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I was thinking it would help our roleplayers if we had a single place they could visit (which could be a wiki page or a thread) where all "open positions" and "wanted characters" were posted. This would save players that were thinking about making a new character from the slog of going through 21+ plot pages/crew rosters to find out who needs a medic character, etc. Maybe the page could be divided by factions.

What do you guys think?

 

Current policy is that all plots should start as Open RPs. The reason for this is so new players can find them easily and join them and to reduce the amount of subforums being created for "one mission wonder" plots. But after talking with Aendri today I was thinking it might be better to give GMs more options. So I'm looking for feedback on this rule. Please vote in the poll above.

 

Almost all characters on Star Army are approved by Game Masters of the plots they are headed toward. This has basically eliminated the need for a character approval team that we used to have back in the day. So the old "character approver" group (which had the yellow title banner) has now been eliminated. In the case where a character needs to be approved and there is no applicable GM, a site staff member or relevant faction manager (e.g. Kyle for a Neshaten character) can approve the character.

 

Would you guys be interested in me setting up a special Star Army Etherpad on our site for you guys to write JPs on? An etherpad is a page that supports simultaneous editing by multiple users - it's great for writing roleplay posts that have a lot of back and forth dialogue.

 

Star Army has a huge wealth of history on the forum. We have posts on here to as far back as 2004. With only a few exceptions, all RPs posts and most other posts have been kept around. But to access that content, we need to be able to find stuff. We've got a search function that works pretty well and we also have a tag system for threads, which I want to briefly talk about.

When you tag a thread, it gets added to the tag's page (example...