Joey wrote:RE: "maps" and areas of the Marioverse - You guys are putting too much emphasis on what "series" or "spin-off" etc. the Mario games are from. It's all Mario, it's all canon, and everything exists in the same world. If someone wants to make an RP that's set in Chucklehuck Woods and transitions later on to Hooktail's Castle, that's fine (obviously that would be kinda weird and may require some extra development, but it's completely fair game).
You entirely missed the point.
As with the Zelda titles, each rendition of the Mushroom and Hyrule Kingdoms and the overlaying land are different. Some descriptions have Toad Town right outside of Peach's Castle, while others have Peach's Castle sitting out in a grassy field, and others have Peach's Castle literally in the center of a town. This is where the multiverse theory plays in and having multiple RPs set in different universes as part of the multiverse will lose consistency almost immediately and will create disbelief.
RE: character creation is too strict - If we don't have regulation then we end up with
this. I would much rather have 5 really solid RP characters do an RP than 10 underdeveloped ones.
Here's the deal though, for most RPs, characters are exclusive to that RP and not completely global, as that restricts us to having just one character across multiple RPs, and if those RPs are set in the same universe, in comes the loss of consistency and creation of disbelief. You're directing us to an amateur RP anyhow, the character regulation has nothing to do with an amateur RP, that's the fault of the RP's creator not having some decent regulation, and it's also at the fault of the staff or whoever polices those forums to not be aware of bad RPs. You're blaming the lack of character regulation on a bad RP when you should really be blaming the lack of quality control on the staff/RP hosts. TUA existed for a good, solid year back on SMBXR before moving back to Knux's forum and ultimately landing a spotlight here as one of the better RPs, but when you went and shut things down, it kind of just died.
Good RPs have spawned, but you just seem to take on a pessimistic view (as always) when it comes to these RPs and you show us bad ones so you can have an excuse to regulate character creation.
RE: we aren't writing a novel - The "this isn't an English class so I shouldn't have to use proper English" argument doesn't work here, sorry. In the IRC? Yeah, but not here.
Actually, it should work here, because you don't have to be a complete grammar Nazi about this. While I don't care for bad English as much as the next English major, you should learn to respect those who have trouble with the language, especially those that may be foreign to it in the first place. We don't have to have Grade A English in order to post in an RP forum, because if you really expect that from most of this community, you'll soon find that not a lot of people will be participating as much because of your rather strict "English Major only" policy.
And then directing the argument over to IRC is sort of shooting yourself in the foot and might cause some problems, because by saying that people can easily interpret you saying the normal people in IRC have bad English. Also, why is your grammar Nazi policy only relevant to the forums and not the IRC if that's the case? People should be allowed to participate in anything they want regardless of their English abilities unless it is completely incomprehensible. You told lighthouse64 to post in better English earlier, but from what I saw, everything he wrote was comprehensible enough to be good in a RP, while it certainly wasn't Grade A English, it was still good enough.
The RP is supposed to let people have fun, but if we have to follow a very strict regiment of completely Grade A proper English and completely unique, one-of-a-kind characters, it's not going to be very fun.
RE: Marioverse-only is stupid - So...you can't be creative unless we allow you to do whatever you want? I don't buy that. Everyone in this community is creative in some way - I have no doubt you can make a good character.
Thanks a lot for misinterpreting everything. Nobody said that Marioverse-only was stupid, not a single person here did. And nobody said we can't be creative unless you allow us to do whatever we want. But you can't really expect anyone to be that creative with something as bland and inconsistent as the Marioverse. It's near impossible to create some unique, exciting, well-developed characters in the Marioverse when there isn't much interaction between various species barely at all, and there is almost no storyline to follow nor any real exciting species to base characters off of in the first place. While it wouldn't be too much better, a Zelda RP would have a better following than a Marioverse RP, because eventually you're going to see a bunch of Yoshis or otherwise generic characters walking around. It's just not possible to have in-depth characters while keeping their backgrounds rather bland but descriptive.
It's not just the Marioverse though, it's mostly all of Nintendo's universes, maybe aside from the Mother universe, that are bland and not very easy to have fun RPs out of. It's just that most of the games follow the one titular character and really nothing else, so it's kind of hard to expand to create your own characters based around that. Games like Mother or Final Fantasy are a little easier to create RPs out of since they don't centralize around a single character and have rather large, expansive worlds enough that it would be consistent and original enough to come up with your own characters, whereas the Marioverse is rather bland and not as exciting or expansive to create any good characters from it, because we'll be seeing a lot of Yoshis, I can already tell you that.