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Topic Started: Jul 14 2009, 02:02 PM (439 Views)
Gwen MacKenzie
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Wow! It's been a week already and the first official Role Call is done!

I would like to thank each of you for replying as fast as you did and give our newest applicants a warm welcome! There are very, very few Firefly based games on the web like this one and it warms my heart to see so many people willing to stick around and help! Sarah, Zach, and myself have some stuff in the works that we know will totally be throwing the characters for loops that we hope you will enjoy.

Which leads off to letting you all know exactly what we got in the works right now!

While the basis of the game isn't changing much, some aspects are. After talking amongst ourselves we have decided that we are going to take on a more Browncoat based approached to the system. What does this mean? Alliance and Blue Sun characters will mostly be used as NPCs either run by the Mods or the people who already have Alliance characters.

This could easily be a good thing or a bad thing for the characters in play. XD

Plots are going to be run a little differently than they were before as well. While we highly encourage you to submit plot ideas for your ships or characters, we will also be having Mod run plots. This means that there will be no stagnant times between missions or anything so everyone will have something to do. One thing that we have discussed and liked the idea of is posting a general overview of what is going to happen- mostly characters A-D will try to be doing this while characters D-J do this to achieve this major point in plot. No real details to give the story away to make it interesting for y'all, but enough that we are all on the same page as to what we need to be doing :) Let us know about any plots that you might have ideas for as well! It's going to be a group effort to keep things interesting around here!

Right now we are going to have three ships all Browncoat in association: Cressida, Serenity, and the Hellsing (though the name is possible to change, we're mulling it over). The general idea is that, at least, the Cressida and the new ship will be reporting to a base NPC ship working underground for the Independents. Details are being hammered out- we'll let you know exactly what we got when we do. Any and all suggestions will be reviewed as we do so :)

As of right now we have SEVEN people already in game, THREE in the app process, with a total of TWENTY characters between everyone. This tickles me pink but also leads me to address something. With removing the Alliance and Blue Sun ships, we have characters in limbo. These characters will be given a chance to pick positions on the ships and rewrite their backgrounds as they see fit. Of course, people who have characters they want where they are will be keeping them there. Please feel free to PM any of the mods with questions or what you want to do with your characters. We will be more than willing to assist anyone who needs it! :)

Now.. the next topic is promoting. We really, really, really need to get the word out that we are here and we are accepting characters! I play at various other games on livejournal and believe me when I say that none of the people I play with have ever heard of a Firefly only based game. I'm hoping to make some graphics and the like we can use to promote at various places- hollow-art, livejournal, insanejournal, rpg dictionary, any place we can find that we can put our name out there with. If anyone can think of other places we can advertise at, please post them below!

And this isn't a read and respond sort of post either though I would like to see people coming up with ideas or giving their feedback. :)

Thanks folks!

~Jenn
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Sounds good Jenn

(im on someone elses computer so I cant log in - but I think you know who it is) :P

Let me know if you need any help coming up with any graphics or anything, and I will def try to get the word out.

Ill see you online later tonight.


 
Aurora Carlisle
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Jeez - LAZY. LoL, j/k, j/k

I'm working on a few characters - I'm aging Chastity to be the pilot for the Hellsing, and Serendipity "Seren" Lancaster (Drew's lil sister!!!) is gonna be a stowaway on the Serenity. I may change her name (again...it was originally Serenity. Hah.). Suggestions, let me know.

My God, I'm obsessing. Perhaps I should do something mod-like?

I dunno, I just wanna POST!
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Wash
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A stowaway on Serenity? :O

Well I could help out by making graphics if you need it? I'm pretty good at it and I really enjoy it, so let me know. XD
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Aurora Carlisle
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That'd be fab!!

I'm never too good at it - my computer sucks, and I'm not even on my own, LoL.

I'll PM you the info. Try to keep this thread on track, LoL.
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Andromeda Troy
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Jenn told me that I could switch Andi over as the captain of the new ship ....
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Schuyler Carson
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Yeppers, Stevie.

There's happiness in that. :D
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Gwen MacKenzie
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All right!

If things keep going the way they are..

I see no problems with us rebooting Sunday :)
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Schuyler Carson
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I'm leaving tomorrow afternoon to go out of town. I doubt I'll have internet, and even if I did, I probably won't have time to use it, LoL. I'll be back sometime Sunday night.

:)
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wow.....LAZY..jk, jk
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I handle the advertising on another forum I co-admin, so I'll try to come up with as much as I can remember. Let's see...

RPG Directory is #1, unless that's what you meant.

RPG Underground

RPG Collection

RPG Circle

Distant Fantasies Network ...I'm not sure how active it is, I just happened across it recently.

Though I'm sure everyone already knows this drill: Tons and tons and tons of Link Backs and leaving ads on other Invisionfree, Proboards, Boards2Go, etc RPGs. I like to go on RPG Directory and find ads placed within the last two months or whatever, visit their boards and drop our ad. I did this for about five hours straight a few days ago. ^___^;;; I tend to get carried away, but it pays off.

There's always submitting the forum to Google, Yahoo and Bing. You won't get immediate results, but it will be nice in the long run. Those are the top three, all other search engines get their info from them. Meta Tags aren't as crucial anymore, but it wouldn't hurt to have them. If you do use them, Google Adwords is great for coming up with keywords people use when searching for a specific topic. Since the forum is a branch of zetaboards.com, you can't submit a sitemap unfortunately. Supposedly the key to getting boosted in Google searches is to have multiple "popular" (according to Google) sites linking back to yours.

I apologize if this isn't what you wanted, but I figured it might be worth posting. That's all I can recall at the moment, I've got to head out. Hope it helps.
 
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