Redeveloping Bearbones

[truce.]

[align=center][div style="width: 470px; text-align: justify; font-family: new times roman; font-size: 7pt; letter-spacing: 2.5px; word-spacing: 1px; line-height: 14px;"]So as promised, here is a thread to discuss how BB can move forward from here! Activity is definitely an issue at the moment, so redeveloping the site might just be the best way to go in order to find something that everyone would be interested in writing. Any decisions will be 100% member-led, and we can all vote on where we want to see BB go in the future. 

So just my thoughts at the moment... Personally I don't think that making an entire new game is the best way to go just yet but this doesn't mean it can't be an option for in the future. I'd LOVE to see a new game one day, so working on activity in TNW first would be paramount to make that a reality without stretching people too thin.

I do like the idea of focussing on the two main groups for a little while. Of course the other groups will still be around but for the meantime the focus of the story could revolve around the relationship between Flintlock & Badlands and peoples' lives in those groups. Since I'm currently leading both groups, I'd really like to give someone else the chance to take on the role of leader to guide the groups in a new direction! I'm more than willing for Eddie to step down in FL so that someone else can encourage change in the group! Since Finny and I still have so many ideas for BL, I'd love for us to continue leading at least for a while.

Staff have been toying with the idea of a huge change to push TNW into an entire new era and perhaps this will ignite a bunch of new plots. We were wondering what people thought about electricity beginning to return to TNW slowly but surely as they try to bring modern civilisation back to life. Of course it wouldn't be something that would happen overnight, nor something that will just magically happen - it would have to be something similar to how electricity was harnessed the first time. After all, electricity is a natural force; it will always exist in the world, it just needs to be reintroduced into the world after the devastation of the blackout. If it started with something as simple as electric street lights being put up, small changes to start to rebuild a life that will actually never be the same again.

It would be really interesting to see how TNW could invent a whole new meaning to "modern life" because it will never be the same as it was before, but it could be a new direction in creating a new definition of modern life. They could no longer be entirely in the dark ages, but with the slow revival of a electricity powered world it could come with whole new challenges. Will groups be willing to work together to develop new transport networks, electrical powered medical devices, radio communication etc.? It was mentioned that a lot of our characters barely know life with electricity so adapting to that kind of life could be interesting.

If people aren't keen on the idea, then it would be great to hear any other ideas on something that can massively shift in TNW to encourage more activity!

I just wanted to throw out those ideas but I'm really interested to hear what you guys want to see done in TNW and in BB as a whole!