i think a good idea would be for new players to choose to start in either Pennsylvania, New Tokyo, New London (Leeds) or New Berlin.
This would allow for an easier spread out of new players.
What do you think?
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This has been been sugested before I think. And I think that idea resulted in Pensilvania being made. Notice that pen connects to Cali and Texas and New York sort of leading to specific houses. Also just placing people in houses for the population doesn't help much.
I think weve all just got to face it. Liberty is the most popular house ;)
On an odd note: I had a really weird dream last nite that someone made a thread proposing ideas to make Liberty really bad so people wouldn't go there. Those ideas included the destruction of the Planet Manhatten docking ring :mellow:and a few other wierd things I wont go into...
I think we would be fine, if the Angels would help the new players finding their place in Sirius. Let them aid the rookies on their way to their preferred house.
1. to choose; select; pick.
2. to gather the choice things or parts from.
3. to collect; gather; pluck.
Do you mean assign people to differant areas of sirius? No offense but I dont really agree with the idea.
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Culling is selective breeding to get the off-spring with traits you like. Culling here means, that you force the idiots out and endorse and cultivate those who have potential to be good additions to the server.
To OP: I don't think it will ever work that well. I every Freelancer server (where we get most of the new people from) or Vanilla NY is the place where people gather. It's in the center of the Universe, so to speak. So breaking people out of their habits to congregate to one spot is just not going to happen. Basically we all are here for human interaction and NY is the place that's never quiet.
I mean that when you make a new character it says where you are starting.
I think you could change it to a new system rather then just Penn.
There is no forcing, it is free choice on where you want to start
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the popularity of liberty is not only founded on it being the best known place. it is also cause its simply "easy".
liberty is a modern western house - an enviroment most people are very familiar with or at least have a lot more than just a shrewed idea about concerning roleplay. - rheinland is harder - even veteran players are not always sure about it. - some think its something like ww2 germany, others think its the era between ww1 and ww2 ( republic of weimar )
bretonia is set in some sort of a victorian age of britain and kusari is somewhat the imperial ages of japan.
all in all, liberty is easiest to understand.
forcing people out is the most wrong thing to do though. - there is nothing wrong with people staying in liberty. - as much as there is nothing wrong with people staying in any other place. - saying it is wrong is projecting ones own idea upon others, hence taking away the free choice of others.
the only way to get people into other houses is by making other houses attractive.
it is shown in the rheinland thread. - rheinland is strict. - and it made strict RP rules / laws.
now - a problem with that is. - people often don t like strict. strict is only really appreciated by people who execute the rules ( that are on the stronger side ) or people who for some reason like being bossed around.
most others enjoy freedom more ( casual players ). - sadly the approach is often. - "ok, we are strict, and people don t like it. - now lets do what we can do really really good... and become even stricter - and tell other people that they must like it, cause its roleplay"
what people mix is roleplay and ooc. - convincing roleplay does not necessarily attract players. if there were two sides. - one side the inquisition, the other side the helpless lambs who are accused and punished. - there d be only a handful players who would actually like to roleplay the victims - and a lot more who d enjoy the torturers.
but most people would simply choose to ignore this and roleplay something completely different. - and thats what happens here.
arrogance, dictatorship, rules, limitations and restrictions. - all is nice in RP - but may / can result in a loss of a playerbase. - players simply go to the factions that allow them to be who they want to be.
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