Even more story ideas

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(05-02-2010, 04:22 AM)Vesuveus Wrote: The realistic problem with this is that the writer or writers will have to constantly prepare alternate branches. When you bring web designed items like a sentinel or scanline, which I would love to see, then the planning becomes too complex and time crunched.

I read an article on players affecting storyline and the author was pretty innovative. However he explained it like this; You know players will show up and compete to be involved in the storyline. It's not what happens (because it is scripted) but who makes it happen.

Well I was (and still am) trying to find a way to have the players be more involved in the storyline, so that instead of feeling like you're just watching a movie, or a play, you feel like you're taking part in the action. You feel like you're actually contributing to something. I thought that having a more player driven storyline would achieve that.

Quote:I am very afraid of a panel of writers. The group must be small. When too many people get involved the tendency will to try and take over. Anyone who knows anything about Algorithm: Black knows this is a recipe for disaster.

Ahh so that's what happened to A:B. I just like the idea of a panel because it distributes the workload, and like I said, there's no one person having his way with the storyline. We all saw what happened when one person gets ahold of it. I do agree though that the group should be small, and it should be well structured with a clear division of labor lines, and clear rules.

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(05-02-2010, 07:47 AM)Praxedis Wrote: Of course, if that even becomes possible, there'd be a need for volunteers (Which I doubt would be very hard to find) for signature characters. As someone who always wanted to be an Agent, I can safely say it would be a little chaotic and no doubt there'd be some trouble with the handlers of MxOE having to choose who got to be who.

I consider myself reasonable, but I've seen what happens when you say "We need someone to be X" to a group of rabid fans like us (the community), almost everyone will want in. You can't quite go about using First Post First Serve because that's unfair to certain timezones, a format would need to be worked out.

Of course, in the case of a PC Agent... There are loads of those programs. *Hint hint* Lol.

I do absolutely love the ideas here though, and I agree that it would add in a lot of spice and immersion to have people who know the role suddenly drop in and engage with the players, in turn somehow having an affect on progression. It's a roleplayers wet dream.

I dunno, we saw what happens with Volunteers when it came to the LESIG. Story lines got leaked, live events got leaked, the liaisons real name got leaked. It was just a very corrupted org. I think the only reason Rarebit commission the LESIG was to take some of the workload off of him. However, if we do have more than one person working on the storyline, then what's the point of a LESIG?