Heathens

[Nak3dAng3l]

i'm currently unsure if i should pursue this or not, since it will take up a majority of my free time that is not taken away from high school (studying, school hours), exercise (exploring my town, meeting new people + friends), job time (so that i can prepare to actually drive a car next year, essentially.) and i am unsure if it's fine w/ the feral heart staff in general (why i am coming here; treading soft ground) but i have had this idea for quite a long time and really wish to pursue it.

before all that i say this, this idea is mine. i created it, and none can copy it without my permission even if it gets denied by the feral heart staff. (whom i love dearly)

essentially, it would be a community within feral heart that does not strictly follow feral heart's rules since this will be for teens (14+ up) to only join. it would allow some cursing unless used against members within the community, sensitive topics unless told to drop it, and grey areas. it would be more mature and loose about the rules? but it would be in its' own private maps with full consent from both sides of parties (parents, teenagers, community.) which is why i am unsure about it.

so, there would be officially appointed staff (such as map-makers, moderators, etc.) so that i'm not starved of all my free time that's needed for preparation in the future. (i'm part of the student government and running for class treasurer of 2020 you see, and i'm planning out a club of my own for my own future, along with aiming to put full effort into all my classes + socialization.)

there would be groups for role-plays, such as the main pack within the maps would be called the heathens and they would have their own territory for they are official (there would also be applications for a group to become official!) and official packs would get their own territories. packs would be able to fight for neutral ground territory, and the terrain (maps) would be edited monthly to fit the role-play groups (packs) setting. so, role-plays that made it to be official would have a say (IC!) on how terrain wars would work.







(tl;dr) essentially a small community set aside with permission by the feral heart community that lets official role play groups fight for territory!!!







i'm not going to touch this much (at all!) until i can get the staff's full consent since this might approach a few grey areas and i'm unsure on how they want to handle this if it becomes large and popular.

i thought this idea would help with wolf packs that have nothing to do in the maps because not a lot of packs interact! i also thought it would be an interesting role play idea, (shrugs)

anywho, i'll let the staff lock/delete/move/whatever to this (sorry if that's offensive, i'm just trying to say i really don't mind if you can't find a place or it doesn't fit in) and if they say no or not; i'll just shelf this idea for a game i'll create when i'm an adult and am an actual professional game maker. (huff, huff) let me just rest my 76 words per minute hands for a bit.




i'll touch on this more tomorrow or later tonight, right now i'm setting up a site and tumblr so that people can ask me questions about everything.

tumblr http://cheterrdlovesgames.tumblr.com/

[Warriorstrike]

Seeing as some of what you have here is focused toward consent from the staff and you seem a bit unsure about things, I will try to clear a few things up. Whether or not you choose to use more strong language in your private map that you would not be allowed to use in the public maps is really up to you. So long as everybody is okay with it, you have a bit more lenience here in those terms.

essentially, it would be a community within feral heart that does not strictly follow feral heart's rules since this will be for teens (14+ up) to only join.

As far as this part goes, technically everyone should still respect the rules, regardless of whether or not they are in a public map or a private one. In some regards, such as the swearing, you have more freedom to make the decision whether or not to use it, but even in private maps, it's still important to be kind and respectful of one another. It's not always often that it happens, but if staff recieve user reports coming from private maps with extremely offensive and harassing behavior, we won't hesitate to take action. So long as you keep this in mind and have good intentions, you should be okay.

In terms of the map-claiming, this comes back to the "private map" aspect of it. The owner/creator of the map has a bit more say in this, seeing as it is their own map to do with as they like. This is not to say, though, that if things get quite tense and we get word from really nasty behavior about "who gets what part of the map" that this wouldn't be an issue. I would say to just be open and understanding of the people who you allow to join the map-- remember, if you upload and post your map link to the public, anyone can enter your private map unless the map download has a password. This is up to you to be cautious about who has access to the map, and if you leave a link out for people to download, you cannot exactly force people out. I'm not too sure what you meant in regards to the "Official" aspect of the map/roleplays- the only official maps are the default, public maps created by the staff, and we don't necessarily have official roleplays. There doesn't have to be anything "official" about maps or roleplays, though, in order to create an interesting group.

I hope this answers some of your concerns. c:

[Nak3dAng3l]

thank you for this, warriorstrike! from what i've seen i'm good to go on my plans. <3 i'll make sure to follow the rules via the common courtesy, except for the swearing; just not used at anyone in nasty terms.

i'll get started on this right away, then.