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Post by Toz76 on Jul 1, 2016 22:57:23 GMT -5
Let's face it, the main game isn't getting as much attention as it used to. I'm not sure what it is, but the game often goes days without a new post. Maybe we're just tired of it and ready for new games like Literary Mosaic and the sitcom. Maybe something about the game itself is driving people away, but I don't know what that would be. Does anyone have any ideas as to what is going on and what we can do?
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Post by frankthetriviaman on Jul 1, 2016 22:59:18 GMT -5
My guess is we're just short of ideas right now, and we are playing the other games until inspiration hits us.
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Post by Toz76 on Jul 1, 2016 23:05:22 GMT -5
I would agree with you, but this has been a fairly consistent problem since that big battle at the end of the first thread. I feel like if it's a lack of inspiration, it's a massive one. I have no shortage of ideas myself, so IDK.
Maybe it's the plotlines we follow not being good for certain members; for example, I can't do Numbered Diesels bits well, while Tug doesn't do much with the Colormen (except for Man In Steel), you don't seem that comfortable with SOM, and nobody knows what to do with the TTTE characters!
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Post by frankthetriviaman on Jul 1, 2016 23:51:01 GMT -5
I think you are on to something
We need to figure out how to get TTTE back at the center of all this... I think we are losing track of what the game is supposed to be about!
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Post by Tug on Jul 2, 2016 1:41:09 GMT -5
That's what I tried to create the LRM to get the Railway back in focus but it seems you guys aren't playing off it very well, I'm personally trying to take a break from writing things with the Colormen/VEC/SOM to focus on Vlad and his gang of weirdos... P.S. I'm not that great with the Numbered Diesels as well Toz, and I guess I do average with the Colorfolk
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Post by frankthetriviaman on Jul 2, 2016 1:46:23 GMT -5
What we need is something that focuses on the engines, but still allows the original characters we've spent so much time on to shine.
(I wasn't sure how to go about it to be honest; a steam engine versus diesel plot is somewhat overused and predictable by now, so I tried a different path, that apparently didn't have good results.
What if we take a break from the game for a while, to go back and reconstruct the missing stuff? Or spend time on the side projects like the Colorfolk book.
Maybe if we build up our universe more it will really help with ideas.
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Post by Tug on Jul 2, 2016 1:55:43 GMT -5
The thing with the LRM is they're not just diesels, well mostly but that's not the point, they are the rejected and nonpopular engines that got shoehorned aside for bigger names like the Steam Team or the Numbered Diesels, now they're trying to fight for the top to prove they aren't as useless as people were led on to believe What I wanted to show was that the LRM was a group of underdogs that looked like they had no chance at victory and wanted to attain it any way morally possible... Sorry if I portrayed it as the tired old formula of 'Steam vs Diesel', I just thought it would work better with a group of diesels at the smelters' yard, the area I wanted to use as their base, than a steam engine, though in hindsight it might have worked better with a Steam Villain... Though it seems to be a common thing in my posting that I don't get stuff across to you guys easily...
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Post by Toz76 on Jul 2, 2016 1:57:16 GMT -5
I actually was planning on unleashing the GHB soon, but perhaps it would be better if we took a hiatus.
(Honestly, at this point I just don't know what to do with the TTTE characters. I do want to get back to the games roots, and it has been better engine wise of late, but the engines aren't at the level they were pre-new forum. The world tour was sort of their last big hurrah.)
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Post by Tug on Jul 2, 2016 2:09:03 GMT -5
You guys might get annoyed at me bringing this up a lot but, maybe we need some new talent on the forum to bring in some fresh ideas. I mean if we seriously compiled a list of important characters, groups, and events from across the forum, not just the Game (Like some of the Forum Games, LMs, and the Story as examples), and posted in, I don't know, the fan fiction section of SIF, then it might peak someone's interest, like the bare minis I found when it first started out, we might be able to bring in some people with similar 'roots' as us and get the TTTE Characters back in focus or even this theoretical person could add new ones like I did...
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Post by Toz76 on Jul 2, 2016 2:16:02 GMT -5
I think that's a good idea, but we don't want to seem too much like we're self-promoting (I mean, technically, we are, but "join my forum" is sort of annoying and possibly also against SiF rules.) If we could do a story similar to "Origin of the Colormen" and post it on the wiki forum as a test run we could both gauge the response it gets and make sure the plug isn't too obtrusive while still drawing attention to the forum.
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Post by Biblically Accurate Angel on Jul 2, 2016 9:18:43 GMT -5
To be honest, my brain has not been working in the Game. I'd probably have to read through both threads before I could really make a sensible post, and I don't really have the time (or the internet speed) for it.
On top of that, I'm really trying to focus on my two novels, the NRS, a third thing I'm writing, and it's pretty taxing on me.
I personally feel that we should close the second thread before it gets as big as the first one, and then make a third thread, and we can do that just like we did 3WSR on the New TTTE Wikia Forums - it starts out with a simple post with the T&F characters, and then gets bigger and bigger, and we can incorporate our own characters in it eventually too.
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Post by Toz76 on Jul 2, 2016 9:22:08 GMT -5
I don't know if that's a good idea. Rebooting all our hard work kinda seems pointless, although I do agree that simplifying things would be a good idea, hence why I've just been focusing on Percy Silver to give people a breather to catch up or something. Also, see my above comment on writing for TTTE characters.
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Post by Biblically Accurate Angel on Jul 2, 2016 9:25:16 GMT -5
BTW, Toz, have you been reading the two Numbered Diesels novels? I think it might help those who can't write for them as well. I hate for Frank and I to do them all the time, it'd be nice to get someone else to write for them as well.
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Post by Toz76 on Jul 2, 2016 9:27:10 GMT -5
I haven't really been reading them, but I've been meaning to. I don't want to write for them though.
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Post by Biblically Accurate Angel on Jul 2, 2016 9:31:27 GMT -5
For the novels or the Numbered Diesels in the Game?
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Post by Toz76 on Jul 2, 2016 9:34:14 GMT -5
The novels, although I don't really know what to do with the in-game characters either.
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Post by Biblically Accurate Angel on Jul 2, 2016 9:36:29 GMT -5
Don't worry, only I'm writing the novels. (Though Frank has helped with 3WSRN1.)
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