Activity idea

[Wolf of the Falls]

I kinda skimmed through the 'merge villages' suggestion and was thinking about the trend of villages booming and lowering. It seems to me that the villages usually show a high spike whenever there is somewhere there of renown or power. Currently the major players are pretty much cloud grass and leaf, I believe this is because of snowflake, Madame Loki, and Solus/Team Blitz(@tellar, Ace Detective Nara, and Kinzoku along with Loki). Snow's Shiki has an interesting background he is active constantly and he is trying to do things. Loki became extremely active with her team under Solus in Konoha and people recognize her so even though the Kusakage isn't "Loki" people gravitate because its Loki. Leaf for the most part I think people feel is stable(?) because Solus is still kage and maintains the village.

I noticed personally in the past that Waterfall boomed when Natsy was Takikage because of the kind of person she was she drew in people. The same could be said for Draven for Stone before and likewise I'm sure Mist will boom if/when 👺 Usiel becomes Mizukage, hes the most interesting man in the world admin. Even Nekomata Minh inspires activity because she's fun to be around regardless of her not being a major powerhouse like the other people I've mentioned.

While I understand this suggestion may not be very helpful given that the spikes in activity are ultimately seeded by captivating people. I want to suggest a kind of "Hero NPC" for each village, a character that the kage/staff can create and play to drive interactions with the villagers so that way even if the village is empty people can still have someone to interact with, someone who is cool or interesting or captivating ya know?

Again this may sound completely and utterly stupid and only sounds good to me but I wanted to put it out there and give props to the people I believe make a difference. (also side note, I'm not discounting other people who have caused activity spikes I just mentioned the ones that came to mind, love you all <3)

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[👺 Usiel]

Hmm, I can talk to the Kages about this, see what can come up from it.

[Marii K. Kazeraikou]

I don't dislike the idea. Maybe it could help stabilize activity, developing interesting storylines and/or help people making interesting characters.

[Ryutatsu "Sakurai Sword"]

Hmm to help this idea along. It doesn't have to be a NPC though that would make it fit better for most Kage's. Maybe make it a position that can be filled by PCs as well as NPCs. A position that isn't Sannin, but similar in function so Gennin could do it as well.

[Wolf of the Falls]

The idea of it being an npc is so that they wont run out of threads to interact with people

[~Emi~]

What I think might help people from getting more excited doing stuff on the forum is:

• More title possibilities as there's a lot of genins with ridiculous TP amounts without having any specific title to brag about to the new guys, making it seem like the power houses are just grinders of TP.
• Achievments. When people do things on the forum, they do it because they need to reach a goal, so why not add a lot of smaller goals along the way, like:
  
  
  • Explore Ame no Kuni 10 pts: Travel to the land of rain and make at least two normal rp posts discovering the area before moving on.
  • Explore the world 30 pts: The person has earned all the explore achievements and earns the title of "The wanderer".
  • Murderer 30 pts: The person has successfully killed another player.
  • Experienced Artisan 10 pts: The user has created items worth at least 100'000 ryo
  • Master Artisan 20 pts: The user has created items worth at least 1'000'000 ryo.
  
  Most of the achievements would be "one time" only, but some could be redone several times to just reach higher levels, but with little achievements points. So, why have this except to have a little reward for doing random stuff? because we can have this as an optional way to get TP from. We do gain experience in real life from doing all kinds of stuff after all. The gain would however not be nearly as effective way to get than to actually train, but something like 100 points rewards 10 TP or something.
  
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  During revotes of new kages, allow the people in the village to get free recreates into the kage role if they use their main account (the main account doesn't need to be in the village), but if they step down or are forced down within a year they lose the scrap the recreate would've cost. This is to give those wanting to be kages an incentive to go for it. But also to get them to have actual kage-worthy accounts keeping the title. Because I'm quite sure that a lot of people loose respect for the kage if he/she is a 8 year old D ranked ninja. THEY CAN BE GREAT KAGES, I know that, but I want the kages to make sense ic as well as being the main focus of the player.
  

[Kinzoku]

I agree with a lot of the stuff above but I'm not sure if it should be the Kages. Kages have a lot of responsibilities on top of RPing with that and their other characters. Maybe give the title to one of the most active members in the village and allow them one more thread? I think activity is a key driver for where people post. If I'm new and I see Konoha has like 564384756 people posting there and the last post in another village was like 2-3 days ago, I'm gonna be more drawn to Konoha since I would be trying to make connections as a newbie to the site.

[Nekomata Minh]

I have already established this sort of thing at Stone. The Kage has their own storyline that, I am inclined in as his second hand ninja in Stone. Nevertheless. My Twins, are labeled as an identity-less character that the civilians of Stone solemnly either fear or love. They are Guardians of especially Iwagakure, and Tsuchi no Kuni in general. Or in this case the village Hero.

Story wise they were shy, confused young girls that most don't know or care about. Now they are living a double life, of being one of the last few trusted shinobi during the Iwa-Riots. And a living myth within the village itself.

By all means this can be applied to an NPC by said kage or even a village member themselves as long as the kage is okay with it. JimmyZ personally talks to me on certain things, and as asked me first hand if I would want to join certain events, and or activities with him because of this alone.

By all means this is not a stupid idea. For all of you kage have the potential to do this right now anyway. All of those assistants that sit at the front desk? Yeah now imagine if the roles were switched, and they were some sort of village hero like Minato. Or some village villain like Madara.

YOU are the kage. You and your your members decide what storyline the village is dealing with. So for one I believe Wolfy's idea is not only a good one, but a highly plausible one to getting more activity, and roleplay hype flowing like it should in the first place.

[Spectre of the Falls(Kuroki)]

I wonder who would be considered the hero of Taki?

[Wolf of the Falls]

Giving it to a pc means we already need soneone in the village of this kind of calibur, which is the main issue, if we had them this wouldnt really matter

[An'ei Sekitan]

Why not have a GM do it?

[Deleted]

Yeah I think having GM's or staff or even someone who is just a strong RPer would make sense. Personally I find it frustrating to no end being stuck at lower ranked missions.

It's not like we even need to look that hard at creating these hero people. Most village training rooms have NPC's there with stat lines already.

[Wolf of the Falls]

Yeah a gm sounds good too ^^ im glad you guys think its a good idea