Events board

[Admin]

So what would people say if events got their own seperate board? Would it be better to have, say, Bree's party and Jade's auction in their own sub-forum outside of the time change? Or is it easier for people if the events and the time change are merged?

Also, what would people say to a sub-board dedicated to family life? Like, if you felt like writing parents or college-aged siblings or something?

[Isaac Norton]

Oooh! I'm up for a separate board for events!

And I love the subboard for family. Then tags won't be necessary unless of course you family so happens to be actual players I love this idea!

[Les W.]

I like the idea. I think it might help levieate the board from being too crowded.

[Casper Van der Meares III]

Um sorry Les I don't actually think that having seperate boards for events and family things would be a great idea...

Sure events could possibly then go over into other tc's without any issues, but then you run the risk of having one board with next to no activity while the other would have all of the activity. And we don't have enough family groups in the sim to even warrant the need for a family forum... this is like the time we came up with a relationship area where anything involving our couples would go... in theory it worked in practice it didn't last long because it was inpractical...

When we do events if they are busy events we can extend the time change a week to allow people to continue the fun without cutting it short before its time... A TC doesn't always have to be a week long if we think it could go another week as an event tc then we can push it back a week... if we decide to do another event like the shooting during the school day the same thing can apply there as well...

[Admin]

well mostly I suggested the relationships board because I didn't want the group to devolve into a game where only couples interacted with one another as I abhor games that are only dedicated to romance. But I couldn't get people to actually use it, and I was tired of moving threads into the appropriate sub forum.

And as for the events, I've seen games that have them and it works fine.

[Casper Van der Meares III]

I'm kind of undecided on this, part of me says it makes sense the other part of me says its a waste of time and runs the risk of harming the game.

[Anderson Clark]

I'm all for the events board, I think it will make things a lot easier when big events are happening. It's all up to us whether boards become lopsided.

I like the idea of the family board, I'm just not sure how often it will get used.

[Isaac Norton]

Well it doesn't have to always be used. It's just there so anyone who wants to do stuff like that can. It's just a matter of who wants to do it.

And events don't happen ALL the time so it's fine to have a sub board that has all the events when it happens and at least it won't crowd the regular TC boards. If that makes sense. I'm not making too much sense I suppose but it sounds right in my head.

[Dare Madison]

I like the Event boards idea, because then if you have separate threads happening at an event they are still held together so people know who is there and who can be interacted with.

[Shelby Grant]

I also like the idea of the events board. I know that I have multiple characters attending Bree's brunch and also the bowling night. An events board would make it a lot easier for me because I could separate the characters into different threads as opposed to having one giant thread for the event. I guess I could do that anyway, but I feel like it would make it more organized.

As for the family board, I'm not against the idea, but I agree that I don't know if it would be used as much. Still, I say there is no harm in giving it a go and seeing how it works out.