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Post by *Sinister*Dreams* on Jul 21, 2010 2:19:25 GMT -5
A thousand apologies for the obnoxiously bold title, but I have an issue to address. We all know this site is going down. Well, I'm not about to let that happen while I am on my own two feet. There are options at hand, and I am requesting input on them. OPTION ONE: We become active magically and everyone agrees to start posting again. Highly unlikely, because we are a lazy and unmotivated bunch. This is nothing against individuals. It's a blanket over the entire site. But it is an option. OPTION TWO: We contact Rika, the creator of this site. How to do that, do not ask me. Greenpaw was the one who knew her, and if anyone can contact either of them, find out how Rika got the place running and repeat her methods. Or ask her to come back, which is unlikely given that she is much older now. OPTION THREE: The option my wallet dreads...But still an option. This site practically raised me out of the sufferings of real life, and I owe it to you and my elaborately created characters. If need be, I can pay for advertising. However, consider that this will not be the SpiritCats we've come to know. Random people would be joining. OPTION FOUR: We go free advertising. Neopets, other rp sites, fanfiction, deviantart, whatever. We go back to being annoying and flood every site we can with advertisements until people show up out of sheer frustration. OPTION FIVE: My personal least favorite, because I do not see what it accomplishes that this one can't. But, we could create a new site "Spirit Cats Vs. 2" and send all active members there to start anew. Same clans, fresh clean character slate. Of course, you could re-create old characters as well. If this is the option of choice, please do not delete this site. Just put it in maintenance mode and keep a message posted about the new, active version. OPTION SIX: Throw things at Dream because she is crazy. Anyway, that's my shpeal. Please help me discuss this or offer another option. I'd really rather not pay advertising unless it's a last resort. Nimblestar dolls to whoever is helpful and wants them. Because I miss you, Spirit Cats.
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Post by Destiny on Jul 22, 2010 5:22:48 GMT -5
I like option six. let's do that anyway.
Creating a new site won't do any good, I don't think. Just look as Spirit Wolves. Some people joined, but it died quickly. We could always wipe character info, and let people re-create characters - I could keep a list of cats which belong to specific people, and give it to them so they'd know which cats belonged to them, etc.
Advertising won't do too much either, as people want to join ACTIVE sites. It needs to be at least slightly active before people will cast themselves in, and there's just no RPing anymore...
The place came from another site. An MSN Groups site (That's the one I found, joined, then I saw the link to here, and joined) I dunno, but maybe it was becasue MSN sites were so...open? Or something, I dunno. But that got a lot of traffic, directing people here.
And yeah...Don't advertise on Neopets...They don't like it. At all. >.< However, DeviantArt's a good idea (particularly if you post something about SC - How about a good RP thread? Get everyone who posted's permission, and post an RP thread, linking back to us)
So I think, basically, advertise and all, BUT we need to get our tails in gear too, and try to RP. Maybe deleting old character info wouldn't be a bad idea.
EDIT:// Oh, and at the risk of being brick'd, maybe we should ditch this plot? No one has any idea on what's happening (including Marrow ;P ) and it's just gone on forever. Perhaps we can attempt to finish it alongside the new plot's beginning?
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Post by *Sinister*Dreams* on Jul 22, 2010 12:11:31 GMT -5
Well, long long ago, as in about four years ago, I found this place by joining the original Spirit Cats with Rika and Nightfrost, Purplepaws, Hawkie (Who was Wolfpelt at the time) and several other members. I was rather noob-like, so it took time to get better at it. Eventually though, the old site was deleted and I followed link after link to here from the site prior to the one I entered. So, we have about 4 sites that Spirit Cats has been known on.
Anyway, a new plot does sound like a good idea. (Please don't shoot the Dream, Marrow. Dream looks better with her face.)
In the series of the warrior cats, two main conflicts are faced often.
-Clan-Clan fights. Why have we had none of those? I have no idea. Yes, they are boring and unoriginal. But at this point we need something like that. Plus with this place being so inactive, we could all do with a few less characters. We could have fun killing them off.
-A massive move. While this only happened once in the series, it would be interesting to have the clans be forced to leave. Just like the series. (Yes, Dream is talking about unoriginal plots. However they still are fun.) We'd make new boards about the new clan sites probably on the other side of rogue canyon, so we wouldn't have to move rouges. We can decide on what our new clan homes look like and spend time roleplaying the getting ready of the camps and the fighting between clans to establish territory.
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Post by B-r-e-z-e--->> on Jul 22, 2010 22:43:26 GMT -5
Umumumummmmmmmmmmmm.................I like Option 5 *cowers* Please don't kill me.... :k I really like creating sites...like...A LOT. Ahahaha. And if given the correct time and motivation I can advertise A LOT. I even have enough points on some of the big RPG Advertising sites that I can affiliate with them... It also looks better on us when new people come to the site and say: Hey, this is new! Just no eating n00bs! D: You guys would have to take care of the boards, but I could make the site look beautiful and put all the graphics in place and update the affilates/advertising stuff....I can try to occasionally RP, but my life has gotten super busy as of late. And I like the idea of the Clans making a huge move to a new territory....except maybe the site move could be their move and they have to try and adjust. I don't know. If you need to contact me and are on Neopets, my accounts are Mooselly and Reminiscense.
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Post by Destiny on Jul 24, 2010 9:38:38 GMT -5
I don't think anyone should be shot for their opinions or ideas, especially since we're all trying to save this site...And actually, I just had an idea. A good way of ending the plot (Marrow herself said she wasn't sure of how the plot ends anymore) and (hopefully) saving SC, could be that the cure fails or whatever, the land is polluted and in order for the Clans to survive, they must move. Which leads back to Breeze's preferred option. (Being a new site could also forgive us being slow) Thing is, whenever I hear "make a new site" I'm reminded of the short-lived Spirit Wolves. We had all the best intentions, but that site died quickly. We'd need a lot of effort in order to make sure a new site would survive and thrive. Of course, it's all well and good US talking about it, but it's a bit depressing that there's only 3 people here. We need Marrow's SMASH to get this going, especially as she's been a manager of this site since she was born. As well as other managers and senior members - like LW. I'll see if I can prod anyone else to get their tails over here, from other sites I've seen them on.
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Post by ~XxLone*WolfxX~ on Jul 24, 2010 10:45:24 GMT -5
I... Don't know. I don't want to move the site. Doesn't seem like it would help much... Why can we just wipe this site and restart without making an entirely new one? What would we call it anyway? I like this URL name and such... But I do think cleaning out old threads and characters would be good. Oh, and I've left messages for Shadeflower, Marrow, and Cloudy on Facebook and mine and Shade's personal site. xP She'll get the message, though I'm not positive she'll come over. Heh. I think a major problem is that a lot of our members have sorta grown out of the warriors roleplay. Maybe we should add some new species. Allow people to play a wider variety of creatures. I don't mean let everyone make whatever. Say maybe one badger per person or one fox. Then maybe even let people play some birds or squirrels. XD I think that just playing cats, sparing the few other animals around here, can get a little boring. That's a big reason why I like RPing free range with Shade. We have many different 'creatures' that we play, though our RP is based on 'human' sorts. xP Though if you did want to contact Rika she has a dA account here littlebluegirl.deviantart.com/
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Post by Shadie on Jul 24, 2010 11:17:21 GMT -5
Wow, I haven't been on here in such a long time... I know that I've been a particularity bad manager, I haven't been role playing, taking an active part in site, ect. (I do also know that I was bad even when I was here. xD) So I don't know why you guys would want to take my advice, but I'm going to give it anyways.
I wouldn't move to a whole knew site, that just causes for confusion most of the time and then you'll have to go through the whole process of making the boards and that's just ugh. XD So, I would stay here, if I were in charge of it all.
My suggestion to you would be to start deleting members who never even posted anything. Obviously they were just joining for the heck of it, and if they never posted, I don't think that they would mind being deleted all that much. If they stumble upon us again, they can rejoin. As for members who used to me active but then later died (such as myself) send them a message via email, facebook, dA anywhere that you know that they would check. Tell them what we are trying to do here, which is bring the site back to life, and ask them if they want to come back and roleplay again. I wouldn't force the issue though, if they don't want to come back, ask politely if you can delete their account, people who don't want to roleplay here will just roleplay poorly and go inactive again. =)
Now, the reason I went inactive was because I had taken a break for a short time, and when I came back there was this whole new plot going on and I was really confused. So I agree with Dream, I think that we should wrap up this plot and do another one that people can start fresh with after the activity of the site picks up a bit, then people can know what's going on. XD ^^' I personally like the idea of the clans moving to a knew area, perhaps they have to move because of a forest fire, or the humans I expanding the city and plan to demolish the area? I don't know, just a suggestion. ^^
Something else I think you should do is move ALL the boards to an archive, you know, start fresh on all the boards, and maybe move the bios too, people can tell the admins which bios they want to keep, and the rest cane be deleted or sent to the archive.
I think we could make it work though... I know I'll try to be more active. ^^ You guys can disregard this, if you want, or chew me out for not being active, I'm ready! ::Puts on battle gear and strikes an overly dramatic pose::
Just... don't beat me with sporks... I'll cry. D=
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Post by *~ForestWind~* on Jul 24, 2010 11:26:06 GMT -5
Haha thank you Dream for taking charge, and doing what we all just kept talking about in the cbox!
But I agree with the whole plot thinggg... right now we are all left dry with this never ending one. If we start a new one, and all get a character with a key part or something, posts will come! xD I kinda like the clan moving plot. That way Breeze, who likes making new things, can make something new of this site with the area change. But it can be a clan move with a twist, to change it up and make it more exiting? I dunno, but I bet we can think of something if we decide to do this.
I'm not too sure with the whole new site option, since like Dest said about Spirit Wolves. But maybe it could work if the clans do move... but still risky I think.
Advertising would also be good... I mean it never hurts to get some more members. But we should redo somethings at the same time like plot and clean up site a little too?
I think we can save good 'ol Spirit Cats if we try.... this was my first roleplay after all. I'll try to come on like everyday if things start happening around here...
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Post by Marrowbone on Jul 25, 2010 14:28:14 GMT -5
I keep forgetting that in the absence of Masquerade, the site is really my fault. I don't like it! YOU! *Points at random person* YOU'RE IN CHARGE. *Hides under rock*
ANYWAYS, I must say I'm DELIGHTED at the sudden activity and ideas from everyone! Good show! Three cheers to Dream for starting it, too XD
Right now I'm liking all of these suggestions, (Good thing I'm not a grumpy brat anymore. Er, most of the time.) except really for moving the Clans :/ Not a bad idea, but most of the worth of that plot was written with the books, and I personally hated it >.>
Many apologies again for the current plot. I suck at plots. I now know this, and I promise not to do it again XD I know what to do next; I just have to get the will to write it and to write it well. Since that won't likely happen today I say go ahead and start the new plot of Breeze's. Which promises to be epic. We can continue with my dinky, annoying plot in that one thread separately until it FINALLY *&&*$%#%^$^& DIES.
While I really appreciate it Dream, you don't need to pay for advertising =) I've thought about it myself, and if we ever do advertise we ought to wait until we're a little more cohesive. No reason we can’t drop in little plugs throughout DA and FB and the like though, eh? >D
Btw, it's weird but the thing that's been keeping me from completing the plot is the creation of a SEPERATE project that makes parts of it more logical. Kinda.
Oh, and animating GIR dancing while in a sombrero.
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Post by H-a-w-k-i-e on Jul 25, 2010 17:28:06 GMT -5
I'm glad someone finally really addressed the issue of our our inactivity the last likeee half a year. I'm all for option six too. I love throwing things (:<
Anyways, starting up a new site could possibly work, as well as getting a new plot, as the one we have right now doesn't seem to be going anywhere (actually i don't think I remember what the plot is anymore D: ) Judging by the activity on this thread, it just seems like its not that people aren't going on the site, but they just can't think of anything to post. So I guess its time for some new ideas to get us going (:
However, starting up a new site might be a risk to losing some old members, and we aren't guaranteed that many new members either. Contacting Rika, Green, Nightfrost or any of the old managars is a very unlikely solution, since i'm pretty sure they passed the site down to us because they themselves have grown out of RPing
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Post by B-r-e-z-e--->> on Jul 25, 2010 22:40:50 GMT -5
The reason I liked making a new site is because wiping the boards can be as much a time-consuming project as MAKING them. But, if we all do it together, then it should get done. I think most of us remaining seem to be saying that we need to hold onto this URL and not move the site, which I don't mind, as long as we all promise that we won't let this revival plan fall flat (that means EVERYBODY does their part). As for the plot, I'm confused on what we're doing...and wait? My plot...huh? I forgot what my proposed plot was, Marrow xP Shoot me now. Thirdly, I was wondering if perhaps I could modernize SC a bit (graphic-wise). Like all things, there are fashions with proboards, too (haha). I would like permission to wipe the headers/footers and start anew...
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Post by Marrowbone on Jul 25, 2010 23:01:10 GMT -5
Mmm... As much as I DESPISE the trends of Proboards (Esspecially that side-box thing) if everyone else is okay with it I say go for doing whatever you want with the coding, Breeze. Just keep the C-box and I'll live XP And don't delete any skins. I don't want my favorites to go missing <.< >.> <.< Bein' careful.
And (Again) let me make sure that we won't be deleting old threads, only moving them to archives. I like to reference old stuff for continuity, and it'll be useful to keep them on hand.
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Post by *~ForestWind~* on Jul 30, 2010 17:10:46 GMT -5
Soo lets not all go inactive again. What is the final choice, so we can start it up? Lets think of a plot, and decide on what to do with the site....
Hmm. Do we want to have the camp change, with a twist? Or notttt so we can brainstorm on other plots (:
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Post by Marrowbone on Jul 30, 2010 19:32:51 GMT -5
We already have a plot that everyone seems good with, if Breeze still wants to start it up.
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Post by » Sacrifice on Jul 30, 2010 22:41:21 GMT -5
=raises hand=
I personally think we should do something involving StarClan and SunClan.
=vanishes again=
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