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Naruto - Legend of the Bijuu's - Part I - OOC

Innue said
This could be helped by a number of things, especially since I've been on that has asked questions.Aside from asking questions of people currently in the plot, and someone hopefully answering them kindly, people can read the posts to the best of the ability with a skim or two. It does suck since it seems some people can be posting too frequently and some of the important things can get lost in the shuffle.That, and it'd be good to actually get some rationale once and awhile for why things are being done. I often find understanding why someone started something can fill in a lot of the gaps between A and B without having to go into much detail. I've found the why a bit lacking.

I was merely just trying to find a solution because the rp is pretty confusing since there seems to be many different plot elements going on. I say we need to have people more closely intertwined in the story so it lessens the confusion.

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Innue said
It isn't the most effective if not everyone is doing it, and I don't want to be required to summarize all of my posts.

okay fine, in the mean time people will constantly ask what's going and then possibly quit do to everything being convoluted.

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Dystopia said
I also probably won't summarize my post. All that someone really needs is a quick explanation of important parts. Like someone only would really need to explain how jinchuriki were sent to spy and Nero's bijuu was ripped out and a kage summit is going on. No need for everyone to summarize their posts.

then explain to me why we are regularly getting people who are confused?

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Durnehviir said
I completely understood what you were saying. When I haven't been around for a long time I will read the entire post or skim most of the post. I didn't post all the information I posted just for somoene to skip over it for a meager two sentences. If you want a summary, otherwise don't be lazy or just try to be at least a little active. If the Rp is far too active for your schedule and you continuously need everything condensed and shorten, because you can't manage even getting on every three to four days (which is about the time for a full page to fill up now) then perhaps the Rp is too fast for you. I don't condense my post to accommodate laziness. I also don't believe that skipping posts that don't mention your character is just as pointless, as you could miss vital, plot related information by doing that, such as killing off a Jinchuriki.

Nation rps still use them and we still have fun doing the rp with long posts. You sound like you have never been apart of a nation rp before. Again a post summary does not make it so no one reads your post, I have already explained this, to me it seems like you're paranoid about people not reading your full post if you have a summary below it. You keep saying you understand the idea but you keep denying the fact that it has been done in other rps and works. I will discus this with Corrupt when he gets back on and see what he says about it.

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Axel said
A summary of each and every post is the equivalent to simplifying every one which like Giz said, makes it pointless to make a long post in the first place. It's like going on Wikipedia and reading up on Naruto: that feels like a big smack in every one's face who contributed to the 368 posts in the IC XD

a summary is just so people can know what's going on, it doesn't have any form of dialogue or description of how a character is feeling. you seem to be getting the idea that by having a summary it makes the long posts pointless, no it doesn't, it in fact makes it so people might actually read it and not miss the fact you had a character interact with their character. seriously it is done in all of the nation RPs and it works really well. again having a summary does not make it pointless to have a long post otherwise there is no emotion or creativity in roleplaying, and just because i can read about something on wikipedia doesn't mean i won't read a book or watch a movie about the same thing. i look up tons of things on wikipedia and it is the reason why i watch movies and tv shows about those things, it helps me find stuff i want to read or watch. so a summary will make more people want to join in and not quite the RP do to confusion. the summary has been done many times before and it hasn't ruined the creativity and coolness of an RP.

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Axel said
Instead of doing that, would it not be better if someone put who was included in the post rather than summarizing it? (Ex: Kitsu fell and died from a long fall because Toshiro pushed him so no one would stand in his way.Those Included: Kitsu & Toshiro)

that could work, but a summary also makes it easier to know what's going on, think of it as a quick recap of what's happened so people don't have to get annoyed at having back track and look through tons of long posts.

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Durnehviir said
Why make a long post at all then if you are just going to summarize it? No one will read your entire post then. Pointless.

you don't get what I'm saying, the post summary is so people who haven't posted in a long time can know if what has happened without having to look at tons of long posts. if the summary says that a person's character has interacted with someone else's character then they would read the entire post. as you can see, a few people have not read all of the posts and didn't know that someone was interacting with their characters. my idea makes it so you don't have to read through mountains of long post to know what's going on and whether or not the post has anything to do with your characters, basically it explains what has happened in the post and if someone's character has been interacted with.

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Durnehviir said
They...Read it?

when i joined nation/civilization RPs we would make very long posts so in order to make it easier to follow what was going we would put a summery of the post at the bottom right below the post. the summery would be short and makes it so we wouldn't have to read all of the long posts. for example I write a long post where Maiko is searching around Konoha for Kota Uchiha and he accidentally bumps into Ria Uchiha while searching, then the post summery would look like this [post summary: Maiko is looking for Kota in Konoha and has accidentally bumped into Ria Uchiha] if we use the post summary then it will be easier for people to keep track of what people have posted without having to read through very long posts. so what do you guys think?

Naruto - Legend of the Bijuu's - Part I - OOC

Does anyone want to hear my idea on how we can make it easy for people to understand what's going on in the rp?

Naruto - Legend of the Bijuu's - Part I - OOC

I have an idea on how we can fix the communication problems in the IC