Feels good to be on a staff team again

I think my favorite part of staffing is the integration of ideas from everywhere else. Watching members come up with plotlines and having fun is particularly nice, especially if things get a little stale. We haven't had new content in awhile because last year was just... it needed not be there. But I think we're finally getting a grip on some cool things now. Coming up with events is hard, moving plots is hard sometimes, but it's quite nice when the members help move things right along sometimes.

i think we should start allowing multiple ocs with the same fcs on sites, and they shouldn't have to "ask for permission" from the original person to use the fc just bc they got to it first.

to the above post, that would be nice, but people in the rpc are very particular sometimes and it can cause a lot of drama. everybody being cool with sharing would be nice though. tbf most of my sites are set up like an ask for use kind of thing, whether people are okay with sharing the fc or dropping it entirely cuz they're not really using it. it's kind of as close as anyone will get to open sharing i think, because people are people.

Hi hello I have direct experience relating to this!

Previous forum I was on, I pushed for us to adapt our FC claims list into a shareable format. It was a little drop-down field right on your profile you could change any time for whether the FC was Open, Ask, or Closed, and it plugged directly into the claims as a green, yellow, or red icon.

I don't have the exact numbers in front of me now, but it worked out to something like 40% wanted a closed, totally unshareable FC, 35% listed as Ask and just wanted to know who all was using it and/or had stipulations about only sharing alternates or something like that to discuss directly, and the last 25% were full Open, do w/e you want.

Not quite an even 33%/33%/33%, but it was still pretty refreshing to see how many people were actually open to some kind of sharing!

I'm also currently running a board with full Open FCs and no claims list at all, because norly why's that a thing we even gotta worry about? I haven't heard any complaints yet but I also cater to a very particular type of player who knows to not get attached in the first place. On the contrary, because of this design, we have a character subscribing to the fabled Identical Quintuplets school of D&D thought.

IMO, it's another type of fun we're constantly closing ourselves off to because people in the community have leaned too far into Writing As Prestige™ and forgotten our roots as a bunch of silly nerds doing stupid things because it's funny.

we finna see 25 of the same jjk and genshin fcs in one town

make them fight to the death

:100: it can be frustrating to try and join a site when every fc I want is taken (up to 20+ fcs). I think it'll definitely make more sites accessible if they weren't gated by specific claims, and fcs can especially be a high barrier of entry for sites when it comes to POC characters since there are much lesser POC fcs available.

As long as people are not using the exact same hover/icon as you... it shouldn't matter. A lot of popular fcs have so much diverse art that you can have two charas with the same face claim and still look/feel/completely different.

Honestly, if I ever host another public OC site, the rules are gonna be simple: "If you want exclusive use of your character's graphical appearance, you can commission an artist for a design that you own." Wolf RP has broken my tolerance for FC drama. Know what I haven't had to deal with in my entire year of Wolf RP? Anyone complaining that someone's "sitting" on a face claim, because we all use designs we either bought, adopted, or made ourselves. People talking about how "the FC doesn't fit the character," or "I need this FC to not be taken by a new member because it's for my want ad."

It's really nice, actually, and therefore I'm never running a site with exclusive FCs again. If you don't own the rights to the characters depicted in ur graphics, u don't get to say who can and can't use the images.

YOU KNOW WHAT!? THIS IS BRILLIANT! I'm gonna run and add a little space on the fucking menu right now lol. MAN I NEVER THOUGHT OF A DAMN DROP DOWN



Edit: Addition cuz i read the rest of the posts lol. I literally just got stuck on that one line and replied XD ANYWAYS

For my general... rule of thumb. It's always been like... Some characters have pics with glasses, and some without, well lookit that, two different fcs. Different colorations? Different. Different forms because they're from a weird costume/gatcha game with different styles/outfits? different fcs. If they look different enough, then they're different.

TBF THO i am really attached to a few of my fcs that I would like not to share(theres like 10 out of 70 that i wouldn't drop or share), but literally everything else. I dont care. It really comes down to how important they are to the story or whether or not their aesthetic is against lore or something like that. Okay thats it lol.

After years of editing (or forgetting to edit) FC lists, I've tried doing non-exclusive FCs for my most recent site. So far, the community is thankfully free of FC drama. Then again, most members from what I've seen are still picking unique FCs out of habit/courtesy/whatever you wanna call it.

I need to stop making sites. but as admin, who's really gonna tell me no. lol

My friends and I are attempting to run a site for the first time.

We have no idea wtf we're doing.

But we're having a good time at the same time.

:^)

I rather miss being in the public circles sometimes, and may or may not rejoin them soon. I miss people. New members that come in and just stick. I really don't miss the drama that people can bring though. It's been quiet, in a good way, but also in a bad way. idk lol. Might be about time to test the waters again.