I was a member of Myth once.

What bothered me was the ability for characters to be in ten places at
once. No chronology, no cohesive narrative.

But it looks like this time my opinion isn't really going to hold sway.


-Sparf
--- In TheAuroraBorealis@yahoogroups.com, whitewolf_707 <no_reply@...>
wrote:
>
> It's reasonable to think that way Sparf, but moving to a forum would,
> at least in my opinion, cause people to post more often precisely
> BECAUSE they wouldn't get bottled up in dead scenes. Let's try a
> different analogy. It's like having one little road to get to a town
> center. When there's a traffic jam, nobody can get to their final
> destination because they're forced to go down this one, linear path or
> otherwise abandon their vehicle, which nobody wants to do. Now imagine
> building on several side-roads that go out to a couple of other major
> roadways. Now that same traffic jam isn't such a big deal, because a
> person can turn off at the next road and still be able to reach their
> final destination (a concluded roleplay scenario).
>
> Archiving every post on another forum may not be as hard as you think
> - there's software out there to help you do it so you don't have to
> manually save 3,000 web pages to your hard disk. Anyway, this place
> can always be kept open so that people can check past posts, even in
> the event that the old posts can't be uploaded onto the other server.
> I don't think this will be so daunting once it actually does get off
> the ground. I used to think it'd never work, but after having seen
> Myth (as John mentioned) formatted that way, I've seen just how
> effective it is. Anyway, if we don't try we'll never know, right?
>
> ---WhiteWolf
> *Who is also planning to become active again, resurrecting Tempestade
> from idleness*
>