Jedi Council OOC planning

I agree with Monte that a proposal like that should come from or at least supported by a current member of the High Council. Only if the whole HC was inactive should this not be the case. I'm not saying any more on the matter until then.

I was under the impression that honestly the Council was more of an OOC figurehead, though obviously would have to answer to some things IC, and also that most of the communication would also have been done OOC as well. It's just that, well, there's either been nothing to communicate on or we just haven't collaborated as much as we should have and/or grew a little more apathetic in the repeated scenario of Councilors going inactive. Considering that only two out of those five Councilors are still active on the sit at the moment, I think at most we should bring in some, as Mer put it, "fill-in Councilors" for now, then see what happens by the end of the term. If we could get a visual on who all would be interested in the position(s) (how many do we need?), that would be great.

Hmm, maybe there is a lack of understanding. I thought the High Council was there to help facilitate Jedi rp, and that is precisely what I've been doing.

Raylia is right though. And this is why I have been actively writing on Coruscant with several characters, and I intend to keep doing so. Also, Ray, I have tried to make you feel welcome to write wherever I am that you might be interested in going (specifically Corellia) and I'm sorry I've failed in that regard.

(Short post, just got home from work. Heading off to sleep now.)

I've been still around. But have been very glad to wrap up active RPs and enjoyed a period without responsibility. My semester is grinding to a close in about a month (I work, serve, love, and study students 18 to 20 hours a day).

I don't think serving on the HC would be best for me, but I will be ramping RP for Will sooner rather then later

but I have never supported the over bloated structure the Jedi pursued. We bit off way more then we could chew. We need to stop trying to have so large of an RP to encompass everyone. And instead have a healthy level of smaller and more manageable storylines where new relationships and rivalries can form and a things can develop from there. Back stories are enriched etc.

Well, although not a Jedi, I'm very active at least once or twice a day. I would love to get involved with you guys as Cag is wanting to be trained as a Jedi (at least for a while), before some other stuff. So anytime you guys need another, or just somebody I would be more then willing to help out.

I am telling you guys, asking people to step up into roles or to write more NPCs to pitch in when that isn't their passion is NOT a sustainable model. Looking at Jade as an example, she has been working so hard to put people to work, to facilitate RP and welcome new writers for months and she is already buckling. Some of us did it for years. We need to stop stretching our scope as writers to fit the scope we once had-- it isn't working. And yes, faction activity used to be important in order to exert dominion or else another faction will creep in and usurp your territory.

that isn't this JvS. Not anymore. When I pick up Will again (which I haven't written a post for only a month now folks, a little less), my scope will remain small. I will seek out authors in ones and twos. I might be open to a new apprentice (and maybe a reuniting of old apprentices, you know who you are.

this may be taken as me being stubborn. But this is me hoping you see it as one of the very few here that has the heinsight to really see things for what they are and where we are as a "faction." this site has taken a departure of true factions we have been encouraged to congregate as a body of writers.

The only reason this model fails is because there are not enough people like Jade who enjoy writing to the point where they will write to help others. Sadly because 'Jade' type writers are a minority we struggle. 

Personally for me It's not about activity to exercise domination, but if we fail to post for months as some have then nothing moves at all and I'm on about stories and ideas here not territory. For instance Sin developed this amazing cold war idea and I haven't seen any sort of story develop around this as a body. For the Mando war you had the Watchmen and quite a lot of interesting stories grew from that.

I'm not asking everyone to bend over backwards, but to support where and when ever you can because if we fail to write with each other then we fall into obscurity and this isn't bad in terms of what we 'own' or how big we are because the Jedi don't do the mass scale wars and battles we did back in the Facebook days. Yet we still need a reasonable scale of activity to represent a presence and as I said earlier to help and support our fellow Jedi writers.

From what I can gather you are talking as an individual Will, which is your prerogative and it is also your prerogative to write as you wish and with who you wish, yet I stress that I feel as a Jedi writer we need to try and look at the larger picture and still attempt to write as collaboratively as possible. We still need a central vision and goal that the Jedi Order should be seen as working toward, technically we all need to be on the same page. That's not saying alternative rp can't happen I'm just saying we can't ignore the central theme and right now its 'Cold War'.

As such we should be going down the line of spying, infiltration, moving resources, scouting, small scale skirmishes. This should be our central core motivation. We should be keeping tabs on the enemy, trying to track them, dispatching Knights and Masters to do this etc.

And the Watchmen existed before the Mando War. Adi sort of led them into what they are/were? now-- first responders. We were originally Jedi who sort of the territorial guardians of particular systems; which was meant to promote RP in more slower parts of Republic space. Which, again, wasn't a sustainable model.