06-22-2020, 12:20 AM
This episodic formulae is what many people have suggested in the past to varying degrees, depicting a sort of timeskip/wipe variant of Eternia. A process that -could- work, but only if the community agreed upon it and the necessary changes were made to moderate and perform these transitions. I have always been up for a transition to a format like this, the only issue would be, there would need to be loose time frames for each transition, and everyone would need to be in agreement.
Having a new 'episode' every time the game gets stale would only serve to promote a wipe-based mindset for the player base and honestly, transitioning from the relative permanence of standard Eternia RP to a more impermanent 'Timeskip' based style of managing things could end up being a slippery slope to start with.
Despite all the potential downsides though, I agree that an episodic format for Eternia could work, as long as it is treated with care. If people think their actions have no longevity in the world, they may be prone to not care as much. On the other hand, if characters become less permanent through the time skips, people may find it more rewarding to pursue their goals, to seek those high and wild fantasies, to plan in the short-term and risk it, instead of allowing steady stagnation to seek that one moment of their character's life where everything works out.
If everything has a soft time limit, then everyone has less incentive to try and force their character to stay alive, and more incentive to risk it for their goals.
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The idea can work and I want it to work, but it will require everyone to agree on it, which would be difficult give how divisive this particular suggestion often is, given prior history.
Having a new 'episode' every time the game gets stale would only serve to promote a wipe-based mindset for the player base and honestly, transitioning from the relative permanence of standard Eternia RP to a more impermanent 'Timeskip' based style of managing things could end up being a slippery slope to start with.
Despite all the potential downsides though, I agree that an episodic format for Eternia could work, as long as it is treated with care. If people think their actions have no longevity in the world, they may be prone to not care as much. On the other hand, if characters become less permanent through the time skips, people may find it more rewarding to pursue their goals, to seek those high and wild fantasies, to plan in the short-term and risk it, instead of allowing steady stagnation to seek that one moment of their character's life where everything works out.
If everything has a soft time limit, then everyone has less incentive to try and force their character to stay alive, and more incentive to risk it for their goals.
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The idea can work and I want it to work, but it will require everyone to agree on it, which would be difficult give how divisive this particular suggestion often is, given prior history.