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Post by Bixir on Jan 14, 2024 4:02:42 GMT
If you want to apply for a forum roleplay of your own, please follow these steps:
1) Create a Thread in the New Roleplays section for your Roleplay Application following the proper format in this guide. The administrators will get in touch with you and walk you through the review process.
2) Once an Administrator has approved the Roleplay, they will reply back to your thread once your Roleplay Forums have been created.
3) Now that your forums are done, begin creating the necessary rule, guide, and template threads. When you're finished, return to your New Roleplay thread and report your progress so that the final checks can be made.
5) An Administrator will finalize the creation of the RP. When it is accepted, it will be moved into the appropriate genre section and you can start roleplaying and advertising Your RP! You should now find your Roleplay application thread moved into the Approved Roleplays section.
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Post by Bixir on Jan 14, 2024 4:03:15 GMT
Getting your roleplay made and set up is only the first step. You also need to maintain it. In the month following the creation of a roleplay project, mods need to prove to staff that they can recruit players and provide consistent activity in their space. Once this month has passed with proven activity, the roleplay will be moved to its respective genre section.
Furthermore, if three months go by without a single post in a roleplay project, staff will contact the moderators to ask what's going on. If the moderators are unable to get activity going again, the roleplay project will be retired. If this happens, applications for future roleplay projects will be difficult to approve. While Coloholics is not necessarily hurting for resources, we are - currently - a small community. We want to ensure that there is enough room for currently existing projects to breathe and grow.
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Post by Bixir on Jan 14, 2024 4:03:54 GMT
Note: This is only for people who want to make a roleplay that has its own custom forum and banner and subforums, like an entire RP forum project. If you just want to make a normal thread-based RP that needs no custom forums, you make everything you need in the Colosseum section. Also, before you proceed with this, make sure you've familiarized yourself with the basic steps of the process that you'll be getting into with the New Roleplay thread you submit (listed above in this thread).
Our Forum Template and Explanations:
Roleplay Name: Name of the roleplaying project you are trying to create. Please capitalize properly. Roleplay Type:What type/modding style of roleplay is it? Traditional or Freeform? If you're not sure if it's traditional or freeform, read the following typical explanation of the types that I give to confused newcomers, inside this spoiler. Traditionals are harder to cater to the masses and harder to run, BUT they are the most rewarding and best made roleplays around hands down. In a traditional, the moderator designs the forums, makes the location threads for each location, and mods the player step by step each action they make like an RPG Computer Game's AI or "Dungeon Master" controlling NPCs, the environment, and how a player's actions resolve.
In a freeform, the moderator just designs the general forum environment and story and rules, and then usually lets the players loose in that world to play amongst themselves. Not to say they can't exert some control as well of course. There's inherently no hybrids because you're either 100% Traditional or you're not Traditional. The majority of Freeforms have plenty of traditional elements and structure, otherwise they might be total chaos. No one says you can't have a Freeform with Traditional elements and control over the storyline, even heavy Traditional elements, but to be marked as a Traditional RP you need to be fully Traditional and lead players along post by post. There is no such thing as a mix or hybrid. If you're not traditional, you're freeform.
Traditionals are authoritarian and freeforms are like communes.
So there is a drastic difference in both play and moderation. Traditionals are perhaps ultimately the superior form, but also the more difficult one to run as a moderator.
Usually in a traditional, you'd make the RP threads inside the location subforums, players then post in those RP threads or locations and you reply after each post of theirs.
Bob a Player in your RP:
Bob looked around carefully, trying to see what was in the area.
You, the Mod of the RP:
In front of Bob was a giant bear! It immediately attacked him!
Bob a Player in your RP:
Bob tried his best to dodge and then slash at the bear with his sword.
You, the Mod of the RP: Bob's dodge just barely worked, the bear's claws leaving a slight scratch on his shoulder. However his sword slash was successful, cutting into the bear's face.
Roleplay Genres:
What basic genres is your roleplay? Anime? Sci-Fi? Fantasy? Action/Adventure? Realistic? Many of those? Make sure to start off by listing the main Genre section it'd most likely be put into. There's Anime, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Nation-Builder, and Realistic. (which is for all RPs set in realism, be they modern day or historical). Also note that the Anime genre here represents RPs directly based on existing anime/manga series, if you're an original story RP that just happens to use anime-style pictures and such for its characters/flavor you would go in another genre.
Roleplay Banner:
Link some possible images you might want in your banner. Please don't make the banner yourself, an Artbitrator from the staff will be assigned to you at a later stage and will make you the finest banner they can from the images you want used.
Roleplay Moderators:
Any roleplay moderators that run your RP, including yourself.
Roleplay Plot:
Provide a summary of the roleplay and its plot (This information displays over the banner when it's highlighted by mouse cursor).
Roleplay Forums:
List all forums and subforums the RP may have. Include descriptions underneath each section you list. Typically you might want to include major locations in the world of the RP where your players could RP, as well as perhaps Approved and Rejected Character subforums to store the profiles submitted by your players. Unless of course your RP collects signups and player data in a different fashion, whatever floats your boat.
Interest
Quite possibly the most important part of the roleplay application is evidence that you have a group of roleplayers with a vested interest in seeing this roleplay happen, and are committed to joining it on the condition that it is made. We ask that you create a topic in the Roleplay Ideas section, and once it has received sufficient interest/attention from prospective players, link the topic here, so that the Admins can see that there is an interest in this roleplay to warrant its creation.
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