Stronger Factions

[Xoria]

CliffG, I think what you're aiming for is called a story arc : an ongoing story that unfolds over the course of multiple chapters or episodes. A couple of dozen people were involved in attempting to create one last summer for the entire server, involving each house and finally culminating in one grand climax, but it essentially died out due to lack of participation and interest.

I have always thought that they were the best route to stimulating ongoing interest in a faction, but the creative effort involved makes them difficult to put together when authored by just one person, and the logistics of multiple people's input hampers cooperative efforts. The one we tried last summer involved dozens of hours of planning before anything hit the server, largely because having so many people involved in brainstorming ideas creatives an extremely slow development process (as anyone involved in 4.85 development can attest to).

I would love to see factions cooperate on this, because it would provide opportunities for ongoing creative exploration as well as involving non-player faction characters more deeply into the npc faction's roleplaying. The primary obstacle is finding the right balance between both encouraging and limiting creative input so that you create something interesting without spending more time in development than in presentation.

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