[juls]

Is this a thing a lot of people do??

I am freaky about building sites. I could make categories and boards for days. Rules, plotlines, putting together FC lists, getting all the links lined up, pictures, a CBOX, oh man. I can't skin to save my life tho so that's kinda shitty, but yeah. I have at least four sites sitting out there in proboards space collecting dust. Like, fully completed. They've got a plot and rules and would be ready to go if I ever advertised for them/felt like running them.

I honestly just threw together a pokemon region site because of a sudden pokemon craving. 5 hours later I have a basically finished site and it's like, okay, time for bed.

Part of me is like, yeah, tons of other people do this, and another part is like "you just love repetitive tasks" so here's a lil discussion: assuming I'm not alone, what sites do you guys have sitting out there doing absolutely nothing? I have (basically) an MMORPG site, pokemon region site, pokemon academy site, and a sort of superpower/slice-of-life/two opposing political parties thing. Just... they're just there. I look at them now and again and wonder if I should change the skin or do something with it, and then end up on tumblr instead.

Tell me I'm not alone? ._. 

[Antiviral]

I don't really have that habit anymore, because if I'm going to make a site I make sure there's actually an interest in it before I start getting down to business. Knowing people want to participate gives me that extra bit of motivation to keep from letting it rot.

I have a fairly complete, but out of date Magi: Labyrinth of Magic forum sitting around. Though, technically it's not complete because I started making it at a point where there was suddenly a lot of information pouring in, and I realized I wouldn't want to have to have a site that could easily have some sort of canon wrong just because it wasn't revealed. I've also got a few original RPs out there, but I mostly scrap those because I realize the concept is too expansive. There was one about people living in domes, and one about people living underground and evolving to adapt.

My problem in those cases is I just really like worldbuilding, and I end up worldbuilding too much.

[Egao, Egao Everywhere]

I have a lot of wip sites xD But I wouldn't say that I left them to rot? More like I just decided against opening it. They're all incomplete anyway. I'm focused on one project right now so I doubt I'll get back to the many others anytime soon.

I think you might be indecisive, which is a TERRIBLE thing. I am incredibly indecisive as well so I can relate to this. Too capricious. It just needs serious discipline. I think it's a common issue for creative people. Starting a lot of projects but never seeing any of them until the end.

[EY ✻ BECKET !?]

Unfortunately, like juls I am very guilty of this. >.> I have about four or five sites completely skinned and rules and things written, but no muse to actually open them or be patient and wait for members. XD I'm so jumpy. and that's only made worse by the fact that lately my muse bursts have been pretty specific and brief.
And my life is busy anyway, which really hinders things.
Let's see- my writing site, which used to be a panfandom comic-verse superhero RP, kind of counts as one, even though I repurposed it. Then I made and abandoned a small town/occasional superpowers RP. But perhaps that one was too specific anyways. Then there's the Trigun AU site, and a TMNT board. My little sisters were going to run that with me.
Hopefully that won't happen with my new Pacific Rim AF board. -crosses fingers-

[GARDEN]

i do this pretty much constantly, where i put together sites and get 90% of everything done and then nothing happens with them.

pumped up kicks was one such site that i ended up finishing and opening.

i had a zombie RP site, a gatchaman site, a final fantasy tactics site, a fairy tale rpg site (that i still want to use lmao) and just... too much.

[juls]

ah Egao, Egao Everywhere it's not indecisiveness at all, it's just that I like the building of sites almost more than actually roleplaying on them. I like... I just thoroughly enjoy throwing the whole thing together and then I'm like, "that was fun." haha.

Good to know there's some other sites out there sitting in proboards space~

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Dec 18, 2014 16:27:02 GMT -8 juls said:

ah Egao, Egao Everywhere it's not indecisiveness at all, it's just that I like the building of sites almost more than actually roleplaying on them. I like... I just thoroughly enjoy throwing the whole thing together and then I'm like, "that was fun." haha.

Good to know there's some other sites out there sitting in proboards space~

I'm exactly the same way, not even going to lie. I have a few sites in MM that have everything done but like, never go anywhere cause I just wanted to make all the stuff, not actually do anything with it.

[katya]

I've sketched out very thorough ideas to sites many time before realizing there would be an integral flaw to having them as an rp sites. A lot of my sites do end up rather experimental in nature (such as Arcana, a group-think fantasy adventure where one member makes up a location and runs a "chapter" on it, with their own NPCs, missions, plots, etc, until the whole group moves onto the next location/chapter, masterminded by another member), and I've realized the vast majority of the sites I'd like to run just aren't really feasible for one reason or another.

My latest massive project that I abandoned was a kingdom-based fantasy MMO setting with a freeform class system that was kinda like Skyrim (free progression over multiple trees) mashed up with Diablo 3 (only four main powers per character), but I realized it'd probably be a clusterfuck in practice. I also have a Digimon site just lying in wait. It's actually perfectly feasible; it's just that whenever I feel like opening it, it seems like there are already digimon sites around.

I basically have an idea a week, and maybe every other one of them gets fleshed out to any degree. I just like world-building. It's super fun, and it's great stress relief for me, just to have fun in my imagination and build things for a bit--kinda like mental Minecraft or something. But in the end, ideas are fun and easy. Execution is a pain in the ass.

[beekeeper]

making sites is fun

running them is not

[pascaline]

I love world building and sometimes the said world gets stuck in my head. I become obsessed with creating the world until the craving leaves. Other times my ideas snag on a key point and while taking a break to try and work out the snag I lose interest.

Currently I have over 11 inactive site ideas that have never seen the light of day: a sailor moon site taking place when the first senshi were decided complete with unique takes on the sailor moon universe, a delinquent high school RPG with powers, a post-apocalyptic RPG based on King of Thorn and Deadman Wonderland, a Karneval RPG, a twisted fairy tale RPG during WW2, a fantasy RPG based on the concepts of light and darkness, a magical girl/boy RPG, a sci-fi RPG based on a military ship in a dystopian future, a sandbox rpg based in Tokyo, a fantasy RPG based on the concept of decay, a dream land site bssed on After School Nightmare, and a zodiac RPG.

And those are only the sites that I nearly completed.