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 Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 10:24 pm
Lyra Elizabeth Those sound pretty good. I'm not sure we need the one about only grads being able to have a store.
Definitely only one house per username, each house may have it's own special rules that need to be followed, and follow Gaia ToS and guild rules.
What's the vote on knocking? I think it makes sense that you can't enter someone's house without being invited in.
Maybe in the RAs there should be:
-an introductory post with a description of the RA
-a rules post
-a post with a list of houses/owners and each house's rules/description.
i.e. when you first make a house, post your rules and a description and then the person who made the RA will put it in the post at the beginning. Then we can keep track of who has a house and what it's like. It should make it easier for RPing if it's all in one place. Thoughts?
Okay, I'll try to do this in order.
First, I agree with Lyra. We don't really need the one about only Grads being able to own a store. Obviously, it should be posted in the Announcement thread or something to that effect. That way it is posted somewhere, other then the Hogsmeade thread that's in the Role-play Forum right now, with the other rules.
Secondly, only one House per username is a must. We have already talked about each House having it's own rules, which I agree with. Of course we follow the Gaia ToS and rules for HPGoG, wouldn't have it any other way.
As for knocking it's must when coming into someone else's House. However, if say you sent an owl to that House with an invite to come over to your House at a certain time that night (or another time/place) and the note should say either just knock and come right in, don't wait for us to answer to door because (insert a reason). Or you could knock on the door and wait for someone to "let you in". Or you could just Role-play that as soon as you knocked someone answered.
As for your ideas Lyra, about the RA's, I agree there too. We should have what you said in each RA. I think also we should have a master list outside the actual RA's. Maybe in the Announcement thread or somewhere else. But I do think we need a Master List.
(Sorry I haven't posted here in a while, Classes and rl just got really busy)
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 10:58 am
Hufflepuff RA will be named Brock's Valley.
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 1:21 pm
Yes, we have all the RA's names. Thanks Jun!
Also, I wanted to tell you that I sent a pm to Celestial Archer, she's a Gryffindor Grad too. I asked her to just come over and see what we had, hopefully she will answer me saying, I would love to come back and help, lol sweatdrop .
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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 4:49 am
Tina:
First of all, sorry it took me so long to actually reply.
Second, I'm not too sure what I'm meant to be replying to sweatdrop ...
I think that all of your suggestions for knocking, etc are fine.
A list of all the grads somewhere would be nice, but I don't think we need to list their houses and descriptions too, like in the RAs.
I'm worried that the whole knocking thing makes it a little too complicated, and maybe stifles/slows down RP. Thoughts?
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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 6:55 am
Lyra Elizabeth Tina:
First of all, sorry it took me so long to actually reply.
Second, I'm not too sure what I'm meant to be replying to sweatdrop ...
I think that all of your suggestions for knocking, etc are fine.
A list of all the grads somewhere would be nice, but I don't think we need to list their houses and descriptions too, like in the RAs.
I'm worried that the whole knocking thing makes it a little too complicated, and maybe stifles/slows down RP. Thoughts? Don't worry about it.
I wanted your opinion on what I had said to your and Andrew's idea's. The 'Master List' wouldn't have everything on it. Just as you suggested. A list of who owns a House and where (which R.A.) and if they own a shop that could still be on the list too. I don't think the descriptions need to be listed either.
That's what I've been thinking too. I thought that if someone 'knocked' on a door of a House to come in they (themselves) could RP that someone in that family answered the door. That way it didn't slow down the RP. But does anyone else have an idea about this?
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Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 2:52 pm
Oh my I didn't relize how much this has been talked about lol, it will be a few before I comment on this matter lol! Let the catching up begin!
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Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 3:37 pm
Ok so has anyone written everything down and posted it somewhere? I maybe a bit slow at remembering everything but, all I really got was the RA's and the shops. I am not a big RPer so I dunno how much I can offer to this idea. For me though I like to see more of like games to play kinda deal. like have a Town Cup lol I remember we tried doing something like this before with the graduates it just didn't really go no where because of the few that were there. But, hopefully there is more for the future.
P.S. I never relized how old I was till someone pointed out bout me being the first Hufflepuff Gradute...
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Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 6:53 pm
Lyra posted a few pages ago about what we had come to. Here is the link the he pages it's on. Some things have changed since then but, you should be able to read through those really fast.
(I know, I'm one of the only Gryffindor Grad xp )
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Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 4:53 am
@DevilsDarkAngel:
What Tina said. biggrin I've got most of the things that have been discussed in a word document. I update it now and then, when we've changed something, and have posted summaries here a few times. I'll try to have a look at the most recent one and see what needs to be updated...at some point. sweatdrop
When you mention "games" do you mean like the ones in Spinner's End?
If so, then I think that those belong in Spinner's End and not in the Grad's subforum (which is more for RP, if I understand correctly).
If not, then could you please enlighten me as to what you mean?
[[And now, I bid you all a good night.]]
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Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 8:42 am
@DevilsDarkAngel: I'm confused as to the games suggestion as well. We already have Spinner's End and we can still go there and play any of the games, just because we Graduated doesn't mean we still can't play them.
If that's not what you meant, please, as Lyra said, enlighten me as to what you mean?
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Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 1:56 pm
I'm thinking DDA means something more along the lines of Dueling Club. Dueling Club is a trivia game, but students are rewarded points for it. Plus the Top Student Poster award is a kind of contest that awards both house points & a prize to winning students.
Alternatively, graduates could get some kind of game that rewards a prize or something? Just brainstorming, sorry if it doesn't make any sense.
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Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 4:41 am
A town cup would be interesting.
I have a lot of ideas for this forum, I PMed Iceewitch a bunch of them. I'd really like to see it up and running soon. I want to make some threads for grads only, and some grad student interactive roleplay threads.
We could also have a "museum" or a "hall of fame" or a "Hogwarts yearbook." that lists all the grads and when they graduated.
I would love to figure out how to set up shops in similar formats to classrooms, if we establish a set amount of companies, then each company could compete for the town cup.
The "store owner" (teacher) would list the "job" (lesson) and then the employees would carry them out. Certain students could potentially get part time jobs as well. Lol.
Ooo! We could have an election campaign as a fun sort of event! Lol. Then the town could have a mayor.
We could call it Hogsmeade and stick with storyline, or we could come up with our own name and say it's nearby Hogwarts but in a different direction, then we could have whatever sort of roleplay shops we like.
I really like all the possibilities this forum opens up to.
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Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 5:42 am
I like the idea of the RA's you all have. Give's an extention of the common rooms, however it still keeps the houses separated.
I'd really prefer to see more common and mingling stuff.
If we do any sort of town cup, it would be interesting to base it on the RA areas, but if you RP as people getting together, how would you decide where your house is? Therefore we should not restrict where people move to based on what house they used to be in, so they could effectively choose their own team when they graduate. However, much like the even sorting clause, there would only be so many houses available, more could be "built" (add addresses to the list) each time there are graduates, and then the graduates choose somewhere to move after they graduate based on what spaces are available...then like actual houses, if a guild member becomes inactive and leaves the guild, then their home becomes avaiable, and other guild members can move into that house and choose a new team.
I don't think that just because someone graduates they should never be banned, this forum will create a place for them so that they should be able to stay active. I'm not sure anymore on the rules of activity for the guild, but maybe continue to "clean up" graduated members, but maybe give them twice as much time as students have to post (more relaxed activity rules). Still leave the certain honorary members like Grey, KT, and myself on the "no ban" list, but please don't make it that way for all grads, that would get far too chaotic in my opinion, because that would go against everything the guild stands for as far as organization of threads and members. Perhaps make a graveyard thread for the unbannible members? (Remember when we were discussing making KT into a ghost? This opens up a whole new range of possibilities, especially if you're going to inflict a timeline, because based on that timeline I'm probably dead cause I graduated so long ago.) Active ghosts could haunt houses, and either live with someone else, or have their own house depending on their activity. If we roleplay with a timeline, then we could eventually have ghosts....That way after so many terms, someone who has graduated can choose to be a ghost. A ghost could stay in town or go back to Hogwarts and haunt there....this way if someone has left the school and isnt allowed in the common rooms for a while, they can after so long go back in if they wished.
If we base competition on those 4 town areas, then my idea to have established businesses modelled after classrooms would work great, they could function as roleplay and you could earn $$ instead of house points, and the section of town that earns the most $$ wins then prize. Like a fundraiser competition sort of. There could be other ways to earn $$ too. Could be a lottery sort of thing like the duelling club (this idea would need a lot of work) or other simply mimic other incentives that give house points. A student recruits someone and gets 5 house points? Great, well a graduate recruits someone and earns 5 galleons. Sounds good to me. Ghosts and students could have jobs. Students would have part time jobs as part of a work experience class and those jobs would give them house points. House elves who wish to stay house elves could also apply to work in RAs instead of being sorted into students, giving them more time to roleplay as a house elf.
We can also have graduate events. The students are having a fright week? That's fine, you're having a fright week festival on the streets. I want graduates to be able to do all the things they love in this guild even after they've graduated.There should be an answer to everything this guild has to offer in the new forum. I want to be a part of this guild again, so for that I need a place to go.
Eg.
Common Rooms = Residential Areas
Great Hall and Bathrooms = Three Broomsticks and Hogs Head
Classrooms = Buisinesses
spinners end games would be added to to include games with graduate themes.
Head of House = Minister of Magic
House Cup = Town Cup
Also, we could go from the guild student cards to making id cards, that say your address instead of your house, and instead of saying student or teacher, it could have your occupation.
Wow the more I type the more excited I get about this forum.
Students who enter this forum would need special permission...chances for field trip days, we could make a calendar, and on predetermined days, students would be allowed into certain threads, besides the ones they have part time jobs in.
We could even look into a town newspaper, or try to combine it with the hogwarts monthly for a guild wide newspaper, with sections about both forums, so students can read up on "current" events
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Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 6:38 pm
Okay, this is going to be long so, I'll start at the beginning......
I do think that a Town Cup would be interesting but, there are a few things that I don't agree with that I'll get to later.
We would all like this forum to be up and running soon but, if we make it to confusing nobody will do anything and the forum will die out and I don't want that to happen. As for "A Hogwarts Yearbook", I really like that idea. We could all make tekteks of what our character looked like when they graduated.
As for stores competing for the Town Cup that would be interesting but, what about people like me who would have a house, husband, children, a house elf, a ghoul, and Inn to run AND working as a Teacher over in the classrooms. That's alot! Alot to r-p, alot of work, and alot of time. As for students applying for "jobs", I don't like that idea. This is suppose to be for the Grads, not the Grads and the Student (even though it would only be on certain days for only a short period of time). We already talked about them coming down for "Trips to Hogsmeade" which is fine with me and I think is a good idea but, we would have to make lists of when they can come. So, everyone doesn't think they can all come in, all the time.
I think having a Mayor would be cool too but, I think we need to get the essentials up and running first.
We are calling it Hogsmeade but, we are doing it where the books left off. So, we have the history behind us and we can create our own things.
Okay now to the second post......
I don't like the idea about basing the "Town Cup" idea, on the RA's. I do like it better with the stores. If the RA's are suppose to be like the common room and the stores are suppose to be like the classrooms it's going to get really confusing really fast. The RA's should be for r-ping only (for now, anyway). We can r-p and have a Town Cup in the Stores. I do think that we should stay in our own Houses. We already discussed our children having a different House then we were actually in and we came to the conclusion to stay in the same House, and I personally stand by that decision. We already have a system worked out for the house and who is going to live in what area. I don't think that we should be able to "pick" a new team. If we did that then everyone would just want to go to the "team" that was winning. That's not right in my opinion.
I think we decided that the Grads could not get banned at all. Am I incorrect in saying that? We already talked about Ghosts and House-Elfs too. We decided that we could have either, both, or neither in our own House. I do think that it would be cool to have another who is a ghost. Someone other then Professor Binns. That way I could always teach Astronomy, mwhaaaaaaaaa, lol.
I like the idea about the Town Cup just not with the Houses, it should be done with the "Town", like I said before and I already told ya'll how I feel about on the whole, students and jobs, things. As for the House-Elfs, I'm personally on the fence about that, they are new and they do have the class for Cooking and Cleaning and the Kitchens, plus, being a House-elf is suppose to be a way for us to know that they we keep coming back to HPGoG. However, if there are House-Elfs who could be sorted but, don't want to be (which I think I can count on one hand) then it would be okay.
As for the Events, Grads can participate in the Guilds regular Events but, if we want to have a separate Event then that would be cool too.
Okay that was alot, lol, my figures hurt.
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Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 2:08 am
I agree with Tina about, well, all of it. I think.
-RAs should stay. I like the housing system we've come up with and we've already got it all sorted out.
-Yearbook: We sort of mentioned that, having a master list of grads somewhere. We could include in this tekteks and the term each person graduated.
-I agree that students should not have jobs. They can visit Hogsmeade sometimes (make a list/calendar). My suggestion would be to make these visits last a week in RL time (RP one day or a weekend) so that everyone has a chance to RP.
-A mayor would be cool, but then comes the issue of choosing one. And I agree that we should get the essentials up and running and try to work out a few kinks first (there's bound to be some).
-Town cup would probably be fun. I don't really like having it between the RAs either, but we could figure something out with the shops perhaps. I think this is another topic that can (and should) be left for now, until we get the subforum running smoothly.
-About the RAs: I think that they should mostly be for RP, but maybe we can also just chat too? Perhaps non-RP chat could be in the double square brackets [[ ]]. A lot of people use those for that purpose.
-I'm a little confused about this ghost thing.
And clueless about the banning thing.
-I'm on the fence too about house-elves. Ask Icee perhaps.
-As Tina said, grads can still participate in the regular guild events. I wouldn't recommend completely separate events as there are not many grads at the moment, but perhaps a thread in the grads subforum that's kind of like the grads-only area of the event.
[[I've got two more days of uni left, and then a week-long study break before my exams start. I'll need most of the time to study, but I'm getting my wisdom teeth out Friday, so I'll spend the day doing nothing. I'll try to write up another summary Friday afternoon.]]
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