Fallenreaper

Arena Chat Thread

@Fallenreaper@Guru@MelonHead

Can't let the meat go to waste. We must use every part of the animal.

@Doc Doctor

I've never cooked moose before so lead on, Doc.

Arena Chat Thread

@Guru

Despite how the weight of that text could, if dropped from a great height, kill a bull moose...

I must say, all well said.

@Doc Doctor

That's very, very accurate. *hears a moose die in the distance after the post was dropped* Very.

Arena Chat Thread

Whelp, what's the next topic? How about midget on midget combat?

@Doc Doctor

Far too short of a battle for my liking. :P

Arena Chat Thread

@Fallenreaper I'd argue that 5 out of 200 peak users isn't that much. Furthermore, there is indeed a sort of in between classification for people that do both arena roleplay and other roleplay, hence I might not associate them with arena necessarily. I know both Yoshua and Ganryu and neither of them strike me as hardcore arena roleplayers. So, in my mind, they don't come up. They still don't.

@Buddha

That's the difference between our classifications. I include anyone that does play in it, even rarely, as part of the activity. Mainly as you need to recall that there are rps out there that can play bi-monthly or longer, and still thrive. They also happen in the Advance and Casual, though the latter I haven't seen happen very often. Pace is also something to consider as honestly, I'm not a player that would continually fight in an arena thread every day and likely make weekly or even monthly posts instead depending on the counter I have to make. Should that hurt the forum because I like taking my time, reasoning out my options, taking breaks, etc like any other rp rather than just post every week/day? I hope not.

To be honest, I feel like you're trying to create space that we won't use and feels that's a bit of a dumb idea. This wasn't the most active sub forum (as a friend pointed out) when it was created but it didn't hurt anything being a separated subforum. Mainly because this

But I remain of the opinion that arena RP is too inactive for it's own good and have yet to hear anything that strikes me as a good idea when it comes to fixing that. Saying that the tournament will improve that is meaningless when there is (as Melon stated) 7 months between this one and the last tournament. Arena RP moves slowly, very very slowly. Perhaps this is not an issue to you, but it's certainly not doing you any favors, which is why I had also suggested something like a tournament master function with a title for people who want to help make arena more active by hosting tournaments (because tournaments were cited as a period when arena became alive again).

@Buddha

This sort of still comes back to the original point I made: You can lead a horse to water, but honestly you can't make him drink. We can likely come up with all sort of ideas, but if the users aren't interested in playing in combat focused rps... I don't honestly think it will do any good. That's my thoughts over it. Namely as this has been tried several times already by the active here if you look in the history of this thread as this topic has been brought up at least 2-3 times over the existence of this thread.

Honestly, I've had ideas but not confident in applying them due to my lack of experience and having my confidence in my fighting common sense crushed terribly. Even when both of us had no hard feelings, that honestly I'm sad to say left a mark I'm still trying to recover from and currently feel like I'm not a very good fighter at all- save in pre-plotted stories. So yeah... that's my two cents and I apologize if it sounds negative or upset anyone.

Personally, I don't see why we need to lump together all the lower activity forums when we are just creating space we really aren't going to use and just makes the forum look more bare bones to me. It doesn't promise more activity or that any changes will be drastic, it only gives that illusion of 'activity'. Having the arena separate isn't hurting anyone then why do it? It did fine as a separate sub forum in the last guild version after all.

That's just my thoughts again.

Arena Chat Thread

At least I drew a reaction, which is special to me, because it's rare to see arena RP'ers outside of your subforum. ;)

@Buddha

I'm going to peer in here for a moment and provide a statement about that because I feel that statement is a bit false. Mainly because I know about 3-4+ arena players that do play in rps outside the arena. I've been in an rp called Create-A-Hero with Melon and LeeRoy, both vet fighters. I'm in another rp with DJAtomika which is a Mass Effect one. I also play with Yoshua171 and Ganryu in Anima Manifest, again both that leap into the arena for fun fights and even have a thread to test pcs in a combat situation. I also know a few ex-arena fighters (which I didn't know they were until recently) that while they don't fight much, they have roots there and been playing in other area of forum.

That's like 5 I've listed already which sort of kills off the classification of rare to me. >_>

It's not to be rude by the way, I merely wanted to point out that saying it's rare to see arena players outside their subform is incorrect to me. Just because they aren't always active in a subform like the free and casual and advance, doesn't really mean they don't use it at a different regular rate. The advantage with those forums is they don't focus on a set rp method while the arena does and it's one that a notable portion of people here don't like, rp continually, or some other reason. That's the biggest difference to me and one that shouldn't be penalized because of it. I mean, it's like the old saying: you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

*politely bows out* I am still keeping an eye on this conversation.

Formaroth: Battle for the Throne

Btw, if it wasn't obvious i'm joking. :P
I can write a battle post or two if people want, i actually enjoy them.

But @Fallenreaper, you haven't asked my gender D:
*Fake tears*

@Klomster

*Points to the title under your avatar* even if you're not a man, which I think you are, you idenity yourself as one with the phrase: The man, the myth, the legend. If you were a woman, it wouldn't be man. However to be polite, what is your gender?

Formaroth: Battle for the Throne

The Quarian one was actually a birthday present I made for him of his Mass Effect character in another rp. The recently one is also from another rp and made by me. Also, I tend to ask gender anymore as honestly there's no sure method to get the facts without error. So I figured I correct you there. XD

Formaroth: Battle for the Throne

@Klomsterdon't be too sure :p. Like I said it may become something of a rota system until PhoenixWhite returns. And if echo is busy with her own post during the Telmarion battle I may ask you to fill in (given your experience writing battle posts).

@TheDuncanMorgan

*falls over laughing* Echo is a he, I know this well. ;)

Blood Act I~ Ghosts of the Past

Blood Act I~ Ghosts of the Past

@Fallenreaper

I'm still around, just been out of sorts. My head's feeling kinda loopy lately and life is eeeeeh.

@Lucius Cypher

What have you done now?!? *checks you over*