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Well, I know Pete and I agree on this, but I obviously want to bring it up. We should should change the format of roleplaying from the two roleplayers posting in asingle thread to both posting seperate topics. Also, we're going to need an archive for roleplays/shows/alumni.
 

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If there are separate threads for everyone for each match that will create a LOT of mess because there will be a LOT of threads to have to sift through.

It is a lot easier to just keep people posting in the same thread for their match. That way everything stays together and it is easier to find where everyone has posted their TT.
 

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Not if everybody labels them. The way we'd do it was:

TOPIC TITLE: "TITLE OF RP"
TOPIC SUB-TITLE: "Name of character" RP #X

e.g.

"My First ACW RP"
Pete RP #1

This way people could see at a glance who the RP was for. It worked well for us - again, just like all our other suggestions.
 

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But again the method we have in place right now is simple and isn't broken either. It keeps everything easy, everything right there in bold print. I mean if someone wants to title their roleplay they can make one at the beginning of their post.

So really what is the purpose of the person making their own individual threads? That's what I'm not understanding.
 

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But again the method we have in place right now is simple and isn't broken either. It keeps everything easy, everything right there in bold print. I mean if someone wants to title their roleplay they can make one at the beginning of their post.

So really what is the purpose of the person making their own individual threads? That's what I'm not understanding.

I don't mean to be rude, and I know you like things the way they are not, but if you want our help, you're going to have to be more willing to have some of the things we had in the PWA.
 

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It isn't that I want to just completely dismiss your ideas I don't.

My thing is you are trying to come in and change everything about ACW and turn it to PWA without much reason. You just say... we used it in PWA and it worked so we should use it here.

It doesn't work like that. I'm saying if there is a good reason why doing things that way would work... I'm all for it. I don't like changing things around when the method currently in use is working because you did it another way when we would be achieving the same goal whether we change it or do what would be simpler which would be leave the already working method.

Like I said before. If we were merging with you guys... I wouldn't be pressing to change everything about how you run things. Things worked in PWA the way they were... I was invited to merge with you... I was invited to help you. If your method worked over there I work with your methods. If something can be changed to make things better, run smoother... I'd make the suggestion and discuss why.

You were invited to merge, to help, to assist, to co lead with me... yet you're trying to push your ways on me and say that I'm not willing to bend to anything. I need reason. I don't see why doing things the way they are now with roleplays is going to be so bad that we have to give it a complete overhaul to where people make their own threads.

I'm just looking for a reason other than it worked in your fed so we should bring it here.

I'm an ideas person and I like ideas. I ask for ideas cause I know I can't think of everything on my own. But with ideas come reasons and when those reasons make sense... boom we do it.

Like more roleplays per match... boom we do it.

But this idea you are presenting... I dunno.

I'm willing but again... I need more of a reason than you are bringing it from PWA cause it worked there.
 

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If you increase the cap on a match (say, for example, to 8 roleplays) and keep both of the roleplayers roleplaying within a single thread, the thread will essentially become like a chain, but at the same time, all roleplays will be seperate and every other roleplay would belong to a roleplayer's opponent. This alone makes grading more difficult, as you have to constantly go back and forth between the two, especially since there will be no points in the threads to keep track of what's going, so we'll have to refer to MW, Wordpad, and so on, in order to do so. The higher the cap, that harder it is to follow and grade in its current format. It will become tedious and we cannot afford to waste time.
 

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But who in the world would do 8 roleplays? When would having 8 roleplays ever be a good idea ever for a match? That's not realistic. Not at all.

And as far as wasting time... that's what is happening now because of instead of doing anything as far as the show goes... we're just here talking about what you want to bring to ACW cause it worked on PWA. Not everything that works at one fed should be brought over to another fed. I was once in a fed where it was perfectly okay to use anybody you wanted in your roleplay, you could make them talk, make them look like idiots, you could beat them down, make them bleed. You just couldn't injure them. I wouldn't dare bring that idea here even though it worked there. I wouldn't take that idea anywhere. It's horrid.

But again your example isn't realistic. No way there would ever be a max of 8... or even higher... that's ridiculous.

So how about we concentrate on the show for this week and get back to this discussion or somethin after the show is done.
 

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But who in the world would do 8 roleplays? When would having 8 roleplays ever be a good idea ever for a match? That's not realistic. Not at all.

And as far as wasting time... that's what is happening now because of instead of doing anything as far as the show goes... we're just here talking about what you want to bring to ACW cause it worked on PWA. Not everything that works at one fed should be brought over to another fed. I was once in a fed where it was perfectly okay to use anybody you wanted in your roleplay, you could make them talk, make them look like idiots, you could beat them down, make them bleed. You just couldn't injure them. I wouldn't dare bring that idea here even though it worked there. I wouldn't take that idea anywhere. It's horrid.

But again your example isn't realistic. No way there would ever be a max of 8... or even higher... that's ridiculous.

So how about we concentrate on the show for this week and get back to this discussion or somethin after the show is done.

Um, I hate to break it to you, but many a time we got around that (especially with multiple characters).
 

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And for being so story-based, it's odd that it wouldn't be higher, or at least more than one, considering one doesn't give room for much, if any, development.
 

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There is no point having seperate threads. In all the good feds I have seen around the net it works best having them all in the same thread. It makes zero sense to have seperate threads when they are battling against each other. It should be a match thread where everyone in the match RPs.

You guys are jumping on Slim because he doesn't like an idea and trying to turn it into something it isn't. It is a bad idea and the current format works really well. Changes can be made to improve ACW but this would make it worse.
 

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There is no point having seperate threads. In all the good feds I have seen around the net it works best having them all in the same thread. It makes zero sense to have seperate threads when they are battling against each other. It should be a match thread where everyone in the match RPs.

You guys are jumping on Slim because he doesn't like an idea and trying to turn it into something it isn't. It is a bad idea and the current format works really well. Changes can be made to improve ACW but this would make it worse.

Did my reasoning right there not make sense to you?
 

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I read it but it didn't change my opinion. Match threads work best since RPers then go back and forth with alternating RPs and it makes it easier to judge if everything is in one thread so that you can compare the RPs better. Plus 8 RPs is too many for one match, I can see 5 being the absolute limit.

I do this with all the feds here btw, I am not part of them but there are certain things I don't like and so I stop from happening. I have been dealing with feds for many years so I know what works and what doesn't and what I prefer. It is like with UWF, I don't let them get a second brand until they have X amount of TTers and there are big restrictions on who can have two characters over there.
 

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For the record... 1 rp was never my idea but TWA idea. I been pushing since day freakin one for him to up the limit to more than one... so by all means... don't place any... and I mean any of the blame about there only being 1 rp on me cause I NEVER wanted that.
 

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So all of your roleplays are connective in the fact that they are single scenes and promo based? Or what?