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Guild Organization

Proposal

Simply put that everything is conducted in the main forum as few threads as possible. That means our main writing project is in the main forum, along with any profile areas as stickies. In essence it would be planned out like...

Main Forum - Fantasy RP
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| Stickies: Profiles, RP information, Guild Specifics
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| Role-play writing thread (Main)
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| Side Stories that tie into the Main story somehow.
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| Sub Forum 1
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| | Archives
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| | | Stickies: Index, Other Information
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| | | Archived threads from all projects.
| Sub Forum 2
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| | Encyclopedia
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| | | Stickies: Index, Structure
| Sub Forum 3
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| | The Observatory (Spoilers)
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That should make the guild modular and easy to understand, no mass subforums required as far as I can tell, the only thing that we would need is an archive, possibly a "plotting" area too that would contain all the plots for all the projects (each project gets its own thread and the thread started by a "mule").

The reasoning behind the "Archive" subforum, is to prevent clutter in the main writing projects, strictly speaking these are things surplus to requirements. In theory this forum is not required as threads can just be locked or deleted as needed.

The reasoning behind the encyclopedia is to create a one stop library of guild information on all its projects. Meaning that each project can focus on its core writing rather than the extra factoids that might need to be created to assist the writers and give more information to readers.

The reasoning behind the "Observatory" sub-forum, is that not everyone wants to see the spoilers, but for the writers, the spoilers can be useful in plotting. In other words it is an excellent place to plan out the next few posts you have or even float ideas for story changes.

Additional 2016·05·22

Further an encyclopedia has been added to the structure this to keep track of all the places, people, ideas that have been "written".

Thoughts?

We have plenty of cash available (800,000,000+ thank you gaia inflation -_-).

I figured we'd have a main project in the main area to reduce click counts and reduce sub forum waste. Multiple clicks to get the role-playing seems to deter people.

Still it could be moved at a later date if necessary.