Time skip.

[Jiang Winters]

As a roleplayer - If we're going to do a 10-year skip, I'd honestly rather just move to a different timeline entirely than continue poking at this one. I'm not keen on having a decade-long monkey wrench thrown into the story arcs I'm currently in just so we can jump feet-first into The Original Trilogy: Mk II.

EDIT: 1-2 year jump might be alright. Might. =\

 

[Apollyon]

Agreed

 

[Brandon Rhea]

As cool as that idea is for faction players, I feel like it leaves indie players out in the cold.

Please note my last post, about the indie region of space.

 

[Dmitri]

I agree with Jiang that I would prefer a microskip.

 

[Brandon Rhea]

Keep something in mind about length of time: it hardly matters. We have an official site year but people rarely pay attention to that. We could move the official site year forward 10 years, but I honestly couldn’t care less if you want to say that only 6 months has gone by for your character. It makes very little difference as long as you react to the macro-level events of the timeline.

 

[Kreeps]

Please note my last post, about the indie region of space.

Posted before I saw that, it's a cool idea, but I still stand by the rest of my post. This 1-2 year microskip sounds okay though. Enough to get out of the rut, but not enough to screw over peoples story arcs.

 

[Brandon Rhea]

Posted before I saw that, it's a cool idea, but I still stand by the rest of my post. This 1-2 year microskip sounds okay though. Enough to get out of the rut, but not enough to screw over peoples story arcs.

Also see this:

Keep something in mind about length of time: it hardly matters. We have an official site year but people rarely pay attention to that. We could move the official site year forward 10 years, but I honestly couldn’t care less if you want to say that only 6 months has gone by for your character. It makes very little difference as long as you react to the macro-level events of the timeline.

 

[BLADE]

Seriously. Narrative time. Even the macro events don't matter unless you're building your character to react to them.

I have a non storyline reason: most of my characters aren't intended to make it or age past 30.

Like all good heroes...

As a non-gentile, I'm still fairly sure that he endorsed negative continuity.

 

[Kreeps]

Also see this:

Fair enough. Just feels weird... but it seems like everyone in this thread right now supports it but me so I'll shut up now.

 

[BLADE]

Kreeps: If you disagree speak up. And not everyone. Jiang and Weiss are against it. I don't care. Etc. Just because something's popular doesn't mean you can't argue against it/change minds.

 

[Unreliable Genius]

I'd love this, 10 seems a bit too long though. 4-5 years is enough for a war of this scale to end and allow for our characters to not need that many changes.

 

[Empress]

living in a underground ice box for anywhere from a few to 10 years?......what would I do to keep myself occupied!?!?!?! * runs in circles

hehehe

that would be Skhai's reaction at least.

 

[Master Maverick]

Honestly I think the reason for the dissatisfaction has to do with OOC bs. This whole thing has, pretty much, been a crap shoot in terms of the Jedi/GA. Not having steady leadership for so long is probably the basis for the issues we've had. That is coupled with the fact that the vets/best PvPers are pretty much all on the 'Sith' side, if you will. It's pretty much just noobs getting blasted left and right with no real hope of winning or getting anywhere. Of course there's the fact that the GA isn't really even a faction. I know it's been brought up before that they are IC, but IC doesn't matter when there's no one to control them. A handful of people can't possibly organize and control and galaxy's worth of military forces.

There's really no one to blame and this is just my view on the whole thing.

I mean, sure, yeah, there's plenty of RP opportunities. However, that's not to say there aren't any right now. I think people are tired of fighting a hopeless battle, being paired against people that can write circles around them or people who barely know what they're doing so there's no challenge. That's, really, only going to continue if a skip takes place. Of course that's no one's fault. It's not like anyone's going to write poorly or lose on purpose. It just happened to be that the vets planned to get involved in the same side.

Regardless, people are going to RP how they're going to. There's not much anyone can do to change that. :/

Overall I'm against this. Everyone keeps doing the same thing (in a broad sense) and expecting something to change, it seems.

EDIT: Sorry, not 'bs'. "Realities" would be a better term. Overall, I mean OOC reasons. I think it's bs because it's just really unfortunate. I don't mean to blame anyone...

 

[Solaris]

I'd like to finish up the plotlines I'm working on before doing a timeskip, and I'd prefer we do a timeskip of only about six months. You can accomplish a lot in six months with regards to the Alliance-Sith War (and there'd still be some remnant Alliance forces on the fringes of space - the core of the rebellion), the characters won't be aged dramatically and current plotlines can easily continue without continuity errors, and it's still plausible that the Sith would be overthrown. Ten years is quite long, thoroughly hiccups everyone's characters/storylines, and allows the Sith to be firmly established having mostly crushed the insurgent forces who're still resisting them in the Core.

That said, I'm working on establishing certain rebel factions - the Jedi Rebellion thing (see the Convocation on Tatooine), the Imperial Knights, Saul's Initiative and other criminal factions, and I'm looking at developing an Imperial Resistance a la the German Resistance of World War II. If we're going to do Rebellion vs Empire, I'd much prefer it happen naturally and develop in-character.

EDIT: What mean 'we', pale-face? I'm lookin' to make some changes for the better happen on the OOC side. I know Jiang and Weiss are, too.

 

[Dmitri]

Thinking of this more, I can go either way. Most of my plots can be postponed. This is just my opinion, but I would suggest having a poll to see people's interest around what amount of time.

 

[Brandon Rhea]

Ultimately, after hearing what people’s thoughts are, we will make the decision that we feel is in the best long-term interest of the site. If there is a time skip, regardless of what length it is, it wouldn’t be imminent either. It’d still be weeks, maybe even a few months, away. We would want to see the Core Worlds fall first. We'd also give people time to do what they would need to do with their stories to prepare for whatever length of time the skip is.

 

[Luster]

I'm good with a short time skip (to get my GA character into gear) as long as my Indies can basically ignore it and say that they were there after the skip. After all I haven't even had too much of a chance to use them.

Ultimately, after hearing what people’s thoughts are, we will make the decision that we feel is in the best long-term interest of the site. If there is a time skip, regardless of what length it is, it wouldn’t be imminent either. It’d still be weeks, maybe even a few months, away. We would want to see the Core Worlds fall first. We'd also give people time to do what they would need to do with their stories to prepare for whatever length of time the skip is.

Exactly what I was looking for

 

[Sreeya]

I'd prefer 8-10 years personally. I also have personal plots that I'd have to adjust, but after seeing how timing works here, I don't think anything less than that would make a real dent. I want to see something drastically different, and I think a longer skip would allow that.

 

[Brandon Rhea]

Thinking of this more, I can go either way. Most of my plots can be postponed. This is just my opinion, but I would suggest having a poll to see people's interest around what amount of time.

I'd rather not have a poll, because that implies there's only a limited number of options ("Other" tends to be scarcely used). A discussion like this is better for the staff anyway so we can see people's preferences and their reasoning for it.

 

[Kiro]

I'd prefer 8-10 years personally. I also have personal plots that I'd have to adjust, but after seeing how timing works here, I don't think anything less than that would make a real dent. I want to see something drastically different, and I think a longer skip would allow that.

Same. I want something really new, and as Bac said a few pages back, I really want to see where the Mandos will and can go after the timeskip. Same with the Jedi. I want to see how being forced to go underground and turn into a rebellion and be wanted fugitives will mess with the Code, how they'll value the survival of the Jedi vs the Jedi beliefs and such. Jedi will be an endangered species, after all. And how many will "hang up their lightsabers", so to speak.