Post by DGM Soft Kitty on May 28, 2013 9:55:04 GMT -5
Im sorry Talia, but most of what you just said sounded like you think everything is mostly A-ok and the problems we do have are minor and easily fixed with little disruption to the status-quo.
Nope not what i meant at all, I guess I can sound uber cheery at times, but I am also a realist or else I wouldnt be working as hard as i can to help turn stuff around!
I mean think about it B I am basically involved with three of the four ships in the fleet personally. (Talia, Liz and my DGM stuffies)
I know we have issues and I am doing my best to help solve them. We are in a slump but Im just not gonna quit as long as there is one person in the fleet who wants to rp!
Sure some players have connections with other players from other ships, they either have alts playing with them, had alts their, or GM both groups.
Naturally and such things have often led to cross pollenated rp. I say alts are a good thing...its more rp to bridge the gap in ships and help players find more branches that might lead to more rp.
I do not see alts or a dgm having a PC as a bad thing...in fact its a good example to set and helps said DGM get a feel for not just his or her ship but a whole new ship and players.
What about the players who only RP with a single Group... say we had a player who plays the Helmsman aboard the Endeavour. She's only every played on the Endeavour with the Endeavour players for the 3 hours they meet on Saturday afternoons. How can this player have any connection to say... Malitzka. And if they do have a friendship outside of the RP and on the forums OOCly, how does that player's character feel about what goes on aboard the Adagio or the Sentinel or what happens to his/her fellow members of Starfleet. Are they just faceless names on a Roster, people and places only seen on a computer screen deployment readout, or does that character feel a real connection to the other characters in the fleet as much as they do the other characters on their ship?
Well that is solved by Fleet Socials, we used to have social nights on the Independance and Adagio and even had 'Uncle Al's story time ' waaaay back on DS9 and this was before we had a Fleet Starbase.
I truly believe a night should be set aside for 'Open Social' rp between the ships on Starbase 220..say pick a night ..say Friday and then that is basically 'Dock night' ...a casual common setting for folks to come aboard Meranda's great station and interact...get to know one another and then ICly theyare not just names on a roster...
s I mentioned before we have had success even recently with such things and those were done during one ships event where I opened it up to anyone who was on....we had Adagio folks rp with meranda...and sentinel folks rping with Ayanami folks and even the CMO of the Endeavour made one or two...
Now I cant do it each week or the Sentinel crew would make me walk the plank but the theory is sound for a fleet social night...I would say perhaps thursday or Friday nights...just where anyone and everyone inthe 22nd can get together...say their ships are resupplying or on a minor layover since we are all in the same sector block now...if not at starbase 220...then use our starbase to fill in for the lounge at Starbase 234! (whatever starbase happens to be local!)
If thie become successful and folks put the time such bonds will form and eventually we can even hold it more publically...like say At starbase 39-sierra so others can see us rp and can join in ...might be a way to hook a few others who are interested...griefers aside
Just one idea and I know one both you and I support...I say we pick a night...declare it..and I will do my best to be there as Lt Walker, or Liz or Talia as requirted or allowed by IC rp!
What do you guys think?