This thread is for discussing changes to personnel (e.g. who is in what position) in the Star Army of Yamatai. It's historically been the case that I strongly prefer that the Star Army's leadership be filled with PCs or NPCs who are being controlled by active players who will actually make improvements to their part of the Star Army. For example, a player who controls the NPC head of Star Army Logistics would be expected to write articles for Star Army Logistics and occasionally play Logistics-related NPCs in RP, or issue orders related to logistics stuff. Currently, there's a lot of characters in the Star Army who belong to, or were assigned to, players who are no longer active on the site. I intend to try to phase out some of those NPCs, or adopt them, and if anyone can help me with this, I'd be grateful. I don't want to run the Star Army alone and so having active players is always preferable to adopting them for myself. So the criteria for these high level NPCs are basically:
If the answer to 2 is no, we should try to develop some usage goals with the player.
If the character hasn't appeared in RP, doesn't have art, isn't played by someone active, and doesn't do anything in RP, that's someone that we should try to replace with an actively-managed character.
Let's start with an example:
Honda Noriko is an NPC played by Sean_ODuibher. She is currently positioned as Deputy Director of Star Army Logistics. The player was last seen Feb 6, 2016, so it's highly unlikely this character is seeing any play time. The character page doesn't have any art but it's nicely written. I don't know if anyone would want this NPC so it might make sense to discharge the character from the Star Army or put her into some position less vital to the OOC operation of the Star Army of Yamatai (maybe in charge of some off-screen combat unit or something, like a Rikugun legion--we don't want to waste what we have). As we make these changes we can write them into canon my issuing orders on the Star Army Communications Network.
Obviously some of the decisions we make will be tough but the point is we want to Star Army to be more "alive" as an organization and ultimately be made of real people instead of just a collection of stagnant wiki articles. I feel like the Star Army has suffered a sort of "brain drain" caused by people leaving or choosing to work on the site's side factions instead of the SAOY and I want to resist that and get things back to full speed. More than anything I just need people who are invested and actually contributing to making the Star Army the world's finest fictional military, so if you're up to the task let me know and I'll tell you what I specifically would like to do. In the meantime we're going to make some vacancies...
- Are they controlled by someone who is active on the site within the last year?
- If so, have they done anything in the last year?
- Have they appeared in RP in the past?
- Do they have nice artwork?
- Is the wiki article for them well-written?
If the answer to 2 is no, we should try to develop some usage goals with the player.
If the character hasn't appeared in RP, doesn't have art, isn't played by someone active, and doesn't do anything in RP, that's someone that we should try to replace with an actively-managed character.
Let's start with an example:
Honda Noriko is an NPC played by Sean_ODuibher. She is currently positioned as Deputy Director of Star Army Logistics. The player was last seen Feb 6, 2016, so it's highly unlikely this character is seeing any play time. The character page doesn't have any art but it's nicely written. I don't know if anyone would want this NPC so it might make sense to discharge the character from the Star Army or put her into some position less vital to the OOC operation of the Star Army of Yamatai (maybe in charge of some off-screen combat unit or something, like a Rikugun legion--we don't want to waste what we have). As we make these changes we can write them into canon my issuing orders on the Star Army Communications Network.
Obviously some of the decisions we make will be tough but the point is we want to Star Army to be more "alive" as an organization and ultimately be made of real people instead of just a collection of stagnant wiki articles. I feel like the Star Army has suffered a sort of "brain drain" caused by people leaving or choosing to work on the site's side factions instead of the SAOY and I want to resist that and get things back to full speed. More than anything I just need people who are invested and actually contributing to making the Star Army the world's finest fictional military, so if you're up to the task let me know and I'll tell you what I specifically would like to do. In the meantime we're going to make some vacancies...
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