News & Events Edition #7

[moondoggie]

Happy fourth month anniversary, everyone~!

Thankfully this news post isn't as big as the last one, so let's get right into it!


Iksay Harvest Festival
We were going to do this at the end of the month, but I decided it's better to push it out fast since we don't got much else going on and we already have something planned for after the festival, which hopefully will create more buzz. The event post will be made around 15-16th May, so make sure you don't miss out and let's gun for another 1000 comments!


Longevity
As a follow-up to my comment about lack of things happening, I'm wondering what we can do as mods to make it more active? Right now we don't have anyone on active hiatus, so I start to worry that maybe we're not making it as good as you guys would like it to be! Remember, the survival of this game depends heavily on your participation, not just ours as mods, or it will fold just like the last one. We're doing everything we can to maintain a mod presence as well as generate activity/material to make posts about, but there's only so many we can do. So please keep up the effort - we need youuuuu! :)


Starry Nights Banner
How would you guys like to submit some fanart specifically about this rp? Julie and I are going to revamp the starry_nights layout and we would like to use everyone's fanart submissions on a monthly rotation for the banner/header. It can be anything relating to the game, whether it's your favourite moments (like setting a library on fire) or just a group of the current characters doing stuff! Unfortunately, I make a terrible artist, but I had a go at it anyway. I actually used a base originally made by Piku-Seru (check out their work), but here we go!

Comments

[charming_chiketsu]

First off, the banner actually is really cute! It captures the personalities too with the poses/expressions. I will try very hard to make something since it's the least I can do.

Also, don't blame anything on yourselves since you guys bend over backwards for this place already. I know a few people are away at the moment, but I know I could try to do more community posts. There's always follow-up ideas I can do from quests or logs, but I don't do it when I should.

I think a big hurdle is getting more members. With a dead franchise/fandom it's difficult to generate interest. >:

[trueltning_fury]

Hi. We haven't given up yet. I've just been very distracted. Work slammed me for a bit and I'm eyeballing another wave of rush jobs and ergh.

But.

The game itself isn't the issue, activities or otherwise. It just needs more warm bodies. For that, you have to advertise on app_this_plz every month, at the very least, and possibly other places. I don't hang out on bakerstreet but some people go there to meme and look for rare muses. It's really all in the advertising. It's not foolproof - I know Luceti's dwindling Suikoden cast has desperately asked for characters every single ATP ever - but ATP is THE #1 main place people go to shop for new games.

Barring that, maybe some word of mouth could help. I could honestly be more proactive mentioning it on plurk, I know several people I used to RP with from Amat who have Suikoden characters in their active lists.