I have been chatting with several players in regard to the subject of today's news announcement. During that long, long chat, I grouped everything from my bio and counted the words. Before I begin, please allow me to show these dates:
March 12th 2016 - first post in Biography.
April 9th 2016 - last post in Biography & CC.
These dates given, it is easy to conclude that this character has not been on forums even for this one month. Why I am pointing out dates? This connects with something I have written in the very first paragraph. Counting up the words:
I was grouping everything from my bio - minus obvious attached in-game logs. I came up with over 4000 in my biography alone.
I counted up two posts as well, containing only two of the in-game logs in that bio, which are a bit shorter than my average encounters. It quickly went over 6500 words.
Then again, I started counting all the messages I've made myself in Communication Center. I stopped when once I reached over 12 000 words written in total, not even reaching fourth page of my own post listing via profile.
If I count up involvement of other people in CC as well - assuming I made 5000 words in three listing pages, ending on page seven, and people usually wrote a bit more than I did, let's add 6000 words and double summary of both - it means I wrote a lot.
The approximate total number is way over 30 thousand words involved into Cody's roleplay - involving all the inRP encounters with members onto forums.
Alone.
It is impossible how to even approximate character's involvement. Asking me to retcon the character or "duh, simply change the stoopid pic" is actually an impossible request. I already stated that on proper thread, but I will repeat it again:
Quote:This is not how it works. This is not how any of these work.
The most fatal issue is that a lot of roleplay would be going to be retconned. And I mean it. Ask SirDoge and Wellingtons how much roleplay they had put into doing things out with me - it was not only initiative of mine, mind you. Not to mention several other players (these know about whom I talking about) which enjoyed such a roleplay of human-animal hybrid. I heeded the criticism on how such a character should work.
Problem with Cody is not 'duh, you can just change the avatar'. Human Cody will not be the very same Cody created previously. It means a lot of changes, a lot of stance and behaviourism changes - it is easier to create whole character a new than to do a lot of retconning to already existing character.
For me, both possibilities is throwing my efforts into dustbin.
I will do a summary (or TL; DR), made in points.
- Cody's roleplay started less than month ago.
- Biography alone is 4000 words, over 6500 with two logs in there.
- Summed up with all CC (concluded with other players) it is approx over 30 000 words.
- In-game roleplaying would possibly double or even triple that number.
And now, the punchline:
- I have been roleplaying Cody for less than month.
- Bret has been roleplaying all his characters over six years.
This cannot be retconned. It would require starting roleplay anew, with completely new character. This thread isn't actually about furries or discussing the news announcement.
[size=large]This is about the fact how much involvement and passion had been wasted.
