Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4871550-20131117183055/@comment-5082922-20131118042701

As Kekai said, it was already a point I was considering bringing into the wiki. Though I have been a bit doubtful, considering the fact that I wasn't sure if it was gonna last - it could fizzle out, easily. If we want this to work, become a success we all have to take some load. It would be very much a shame to just let this fizzle out because people might not "feel like RP'ing" anymore or just be "Too lazy". If you guys want this, we'll need a bit of work from everyone. Luckily I, by "work" mean "Rp'ing", so it shouldn't be hard work ;)

But it would be awesome if we got it brought in. However there's a lot more things to be considered other than just "make wordbubbles and fight". We would need a lot of planning and considering to which features to add. Some of them such as claiming and tribute limits would be hard to interpret into this wiki considering the way we have run things in the past. I have one idea which might work though...

Seperate "Non-RP Tributes" and "RP Tributes"
This would pretty seperate the idea of "Roleplaying" and the idea of the "normal character making".

What would happen is that everyone can still make tributes here as they want, enter them in multiple games and use the wiki the oldschool way.

However if a person want to, when they're done with a character, they can submit them to get accepted as a Roleplay character. We might want to add a "claiming process" to this. A claiming process is where a person (usually an admin or a normal user who works with claiming) sits down and points out the logical mistakes in various tribute histories so that the creator of the character can correct them. This could be useful as not all characters on this wiki are very good to Roleplay and some characters make less sense than others.

Then, when the tribute has been claimed they get a badge/category saying they can be RP'ed and then you make the wordbubble for them. After that, the user can RP as they like. We might add some locations within each district to RP at (though not very many would be needed - the tribute is made to go into a games, not derp around in their district :P) so that the tribute can enteract with others from their own district. Then, when an RP-games is posted they can enter that tribute.

When a tribute dies in an RP-games, you can no longer RP them, in games or in the district. However you can remove the "This is an RP-able character"-category/badge from the tribute and then use them in non-RP games over at THG wiki.

Questions and reflextions on this method
This method could be good because it still allows users to use this wiki the way they have always used it, without forcing people to RP. However this methods begs some questions...

1. Do we want a claiming? It sorta interfers with the whole "everyone can make anything" attitude we had had before. Of course, people can still make human-eating-future-seeing-vampire-tributes, though they would be denied to RP. Would that be... "Right"? And also, where should we set the limits of claiming, if we decide one is needed?

2. Should there be a limit of RP-able tributes? A limit might be useful to give out prices and whatnot, and it would keep people from making a bunch of RP characters which they never use. But we would be shrinking the creators, though.

3. Should RP-tributes be allowed in non-RP games? At THG wiki or THGRP, there's also non-rp games. Should we allowed a tribute who has just died in an RP-games to enter a non-RP games? It would make it a bit weird, to RP the death of "Marina Waters" in the "86th Hunger Games" just to see the same "Marina Waters" pop up in the "54th Hunger Games" over at THG Wiki. But can we effort not to? Because if you didn't allow a tribute to be used after having them die, people might be more hesitant making RP-tributes.

4. Should a RP-tribute be able to be re-entered into another RP games? Should we let a tribute who just died in one RP enter a new one? Wouldn't that make the character pointless?