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| Tweet Topic Started: May 29 2012, 01:50 AM (305 Views) | |
| Quail | May 29 2012, 01:50 AM Post #1 |
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How do we go about aging characters? Do they just age as we like (possibly making odd gaps and inconsistencies in RPs with other characters) or is there a time once or twice a year set by the staff? or something else? Also a suggestion: I have gotten the impression that we need to advertise more and get some more members. I was thinking, perhaps we could kick start the DA group for Ulaya somehow? And we could also advertise more on TLKFAA. another idea is to have an advertising contest where our current members affiliate as much as possible with other sites for a set period of time. The one who records the most links back to us gets a prize of some kind. I'd be happy to do art as the prize or something. |
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| Skips | May 30 2012, 12:12 AM Post #2 |
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- Ceramic Artist - Writing Enthusiat - Inept Drawer - TLK Fan
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I'm not really sure how aging can happen. You can always have a younger version of your character if you have a flashback thread, I believe. However I would think it would get really messy if you just suddenly jumped ahead months or years and no one else did. I mean, I think it would be doable, but complicated without everyone doing the time warp at the same time. I'm not an expert on advertising, but I hear we are always in need of more advertisements. Not really sure how to kickstart the dA page. Perhaps upload more art to the group, and advertise through the art. I know that works. I found Ulaya via Juffy's art, but I don't think I actually went to the Ulaya dA page until after I joined here. But I did learn of Ulaya through art, so I would say that's a valid way of advertising. The same could work through TLKFAA, but I'm not sure. I'm not very familiar with that site. And I believe that there was an advertising competition earlier. There was supposed to be ribbons or something. Not really sure if it worked, though. |
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| Kadiz | May 30 2012, 12:23 PM Post #3 |
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we usually do aging when we have time jumps. these have tended to be around once a year to boost up activity and usually go a year into the future within the RP. when this happens, cubs turn into adolescents, adolescents into young adults, and young adults into adults. but with certain species you may not wait till time jumps to up their ages, such as birds which mature in months or elephants which take many more years. but with the big cats, canines, and hyenas that have made the majority of the characters here this system has worked excellent. may also work well for our primates too, but I'm not really up on how they age. aging from newborn to an older cub happens without time jumps, though there can be inconsistencies as mentioned but these have only been very minor that I've seen. also, with our current system of Critter Chronicles you order threads in the order they occur. it can help to eliminate those inconsistencies now. say if another person's cub is supposed to be the same age as yours and you've already transitioned yours to being a bit older, you can play them the appropriate age and put that thread before others where it was already older in the Critter Chronicles. we do already have the advertising challenge, as Skips mentioned. it's more of an ongoing competition rather than a contest. the thread for it is here: http://z13.invisionfree.com/_Ulaya/index.php?showtopic=388 uploading art to sites of our characters here and scenes and providing a link to the site in the description is an excellent way to advertise. anyone is welcome to do so. I'm going to get started on that myself shortly as I get back to drawing and uploading again in the communities I'm on. as well as TLKFAA, there's also a MLKFAA which might suit some better with its layout if they would prefer it. |
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| Quail | May 30 2012, 07:28 PM Post #4 |
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Thanks for those in depth replies guys, it really helped me. The time jump sounds like a perfect way to age characters, I look forward to it! And I will do my part to advertise through art, since I do a lot of Ulaya art as it is already. I have started to post my Ulaya art on DA and I will always link back. What is MLKFAA? |
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| Juffy | May 30 2012, 09:03 PM Post #5 |
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Woah! What is that?
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Seems the aging question has been addressed. Advertising wise, I find rping brings inspiration to my drawings. Thus art is my means of advertising (it worked on Skips at least xD). I like Quail's suggestion of using the Ulaya DA page more. Perhaps we can continue Kita's 100 theme challenge thing. And now that we have a few additional artists here, hopefully it'll be easier to fill those themes. Quail, MLKFAA is this http://www.mylionking.com/fan/art/Artists/. What's your DA username Quail? |
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| Quail | May 30 2012, 11:34 PM Post #6 |
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MisterMustachio - I requested membership the other day. |
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| Skips | May 31 2012, 12:27 AM Post #7 |
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- Ceramic Artist - Writing Enthusiat - Inept Drawer - TLK Fan
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Quail, for some reason, I thought you had said before you don't use dA much for anything. Or was I mistaken? And, yes, Juffy's art is how I first learned of Ulaya. But now that I think about it, I think it was Juffy saying that Ulaya was rebooting that convinced me to finally join because I had never RP'd before that, and I thought this might be the best opportunity to try out something new. If it weren't for that, I might not have joined Ulaya at all. |
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| Quail | May 31 2012, 04:58 PM Post #8 |
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I recently decided that I might as well use my DA account, but I did say in the past that I don't use it much because I really didn't before. |
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| Juffy | Jun 5 2012, 08:53 PM Post #9 |
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Woah! What is that?
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Shall we revamp the Ulaya theme challenge? |
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| Kita | Jun 7 2012, 09:38 PM Post #10 |
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I think that would be lovely. Since no one seemed to want the last ones, how about we just release the next ten, and leave the other ones open to take as well? The 100 pic challenge is fun. |
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