[X] My Assistant

[Toogee]

The majority has voted to reboot PANE. This is the discussion thread on what we want to see. Here's a few questions we should discuss:

1. Do you want to keep Furoh?

There is a lot of history in Furoh. Years and years of people adding stuff made it what it is today. We shouldn't be too quick to throw all of that aside. Perhaps all we need is to tell new stories in this fabled land.

On the other hand, perhaps its time for a new generation to make their own Furoh, so to speak. Maybe a new setting is what's needed to revitalize activity.

2. What do you want to see, storywise?

Though PANE doesn't really have a main story, there is usually some setting that helped set up RPs. Originally, PANE took place 50 years after 5 trainers founded the main cities of the continent. The Lenoilia incident helped set up some conflict and history that could be explored by players. Team Deception was later introduced; they were featured in lots of RPs (some memories bittersweet, like the Deceptcopter or something :P). Are there things you want brought back? Anything new you want to see?

3. What do you want to see, mechanics-wise

I haven't heard anything bad about our leveling system (at least, I don't remember). Basically, half of the levels are distributed based on writing quality, encouraging players to write reasonably detailed posts. You could say this was an edutainment RP! A portion were based on participation (You didn't leave the RP for an extended period of time). Another portion was based on battles. If there was something that I would change, it would be this. I feel this forced players to find a reason to battle. Sometimes, fighting won't solve your problems. I don't want to discourage peaceful RPs, so maybe base these points on some other factor?

[Toogee]

So right now, the consensus is to keep Furoh, but continue the storyline in some way. I was hoping to hear from those who voted for the reboot, but they seem to be gone now. For now, I'll address the ideas presented so far.

1. On rip in space-time continuum: I could see this being a thing. I'm not sure how to implement it. Would trainers all start in one time or would they be all over the place? Would certain parts of the continent be in different times, so if someone wanted to go to a city to get a gym badge, they could only go to the city in the past or future (when the gym might not exist)? There might be something here, but it should be explored more.

2. Political intrigue: We never really set up a governing system in Furoh. We pretty much assumed the cities ran themselves and everything else was essentially wilderness. Perhaps after some tragedy, there would be a demand for a national government to protect trainers. There would be those opposed to such a body, fearing the restrictions that would come up. I've never done political intrigue, so these are uncharted waters.

3. On leveling: Let me ask this: what would be your ideal timeframe to reach a team average of level 50? Using this, we might be able to determine how many levels should be gained per RP.

Furoh certainly is a great place, but it has no extreme terrain. I want volcanoes, I want glaciers and ice caves, I want gigantic underwater cave systems and, uh, maybe a futuristic area with floating islands and hoverboards. Yeah, that'd be good. Furoh is great, but I had no part in creating it and I think that many people who played PANE are part of that same demographic.

As Furoh is still unexplored, many of those places could exist. What we have on the map now, a lot of those places were created by players like you . The places you mentioned could be created by simply making an RP about them. In a new RP, I would imagine that would be made more clear. Though maybe we didn't have floating islands, I did have a flying car from Daioh chase in aerodactyl in Petropolis :P.

Finally, development on this is going to be slow going. I have zero time to be making RPs. As such, I would like to leave it up to you guys to start fleshing out ideas. I can advise on where you can begin (may I suggest story?). My ultimate goal is to see this go up, oversee it for a bit to work out kinks, choose a new mod team to take over, and ride off into the sunset. I've been mod for long enough; we need new blood for a new RP.

Thoughts?