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UPDATE: This is now the Harvest Moon OOC thread, as the RP is open for business!

Update Part 2: The RP Has officially started!

Update 3: RP is on hold.


Alright folks, here's the deal.

Some of you may or may not be familiar with the Harvest Moon game series. For those of you who aren't, it's a farming themed game. You raise crops, make friends, go to festivals, and even get married or have a child within the game.

The idea here is the same as some other guild out there, but in this case, it would be contained within a subforum in this guild, meaning only members of the guild could join. It would mean membership would be more literate than others of its type, and hopefully improve the experience as a whole.

Because this requires a whole subforum, I'm hesitant to start it immediately. I wanted to check and see what sort of interest there was among the already established members of the guild. Your input would be really appreciated, since I'm not sure how many HM players there are in the guild at the time. This could be both a fun experience, and a good way to pull more literate people into the guild, as I'm rather picky.

The basic idea for the mini-community is to have individual threads for businesses, homes, and one thread for "diaries" of sorts. Festivals and specific areas of town will be stickied, and the day/time would be updated so as to keep time flow going. This means we'll need a dedicated group, to prevent hangups in play due to inactivity.

If you need more information, feel free to ask. I haven't cemented everything, and anyone with prior experience is welcome to make suggestions!

I can see your point, but the one I was in was somewhat smaller scale. It's no longer up, cuz the captain decided to kill it when it wasn't as bustling as she hoped. But there were a few stickies, like character profiles, a "diary" thread, where everyone got one post to update their feelings on other characters, and maybe make an entry or two, one thread for each home, unless two people lived together, and business and key location threads.

It wasn't terribly cluttered really, which is why I figured a subforum would suffice. If it got really big, though, we could look into maybe even starting a guild of its own, but I don't want to shell out 20k until I know it'll be successful. In this case, it's not money wasted, as it flopping wouldn't be an expensive blunder.

Thank you SO much for the input, though! I was afraid no one would respond. I'm not quite ready to set up the subforum yet, as my planning hasn't gone through. If you have some ideas, though, feel free to AIM me!

Oh I'm with you. I remember that guild so much, it was great. I was sad when it disbanded... tsk...

It's disappointing that no one's responded to this thread but you. I guess we don't have much of a fan base in here, but it's not that we couldn't pull in others from outside, but I'm REALLY picky about profiles, I sometimes feel bad for being so picky, but then I see what happens when I'm not, and it gets better, lol!

Heh, good to know I've found a kindred spirit. Too bad you don't have AIM, we could probably gab for quite a while on the matter.

Afraid not, I was only ever in the one HM guild, the rest of the time I was unwilling to join because they were either already dead, or full of scary emo stuffs...

I do have email, but I almost never check it. If we wanted to, we could PM though.

That's an interesting place. I should spend more time looking around. I'm still wondering if there's gonna be any interest. Of course, I know we could venture out and look for members on the outside, but I wanna set things up first.

I'm so glad you decided to comment!

I completely understand that there are lots of time requirements for any RP, especially one like the Harvest Moon one. In other RPs, time flow is often plot driven, but because of the way the Harvest Moon game series is, there are preschedule festivals. Plus with so much going on in various areas, time flow can't be dictated by plot, because then things will get skipped and people will be left behind.

I'm sorry if the thread frightened you. I know the whole thing can seem pretty daunting, but if you're really interested, I'd be happy to help you figure out something that would be more time-flexible and still in the RP.

Well Izenteen, I hadn't really thought of how many people I wanted to gather before starting, but around now, five might do... but we might be able to with just three, and build from there...

No problem about the time stuff. It may require somewhat different circumstances, but it's doable. Once things are about ready to open, we can go PM over it to iron out details.