New boards for time skip

Brandon Rhea

Shadow in the Starlight
Administrator
Joined
Nov 27, 2005
Messages
67,946
Reaction score
3,859
With timeline changes, we generally archive the previous Story, RP Profiles, and factions boards in order to start off with a clean slate. I'll probably do the same thing now, just so there's a clear distinction between what's the first war and what's the second war.

The faction boards will be like so:

  • Galactic Republic
  • Jedi Order
  • Hutt Empire
  • Bogan Empire
This time it's separated by good vs. evil.

However the main point I'm making here is that I'll need to know what sub-boards everyone wants. If you want to have the same sub-board names and what not you have now, let me know that -- but I also need to know if you want new ones, want some removed, etc.

Thanks.
 

Jiang Winters

Professional Cat
SWRP Writer
Joined
Feb 11, 2009
Messages
11,769
Reaction score
65
I don't think it's necessary to archive the character profile's board, but I see no issue with archiving the story board. In fact, it'd be kinda nice to start off with a clean slate there. :3

Just my 2 cents.
 

Brandon Rhea

Shadow in the Starlight
Administrator
Joined
Nov 27, 2005
Messages
67,946
Reaction score
3,859
True, we don't need to do that, however -- on the flip side -- people may not update their profiles unless they're made to repost them. Plus the current RP Profiles board is filled with unused characters, so I'd rather start off with a better representation of what characters are currently being RPd.
 

Ru the Boatswain

Furry Slayer
SWRP Writer
Joined
Dec 22, 2007
Messages
11,925
Reaction score
0
True, we don't need to do that, however -- on the flip side -- people may not update their profiles unless they're made to repost them. Plus the current RP Profiles board is filled with unused characters, so I'd rather start off with a better representation of what characters are currently being RPd.

Can there be a thread to request that a character NOT be archived?
 

Brandon Rhea

Shadow in the Starlight
Administrator
Joined
Nov 27, 2005
Messages
67,946
Reaction score
3,859
Can there be a thread to request that a character NOT be archived?

What we'd probably actually do is archive the entire board and then have a request to move the profile into the new profile board, however you'd first have to show that you've updated the character. We wouldn't just move a profile that hasn't been aged or updated or anything.
 

Empress

STAFF EMERITUS
SWRP Writer
Joined
Nov 27, 2005
Messages
17,704
Reaction score
75
I'll update my characters, all of them have use to some degree still but should uptade:


and you better be adding those Bogan things I made you Bac :P



I also need a day to get You, San, sree and myself on msn to bang out a map and post it someplace everyone can easily see and that we can modify as needed.





as fort he Republic boards: * keep the same informational stickies *


Chancellors Office:

  • Situation room ( locked )
  • Chancellor's public office (open)
  • Secretary of Defense office ( open)
  • Secretary of Affairs office ( open)


Galactic senate
(all the informational things and roster)


  • Senate Cambers (ic senate debates etc )

  • Senate committees ( IC-Locked)
    in here is where small office to office and committee RPs


  • Senate Rotunda (where the senate is held)

  • Senate Signup
___________________

The rest of the sub boards can stay as is, just purged of the fluff and clutter to leave clean slates .


looks like I may be having to de-word the solag stuff anyway soon, that's turning into a headache and I rather not purge one faction or another, nor merge them
 
Last edited by a moderator:

Empress

STAFF EMERITUS
SWRP Writer
Joined
Nov 27, 2005
Messages
17,704
Reaction score
75
I admit I miss on the old boards when the training rooms for the jedi were lumped into their own sub forum, and the " general topics" spaces were set up as personal chambers, and or situation areas like the garden of tranquility" or some crap to allow the in character banter time and such.
 

Lucid

Grumpy
SWRP Writer
Joined
Jul 30, 2010
Messages
5,740
Reaction score
385
Archives hurt the already stressed database as it involves moving and creating new tables, etc etc etc.
 

Brandon Rhea

Shadow in the Starlight
Administrator
Joined
Nov 27, 2005
Messages
67,946
Reaction score
3,859
Archives hurt the already stressed database as it involves moving and creating new tables, etc etc etc.

Hassan has a combined $180 dollars from me, Matt, and Nexus.

I think I speak for Matt and Nexus when I say we would appreciate it if someone would start sorting this database error out with the upgraded database for the month, otherwise all we've accomplished is funding the Taliban.
 

Jiang Winters

Professional Cat
SWRP Writer
Joined
Feb 11, 2009
Messages
11,769
Reaction score
65
You know, now that I think about it, the only board we really need to archive is the story board. The rest is up-to-date enough that it can stay. Characters -could- be archived, but it's unnecessary if we just stress the importance of updating profiles... Which we need to do anyways, otherwise people may just repost profiles without updating them.

As for indie factions, let's just go through and do a general clean-up and move all the old factions into the current archive board. This is just a time jump, so I really don't think there's a need for any sort of comprehensive cleaning that'll just break char links and the like. /opinion
 

Santoro

Strong as Ten Regular Men
SWRP Supporter
SWRP Writer
Joined
Dec 8, 2007
Messages
5,048
Reaction score
1
You know, now that I think about it, the only board we really need to archive is the story board. The rest is up-to-date enough that it can stay. Characters -could- be archived, but it's unnecessary if we just stress the importance of updating profiles... Which we need to do anyways, otherwise people may just repost profiles without updating them.

As for indie factions, let's just go through and do a general clean-up and move all the old factions into the current archive board. This is just a time jump, so I really don't think there's a need for any sort of comprehensive cleaning that'll just break char links and the like. /opinion

I agree with this. As far as the factions and characters go there's not much use in archiving. Factions change very frequently, so they're probably up to date or are within reason- a day offline to clean everything up would be all we need, though this can be done now.

The characters I understand more, but I'm still against it. It breaks everybody's character links, and it's not like the character board can get cluttered- if you need to find someone, we can use the search or links.

Story could use the boot though.
 

Brandon Rhea

Shadow in the Starlight
Administrator
Joined
Nov 27, 2005
Messages
67,946
Reaction score
3,859
It actually doesn't break links. We can move threads back and keep the same URL. What we can do is put together a move request thread, like what we have with the current profile archive system. It's easier than having pages and pages of unused characters.

Also, I still prefer to archive the faction boards, as it's easier organizationally to start fresh while preserving older content.
 

Santoro

Strong as Ten Regular Men
SWRP Supporter
SWRP Writer
Joined
Dec 8, 2007
Messages
5,048
Reaction score
1
Also, I still prefer to archive the faction boards, as it's easier organizationally to start fresh while preserving older content.

Welllll the Empire boards aren't old content, it's all new/current. If you archive it, assume everything is supposed to be pulled back.

Also, even if we have only 40 RPing members, won't it be a massive pain to have all of their pull back requests? We could have them say to post in the characters they want to keep active and archive ones who havent had a post in them in 2 months, or something.
 

Jiang Winters

Professional Cat
SWRP Writer
Joined
Feb 11, 2009
Messages
11,769
Reaction score
65
Welllll the Empire boards aren't old content, it's all new/current. If you archive it, assume everything is supposed to be pulled back.

Also, even if we have only 40 RPing members, won't it be a massive pain to have all of their pull back requests? We could have them say to post in the characters they want to keep active and archive ones who havent had a post in them in 2 months, or something.

I actually very much so like this idea. If we have everyone post in the profiles they want to keep, then we can just archive everything that's more than a month or two old and we wouldn't need to make a new archive board for it.
 

Brandon Rhea

Shadow in the Starlight
Administrator
Joined
Nov 27, 2005
Messages
67,946
Reaction score
3,859
What you guys are saying is actually more time consuming, at least for me. It's easier for me to move everything to an archive board and then move back what people ask us to move back rather than archiving and not archiving specific things based on requests and times.

Plus, at the end of the day so long as it doesn't cause some server issue, I make the call.

Like a boss. :CSly

However, that was not the point of this thread. The point of this thread was to ask what the structure is that people want in their faction boards with the changes being made within the factions.
 

Jiang Winters

Professional Cat
SWRP Writer
Joined
Feb 11, 2009
Messages
11,769
Reaction score
65
Archiving only outdated chars would be nice, but I will agree with you that it'd be a headache. Worse comes to worse, archiving the entire char board is still an option on the table. Leaving the faction boards as-is wouldn't cause any issue though, imo.
 

Brandon Rhea

Shadow in the Starlight
Administrator
Joined
Nov 27, 2005
Messages
67,946
Reaction score
3,859
Archiving only outdated chars would be nice, but I will agree with you that it'd be a headache. Worse comes to worse, archiving the entire char board is still an option on the table. Leaving the faction boards as-is wouldn't cause any issue though, imo.

A lot of it is also psychological and gives people a sense of newness. They see something "old" and think that what's new is OOOOO SHINY.

Plus, the Dark Jedi board is going to be completely outdated since that faction is kaput and replaced by the Bogan Empire. The Republic is going through reforms and I think Adena has in mind how she wants the Republic board to look. The Jedi Order will also likely be adding and removing some boards based on what I was talking to Sreeya about.

With a lot of changes to the structure, it's easier just to archive the current faction section and then just start fresh with a new one, reposted write ups, etc.

This isn't something that would require any work from you guys, I generally do this on behalf of everyone.
 

Jiang Winters

Professional Cat
SWRP Writer
Joined
Feb 11, 2009
Messages
11,769
Reaction score
65
See, this is why you're head admin and I'm the gun-and-RP-tech admin. If it doesn't kill, maim, mutilate, or purr, I'm lousy at it. Carry on, good sir, carry on.
 

Brandon Rhea

Shadow in the Starlight
Administrator
Joined
Nov 27, 2005
Messages
67,946
Reaction score
3,859
Press Ctrl + D to set your default response to "Yes Bac. You are, have been, and always will be right Bac."
 

Jiang Winters

Professional Cat
SWRP Writer
Joined
Feb 11, 2009
Messages
11,769
Reaction score
65
Yes, you are, have been, and always will be right back. I truly appreciate your timely nature.

...

I don't think your 'automated response' worked so well, Bacman.
 
Top