We have something kind of like that.  You have to answer a question with another question.

I know we do, I post in that thread. An example of the game is:

Person 1: Do you like cheese?
Person 2: It's alright, not my favourite food but still good.

Have you ever been abroad?
Person 3: Unfortunately not...

And so on.

How do I do this again?

Alphabet your next word?


Or your next song titles? Basically Your next word but with songs?

I have a suggestion for another game. I call it Provide No Context. There are no winners nor losers. We simply write unusual statements that we have read recently. We do not explain where we read them, and we do not attempt to explain why anyone would write such as thing.

I'll give an example that I read only minutes ago.

Pokémon Go-based lounge/story thread?

Pokémon Go for it.

Maybe there I'll find out why random, (and poorly dubbed,) strangers keep throwing fist sized red and white spheres at my head.

So, I've been slowly working at getting new people to play here, mostly by bumping the game ad with the highest frequency I can remember. I was wondering, if anyone has any ideas to get more interest going? Perhaps new games? Getting rid of old ones that nobody likes anymore? Anything that could help would be appreciated, no matter how long you've been here!

Im new here and the only suggestions I can offer, which are things I think would be cool, may or may not influence new players to join:

-yes a cleanup of games would be good, also some new ones would also be cool
-bring back the marketplace, it was disappointing to see it was dead when I joined, also I understand the upkeep is probably long and boring, however this will likely keep poeple more active
-keep bumping the ad, if i knew this game existed sooner, i would have joined it instantly, and probably been a few months cringier than i am now...
-have rewards for new players, maybe something to do with the marketplace? like a free starting package?

Thats all for now, hope this helped

Okay, I like all of those ideas. We need to figure out a way to keep track of everyone's WoTs that doesn't take up much of anyone's time. Maybe we can start a new thread for it, and everyone keeps a sort of checkbook of purchases? The Keeper of the Hall is a bygone position that I wouldn't thrust onto anyone, but it's open if someone wants it... Lol

Any ideas for games to get rid of? Or new ones to replace them? They don't even necessarily have to be games, just threads that would need a specific place to talk about, like the Spoilers thread.

My suggestion regarding pruning old threads is to keep a "Master list of games" which could include the name and rules of any game and a status (active, being there is a current unlocked thread for the game, and inactive, being the game does not have an open thread) and potentially allow players to request new games be created/opened - maybe someone suggests it open and a second person agrees, then open it up. Then, go through and any games that hasn't had a post this year gets pruned.

I also wouldn't mind seeing a royalty of the board reset or update, if we're going to bring back WoTs, maybe each "crowning" could get an allotment of WoTs as well as a prize.

For the WoTs/Marketplace, we could even do a separate thread for "wallets" where everyone participating could keep their wallet updated in a single post for each person and then a market place for purchases. An even more complicated crafting system could also be devised, but that's probably more time then anyone wants to waste on it.


Regarding bumping the ad, I'm not a huge fan of the bumper cars game, just because it has such a long delay, it doesn't feel quite like it fits. I remember back 6 years ago, the best part of ASWoT was that I could post in a game, and by the time I loaded the game menu, someone else often would have already posted.

I agree with qyv on the bumper car arena thing, i never really got the point..
I think having a system for marketplace where people carry their own is important,Wallets sound good, markeetplace will keep people coming back
i am fine with whatever pruning system you come up with, doesnt affect me as i havent been here long, nor made threads
i am tempted to ask for the role of keeper of the hall, but then i remember that i have a life (jokes aside about having a life, im just lazy :3)
tbh i didnt even know we had crafting here! No need to make it complicated, if some avid minecrafter (not me) wants to campaign for one in the future, so be it.
To increase pure numbers of activity, a spam thread would help, double-posts would be allowed, though this might be against rpol rules, idk.. if these were to be made, i would for one take part avidly, but you may want to lower the WOTS/post in that particular thread

The last game I suggested didn't work well. Maybe we could try something which new users already know and play, like a game of Million Dollars But....

Well, I can't open a thread just for wallets because then it couldn't be used for No Life, and that's not gonna work. We could either have people keep quoting and adjusting an original wallet post every time someone buys something, or they could keep it in their description with a detailed accounting of everything they've bought.

The Bumper Car Arena has been around for forever, so I don't know what else can be done with it, but I'm open to ideas. I like the concept, but yeah, I get that there are problems inherent in the design. How did it work before? People used to get No Life with it, but that was a looooong time ago now... Lol

There's no rule against double posting, it's just typically considered bad form, unless you've waited awhile and have something else to say. So a thread like that might be kinda weird.


I'm open to all sorts of suggestions for games as long as there isn't something else close to it around.

what is No Life?

The description updating thing sounds pretty good to me for the wallets and bought stuff...

Edit: what about a trading thread, or could that be done in marketplace?
This message was last edited by the player at 20:17, Fri 09 Feb 2018.

No life didn't get claimed all that often to the best of my recollection.


I was looking through older pages, and the assassin's game link to a message in this game and Ultimate conspiracy game link to a message in this game look like fun ones that could be brought back.

No Life is when you have the last post in every single active thread that isn't a notice.

If you want them brought back, as long they're still active threads, then feel free. If you think it needs some sort of intervention from me, just let me know.

Bumper car arena is to encourage people to continue to bump our advertisement.  It's actually one of the most utilitarian of our "game" threads because it reminds you to advertise.  People don't join if they don't know we're here.


Every new thread should be able to have someone post to it with something meaningful.  Any thread that would mean some players would not participate (for anything other than lack of desire) should be discouraged.

As for "pruning," this should be limited to "closing" a thread that has not been used in a while, but which can then be revived if someone asks for it back.  Pruning should not be used to actually delete threads unless the GMs agree it needs to be done for RPoL reasons.


Double posts are allowed already.  I have often done this if I have something to say.  Just don't get annoying about it and don't post just to increase numbers.

The "activity" level should never be a substitute for quality.

No life is supposed to be rare, like a unicorn that farts rainbows.  That's why it's special.

The lord has spoken!

ANNOUNCEMENT!!!


I TANNER HAVE ACHIEVED NO LIFE BY POSTING ON EVERY POSTABLE THREAD!!!

ALL HAIL THE GREEN GOOP!

O_o

Moving this discussion to the real Suggestions thread.












If everyone agrees, I will gladly make a testing thread for Wordplay Association (a play on Word Association, of course).

As Jean-Luc said when his machine would only do serging, "Make it sew."
This message was last edited by the player at 16:58, Tue 01 Feb 2022.

I would love to make a thread up about malaphors, but I'm not really sure how to put it into the context of a game. Thoughts? Perhaps just a thread where we post (and laugh about) malaphors would be good enough?