Everyone Please Come and Give your Opinion About this...

[Ouro]

I need you to help me decide how to organize the floors and tests (threads and posts)

If we keep 1 thread per floor, it creates conflicts. When a new player wants to join, he has to wait for the people taking the test on that floor to finish, since he can't join in the middle of a test. It is also complicated, because if they wait for the first group to finish, they have to post after all the previous posts (and eventually the thread would accumulated too many posts of different groups.

One solution would be to open many threads per floor. 1 thread for the first GENeration of people (6 players), another thread for the 2nd GENeration of  6 players and so on. The only problem is that there would be many threads, and the 1st and 2nd GEN would never see each other.

Another solution I have in mind, is that we could open 1 thread per Generation of 6 - 10 players, and use it for the entire journey. So there would not be a thread per floor. This kind of looks better, but it also makes the reading tedious. Anyone who want to read it, would see a long thread full of posts, and would take a while to find out what happened in Floor 14, or 20, or 43, for example. It also means that the different generation won't see each other.

A third option is to create threads per each Arc of the manhwa. So that there would be a 1GEN Workshop battle, 2GEN workshop battle, etc. IT would divide the threads even further, but I have the impression that it's going to be more difficult to handle.

I am brainstorming hard to solve this issue, but I would appreciate a TON if you guys helped me

[InfinityRequiem]

I think the best way to go would be togixe floors as you say, different generations. Now for floors with many segments like she 2nd you would have to divide it again if not things would get really convoluted that with all the groups.

Now the different groups generations would be able to meet up in this manner. Not all generations would take up the same time for a test, for some it may progress faster depend ing on how active they were. But firstly I propose there should be a 5 day grace period between floors/tests.

So if Gen 1 takes 6 days to get through the first test, and if Gen 2 is done within the grace period they can join as members of the 1st Gen on the next round.

Now, I don't necessarily like the rule that if your inactive your character dies, this  would basically be force them to keep climbing, but many of us know that the most special/unique events in ToG happend outside of the floor tests.

This would mean that we can have an additional thread where if characters decide to stay in that floor they can keep roleplaying and interact with other regulars. Inactivity while in a floor test would mean you simply fail and you have to retake the test with the next batch.

Also just to keep things clear you could add a title under our usernames with our current floors which would help with team building and such.

[Ouro]

I think you misunderstood the rule of inactivity. It is not for those who take too long to climb a floor. Is for those who stop role playing without letting us know.

On the other hand, you gave me a good idea about how I could solve this issue. I don't think forcing the test to last 5 days is going to help at all because maybe the 1st gen does it quick and the 2nd takes too long and never catches up. Also, even if you take 1 day per floor, you will take 132 days to get to the top. So don't worry about that. I think the good idea relies on making people wait, not 5 days however. Wait just enough for the next generation to finish their test so they can become one bigger group. That's why you're a genius and I am not

So it could work as a simple gathering system. (i.e. To take the test on floor#3 you need to be 12 regulars, since only 6 have shown, you will have to stay around role playing until the next 6 guys arrive)

What do you think?

[starya0rave]

I don't know what to say. It is really hard to make everyone happy, but I don't mind waiting for other six people to pass to the next floor.

[InfinityRequiem]

I think that's a better variation of my idea, seeing as the crown game and hide and seek game needs quite a few teams i think it's perfectly alright to wait for the other generations to catch up. I suggest the current generation moving on till the door test and then they can wait, we need at least 4 teams of 3 each for the crown game, and 6 teams(18 people) for hide and seek (9 people/2teams) I think this would be much be a much better idea and adds to the whole role playing experience.

[zarcyne1]

We could have separate folders per generation. The gen 1 folder would have all of the threads of gen 1, and it wouldn't get cluttered and confusing, and so on with gen 2 and 3.

[LazyBasil]

I think in theory it would definitely be more exciting with more players, but from my previous experiences, I know that large groups all role-playing at the same place at the same time tends to get cluttered, at best. And if a particular group of people are on at the same time all the time, and just a small amount are on at particular hours, they may get left behind in the ruckus. Which kind of sucks.

I like the idea, but it would be nice to make sure this didn't happen. I'm willing to accept all of the other offers put out there as well.

[Ouro]

Don't worry about people making a chat out of the role play. As I stated in the Role Playing rules, depending on the tests, the higher you climb the tower, the more sentences will be required per post. So if I ask you to write a 3-5 paragraph post of at least 5 sentences per paragraph, I am sure everyone will do their best to do just that, and probably nobody will post more than twice a day... That way content will stay relevant, and detailed, but with enough space for everyone to write. I wonder if anyone here is scared or insecure about writing 5 paragraphs posts. As I said even if you post 1 a day, that's a good chunk of information, and actions. I will be considered tho. Do not expect me to request 5 paragraphs already. We are still in 1.

On the other hand, I don't want to gather more than 12 people per thread. Actually 10 would be ideal. But if you guys want to keep the 6 player format, I would totally do it, I just need some help developing a better system so I don't end up with 3 threads per floor or more (if a lot of people were to join the forum)

[InfinityRequiem]

I think that would work, increasing the post requirement would help dull the many posts of all the regulars. A single meaningful post would work out well.

On the other hand i think 12 would be optimal, as you say anymore and things get convoluted, but 12 is a good number. We can do both the crown test and hide and seek test(Though with some improvisation) Though there might be continuity problems with so many people, i think it won't be that bad, and at the end of the day. At least do-able.

[shadow]

We have what, 60 people that passed the first test yes? Why not let their characters be a part of that, and once they have three characters ready they can be a team. At the end of every thread we can edit the first thread with a summary of what happened, and let new people dive in where the older guys are at, as separate teams or something. That way none of the player base is separated and it is easy to catch up on all the major events without reading every single thread for every single floor.

[Ouro]

The problem there is that then too man people would be together in the same thread. Also, maybe they want to begin at 2nd floor. I also don't expect we are going to have more than 3 generations, so it's not that bad if we open 1 extra thread for each of them, don't you think?

[shadow]

No I don't. But also people might want to make secondary characters and partake in more then one generation?

[Ouro]

I was thinking to allow second character after floor 20.

[InfinityRequiem]

Yeah that would be much better, less clutter, though in that sense both characters would have little chance of meeting, which is actually a good thing since we don't want one person role playing 2 characters in the same test, seems like an unfair advantage.