Your View: Making A Successful Storyline

[Sultan 3953]

To be honest, you guys fucked up last map.

 

You had an amazing concept the story-line was great. But you guys made it limited and whoever found the knowledge about the last map was very selfish.

 

For who do not know, the last map was some of the original parts of Aeigs that did not fall with it. 

 

What did the LMS do with that? Why was their 0 exploration? Why did you not create the City of Oren or the Mountain of Urugan, or what remains of the Forests of Mailin for us to explore and so on? Why were the events concerning the storyline limited to a group of players? Why did you guys not go to the Nation Leaders for expeditions and so on? For funding etc.

 

What happend instead was books that were found by people and then not shared at all.

 

You could have done so much with the story-line, but the lms failed hard on that part it seems if a story-line does not have a antag, the LMS do not know what to do.

 

I really enjoyed the last maps storyline. Even if it was very limited and I did not find anything, I was still intrigued and tried to find out more.

 

Why not again? A story-line without a antag but do a better job this time about it.

 

If you guys want to do an Antag I would much rather prefer you guys work with a player-base to make them a grey antag.

 

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I agree 100% with Lulu here. 

 

The most hated antags are special snowflakes and special snowflake protagonists just do not do it.

 

Benbo involve players in LORE  write stories about past important people and places them on the wiki or on the forum first. The history of the server and specific great characters are lost seeing as the LMs do not write about them. 

 

I do not see an antag requirement though I do see a storyline you can have a storyline without a antag in my opinion. 

[BMC01 3]

Kinda new, but my advice for a villain would be to certainly decentralize. Make certain regions have their own sub-villains, to serve the higher evil. That way the overall evil can still be a very local and very solvable problem, and the comman man can feel like he helped save the day by standing up to the Big Bad's thug. This may mean more work, certainly, but I think the payoff of having areas fight their own battles and their own villains. It'll bring together regions and give them a common goal. And if those people fail, and one of the Big Bad's henchmen survive, well......

[Lizellan 25]

I believe in a constant and other-worldly antagonist. When you start up a habit of making current characters antagonizing figures, it grows boring.

[Sprankles 4]

I have an idea. If you need characters to be 'actors' in your event play, why not have moderators act as divine influences who are speaking to the character. And allow that character to act based on that influence. Might create more organic role-play.

On 3/28/2016 at 9:55 PM, BMC01 said:

Kinda new, but my advice for a villain would be to certainly decentralize. Make certain regions have their own sub-villains, to serve the higher evil. That way the overall evil can still be a very local and very solvable problem, and the comman man can feel like he helped save the day by standing up to the Big Bad's thug. This may mean more work, certainly, but I think the payoff of having areas fight their own battles and their own villains. It'll bring together regions and give them a common goal. And if those people fail, and one of the Big Bad's henchmen survive, well......

Sub villans or sub events sounds like a great idea honestly. Instead of always having the 'antagonist' try to create huge cosmic disturbances that affect everyone through taint or nonsense, event team members could be assigned to a region.

 

Like "Oh the elves haven't had some weird talking tree plot against their village for some time, lets send an event team member to the forest to create some localized roleplay event there." 

 

Then other races could find out and go "Hey, there's some crazy things going on near the elven city! Maybe we could go check it out?"

 

Sounds like it'd encourage roleplay to me.

[mitto 2312]

Moved to The Great Library. It shall be sorted into the appropriate category shortly.

 

If you feel this is a mistake, please contact myself or any FM and we'll restore it.