based on the excellent feedback i received from "change bagil to mrp" and "change dynamic on manuel to only select restricted antagonists" and further discussions i've had with others in the community, i'd like to pitch another crazy scheme to see what you think of it.
a common thing that comes up, and as was explored by higgin in his post in the dynamic thread, there is a certain lack of personalized and perhaps smaller scale roleplay experiences available. our good game of ss13 is chaotic and often fast paced, highly improvised and energetic, and we love it for that. but within manuel there are reams and reams of character lore and extended universe stuff that people have spent sometimes years writing and developing. we have things like common core which never make an appearance in the game. there is a lot of untapped creative material and potential here.
on the admin side, there is a push to try and see if we can get players in event running roles, but often times this is unrealistic on highly populated servers. players cannot resolve tickets, and events pretty much always generate more tickets. there have been a few schemes of how to get around this, but in the end i still see them as a way to create more admin bureaucracy and not more events, because the end goal of players managing a highpop server isn't really feasible.
so, with all of that in mind, i'd like to propose that we discuss the idea of turning bagil into an mrp server, but also opening that server up to custom events, run by admins and players, in a way that it creates a space for people who want more directed, structured rounds that are managed by players and admins. basically a d&d ss13 server where anyone can DM if they have the motivation.
people could use it for combat events, or small character moments, or big grand adventures that they run every week, it could be anything. my first proposal was to create a small ship map, and then each week have a little planet adventure to run around on and see what happens.
of course, there are a few considerations to this. firstly, the server would still be mrp, not hrp, and my concern is that the community would need to understand that everyone would be welcome, and that elitism or entitlement to the space or the stories therein cannot develop. it will be to the same standard of gameplay on manuel, and we would not restrict or eject people who don't live up to any one person's ideals of rp. it would just be a smaller table for people to get more creative and personal with, in a quieter corner away from the bigger game tables, but everyone would still be welcome to use it.
this will also be a long term project that might take some time to set up. it will be something we will have to figure out if the community is interested.
as always, the disclaimer:
this is not set in stone. this is not a suggestion i'm set on. this is not something i'm going to aggressively push because i really want it. this is not something i think will even necessarily work. i just want to hear what players think about it, because it is a change that will affect them the most.
