[middy♥]

Awriiight. I expressed an interest in an Okami RP in the sites you want to see thread, and it seemed some more people were interested too so here are some of my ideas. If anyone wants to help, just lemme know too? Thanks!

This will be set hundreds of years after Okami/Okami-den. It is going to be non-canon, and slightly AU. There will be roles that are inspired from the games, but everything will be made from OCs! The Celestial Gods have returned to the Celestial Plain and all is going well. Basically, the setting in Okami is absolutely gorgeous and I just want to have some cute chickie in a kimono to play and have some adventures in Shinshu Field and all that stuff. There will be fun contests and events like festivals and maybe even racing/fishing like there is in the game. Depending on how everyone feels, shit can start to go down and some sort of evil entity can appear.

I do have some questions though, and I want some opinions. Should I implement a currency system? Where a character earns yen and they can buy cool items? Or should I axe a currency system and just have items be obtainable? While I do want this RP to be more slice-of-life and focus on relationships and plotting, I don't want it to go stale so I'm just trying to figure out what is the most interesting.

I'd love any and all ideas! And like I said, I'm still looking for staff, so lemme know if you're interested.

BTW tagging those that expressed an interest and I know some of you I've already skyped but just ignore this if you want ;o;

Kuroya sairri SEADRA Dew ♥ SHINGEKI NO BOGEY✿ Starry Neko

[Kuroya]

Sadly, between college starting next week and me running three sites already, I doubt I'll actually be able to join up, so all I'm good for is an ideas board and maybe affies.

But okay here's some ideas and comments.

I'd say money should depend on what you do. If you're in combat a lot, make money so you can buy upgrades like new weapons, new skills, etc. Otherwise it's rather.... pointless in my opinion. Or rather the items would be so rarely bought that what's the point unless it's "buy more character slots" and that's a personal turn off for sites unless it's implemented at really high numbers.

Fishing and racing should definitely be put in yes. If not more stuff like herding, hunting, trapping, etc.

But what I almost want to see is like... a partner system where lower gods can join up and travel with larger gods like in Okami with Issun and Okami. And maybe have the options to purchase the ability to have a larger god and then have fragments of that god's powers like in Okami with the brush skills. Only they wouldn't disappear after that or ever join back up.

Oh and open up the options to playing normal mortals please. I want to play lazy village deadbeats if I have time and so choose to.

[Dew]

I don't know if I can help staff, since college is starting and my own place having to be run, but I can try to join once I get used to college. But I can offer my help in suggestions!

I think money should be obtained through posting, battles (if there are any. This is a time of peace right?), and in the festivals and games. They can be used to purchase things, maybe your own land for a home instead of one that someone creates just in the rp or something, like land a noble lives on. Or an IC pass to travel further than the fields or something. Very basic things that would only require about five post to get or something.

Otherwise, everything sounds great! owo

[middy♥]

Kuroya, the Gods are back in the Celestial Plain and have been for around a hundred or so years, so the partner system, while a great idea, probably won't be implemented until later on down the line. The main focus of this site will be the lazy village deadbeats and how they can grow as people while trying to survive some unknown forces while the Gods are away. x3;

Dew having to purchase tiny items like that might make money useful, but I don't want to hinder RP things any more than they have to. I like all areas to be open... But being able to buy a home or something sounds like a good idea! I'll add that to the list.

[♥ SHINGEKI NO BOGEY✿]

currency is pretty pointless unless it be for additional character-slots, upgrades to abilities, weapons, ect.

As far as actual combat goes, and with currency. It gets pretty abused, imo. People begin to speed post just for the $ so they can roflpwn. Brings a bad taste to my mouth and deters from the actual point of the rp.

All for the racing and whatnot. Though it isn't really my thing, others seem to enjoy those kind of threads/interaction.

Wait...

I'd have to play as some lowly deadbeat villager? Not even a demi-god/god in the making?

b-b-b-but my wukong... q.q

Senpai... Why have you forsaken me?!

All n' all what you put seems like to be a solid start. But you don't want me on your staff team. I contribute nothing 100.3% of the time.

[sairri]

I actually like currency, it gives me something to work for and its fun to see the moneys stack up.

however, if you aren't careful I feel like it can severely limit what characters can be made. It's frustrating creating older or richer characters as their techniques or wealth don't add up to their character and since you want a slice of life/development as opposed to fights/systems selling items vital to the character and how they rp/fight just doesn't seem necessary.

Instead I think it might be fun if you offered extra plotlike things? Stuff that would be fun to buy but wouldn't be detrimental to a person's character if they didn't have it. I remember starting up a shop that offered plotty items on a pokemon site I helped staff and it was really popular and a lot of fun (but also a bit of work), people could buy maps that lead to whatever and would induce a mod/player thread kinda like an adventure game, or letters that were just kinda filler information/anecdotes about the world they were playing, you could also sell npc/player threads or maybe even parts in events.

I've also always wanted to see site-wide items be implemented like events or extra areas for sale that the site can help buy together. This could work especially well if you want to implement some sorta cursed zone

on a different if you make a canon page, what if you kinda merge that into a character directory of sorts and have both accepted characters and available canons on it? it could help the site be more cohesive and let joining members quickly see what kind of characters are needed or already on the site

[Starry Neko]

<3 Hi. It really depends so much on what the site setting is. Obviously things we talked about on Skype leads a darker vein of it for people who want to explore it- but then it's less a slice of life, but more almost realistic real world because not everyone keeps up to date on the world threats or politics. Since it doesn't effect the smaller characters it's not something one would particularly miss. If you go with this darker vein, there are different things you could do such as NPC/Plot threads but to be honest, you could also go with a thread system. So many threads or posts net you something. That way it's just less work- and the people have to keep track of it.

Slice of life, it seems a bit weird to have a lot of purchases here or there since it's not really a time of war. The racing, the fishing, all these things can possibly be small events so that "In x timeframe" one could gain something of value for their character. The problem is, this is work and not everyone has time to sit down and make these actually thought out posts. For example, some pokemon sites just have the pokemon and others have pokemon/post. The problem is both are work, but one is obviously more so than the other. So slice of life would be more of 'if you want your character to have this then you have to post in this thing' giving people equal opportunity no matter rank/activity/etc. 

I love sairri 's idea of the sitewide buys. If you do the darker theme, you could easily let the people who WANT to deal with that dark side, have a way to collab together and rank up posts/points/cash, what have you. It can be a very simple system so that it's less work and more of 'this is what you're working towards'. During a slice of life site that's just focused on the lovely deadbeats in the village...you could do this I guess for monster attacks or something for an event for that village? This does promote 'put your back in it, you'll get a reward'.

There are different ways of having 'currency' whether it's posts, threads, or really just activity in general. Two of those are easy to keep track of- one is not because when one person is active a lot of people are possibly active. I think some things, if you want to do a cash system could be a site buy for one plot group or one village, so those higher costs are split between the ones who want it. That way you're also slightly more guaranteed that a event would work. Because all site admins know events can bring a lot of activity or people staring at their screens for an eternity.

I still want my baby if that canon race is still up, but if not then I can make another. Also I am so tempted to make someone for this chickie to tell her to stop getting her butt in trouble.

Edit - If this doesn't make sense, just ask me when I actually get to sleep. I've been up like 36 hours straight, been to the doctor and been diagnosed with several different things and just my brain isn't working, but I wanted to post.

[Kuroya]

Not trying to be a downer here, but I'm gonna step in against site wide buys. I only ran out once, with a Pokemon site, and even though it was for a new area, people just... never tried to get it. Which severely impacted the site since they weren't able to move and eventually it all just went down the toilet. I've never tried site wide buys again.

So yeah I'm not saying don't do it, I'm saying it sounds wonderful in theory but in practice it may not work out if you're doing a big buy and no one decides to contribute since instead they all want to get xyz.

[middy♥]

I may just forgo a currency system, and those who participate in events and the like will be rewarded with fun items. Same goes for "cursed zone" areas (that was a great idea, btw!) There will be threads where people work together to get rid of them.

So I believe mostly everything is squared away then. Just need a skin and I need to rewrite/spiff up the info threads and the like. :3 Woo! If ya'll wanna me find some area images from Okami that'd be great! I can never find any. ;u; ALSO. YOU KNOW IN THE SAVE SCREEN WHERE IT SHOWS THE CUTE MINI VERSIONS OF THE GODS TO SHOW HOW MANY TECHNIQUES YOU HAVE? THE LITTLE STATUES? I have seen them in a pixel form somewhere on the internet, and I would love if someone knows where they are! I'd love to use them on the site somewhere. Sooo pleeease! Help me find this? I wanna say it was on a site with Okami fanart...

[middy♥]

Bumping this and updating to saaayyyy... I'm nearly done! 8D

While the site is coming near its completion, I'd like to ask a few of you to join and look over the information that I have so far. Let me know what's good, what needs changing, if I should add anything. It'd be greatly appreciated! I want everyone who joins to know what's going on, even if they have never played Okami in their life.

Just PM me or say something here and I'll PM you the link to the site!

[NORTH]

I'm very glad you gave this thing a bump otherwise I might've overlooked it. I'm very much a fan of Clover studios and their production of Okami so I'm absolutely joining this when you've completed it. From what I've read you guys have hashed out a great majority of the facilities that members will be able to make use of so this is something to look forward to. I'll keep tabs on this thread so I can be ready for joining when the time comes.