Board Thread:Suggestion Box/@comment-4199666-20140412021747/@comment-4199666-20140412033112

I am opposed to Riverview for a few reasons.

The first, as I've said before, is that it takes A LOT of time to develop a city. Lebeaux has been around for a year more or less and has a population of 32 people.

I still can't get a clear, distinctive quality of Riverview. It's supposed to be modern and artsy, but what else? Couldn't people who wanted modern and artsy living live in Barfield and go to Desmond like a lot of characters do? If you wanted to create a poor neighbourhood with higher crime levels than other neighbourhoods and it's the sort of place that people don't like to walk through at night, that could provide a bigger ground for interesting character development. If you wanted to create a gated community where everyone lives in an eery sort of peace and everyone has a curfew, that could provide interesting character development. But a place which is rich, artsy and modern just provides room for rich, artsy and modern OCs (which, without directing insult towards anyone, we already have plenty of.)

This is getting a bit rambly, I know, but if you've ever heard of the Nature vs. Nurture debate, people think that the way you act is a result of the way you were raised and the environment you were raised in, so yes, the nature of the location DOES impact the OCs there. TL;DR: We don't need more artsy, rich, modern cities because we already have OCs fulfilling that role in existing cities.

Third point of today, most users here have settled in with their characters. Sure, some of them swap old ones out and new ones in, but there's not as much of a building of characters than a development of them. If one person is creating several characters, like a new user would, then unless you plan on having all of your roleplays by yourself, it's a good idea to mingle them in with existing characters and places. This is different if say, every user was building up new characters as the wiki was being built. Then everyone spreads their characters around so that when new characters come in, there's more opportunity for socialisation. TL;DR: There won't be many people to RP with in a new city.

And the last thing I can think of right now is the grammar, spelling, sentence structure and the fact that you've brought in a completely different set of coding for pages which aren't yours, but rather, the communities. Other cities weren't made with every shop and street and school planned out. One person would make the city and a few starting locations and other people would create locations as they needed them. That's not how this is being run. We want you to feel welcome to the wiki, but by creating your own isolated city and all the locations yourself, you're making it harder for people to get invested into the city. People like to feel like they're apart of something, not just like they've stepped into someone else's work and are watching it.