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I'm guessing that will come as soon as Mahz develops the ability to check if posts are read/unread.

Star Wars - Jedi Exile.

Sep said
Jordan is too used to being a GM :P

Guilty! If I'm stepping on your toes, Sep, smack me down.

Comprehensive List of Requested Features - Please read before making a new request thread

Jorick said
Hooray for sticky threads.I'm gonna go through and remove the requests that have been fulfilled, so as to make the list less gargantuan.It is done. There were over a dozen things to remove where I expected maybe 6, so congrats on getting through so much tedious work Mahz.

Huz-huz-huzzah!

[Idea] User-run Worlds

As someone who wrote exclusively on isolated forums such as these for RPs for most of my career, I support this feature, so long as it doesn't prove to strain or bog down the server. I've seen plenty of large communities suffer from Big Board Syndrome, where too many posts, topics, forums and users really strain the database.

GM-RPer Relations

Kaga said
As someone who GM's often, here's my take on it;Players should be able to question things, including the GM's choices (in fact I kind of encourage it a lot of the time) but so long as the GM and the players can discuss things, the players should respect the GM's final decision on something, be that the rules of the canon or the rules of how the RP is run.In return, the GM should try to consider what decisions would be best for the player base; make rules that make sense, build a world that's easy to RP in, etc.I also think the GM should have every right to remind players to make posts and/or tell them to change things if the need arises, but they should always be reasonable about it and, simply put, just be a decent human being. If someone has a good excuse for being offline or having trouble posting regularly, be mindful of that.Also, if a GM feels the need to remove someone's character from an RP, they should at least send out a warning saying they're considering it, and wait a reasonable amount of time (variable depending on the speed of the RP) before going ahead without an answer. If it does come to that, however, the GM does have the right to remove characters.Also, the GM should take into consideration any factors that may keep people from RPing as well as what direction(s) the players want the RP to go in, and any other important thoughts the players have about the RP. In order to do that, though, the players need to be open with their thoughts - either posting on the OOC or messaging the GM privately if they have any concerns.Tl;dr - I think GM-RPer relations are all about communication, common decency, and respect. The GM and players need to be open with each other about the reasoning behind their actions. so that they can properly discuss things like decent human beings. Providing that the GM can make reasonable decisions, the players should respect the GM as somewhat of an authority figure and respect said decisions. Both GM's and players are responsible for smooth relations between the two groups.

Kaga says everything I want to. I don't like the idea of the GM as the Supreme Overlord, but rather as the benevolent dictator who holds court in the marketplace.

A more genre-specific interest check system, and likes/dislikes for interest checks.

How many forums do you need? How many genres are you going to cater to? Is there a separate forum for Twilight, a separate forum for True Blood, or do we group them together under Vampire? What about fantasy genres that include vampires, where do you put those? But if you group all of them under Fantasy, what happens when you have a separate forum for NRPs, but a fantasy NRP? Does it go in the Fantasy forum or NRP forum?

Too much headache. This will be alleviated by the Tag system when it's implemented. Until then, patience and Google Search (use "site:roleplayerguild.com" to narrow down your searches) are just fine.

Star Wars - Jedi Exile.

Bounce said
Since I haven't killed him off yet, would anyone (Sep?) care if I swapped out which youngling I was writing? Ever since my last post, I feel like I've been writing the wrong character. I hate to seem fickle, but if its permissible I think I'd prefer to drop a CS for the Nautolan initiate that's been with SJ since his intro post and have SJ be the "Jimmy"

I'm not Sep, but I have no problem with this.

Stuck up Spam

Jorick said
Grammar, though I've gotten to the point where I can keep my snobbery silent and still work with people who write like 12 year old kids without them ever knowing I secretly hate them.

The last part is still something I'm working on.

Are we truly online?

Kaga said
Well of course not. It's digital flesh.Come on, get with the program.

Oh right. So I can digi-stab your digital flesh?

Are we truly online?

Kaga said
In this day and age, there might as well be a such thing as digital flesh.

Can I stab your digital flesh?