Duel Academy: The Spirit Chronicles |Year 1| (Accepting/Started) [PG-16] Co-Host: Reina Soho

[Premier Alexander Romanov]

Possibly.

[FreelancerRaiko]

just gotta review the story first to see what's going on.

 

I forget, are custom cards allowed or what?

[Justice Master]

They is allowed.

 

I mean, I use customs.

[FreelancerRaiko]

and just to double check it's 4000 lp duels right? ok so what's the story so far and how exactly do you plan to

"reboot" it? i mean it's not like you can exactly do the same thing over ya know. you may have to improve the system you have right now so as to attract people otherwise history will just repeat itself.

[Premier Alexander Romanov]

Well, how about everyone has to submit a sort of opening post with their app?

Also, Justice Master, do you think, instead of rebooting this thread, we should simply start over fresh with a clean slate?

[FreelancerRaiko]

hmm i think starting over would be a good idea. that way we can come up with new ideas to start out with such as story concept and how to make it more appealing overall.

[Premier Alexander Romanov]

And we wouldn't have to deal with things such as "Cathedrial".

[FreelancerRaiko]

i had an idea for an episodic format to give it more of an anime feel.

[Premier Alexander Romanov]

Possibly.

We'll have to hear back from Justice Master.

It's his RP, therefore, it's his call.

[FreelancerRaiko]

well wouldn't it now be considered a group project?

[Devack]

I don't know but if we do end up starting on a new slat can i bring overy character

[FreelancerRaiko]

well no matter what i know this. we can't have people only making one post at day at the fastest. multiple posts need to start being made in a single day otherwise people become complacent and start to lose interest.

[Premier Alexander Romanov]

Raiko, I am assuming you are a roleplayer from another site that just got here?

You seem to be rather knowledgeable.

[FreelancerRaiko]

well yes. i'm usually more well known for helping rp's become insanely popular. for example it was thanks to my help that some of the rp's on other sites such as gaia became as well known as they did. i just have a nack for knowing what makes an rp good and makes it thrive.

[Justice Master]

First, I like the Cathedral. :( If you really want it gone, it'll go, though.

 

Second, episodic would be pretty good.

 

As for making people post at least twice a day, this is good but bad. Some people can't post like that everyday. We have the amazing fact that people have lives, so I'd say post at least 12 times a week. I'm open to any thoughts.

[Hunderas]

well I like the episodic thing but you also have to remember not every character is in every episode.

[FreelancerRaiko]

This is why we take a clue from the anime. we sort out the people that can post regularly and people that will not be posting regularly. the regular posters will be more the main characters while others will be recurring characters and some will be minor.

 

Trust me, if people don't post regularly and constantly the rp won't make it even half way through the first arc.

 

Also story and multiple things need to be planned ahead of time. especially when it comes to deck usage. i've seen plenty of rp's suffer from improper deck planning. you don't want a deck a character uses or a deck that uses the same strategy and cards every duel like you see with meta these days. in fact the best thing to do is, like the anime, show one or two new cards for each duel. we also don't need cards in a duel that are uninteresting like trap holes, solemns, dark hole, heavy storm, and even mystical space typhoon.

 

in order to keep interest, of both watchers and the rpers themselves, the duels must be in turn interesting themselves but not so involved that they end up showing half the person's deck.

 

finally there's of course the main character complex that a lot of rp's suffer from where the creator often tends to try and make themselves the focus or try to give themselves cards like stardust dragon or something which makes no sense. luckily you guys don't seem to suffer from that so that's a good thing i guess.

 

I was also thinking of an rp that shows how something came in to being. we all see rp's where either synchros or xyz have already come in to being, but why not make an rp where at some point during the rp xyz are first discovered?

[Devack]

eposnic sounds good but like hudas says not every one appers in every episode plus in series there is ALOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! of cheating

[Justice Master]

@Freelance I like it, but for a first duel you're gonna reveal more then one new card.

 

Xyzs being discovered would be good, but I don't see them being discovered and more or less mad.

[Devack]

so we sort them in to ]Jaden, syrus, batian(by time they started first arc), chazz, the dino dude from season two, and alexis] and [ drcrowler, aleixes friends, blaire, dude with moki mokis and chancler shepered.] if i'm right

[FreelancerRaiko]

if you want the rp to survive people do need to be sorted. You can't have someone only show up every once in a while because you can start a duel with someone and if the other person doesn't keep up with the duel then it will take forever, and it will hold the whole rp up in general story line wise to the point where it's like you have a bunch of different duels going on with jumbled up story plots each progressing at a different rate.

 

i was having some good ideas of how to divide it up in to an episodic format, and like an episode some characters will appear and some will not. some episodes may even need to deal with a side minor character. that's just how the way things have to be.

 

and justice master this is what they call brain storming. if you want an rp to thrive you have to have a collective effort which may mean even taking votes and discussing. majority has to rule as always.

[Devack]

@ freelance: oh yea those cards you call uninteresting are know as game changers and are very interrsting if used at the right time. @everyone reading: we also need hrow in diffrent locations to duel on said island

[FreelancerRaiko]

they aren't really interesting at all dude. your opponent has gotten something epic out and you just kill it off with a dark hole that's it? that doesn't make for good rping dude. it's just lame and boring. you can call them game changers all you want but that stuff kills rp's.

[Justice Master]

@Freelancer I know this. Please don't treat me like I'm stupid. As for majority rules, completely fine with that. I still like the episodic idea, though.

[Premier Alexander Romanov]

@Justice: I meant the spelling of cathedral as "cathedrial". Most of the changes I am doing are in response to Supreme Gamesmaster's review of this RP.

@Raiko: You have a valid point. One of the few things I disliked about 5D's was the fact that YUSEI. ALWAYS. WON. Take, for example, his duel against Team Unicorn. Jean had the duel in the bag. If he hadn't done the stupid thing of attacking, he would've won, but, due to plot convenience, he decided to attack anyways, resulting in his loss due to Yusei's last card being the exact card he needed to win.

And the funny thing about that duel? It was the preliminaries! It would have been totally acceptable for them to have lost! And it would have made for a more interesting story if they did, because they would've realized that they were playing with the big kids, and they needed to duel harder and smarter. This would've made the Team Catastrophe duel much more entertaining.

So, getting back on track, the opponents need to talk before/during the duel and figure out how it will flow, what major moves they want to make, and, most importantly, who will won and by how much.