honestly, i've found that a lot of it is a site culture thing. a lot of people say they want events but just..... don't follow through on actually rping them out. and like. sure, you can put in something for like "if you don't post to an event thread in x amount of days, you get skipped" but imo that's.... obviously harder to threaten than it is to actually carry out because, y'know, if you have the leader of team rocket making an epic speech about how team rocket will triumph, you obviously can't just have said team rocket boss stand there for 10+ posts because their rper has disappeared.

if you have a culture that actually likes and enjoys participating in events that progress a site plot? you'll not have too much difficulty doing that. but if you don't? imo, you're just gonna keep coming back to the same problem, no matter what format you're using.

(and like. honestly, i don't know the solution either, it's a large part of why i generally avoid plot-heavy sites now, it got real annoying trying to work around the people who weren't interested and on the flip side it got real tiring trying to vibe in a corner if i wasn't interested in xyz plot development that the rest of the site was pushing. but. c'est la vie.)