope I can make the time to go at it. As I intend to go all out.[/quote] Keep me updated on that (or I'll look out for it depending on my free time) and I can see about doing a double review between the two to help new and old players refreshed on the old RP so to help out the new RP. With what I've said before in regards to stopping the trend of inactivity we may be able to see a future for Faction 2 unlike it's predecessor (death by inactivity, that is). That would be an interesting project in my mind, so thanks for mentioning it! [quote=@CowboyCommando]Anyways the idea of JASFR is great! It allows an overview of several roleplaying settings, techniques, and directions to inspire better RPs. Which is good by the way! XD[/quote] I really appreciate that, I think so too! I hope it becomes an accessible and interesting resource for the community! [quote=@Darkmatter] Old wounds cut deep. Though I agree, this cycle results in the death of easily 90% of the NRPs here. Myself and [@Terminal], by his suggestion, had been deliberating writing a guide on what causes this, how to avoid it and to just generally raise awareness of it. It is the number cause of death in the NRP section. [/quote] I would love to eventually find out what the actual percentage is, but I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be too far off in that assertion. [quote=@Darkmatter]If that work would possibly be better transferred here, then I'm happy to speak frankly and honestly about that particular RP, as a case study, as the GM.[/quote] Yay!! I would love to have you and Terminal contribute an article to the journal, that would really boost it's relevancy. Though it's more important that it gets done. For now, the journal could be an ample resource and I think I will start working on that today before I head to work. [center]- - -[/center] I've been having fleeting thoughts of the idea of reviewing choice RP's from the forum of old. If anyone has any suggestions, please provide the cached/internet database screenshots below!