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Sites You Want To See written Dec 19, 2018 4:00:39 GMT
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Dec 19, 2018 3:26:21 GMT said:
  • Final Fantasy XIV. It's got a rich world and a lot to explore, and it means that some of us might not have to maintain our subscriptions to roleplay within it.
  • Final Fantasy XV. Heck, 15 might even be really cool. I haven't kept up to date on it, but I'm sure there's enough there to make a site.



me: dont come in here and say anything final fantasy you obsessed nerd
: [says ffxiv and ffxv]
me: 👀💦
if you think i haven't been keeping up with pp, think again
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Sites You Want To See written Dec 19, 2018 5:18:52 GMT
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Dec 19, 2018 4:00:39 GMT said:
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Dec 19, 2018 3:26:21 GMT said:
  • Final Fantasy XIV. It's got a rich world and a lot to explore, and it means that some of us might not have to maintain our subscriptions to roleplay within it.
  • Final Fantasy XV. Heck, 15 might even be really cool. I haven't kept up to date on it, but I'm sure there's enough there to make a site.


me: dont come in here and say anything final fantasy you obsessed nerd
: [says ffxiv and ffxv]
me: 👀💦


Do it.
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Sites You Want To See written Dec 19, 2018 22:09:41 GMT
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Dec 19, 2018 3:26:21 GMT said:
  • Final Fantasy XIV. It's got a rich world and a lot to explore, and it means that some of us might not have to maintain our subscriptions to roleplay within it.

tbeh i keep bouncing between "do i want to do aetherflow or not" because... imo there is a serious lack of ffxiv rps around (to the point where i've literally not seen one that i'd consider joining since one closed out of the blue three years ago, it had such a nice skin and was on jcink, i always was sad about it suddenly closing down before i had a chance to poke around more than a cursory thing while i was dropping by for an ad). but i also really do not want to try to work out systems for classes + battle + questing / raiding. that and i stare into the abyss because i don't really have the time to run something else but by this point i'm starting to wince over whether i'll ever see a xiv site if i'm not just biting the bullet and doing it myself

honestly by this point it's probably only a matter of time before i just "screw it, we'll see if i can find a systems admin to light this candle and see what happens." but also honestly, if the site is on jcink and isn't mixed faces and allows in-game avatars and doesn't have ridiculous activity requirements, it'd take next to no effort to convince to help staff one too or just hand over the skeleton idea i'd had and duck out
last edit on Dec 19, 2018 22:43:15 GMT by Kuroya

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Sites You Want To See written Dec 20, 2018 1:41:55 GMT
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Dec 19, 2018 22:09:41 GMT said:
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Dec 19, 2018 3:26:21 GMT said:
  • Final Fantasy XIV. It's got a rich world and a lot to explore, and it means that some of us might not have to maintain our subscriptions to roleplay within it.
tbeh i keep bouncing between "do i want to do aetherflow or not" because... imo there is a serious lack of ffxiv rps around (to the point where i've literally not seen one that i'd consider joining since one closed out of the blue three years ago, it had such a nice skin and was on jcink, i always was sad about it suddenly closing down before i had a chance to poke around more than a cursory thing while i was dropping by for an ad). but i also really do not want to try to work out systems for classes + battle + questing / raiding. that and i stare into the abyss because i don't really have the time to run something else but by this point i'm starting to wince over whether i'll ever see a xiv site if i'm not just biting the bullet and doing it myself

honestly by this point it's probably only a matter of time before i just "screw it, we'll see if i can find a systems admin to light this candle and see what happens." but also honestly, if the site is on jcink and isn't mixed faces and allows in-game avatars and doesn't have ridiculous activity requirements, it'd take next to no effort to convince to help staff one too or just hand over the skeleton idea i'd had and duck out
Behold: a system that could be adapted.

If people are serious about this (which, judging by the notifications I'm getting, I'd say yes), I had a site I was developing but I'd be totally down to work with someone for this. I can't skin Jcink for the life of me though; I can barely code anymore as it is.
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Sites You Want To See written Dec 20, 2018 1:53:13 GMT
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Dec 20, 2018 1:41:55 GMT said:
Behold: a system that could be adapted.

If people are serious about this (which, judging by the notifications I'm getting, I'd say yes), I had a site I was developing but I'd be totally down to work with someone for this. I can't skin Jcink for the life of me though; I can barely code anymore as it is.


i.... honestly wouldn't want a system that intense. i'm not really a fan of dnd-esque systems for rping, however ignorable they may be in context, just because i can't be bothered with them and i'm the sort of person who can't in good conscience force people to use a system i'm not willing to use (or give the option to ignore it). plus i'd be wary of min-maxers or powerplayers because i've had too much experience with abuse from my years in pokemon and mmo sites. oops this is why i've been high-key dreading trying to put serious thought into systems, they're so hard to balance in a way i'm satisfied with

jcink has a lot of premade skins, both on here and other resource sites, so even if you don't have a custom skin at first (and i would actually almost advise a premade so you get a feel for how established the site actually ends up being), you'll be okay.

..... i'm already seeing that i'm gonna end up wordbarfing the ideas i had going for af soon oops
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Sites You Want To See written Dec 20, 2018 2:01:41 GMT
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Dec 20, 2018 1:53:13 GMT said:
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Dec 20, 2018 1:41:55 GMT said:
Behold: a system that could be adapted.

If people are serious about this (which, judging by the notifications I'm getting, I'd say yes), I had a site I was developing but I'd be totally down to work with someone for this. I can't skin Jcink for the life of me though; I can barely code anymore as it is.
i.... honestly wouldn't want a system that intense. i'm not really a fan of dnd-esque systems for rping, however ignorable they may be in context, just because i can't be bothered with them and i'm the sort of person who can't in good conscience force people to use a system i'm not willing to use (or give the option to ignore it). plus i'd be wary of min-maxers or powerplayers because i've had too much experience with abuse from my years in pokemon and mmo sites. oops this is why i've been high-key dreading trying to put serious thought into systems, they're so hard to balance in a way i'm satisfied with

jcink has a lot of premade skins, both on here and other resource sites, so even if you don't have a custom skin at first (and i would actually almost advise a premade so you get a feel for how established the site actually ends up being), you'll be okay.

..... i'm already seeing that i'm gonna end up wordbarfing the ideas i had going for af soon oops
I have a lot of experience with MMO sites as well. If you're doing a site purely for the lore aspect and not for the MMO aspect, I wouldn't suggest putting in quests and systems and what not; I would suggest running it purely like a fantasy site which just so happens to be set in the FFXIV universe. Let people do their personal growth through writing as opposed to numbers.

Regardless, when I posted up the system, I meant more using it as a reference to pick apart to build something and not so much using it as a D&D system. As much as I'd love to run the experiment of a D&D system on a forum someday, I know there's a lot of people who wouldn't want that.
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Sites You Want To See written Dec 20, 2018 2:28:15 GMT
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Dec 19, 2018 21:38:28 GMT said:
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Dec 19, 2018 3:26:21 GMT said:
  • Final Fantasy XIV. It's got a rich world and a lot to explore, and it means that some of us might not have to maintain our subscriptions to roleplay within it.
I've seen someone post an ad for an FFXIV roleplay, though...
Sorry for the double post but I just saw this. Where abouts? I haven't been around for awhile.
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Sites You Want To See written Dec 20, 2018 2:39:45 GMT
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Dec 20, 2018 2:01:41 GMT said:
I have a lot of experience with MMO sites as well. If you're doing a site purely for the lore aspect and not for the MMO aspect, I wouldn't suggest putting in quests and systems and what not; I would suggest running it purely like a fantasy site which just so happens to be set in the FFXIV universe. Let people do their personal growth through writing as opposed to numbers.

Regardless, when I posted up the system, I meant more using it as a reference to pick apart to build something and not so much using it as a D&D system. As much as I'd love to run the experiment of a D&D system on a forum someday, I know there's a lot of people who wouldn't want that.


i'm not gonna go super in-depth for systems and such but.

tl;dr i recognize most people are going to want to play adventurers, not wood wallers or members of the grand companies (even if we did do a feasible equivalent of the crystal braves). plus i'd like for there to actually be some kind of definable trait you can point to for differentiating between a white mage and a black mage other than basic semantics (and i don't want to throw the classes out the window entirely since imo they're a good place to start building out a character). so with that in mind, as well as the large distance between city-states (if i remember right, they mention at some point in the msq that it takes months to go between gridania and ul'dah, never mind limsa or ishgard), it'd be a useful feature to have some kind of in-character reason for characters to venture further beyond their usual haunts or locales to be able to thread with people.

plus to me, it wouldn't feel entirely like a ffxiv rp if i'm throwing out the possibility of raids and dungeons and classes.

...... all right i'll stop spamming the thread here with my rambles on this and throw up an actual interest check for this tomorrow so that there's a solid thread for it oops-

also on the topic of the existing xiv site, i think they mean this one since this is the only one i've seen since but-
last edit on Dec 20, 2018 2:40:45 GMT by Kuroya

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