Been thinking about maybe starting a site again, but with my people skills, it’ll probably just end poorly. The idea I had would be something like a fictional island nation, possibly even a fictional world. Write a few customs different from our own so it has its own culture and all. But the real kicker would be introducing a changing landscape. Stuff like making a certain location inaccessible for a little because “the school is undergoing renovations” and temporarily asking any students with school-related threads to do so in another location (like maybe the school hires the local events venue to conduct classes). Maybe there can be a tsunami, or a fierce storm where inhabitants are asked to stay indoors and you can have cosy “snuggle up together during the storm” threads. (Alternately, be stuck in the office with no way to get home during a storm.) There can also be more mundane stuff, like “price of apples surges due to large apple freighter being lost at sea” or “latest trend for kids: meowing like a cat” and just having that be something to incorporate into your threads. You know, a site that constantly throws prompts at members to encourage writing new stuff. Throw in an undercurrent of a plot so you’re not just slice-of-life-ing and bang. But urghhh, getting a skin, recruiting staff, attracting members… I get a stomachache just thinking about it. Please take this idea and let me roleplay on your site. EDIT: Just saw navigator post something very similar in a Harvest Moon-site mechanics thread, so I guess that means I'm looking for a Harvest Moon site.
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