(07-24-2018, 04:51 PM)"Dark Warrior" Micheal Graves Said: I dont think that anything needs to change as far as how we rp and the like. As far as everyone not reading everyone elses work 100% of the time, I think that its just wishful thinking to expect that these days. We arent a bunch if kids living out our wrestling fantasy like we used to be. Now the fed is made up mostly with adults. Adults with jobs and responsibilities that severely limit the amount of free time that they have avalible to devote to a hobby such as this.


The site screwing up for a few weeks.....

I also think these are extremely salient points. The site screwing up almost killed MY desire to continue, because I simply didn't have the time to keep refreshing/waiting every time I so much as wanted to look at the site. And yes, I think that maybe a big part of it is that efedders as a whole are just getting older and having different responsibilities.

I also will say that I still support the idea 100% of keeping one show traditional and the other the new experimental whole hog format, whatever it may be.

In fact, I would go as far as saying, that if you are willing to keep one show the same, don't even wait the month and just start doing it now. I'm keen to see what you have in mind.

Edit: Hell with it, I'm gonna go ahead and make a suggestion for a format change that might help with some of these issues too. Shane, remember when we talked about that old fed I was in, Hardkore World, that had everybody for every match RP IN THE SAME THREAD?

Madness, I know. But for those who aren't Shane, years ago I was in what may have been my other favorite fed of all time, called Hardkore World. It was RP based, but everybody RP'ed in the same thread. If you're thinking that sounds like chaos, you'd be right. But the upside though was that it tended to naturally get people involved in other people's work. I mean, at the very least you had to scroll through other people's work to get to your opponents. But, oh wait, somebody else mentioned MY name in their promo? Well I gotta respond to that shit! Or maybe somebody just says something so dumb or does something so rediculous that other people not facing them just have to chime in about it (this happened regularly, and created some of the best moments in the fed IMO).

So how about this? We test pilot a show with one RP thread, and we alter the standards by which an individual's RP is graded. Maybe we add points for responding to people in the thread that aren't your opponent? Or you could riff on something somebody in a different match said? And make winning or losing contingent on that kind of behavior so that people have to read and react more to other's work, while retaining the spirit of creative writing. I mean, in that sense, somebody who completely owns everybody in the thread could end up winning their match just by being that damn prolific and funny/entertaining.

What do we think about that?