Post by Mr. Game & Watch on Apr 7, 2017 8:09:02 GMT -8
Happy Sixth year anniversary everyone!
Originally I had planned to do something more for today since I missed the fifth anniversary last year, but time constraints prevented me from doing so. I had enough hindsight to prepare my April Fools apps months ahead of time, but not my anniversary plans, so go figure.
As the resident site-wide Grandpa, I feel that it is safe to say that this place has definitely evolved over the years. In fact, with each passing year I find it harder to say that this is the RP site that it once was. Not to say that that’s necessarily a bad thing, much to the contrary because the older site was nowhere near as active as it is now. It isn’t a matter of which was superior and my activity between now and then is not commentary on which I found to be better. For you philosophy buffs out there though, I suppose I could relate this place to the concept behind the ship of Theseus.
So much has changed in the span of six years. The limitations of what a Nintendo character is has been lifted. Non-staff members have been given the ability to create missions. The three character limit has been abolished. The site’s combat has been altered to include stats and rolling (my idea, so whenever you botch a roll, you know who to blame). The coin system was adopted. Combat mechanics have been reworked and will probably continue to be. In making those decisions, it had divided some of us, but regardless of those disagreements most of us are still here to continue moving the site forward.
Many members have come and gone throughout the years, and this year in specific we have lost some long time members. With their absence, it might have left some members to feel like they haven’t been doing enough, but regardless of their claims, they are still here when there is a vast ocean of roleplaying sites out there that they could have jumped ship for. Either way, today is not the day to reflect on what you haven’t done, but rather to reminisce about all the cool things you have done.
Personally, I feel that my greatest accomplishment on the site was the Into the Bull’s Ring event. At the time, it was a constant headache and the best part of it for me was when it was over, but in retrospect I really enjoyed its execution and I have a fond time remembering those frustrating aspects about it. The mission’s conception was pooling as many members as I could together (which was only two at the time, again, go figure) and having their characters actually discuss a battle strategy on how to approach the mission and picking out who would work best under the circumstances. I would say that it was a meeting of the minds for the Life Sphere, but considering that MC Ballyhoo and Hades were part of the meeting that would be a bit of an overstatement. Then when it actually came to invading the bad guys’ base, I had absolutely no pre-determined path for the players to go on, I made a map and allowed them to explore with very little prompting (and they somewhere managed to avoid all of my instant death traps, so that was even better). I dunno, I feel like I enjoyed writing for almost every other thread I was involved in, but I think that that mission will be my most fond memory of my time here.
So, spend today reflecting on what went right rather than what went wrong, maybe give some of our old site trailers another watch. If you are so curious, maybe give a listen to some of our old podcasts if you’re curious to hear just how nasally my real voice is. Be warned, I haven’t listened to them ever since they were recorded, so I honestly have no idea how good their quality is. If you are wearing headphones, tread carefully.
(Personal favourite site trailer)
(Site trailer playlist)
Playlist
(Those morbidly curious enough and have a couple hours to burn)
SSB:LI Podcasts
Originally I had planned to do something more for today since I missed the fifth anniversary last year, but time constraints prevented me from doing so. I had enough hindsight to prepare my April Fools apps months ahead of time, but not my anniversary plans, so go figure.
As the resident site-wide Grandpa, I feel that it is safe to say that this place has definitely evolved over the years. In fact, with each passing year I find it harder to say that this is the RP site that it once was. Not to say that that’s necessarily a bad thing, much to the contrary because the older site was nowhere near as active as it is now. It isn’t a matter of which was superior and my activity between now and then is not commentary on which I found to be better. For you philosophy buffs out there though, I suppose I could relate this place to the concept behind the ship of Theseus.
So much has changed in the span of six years. The limitations of what a Nintendo character is has been lifted. Non-staff members have been given the ability to create missions. The three character limit has been abolished. The site’s combat has been altered to include stats and rolling (my idea, so whenever you botch a roll, you know who to blame). The coin system was adopted. Combat mechanics have been reworked and will probably continue to be. In making those decisions, it had divided some of us, but regardless of those disagreements most of us are still here to continue moving the site forward.
Many members have come and gone throughout the years, and this year in specific we have lost some long time members. With their absence, it might have left some members to feel like they haven’t been doing enough, but regardless of their claims, they are still here when there is a vast ocean of roleplaying sites out there that they could have jumped ship for. Either way, today is not the day to reflect on what you haven’t done, but rather to reminisce about all the cool things you have done.
Personally, I feel that my greatest accomplishment on the site was the Into the Bull’s Ring event. At the time, it was a constant headache and the best part of it for me was when it was over, but in retrospect I really enjoyed its execution and I have a fond time remembering those frustrating aspects about it. The mission’s conception was pooling as many members as I could together (which was only two at the time, again, go figure) and having their characters actually discuss a battle strategy on how to approach the mission and picking out who would work best under the circumstances. I would say that it was a meeting of the minds for the Life Sphere, but considering that MC Ballyhoo and Hades were part of the meeting that would be a bit of an overstatement. Then when it actually came to invading the bad guys’ base, I had absolutely no pre-determined path for the players to go on, I made a map and allowed them to explore with very little prompting (and they somewhere managed to avoid all of my instant death traps, so that was even better). I dunno, I feel like I enjoyed writing for almost every other thread I was involved in, but I think that that mission will be my most fond memory of my time here.
So, spend today reflecting on what went right rather than what went wrong, maybe give some of our old site trailers another watch. If you are so curious, maybe give a listen to some of our old podcasts if you’re curious to hear just how nasally my real voice is. Be warned, I haven’t listened to them ever since they were recorded, so I honestly have no idea how good their quality is. If you are wearing headphones, tread carefully.
(Personal favourite site trailer)
(Site trailer playlist)
Playlist
(Those morbidly curious enough and have a couple hours to burn)
SSB:LI Podcasts
