Shattered Planes Archives (Seasons 4 & 5)
The Board => Archive => Void => Topic started by: K2 on July 23, 2011, 11:32:01 AM
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Crisis adverted, we have cake.
As most of you know by now, we did have a major discrepancy in our staff over the past week after many of our staff threatened to resign over a staff issue. At this point I am happy to report that the crisis has been adverted and only two of our community are currently leaving the board due to personal disagreements. Those two members are Orpheus and Ino, and they will be missed, but they would like you all to know that you can add them on Facebook or AIM (to get that info, PM a staff member, I'd rather not announce it in News Feed.) and talk to them.
Nisorin, Lyoko222, Hiro, and everyone else has agreed to remain on the board. I think Nisorin will be leaving sometime in the future after he resolves his characters in his own way, you will have to ask him. He is a valued RPer and we are glad that he will at least remain with us till his characters are resolved. After that, if he chooses to leave, we wish him well in his life and hope to remain in contact with him.
"But K2323," you say, "What about the crisis in the staff? How did you fix it?"
Well, valued member, we now are under new management. Do not panic, all this means is that the staff has some new ground rules and our new head admin is Jeebus. Jeebus has years of experience in the message board and roleplay communities. He first opened a message board named KHTCG (I believe that was his first message board but I may be wrong) back in 2006. It was fairly awesome, and I can say that because I was a member there.
Since then, he has been an admin on several boards, and has also held moderator positions. A natural leader, he sees both sides of conflict, and seeks not to squabble with anyone, but to resolve any problems that arise. He started his own successful webcomic in 2007 with a good friend of his which achieved some 'local' fame, and he was also a member of SP in Season 2. He is a wonderful choice for head admin, agreed on by staff, and we hope you will all welcome him into our ranks as we have.
As for the one staff member who was causing problems, that staff member is now under Administrator Watch. If you have any misconduct on the part of Hikaru to report that occurred after the time of this posting, report it to Jeebus or myself immediately. However; she has privately apologized for her actions and is sincere about it.
"Okay, K2323," you say, "But what about the event? Can we go on without Orpheus and Ino? And what happens to their characters?"
As of now, all characters of Orph and Ino should be considered deceased. This is how we have chosen to deal with their stuff. Their empires have disbanded and their characters have died. Their tech is not available, but feel free to take over their planets. We think this is the best way to work their characters out of the storyline without violating their sovereignty.
I regret to inform you all that we HAVE decided to end the event. We thank everyone who participated and will soon be releasing a story which sums up the ending of Season 4 and gives the Plex storyline a resolve. It was very fun RPing the event and I hope you all feel the same. Which brings me to my next point....
"But K2323, what about the cake?"
Season 4 is now officially over, which means we will begin work on Season 5. We will not be closing the board down during this time. Our board upgrades will be extensive, but we will try to get them complete soon. The board will be majorly improved upon for Season 5. Season 5 also means a lot more events and a 'new' part of the story. We understand that many of you felt the plot was too exclusive in Season 4, and we will be fixing this in Season 5.
Even though Season 5 has not officially started yet, we are already getting ready to throw our post-Season 4 event sometime within the next week or so. Everyone will have a chance to be involved. We will release details about it as soon as we know exactly what we are doing. Stay tuned for that.
As for Season 5, I know we haven't released many details at all to you over the last six months, and I suspect you've been going crazy as a result. Now that Season 4 is over, I'm allowed to tell you a little more. Here's the low down on what you'll be seeing over the next few weeks:
Events, events, events! We only had two or three events this Season, and they were all long and did not go as planned. Season 5 will have more events. They will be shorter but more action packed. We hope to unite the community with these events.
shatteredplanes.com Website! Right now if you type "http://shatteredplanes.com" into your browser, you are taken to the message board. Sometime soon, you will be taken to a new front page of the message board, fully integrated with the board itself, with all sorts of information on the plot and what not. We currently are still planning this and don't really have any more information to give you except that it will be awesome.
New members! We will be making the plot easily accessible and understandable. No more complex charts of the meaning of life and what not. We will also be launching a new advertising program. These two factors should attract a lot of new members who we hope you will all welcome warmly.
A clean forum is a happy forum. There is so much clutter on this board that it's not even funny. We will be organizing the board to allow for maximum roleplaying potential, and we will get rid of the clutter.
Request system overhaul. The request system is currently too confusing. You have to fill out an annoyingly detailed template, you get people arguing against your stuff, and you have no idea how many people have to approve what. We are working on a system that will be more professional and not involve you actually having to post on the board to make a request. More details on that to come.
Drive. The first official event of Season 5 (not the one coming this week) will be called Drive, and it will involve the Aralangs and the origins of Plex. It should be very exciting. Again, more details will be released later.
Forum redesign. New skin, a logo, and a lot of makeup. We will also be reorganizing boards and the planets. We may add a few new planets, and may remove a few old ones, if possible. Don't worry, your stuff won't get deleted.
Thank you everyone! We will be releasing the Season 4 Event Recap / Conclusion today!
Thank you!
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I'm not sure if this applies to anyone else, but what about the characters owned by nonstaff in the forum? What happens to them?
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It's assumed they all survived unless you don't want them to.
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Yeah, any I kill I want to do it myself.
Evil laugh. :o
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I was never alerted that this had been changed. Hikaru asked me what I wanted done to my characters and I said that I didn't want them used anymore - no one bothered to tell me that the issues had been changed. Just saying.