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Regarding the roleplay boards (Please Read)
« on: August 26, 2013, 04:20:00 pm »
This thread will be aimed towards you forum roleplayers out there that spend time on our boards with your characters or roleplay groups, so if you do spend time on this it would probably be best to read.

We have currently removed the "Free For All" Roleplay section in the roleplay board.

Now before anyone goes haywire because of any of their threads being removed without notice let me say that they are not permanently removed just yet, so do keep on reading.

The so called "Free For All Roleplay" section has been removed from our boards. The reason of this is really because this section did not quite turn out as it were hoped to and it has happened more than once that users has shown confusion or concern regarding this section. Recently a thread was made making yet a good point regarding the boards existance(Thread can be found by clicking this), so it has been decided to remove this board all completely and put let users focus more on two boards we have here, which is the groups board, and the offtopic roleplay section.

Back when the "Free For all" roleplay section was made, it seemed like a rather nice idea to expand the forum roleplay section and give more options, but as shown now after time, and taking account of the other roleplay boards that does exist, is that this board quite doesn't provide the organization and simplicity that it was hoped for and could easily be replaced with what we have along side it. The most efficient way does appear to removing it at this time, so it will be moved away. Many people that has used this free for all roleplay section do appear to have used the threads, or made the threads in ways that easily could've fit in within the other boards, example of this is really threads advertising themselves as a roleplay group rather than just a roleplay thread for anyone to join. "(Now Accepting members)", or even cases where threads might even could've gone into the offtopic roleplay section here on the boards. The thing is that the users are the ones that makes the section with it's content, and the idea of having a list of roleplays in which anyone can join with different stories, and keeping it FeralHeart related(either with characters or locations) doesn't quite work out from what was seen, and it is a very hard matter in this case to know exactly which roleplays that could be deemed FH related, and those who're not in a section like that one.

So what is wanted from now on is that users try to place threads in a suiting section. The new "Groups Roleplaying Board" section, in here it will be a thread related to your ingame group in FeralHeart, a roleplay thread for that particular group. Bear in mind that if you wish to advertise for the group you can do so in the "Group advertisement" section of the roleplay board, that's what it's for. We have seen many threads in the groups board that is an information post regarding an ingame group, and that's been a bit iffy, do remember that these boards are where your forum roleplaying for your FH related groups(groups that exist in the game) should take place. If you are just after roleplaying on the boards, we'd really suggest the offtopic roleplay section, or if you join/create an actual group roleplay advertised on the forum.

As you can understand by reading this the structure of the roleplay section has not been holding up, and material has been placed a bit here and there. Maybe some names of the board or information in them will be modified as times goes on, but for now we must remove the free for all section and force proper usage of the advertisement board and group board onto users. There's still a lot of group advertising threads in the group roleplay section that needs to be moved however, and it will be looked into along with updating and modifying stickies of these board to make it more easy to get around.

Now for those that had threads within the free for all section:
You are free to message the staff and let us know if your thread fit the criteria to be moved either to the groups board(The thread must be FH related in some way), or if it's suiting for the "Offtopic roleplay board" we could move it there. WhiteLightHeart will be keeping some extra eyes on this case so just fire away a message to them if that's the case. Also if you do have a thread in the groups roleplaying board that is NOT a roleplaying thread, feel free to pm about a move of your thread to the correct board.

We will keep the old threads around if you still need them until the 20th of September, so if you still wish to use/keep any of your threads, be sure to message a pm to a staff member before that date.

We hope for this change to make things better and more organized around the roleplay section, in this very case, more boards wasn't better but things might change with time. I thank you for understanding and being patient as things are being moved and changed around.
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Re: Regarding the roleplay boards (Please Read)
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2013, 04:20:48 pm »
Thanks for the update Red, I appreciate it.

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Re: Regarding the roleplay boards (Please Read)
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2013, 04:52:20 pm »
Thanks for the update, Red.




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Re: Regarding the roleplay boards (Please Read)
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2013, 05:06:37 pm »
Yeah, thank you for the updates. Much appreciated.
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Re: Regarding the roleplay boards (Please Read)
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2013, 05:40:18 pm »
Thanks for the update, Red.

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Re: Regarding the roleplay boards (Please Read)
« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2013, 05:43:50 pm »
Yep, I totally understand the reason behind this. Hopefully everyone else will too. Thanks, Red.

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Re: Regarding the roleplay boards (Please Read)
« Reply #6 on: August 26, 2013, 06:19:10 pm »
Thanks for the update, Red.
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Re: Regarding the roleplay boards (Please Read)
« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2013, 06:31:22 pm »
Yeah that section was getting rather cluttered, as well as being confuzzling. Cheers, Reddles :P :)

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Re: Regarding the roleplay boards (Please Read)
« Reply #8 on: August 26, 2013, 06:34:13 pm »
Understood, Red. Thanks for the update~ Didn't like that cluttered, messy, weird board anyway xD
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Re: Regarding the roleplay boards (Please Read)
« Reply #9 on: August 26, 2013, 07:19:05 pm »
Thanks Red, for the news.

Yeah that section was getting rather cluttered, as well as being confuzzling. Cheers, Reddles :P :)

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True. If I am correct one RP was made everyday. It does get confusing. And what about those rps that died? And usually the people who were newer to rp would necro 2 year old threads and it gets all wierd...and stuff... so yea. I am sad, yet a bit happy it was taken down.