Please bear in mind that the currently layout is only temporary while I sort out coding and such! i think i'll keep that flying Appa, though.

it occurs to me that my first message may not have been clear:

feel free to respond to this thread if you have any suggestions for TARP!
you're still free to PM or email if you feel uncomfortable posting publicly, but i'm sure you guys have some sort of feedback!

Hanabi wouldn't qualify for a reboot. She's not a "little used" or "not used" character by any means.

I don't know about it, honestly. We can revisit the issue closer to when Korra's released, but we already know for a fact that the entire gAang has died - by extension, that generally means people older than their age range (12-16) would have died long before they did. It's possible, just not probable.

The Core Staff and I will need to discuss our terms for allowing people to carry over (without rebooting) their TARP characters, so I can't really commit to anything at this time. If we do allow it (and that's a big IF at this point in time), it will come with a lot of strings attached.

In short: we'll see, but don't hold your breath too much. :]

Sept 5, 2011 8:49:34 GMT -6 @kgal said:

So how should we handle the character creation process? I mean, sure I could reboot Fu-Ling, but since she obviously wouldn't be carrying over into Korra era, I was thinking of creating a new character for when the site officially reopens. I've already created a new character, and have her personality, job, and family down set. I have a few questions about this:

1) Should we expect that society isn't too much different from Aang to Korra? Like, if my character was, say a chef, would it be okay to just assume that the food is generally similar?
2) Is it fine if the character's home setting is fairly generic, like "large, bustling city in the Earth Kingdom" or "small rural village on a Fire Nation island"?

I guess I should say, should we hold off on the creation of Korra-era characters until the show actually starts, or is it okay to get basics down? And is it preferred to continue with premade characters or make a new one for now and then another new one for the official?

Sorry if none of this made sense, lol.

I think if you get basics down - general feel / tenative backstory / appearance / bending / name - it should be okay. Just don't get too bogged down with "historic" details until we know more about the 70 years' time. don't get too hung up on the steampunk aspect either - we have seen cars so far, but we don't know how widespread this technology is and such. Honestly, from what we know on the show so far, I'd be comfortable with (personally) creating a character's name/age/gender/appearance/personality.

1] I would. Even if you look at todays' Asian cultures, the "traditional" cuisine hasn't changed, only the preparation and/or display of it (and in some areas, it's still done the 'old fashioned' way). Steampunk generally mixes the "old" world with a bit of industrial revolution — a good example of steampunk would be the movie "Howl's Moving Castle": a bit fantastical, still with "magic" but more technologically advanced than traditional "fantasy monarchy" settings. Again, I'd do it tentatively, and not set anything in stone in case released information drastically alters the world we know.

2] That's fine. Specific places on TARP that are user created generally remain nameless unless it's run by staff anyway. :]


the last bit didn't reaaaally make sense to me, but I'm going to presume you're asking about what character you make for playing /now/. If that's the case, you're free to do what you'd like - remake Fu-Ling/any of your other OCs, or create an entirely new one. :]

As a note (thought I'd hope you already have done this), do check the rules before writing up anything. :] Feel free to send me profile questions via PM.

Hopefully that answers everything!

oh, it was just a standard 'before you make your character, please check the rules' thing. you were last here in 2009, if i recall, so the rules have changed somewhat since then. (and don't worry about asking questions! i'd rather have a tonne of questions [that aren't answered in the FAQ of course] than have a profile you'd have to redo extensively.

Good question, and it's actually a two fold answer. It's not coming back, per se, but we are going to try something new that is similar. The Practice Arena will be a place where people can go to brush up their roleplaying if they feel they want to. It won't be mandatory this time around. There's a sticky in the board, but a condensed version of how it works will be that a person or persons (depending on what you'd like to practice) will create a thread, and specify in the title what they would like help with (default would be an overall review). A staff member would then come by whenever notified and give their opinion on how to improve (if necessary) the posts.

So, an example thread title: "Fu-Ling vs. Toph Battle [General]" <— this would say to use you want a general opinion on the battle.

"Fu Ling vs. Toph [Environments]" <— you want an opinion on how you use environmental imagery in your posts.

and so on.

——

The second part is that we're going to include the "exemption" within every first original character profile (canon applicants will still need to provide an RP sample with each application). This is how most sites do it, and we believe it will be sufficient to revert to this method to indicate RP skill. An inappropriate or lacking RP sample will simply result in the moderator reviewing it asking the author to try again, and give guidance on what could be improved, much like the exemption process. The Practice Arena will not be made mandatory in these cases.

Hopefully this makes sense. :]

This is definitely helping me out. I've been having some trouble with recreating Shuai, but I'll get it worked out. I just wanted to know if the template for OCs was still the basic: name/age/gender/appearance/history/personality? I can't seem to find the OC template xP

Gender wasn't previously included on our applications due to the gender-segregated subboards, but it will be later. :] So yes. (And the OC template was removed, when we put a form code in for all new OC profile threads. xD sorry about that!)

a bit of clarification on "reboots" — let's keep it referring to Korra-profiles for now, so we don't get confused. :]

for whatever profile you choose to make to RP in the gAang era, you'll need to send it to me in a PM, as it still needs to go through the regular profile acceptance process.

after that's done, you can RP to your heart's desire on the open boards.

no problem! i'm off to bed for now, and i'll look at it in the morning. :] sorry for the delay, i've been up for almost 24 hours though. xD