Where the hell did everybody go!?

[calcus]

Guys? Anybody!? Where the hell are you!? Kbell? Defectron? Even Xeno!? Anybody here at all!?

[Defectron]

Are you that guy from twilight zone who finnally had all the time to read his books but then broke his glasses?

[XenoD]

Sigh, I'm still here, surprisingly. Ronnie, J, and everybody else better has a damn good reason for making us wait this damn long.

[calcus]

Should we start our own GantzRP site like Defectron had the idea for?

[Defectron]

Sounds like a plan, let me know if you want to use the backup site or if you just want to completely start over from scratch.

[James]

For quick convenience, it might be good to use the Backup Board for the time being. Then again, it's not a ProBoard (what this board is), and I'm starting to like this kind somewhat, considering that we can set our own CTs and usernames whenever... and I'm pretty whimsical at times.

Hmm...

/will go with whichever choice is made, though a new board altogether is kind of tempting

[Defectron]

well if you guys want to go to the backup board its here

s6.invisionfree.com/GantzRP/

If thats what you guys want to do I'll make you admins there, I don't really plan on doing alot of admining since I have other things to do right now, so I'll leave it to you guys. Let me know what youwant to do.

[James]

Registered as Weather Report. I can try some admining, like making new smileys, adjusting skin, making a banner, etc. Plus, I do have some general GMing/Modding experience (been a mod in an RP forum for a year and a half now), but I won't offer myself up on that right away; it's been awhile since I last GMed, and that didn't bode well, because I'm harsh as hell. I have a habit of killing people off if they screw up or don't post without telling me why. But if you want, I can try it out sometime after June.

Speaking of which, would you like me to post an absence thread, for people to give some sort of heads up about them being away?

And for personal stuff: anyone mind if I add Valeria Alberti from Project Alpha to my character roster, as a side character with Barry (and possibly Dmitri)?

[Defectron]

ok I made you an admin. Anyway out of curioustity, who exactly is Darius?

[James]

Looking at new skins, buttons and smileys as we speak. Definitely lots of new smileys to be had. Feel free to give feedback and suggestions, it's been awhile since I've used an IF ACP.

If possible, I'll brainstorm a plot as well (would be nice if more people offered themselves up though), and reorganize the forum so we don't have a bunch of dead topics here and there.

[calcus]

I'm Darius.

[Defectron]

ok, I'll make you an admin too. Anbyway I've got to admit you did a pretty nice job cleaning the place up. Now what we should move onto next is reorganization of the site , all the old material in the rooms should probably be moved to some sort of history area to make way for the newers storys.After that what needs to be done is advertising since without any members it won't really matter how much stuff gets changed up. Let me know if there's anything you need help with.

[James]

xD, But I haven't done any forum things yet! The skin and smileys are a lot easier things to add than some might think. It does require some html knowledge, but the bulk of it is pretty much copy/paste, if you're getting them from forums that have forum skins, which is what I got the new one from. Smileys is simply uploading pics, and selecting a coding for each individual image. It's not hard, just tedious.

But yes, I do plan to do some mass forum cleaning, either later on tonight or early tomorrow morning. Going to be a little busy in the afternoon.

Well, here's a few things we can try out.

-Advertise, like Def said. Emailing Xeno, Virt, Kramarr, and other regulars of our plans might not be a bad idea. Joining other forums and placing the link the new board is good too, if allowed.

-Get a plot set up for the RP, mostly the admins/mods' jobs. Look for ways to get multiple projects to interweave with each other in a subtle but meaningful way, and/or look to eventually merging them for major events, like superbosses (think the Italy mission a few chapters back).

- I'll set up a new forum format after doing what Def suggested, I'll look to see if I can't make an archive forum or something. As for a banner, if anyone is confident in their computer artistic skills, if they could create one, that would be excellent. If not, I can try something after I reorganize the forums.

- Def, I think you might be the only one who can do it: could we have a C-Box installed or something?

I'll add more as I think of stuff, but those are the big'uns. The more people we can get to join the cause, though, the better.

[Defectron]

ok that sounds like a plan, I'll look into how to get a c-box on this.

[James]

Ah, nvm I found one. I know there was a way to get one installed via the ACP (I got one in for a now-deceased Baten Kaitos RP), but I found a different kind. Now I just have to work on its location.

Still, if you can, any help on the plot and such would be much appreciated. Unfortunately, I feel I'm better at executing ideas, not brainstorming them. ._.

[Kramarr]

I'll check this backup..

[KßзŁŁ]

im still around; there's no reason to change sites imo

i'm willing to make defectron an admin again but no one seemed interested enough to make it a possibility in my mind

i've also considered continuing alpha project, but with the way my life's going atm, it doesn't seem like I'd have the time to run it effectively

[Defectron]

I'm not really interested in admining again, I got other stuff going on which would take my time away from doing that. That's the reason why I made James and calcus admins on the other site. Anyway if we do decide to stay here, I think someone should be made an admin because if the only admin dissapears the site will end up in trouble.

[KßзŁŁ]

i don't really have a problem with adminning you again, but it's probably a good idea to let james and calcus admin the other site for a while if it's the same as this just to get a feel for how things work (and so we don't have a repeat accidental deletion of anything)

[calcus]

Yeah, that sounds good, but the heart of GantzRP is the projects, so we have to start some again, and soon. I'm starting one in the alternate site for testing if Kbell wouldn't mind joining that one. In fact, it could be my mod training in itself.

[KßзŁŁ]

hmmm not a bad idea at all. I'm going to be out of town this weekend, but I'd be willing to RP in yalls' projects starting around probably Monday. I can't promise I'll update every time, but I don't really mind dying, either, so no biggie

[XenoD]

*cracks Knuckles* Let's do this. I'm dedicating all my Missions in the Memory of Americas greatest Hero!

BILLY MAYS! WE MISS YOU!

[calcus]

Anyways, So if anybody wants to start submitting characters for my test project, it's all ready for it. It's not very original, (title, location, rules, etc.) but I was just trying to go for the basics until I get a hold of what it means to be a mod. Anyways here's the link to the hunter application:

z6.invisionfree.com/GantzRP/index.php?showforum=88

[KßзŁŁ]

lol i kind of want to play billy mays but that would be too damn gimicky

I've gotta get some letter written up to try to get back into school, but after I do that (don't know how long it will take me, I'm trying to not be lazy but it's not working very well atm), I'll try to get the lay of the land on that forum and make a character.

[James]

That was an ever lamer way to go than Micheal Jackson's. Le sigh, R.I.P. to them both.

I'm sorry for taking awhile to respond to you guys; I think we can all agree that life is a real bitch sometimes.

That said, I've been reminded of something that can be really helpful for both forums: an Absence Thread. It's a thread for people to post that they're going to be away for a certain amount of time, and won't be able to post until the time they put down. The benefits here are, of course, that we won't be wondering why people just disappeared all of a sudden, plus, it will allow the said person's characters to be NPC'd in a way that won't get them killed.

That said, I'll add one to the backup forum to give you an idea of how it will work, and then look at getting my Project (still deciding on a name, it's a toss up between Dementia and Neurotica) set up. For now it will be standard Gantz material, but I have two (kind of vague) ideas that I'm trying to build out. One being the storyline, the other a sort of "News" update that tells players what's going on during the LOG phases.

[Hikawa]

Or else you know everyone could come to my forum. Since were more active than you guys n stuff.

gantzplayers.proboards.com/

[XenoD]

Jul 3, 2009 12:43:46 GMT -5 Hikawa said:

Or else you know everyone could come to my forum. Since were more active than you guys n stuff.

gantzplayers.proboards.com/

*death glare*

[James]

Ugh... sorry guys... I will need to go back on my word on starting a Project. To make a long story short, my laptop's motherboard has, quite literally, fried. And replacements do not come cheap, especially when I'm virtually jobless and penniless. The laptop had all my Project info on it, and so, everything I had, from storyline, to aliens, to NPCs, to the Gantz room, it's all gone. And with me about to get extremely busy, looking for a job to earn money, on top of pulling all my atrocious school grades up when school starts again at the end of next month, to put it frankly, I just don't feel up to trying to duplicate it all onto a computer that doesn't even belong to me.

I'm sorry... I really can't apologize enough, but like KB, I'll have to step down from this RP in favor of all these RL events going on around me that need to be addressed. My laptop practically getting killed in the summer heat made me realize even more just how much stuff I need to worry about. My trying to GM a RP as big as this would not make the site revive much faster, and I would be left struggling even more with school. In the end, I feel we would all be left unhappy if I tried to continue as I am now.

Still, Xeno, Calc, if you're still interested in getting the RP back to life, I wish you the best of luck. Feel free to take down my Project if you want to, as I have no intentions anymore of running it, in addition to the RP as a whole. Perhaps one day, after I have graduated and college may not be too much of a bitch for me to worry about, I will return, in hopes that the RP has come back to life. Few RPs that I know of have had the grace of lasting for over 4-5 years, and Barry (with the help of you guys, of course) wound up developing rather nicely in the brief time I had him. And while I feel that character development is essential to good RPs, character and player interaction is the epitome of any kind of role play, as character development simply isn't possible without reactions and interactions with the places and people around them. And the vast majority of the reactions and interactions that were done with him, I felt, were done brilliantly, which made it all the easier to be at one with Barry and RP him efficiently.

Either way, it's been great RPing with you guys.
-James