Post by judasxkiss on Aug 15, 2009 14:49:51 GMT -5
My fellow Admins/Mods:
Greeting & Salutations. Thanks to Prudence & Integral, I shall now be counted amongst your number.
I was testing out my silver hammer this morning and several matters came to my attention.
First of all:
Out of all of our members, twenty-two are Original Characters. Eleven are canon. That means--for those of you who can't do math like me--that there are twice as many OCs as there are Canons. While this could be considered a good development, there are some discrepancies I'd like to discuss with you all.
From those eleven canon members, less than five are regularly active and/or permanent.
I don't know about you, but to me there has got to be something wrong with the fact that this is a Hellsing RP forum and we don't have enough canon characters.
Second case in point:
Most of the OCs belong to Hellsing. Not to mention they're either vampires or vampire hunters. Well, I hate to break this to y'all but unless you want this plot to die out quickly, then we've got to do something about this.
Iscariot only has 3 members. This is ridiculous.
Millennium only has 2 active members. That's even worse.
Do you honestly think we can get by with this?
For argument's sake, we'll eventually get more members...But that's not what I'm getting at.
There needs to be an announcement that shows we need CANON Rpers more than OCs right now. CANON characters should have been filled in the first place, and now that we've let the OCs proliferate, they haven't been.
My proposal is this:
1. All Hellsing membership should be temporarily postponed until further notice so that we can take the time to reevaluate numbers.
( We can't just keep hoping someone'll take mercy on Mill. or Iscariot. Obviously, Hellsing is the most popular choice here. )
2. To get OC numbers under control, OC membership has to be temporarily disbanded until we can fill out some of the CANON characters.
3. NO MORE vampires should be made, because realistically, there aren't many genuine vampires in HELLSING in the first place. What SHOULD happen is that if a person WANTS to be a vampire, then they have to be ARTIFICIALLY made into one by MILLENNIUM.
(That way, we get some more Millennium members, AND the person in question can still be counted amongst the undead.)
Only they HAVE to understand that if they are a vampire there are some major draw backs:
I) They CAN'T go out in the sun.
II) They have all the normal weaknesses a vampire has. NO EXCEPTIONS.
This is reasonable because we want to DISCOURAGE there being any more vampires with an unreasonable amount of power.
4. Vampire hunters/Bounty hunters should be discouraged as well, being as we have enough of them already. I don't care if their character's family got killed by vampires and they want revenge. I really don't. It's too generic. Unless they have some special reason for being a hunter ASIDE from that, then I don't see why we need anymore.
Finally:
We can explain that Iscariot and Millennium need members the most now, and that CANON characters need to be taken before any more OCs can be made.
ONE last thing:
Mary Sues/Stus shouldn't be allowed. Itfucks screws with the time line and generally messes with our heads.
If I think of anything else, I'll let you know. Please get back to me ASAP.
- Best regards,
'Rico
Greeting & Salutations. Thanks to Prudence & Integral, I shall now be counted amongst your number.
I was testing out my silver hammer this morning and several matters came to my attention.
First of all:
Out of all of our members, twenty-two are Original Characters. Eleven are canon. That means--for those of you who can't do math like me--that there are twice as many OCs as there are Canons. While this could be considered a good development, there are some discrepancies I'd like to discuss with you all.
From those eleven canon members, less than five are regularly active and/or permanent.
I don't know about you, but to me there has got to be something wrong with the fact that this is a Hellsing RP forum and we don't have enough canon characters.
Second case in point:
Most of the OCs belong to Hellsing. Not to mention they're either vampires or vampire hunters. Well, I hate to break this to y'all but unless you want this plot to die out quickly, then we've got to do something about this.
Iscariot only has 3 members. This is ridiculous.
Millennium only has 2 active members. That's even worse.
Do you honestly think we can get by with this?
For argument's sake, we'll eventually get more members...But that's not what I'm getting at.
There needs to be an announcement that shows we need CANON Rpers more than OCs right now. CANON characters should have been filled in the first place, and now that we've let the OCs proliferate, they haven't been.
My proposal is this:
1. All Hellsing membership should be temporarily postponed until further notice so that we can take the time to reevaluate numbers.
( We can't just keep hoping someone'll take mercy on Mill. or Iscariot. Obviously, Hellsing is the most popular choice here. )
2. To get OC numbers under control, OC membership has to be temporarily disbanded until we can fill out some of the CANON characters.
3. NO MORE vampires should be made, because realistically, there aren't many genuine vampires in HELLSING in the first place. What SHOULD happen is that if a person WANTS to be a vampire, then they have to be ARTIFICIALLY made into one by MILLENNIUM.
(That way, we get some more Millennium members, AND the person in question can still be counted amongst the undead.)
Only they HAVE to understand that if they are a vampire there are some major draw backs:
I) They CAN'T go out in the sun.
II) They have all the normal weaknesses a vampire has. NO EXCEPTIONS.
This is reasonable because we want to DISCOURAGE there being any more vampires with an unreasonable amount of power.
4. Vampire hunters/Bounty hunters should be discouraged as well, being as we have enough of them already. I don't care if their character's family got killed by vampires and they want revenge. I really don't. It's too generic. Unless they have some special reason for being a hunter ASIDE from that, then I don't see why we need anymore.
Finally:
We can explain that Iscariot and Millennium need members the most now, and that CANON characters need to be taken before any more OCs can be made.
ONE last thing:
Mary Sues/Stus shouldn't be allowed. It
If I think of anything else, I'll let you know. Please get back to me ASAP.
- Best regards,
'Rico