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by Professor Fenway » Sun Mar 15, 2015 10:36 pm
Face it men. This is it. The FCRP is finished at this stage.
I'm not one for rants, but me (and vinyl) have been looking over it, thinking it. The problem and solution comes down to one thing: Gamers vs. writers, and Strigiforme.
Gamers try to take advantage of the writers while the writers try to keep them in line. The gamers want the best, want to be invincible, unstoppable, the best technology and the biggest ships. The writers simply want a good story. But a good story cannot be had under a system being taken advantage of. And gamers here outweigh the writers a lot. This is the root of all problem.
And what prevents this problem from being solved in FC is stubbornness, refusal to change. It's always been somewhat like this, why should it change? Any system that keeps the gamer's in line simultanously stifles and murders creativity, and is quickly abandoned. Any system that fosters creativity is taken advantage of. They go on, but inevitably die and get reset, again, and again, and again.
This debate is why RPers like Catsonmeth and Tiel left. They wanted to write stories; all they got was a * waving contest for who had the biggest ships. There's no story in that.
So that's it. FCRP is dead, or at least, it cannot live here anymore. We are too small, too stubborn, too unstable. What it needs most is a complete redesign and an influx of writers. Which is why, of this posting, the RP is being transferred over to the Seven Kingdoms RP section.
Why? I am coming up with a new sci-fi empire RP there which has a decent amount of interest. With luck (and a lot of elbow grease) it will live on there. Sure, maybe not in the same form. But it will live on.
It was an honor. o7