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 Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 5:48 pm
Oh, that's a cute-sorta-off-topic idea!
lol. Anyways, this idea could really work. We just need to find out if your an elf, and the whole sorting hat test thing...
Also, Katie what do you think of my number four proposal?
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 5:57 pm
I love it, but I'd do the aging in intervals of five instead of ten. Personally, I'd like to enjoy my twenties, haha. But would that mean five b'day celebrations in one term????
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 6:08 pm
If we do intervals of five, Sam would be 25 after one term.
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 6:13 pm
Say that we didn't do Sam's idea though. Or use a two year interval. (I like that best.) Summer and I were brainstorming and this hit me. Summer said that not everyone has to own a shop. We could work in one another's shops. Once again, it cuts down overpopulation and it spices up rp.
Why don't we have a certain number of shops that can be opened? When we start, let's say there's ten. Well all ten get filled, but I just graduated and want to open my own shop.
That's where the problem comes in. I get that I'd have to work in a shop, but let's say that a shop doesn't close down for me to take the place of. Would I just be on like a waiting list or would I be able to open up a shop after a certain period of waiting?
When you first come to Hogsmeade, I think it should be a requirement to work in a shop. If we go with Sam's idea and after two weeks you turn twenty, then I think it would be okay to open a shop after those two weeks. Kind of like how we were rewarded with being sorted after three weeks in the guild.
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:07 am
I like that idea too. Working in the shop could make up for maybe not being an elf if you character had a kid.
Also, I think it's possible to have siblings if you marry an active rper, like if we had a boy in our guild called Fred, and Sam rp married him. He could control one person, and I could control one person, so we're not rping the same person. So siblings would be necessary.[Unless Fred didn't want to rp a kid]
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 6:10 pm
Haha, wow you guys. I got bits and pieces through pm, but I just read everything on both pages and now I'm excited!
*On Katie's Shop idea*
[[I am aware it was just an example number, but I'm giving my thought on that number]] I don't like the idea of ten. Ten is too few. We would have way to many grads and not enough shops...maybe 15-20 original shops that are our own, and another group of shops that are straight from the books. (i.e Zonko's, Honeyduke's). This way, when you have to work in a shop for those 2 or so weeks, it doesn't have to be an original shop either...oh! And you would have to fill out a storefront purpose survey for a mod and be approved to own a shop, like your teaching resume. That could also cut down flow. If you want to work with a fellow RPer, then just pm them your own reasons and they can accept or deny your request.
Also, even though I would love to have my current character experience her twenties, She would end up being too young to have a child that would attend Hogwarts...
ALSO the grad art would be extremely nice!!
*Sam for Sorting*
I think we should fill out the test with our rp characters personality since our own was already used...
*My own Idea to throw in*
For when we have our own shops and homes, we will also need streetways like the Hogwarts Corridors and Stairwells. Something to transfer from store to store with, or walk along when you want to go to a family house.
Family houses sound great though...but instead of deleting it, couldn't you just edit the very first post to change the name of the family living there, like how we change the titles of our classrooms to show new lessons have been put up...our original RP characters should be able to visit eachothers homes though. For example, Summer married erm... Daniel, and had erm... Madison. Madison is at school, and Daniel is working at the shop all day, so Summer decides to make her way to the Smitty house to have coffee/tea with her old friends Sam and Katie! (Katie would also be visiting)
Also, how teachers decorate their classrooms, we should decorate our first post with a picture of our house and its inner workings, same for the shops.
Umm...I had more to say, but I forgot...so until I remember, thats it!!
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 6:47 pm
Okay, on Summer's comment on mine.
Yes, I think 15 is a good number. What I was saying was if a shop space didn't open, then you could
[1] be put on a waiting list until one opens up
[2] wait a designated amount of time (let's say until the end of the term) and then if nothing is available, 'erect' your shop.
The adding in the shops from the books is a great idea. But we'd have to have people volunteer to run them. Perhaps we could add a number 3 to the list above.
or you could [3] Run an available shop from the book. If one is available.
I agree, now that I think about it. You couldn't have an eleven-year-old at age twenty five, even if you were 'pregnant' at age 17. It would have to be ten years.
The problem that I have with it is the children. The parents should age ten years, but the children get one year older by each term, not ten.
I've decided that houses should definitely be optional. You'd always have to have people visiting, so (let's use me as an example) if Katie doesn't want to open and maintain her own page, she could say she lives on the outskirts of Hogsmeade, or in the woods, or something. That way she could mooch off of her friends and keep their pages alive and always fresh with a visitor.
With the whole family thing. I feel this was unclear. I even got really lost. But I thought it over too. Okay, here goes.
I like the idea of a family, but I was thinking about the whole confusing mess. Okay, we'll go back to Jane.
Jane is the original person. Someone over the internet always rp's as Jane. Jane just graduated and then created her back story. In her story, she got 'married' to John Doe. Now I was wondering what to do with the spouse.
[1] We could make them appear and disappear at our leisure. (when we needed them)
[2] We could take on another character to spice up rp. They wouldn't replace our old character, but be more of the teacher and student relationship. Post one tektek when one is talking, and the other when the other is talking, but the main person (Jane) would still be the main person.
I think that's it. But I don't know if that's all the options.
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:17 pm
Well for the waiting list, I think thats fine, cause if you think about it, limiting shops too much shouldnt really matter. For example if we have over...I dunno...20 shops thats fine, cause there are bound to be more than 20 in the real world anyway.
People who dont want to open their own shop, or would like to run a shop but dont have any idea for their unique shop should run an original Hogsmeade shop.
As for the houses, optional is good. If they don't want to RP their homes, they don't have to. Nor do people have to work in a shop...they could just own a home! Something for them to do, wander shops, go to the market, visit friends, raise kids. Siblings I believe would be okay if they were mentioned but not RPed like our current characters...like, we just pick one to play.
For example, Summer has Madison and Riley. Two girls. But I only have one old enough for Hogwarts or young enough to still be in school, Madiosn. Then I can RP as Summer, her husband (Katie's option #1 & 2) and the child at hogwarts.
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:29 pm
Okay, This is what I have to think of some matters that I think of.
Quote: [1] We could make them appear and disappear at our leisure. (when we needed them)
[2] We could take on another character to spice up rp. They wouldn't replace our old character, but be more of the teacher and student relationship. Post one tektek when one is talking, and the other when the other is talking, but the main person (Jane) would still be the main person.
Actually, in the Hogsmade topic, there is something that has a map of Hogsmade, and there is indeed the original Rowling made shops, so that's not an apparent problem.
I like the option of a house or no house too.
Okay, so for a 20 year old and the whole my kid isn't automatically-11, I was thinking, that once the child is born, we wait a whole term. By the end of the term, you've aged 10 years, and so has the kid. Then, 1 days after the term has started, your kid becomes 11, and can be sorted.
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Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 11:40 am
Wow, guys. This really is alot to take in xd I'm not sure I can process it all at once. Bear with me; I may not be able to cover everything at once sweatdrop
The creation of families is a neat idea I think. And gives graduates a chance to re-take classes with their "children" if they so desire. So that's pretty cool. I also agree that there should be an aging process for the avid role-player types to keep things consistent; that makes alot of sense.
Also, just to answer a previous question, if role-players decide to have children, they wouldn't have to go through the house-elf process all over again to be sorted. The house-elf process is specifically for new members only.
Just to clarify... would all the homes that you're all talking about, would this also be in the Hogsmeade subforum along with the shops? I know someone also mentioned the idea of putting in a Teacher subforum as well, but I'm thinking teacher related stuff might be better off in the Halls of Learning or Around Hogwarts.
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Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 2:00 pm
{{Confused. How do teachers relate?}}
Yes. The houses would be in the Sub-forum. Just in the 'residential area' so that students rping trips to Hogsmeade would only go in shops, not houses. (Basically, what would make sense to me is in the main post, like the Maurader's Guide to RP in Around Hogwarts, you'd tell the students to not post in the houses. Unless of course a horrible death in the family has occurred or something and the kid had to go back home for a funeral or something like that.)
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Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 2:28 pm
[[Teachers?]]
Yeah. Students of old students, so the daughter of Sam, would only be able to post in her house on break, before she attends Hogwarts, and if something happens to a family member.
So what about my idea of the whole, child turns ten and then a day later 11 thing?
Would that be a good solution to the whole, 10 then twenty thing?
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Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 2:49 pm
Yes. But what really concerns me is after the first term. The kid should be twelve and the parents would be thirty. It would be a big problem.
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Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 3:30 pm
That's not that bad. I mean, My mom in real life was 42 when I was twelve, and 41 when I was 11. Also, Hogwarts excepts students from 11 to 18.
They send out the letters when your eleven.
I don't really think that part matters. I mean, lots of people have kids when they're young.
Okay, I'll explain my plan again so no one missed it...
Sam has a kid, Georgia. Georgia is born at the beginning of the Fall term. [Children would be required to be 'born' at the beginning of a term]
At the end of the fall term, Sam would be 30, and the kid 10.
A day later, the kid 11, thus just in time for her to be sorted and start her life at Hogwarts. I mean, if your 30 and your kid is 11, it just means that You had her when you were about twenty, because Georgia aged a year in a day.
After all, you become twenty at the end of the dating period, and you can also get married. Of course, you can also have a baby when ever you want, so if Sam wanted to have Georgia when she was 30, then when Georgia was 11, Sam would be 40.
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Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 4:32 pm
cocosam, you mentioned the idea of possibly adding a Teacher subforum. I was responding to that.
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