Voersaa wrote:I pretty much agree with what you are saying Ronan.
IMO the idea of recreating the Faerun has shown to be unrealistic. And more or less every one here should have acknowledge that by now (unless they are living in a world of make believe). The only way that we may recover this fallen pillar is to consolidate and have a few but VERY active servers that will make ALFA as PW stand out. Once that is achieved and our numbers have grown substantially we can start to consider what to do next.
There are some goals that are never about achieving. They are aiming points. It is something that gives the community a direction to move in. If we did have an achievable end goal, it would get to a point that there would be no reason for improvement.
By saying that "we aim to recreate Faerun" does not mean "we will recreate Faerun". It is saying "we will recreate Faerun to the best of our abilities, while supporting the other pillars". Just because it is an unrealistic goal, does not make it an invalid one.
I wonder how many people are voting for the part of the first answer that says we should get the initial servers up and running as soon as they are ready, and how many are voting for the part of the first answer that implies we should have no restrictions on the number of servers to release or when to release them?
I think there are two completely different issues there which I believe may be clouding the poll.
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Voersaa wrote:The only way that we may recover this fallen pillar is to consolidate and have a few but VERY active servers that will make ALFA as PW stand out.
Well, I was actually saying that we can have mostly inactive servers which do not have a detrimental effect on gameplay. We just need to keep the people looking for an ad-hoc game from logging into them and becoming disapointed.
Yeah but wouldn't that go against the entire idea of ALFA being made up of PW servers. You might speak of the pillars but in this case we would be forgetting what they support.
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Voersaa wrote:The only way that we may recover this fallen pillar is to consolidate and have a few but VERY active servers that will make ALFA as PW stand out.
Well, I was actually saying that we can have mostly inactive servers which do not have a detrimental effect on gameplay. We just need to keep the people looking for an ad-hoc game from logging into them and becoming disapointed.
Yeah but wouldn't that go against the entire idea of ALFA being made up of PW servers. You might speak of the pillars but in this case we would be forgetting what they support.
I think the "original" idea of ALFA was to recreate Faerun entire. To me, the best way to go about that is to support the largest number of playstyles you can which don't compromise the setting (and our standards, rules, etc). I think the tricky part is keeping the people who like a certain playstyle where they will enjoy themselves. Myself, I'm less picky, I've played nearly everywhere and liked it, with the exception of a few times where my prefered server was a server I DMed on.
I think that we are very close in how we view things Ronan. But when you speak of the idea being to "recreate Faerun entire" then we unfortunately have to look at the restrictions in doing so. We have to take baby steps and while we may initially have a great many new members joining us (as NWN2 ships) then we will also be seeing a great deal of swing door action as to how fast they will leave us.
I certainly don't mind a small group of players and a DM doing PnP action a couple of times a week. Unfortunately this in my experience have ended up alienating everyone else if the server only have one fairly active DM. Last I remember (before I stopped playing) TFN was more or less run by a one small group of elves.
We can't go out and try to sell ourselves as a PW and then have half our servers only doing 3 hour events a couple of times a week.
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Regardless of when we get live servers up and running, someone is bound to make at least one small server which facilitates roleplaying and adventuring to a degree we can slap on it or them the ALFA tag, them not being live is irrelevant.
Mordekai wrote:Regardless of when we get live servers up and running, someone is bound to make at least one small server which facilitates roleplaying and adventuring to a degree we can slap on it or them the ALFA tag, them not being live is irrelevant.
I voted option 1, but HEY FOLKS! I don't know about yall, but I for one plan and hope to be able to continue playing ALFA 1 till ALFA 2 is good to go and maybe then, if ALFA 1 is still around, I would play there as well, call me crazy but I like what you all have done and wish to get as much out of it as possible, NWN2 will be around for anywhere from 2-6 years (well how ever long it takes Bioware to finish Dragon Age). So what's the big rush? Give the builders, DMs, and Admin. time to get things worked out and lets not rush'em, m'kay?
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