Earth One

[Ayen]

Earth One

Just looking for any feedback you can offer me on the forum. Whether it be layout, design, or plot. I appreciate any and all feedback you give me so thanks in advance

Edit
I've made minor changes to the skin to make it more appealing and modern, added to the rules about OOC behavior and expectations, and began a story arc on the forum to give members more incentive. Let me know what you think of these changes and everything else I'm looking for on feedback. Thanks in advance.

[Ayen]

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[Kami]

Aug 19, 2024 14:29:31 GMT -8 Ayen said:

Earth One

Just looking for any feedback you can offer me on the forum. Whether it be layout, design, or plot. I appreciate any and all feedback you give me so thanks in advance

lmao wait, tori is that you? welcome back if so

feedback:
 

• aesthetically im a little confused. it's not bad per se, but feels maybe a little outdated? reminds me of the themes that were popular in the late 00's, early 10's. i'd expect something a little more modern in this day and age to compete with other, similarly themed RPs. again it's not bad, and there's no reason you HAVE to change it.
  
  
• plot-wise: again nothing bad, i'm just curious what the motivation for the player would be? i don't see a plot event or anything to serve as a sort of impetuous for the players to get involved and create motivations for character and narrative development -- "close the portals before baddies maybe come through" is really vague. why would you think baddies might come through? do we know there are baddies? all we know are that there are multiverse portals. your ending line asks where players will stand for the battle of the multiverse but there isn't a battle yet the description says you're trying to prevent one. gently i would say this is less of a plot than it is a hook into the setting. a plot, imo, would be something to drive people have an emotional investment in the success of their character's activities (directly plot related, or slice-of-life around the plot). again, it's not BAD i just don't know if this is going to be sufficiently motivating enough to get players invested enough to make a character and engage with the premise.
  
  
• organisation: i like it, and i like that you followed a sensical hierarchical order (info > character > rp > ooc) in your categories. you also made sure to have at least 1 thread in each visible-to-guest board, so 0 feedback here, it's pretty much set up how i would have it.
  
  
• other: bits and bobs, take 'em or leave 'em - i noticed you don't have a split between OOC and IC accounts, i would generally advise that if you want to keep it that way, to at least separate your admin/staff posts so that people aren't confused about "who" is speaking. similarly, there aren't any guidelines on behavioural expectations OOC; it's not uncommon for sites that don't split ooc and ic posts by having a dedicated ooc account to get spillover drama between players due to misunderstanding stuff that happens ooc and ic due to the names being the same so just food for thought that you might want to put a few guidelines in there to acknowledge the split between ooc and ic areas.

overall, a solid entry into pb's RP community, just might need some aesthetic updates & a clearer motivation for players about this "battle of the multiverse" when nothing bad has happened yet.

[Ayen]

Yeah, it's me. Thanks for the feedback, Kami ^_^ I'm stuck in the late 00s and don't know how to make the forum feel more modern I guess. If you have any suggestions on how to do that let me know.

Thanks again ^_^

[Kami]

Aug 21, 2024 13:48:24 GMT -8 Ayen said:

Yeah, it's me. Thanks for the feedback, Kami ^_^ I'm stuck in the late 00s and don't know how to make the forum feel more modern I guess. If you have any suggestions on how to do that let me know.

Thanks again ^_^

This will get lengthy since that's like a decade of changes to style haha, mind if we take it to PM?

[Ayen]

Sure ^_^

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