Something similar to what killed the old X9 RP could be occurring. Many things are going on without set boundaries, and right now, I just want to set things straight. From what I gathered:

A battle is occurring in Neo Arcadia
There is stuff happening outside the Control Center/Slither Inc. Ruins
Prometheus and Pandora are intercepting Andrew and Kiriyama
Chiba is plotting away


And that's it. I need to figure out where everybody is going and set things straight. If I'm missing anything, please comment.

As far as I know, Oakie has offed the first Pseudoroid, and has had Prometheus and Pandora talk to two chosen ones, which could be another arc or Story development for another Arc.

The battle in Neo Arcadia, I'm not sure how it started and why it did.

You're the only one that is confused. Everyone else knows what's going on.

Kile woke up.... And that would be about it, as far as I can tell.

I believe I can explain the gist of what happened so far. Some of these details weren't mentioned in the RP itself, since the characters themselves didn't know any better.

Slither Inc: The Mettaur that Kiriyama, Andrew and Vince were chasing during the Guardian test was hacked by Bzzkrieg the Vespuloid. The Pseudoroid used the Mettaur to lure the three chosen ones to the building, so he could "test" them. After Vince was separated from the others, Bzzkrieg commanded the large Mechaniloid Spidrill (same type seen in ZXA) to hunt him down.

Chêne (who had pursued the chosen ones into the building) and Zexen (who was investigating) were caught up in the trap, attacked by Mavericks in an elevator shaft. Vince appeared to help them, and the Spidrill tracked him down. The three worked together to defeat the Spidrill, and the elevator collapsed. Vince used his remaining energy to bring Zexen and Chêne to the bottom safely, which is where the other Guardians found them. Chêne was injured by the Mechaniloid, so she was taken back to the HQ.

After Bzzkrieg was destroyed by Kiriyama, Prometheus and Pandora appeared to confront him and Andrew. The Guardians in the shaft were just contacted about the current attack on the Neo Arcadian ruins, so they currently have orders to rescue the others and return to base, which is currently flying to the ruins (this will be explained in a post I'm writing).

Neo Arcadia - Ruins: Under orders from the Sage Trinity itself, a Legion unit led by Price was escorting Sage to the excavation site in the ruins that used to be Neo Arcadia. They were attacked by Mavericks on the way, and Sage discovered Model T in a hidden underground base. Sage transformed to fight off these Mavericks, but she lost control of the Biometal in the process. She was approached by a second Biometal, Model J. She ditched Model T and transformed with Model J, who was a better fit, defeating the Mavericks. She was then attacked by Pandora, who took Model T away.

Price contacted the Guardian HQ about the incident, so Prairie and Aile arrived to check it out. While Prairie stayed with Price's unit, Aile, Sage and Price investigated the place where Model T and Model J were hidden. It was then that a second Maverick attack occurred, this time in the excavation site. As they made their return, Sage was separated from Aile and Price by Hawkett the Aquiroid, another Pseudoroid. As Aile and Price fought the Mavericks, Sage and Hawkett had a tense conversation in which Sage decided to not fight him, and the Pseudoroid left.

Aile left Price with Sage so she could go protect Prairie and the innocents, and the three were attacked by two Desert Aspis (who had also started a fire in the camp). In the meantime, Kile somehow awakened from his bunker and was instantly caught up in the battle with the Mavericks. He decided to fight the Mavericks and eventually helped Aile defeat one of the Desert Aspis. Aile just joined Kile to defeat the remaining Mavericks, while Sage and Price are now trying to finish off the last Desert Aspis.

The current situation:

• Andrew and Kiriyama: Currently facing Prometheus and Pandora in Slither Inc.
• Chêne: Returned to Guardian HQ to treat her injuries.
• Vince: With the Guardians Thon, Carrelet, Cédre, Hareng, Dorado and Bar in the bottom of a Slither Inc. elevator shaft.
• Aile and Kile: Fighting Mavericks in Neo Arcadia - Ruins.
• Sage and Price: Fighting Desert Aspis in Neo Arcadia - Ruins.
• Vent: You'll see (No, I didn't forget about him).

Hopefully this will help you understand the situation now.

Yes, thank you. Since I'm the guy who runs the forum, I need to know what is going on everywhere, regardless of whether or not I'm there.

Sorry to bump a months-old topic, but it seemed appropriate. From what I've been told, this is still the case... it's been almost a year and the entire RP only spans a 24 hour timeframe. People keep bringing in multiple new characters on random whims, it's difficult to keep track of who's doing what, and it seems RB has gotten lost more than once. Everything's kind of a big jumble of incoherent events and there's no real good way to keep track of what's happening when.

I've seen entire RP forums go down the toilet because people had too many characters and couldn't keep track of what's going on. Maybe setting some clear limits to how many characters someone's allowed to use, and how much can actually happen in a given day in the RP before moving onto the next one, would help straighten stuff out and get things more organized. As it is, the RP's continuity is fragmented and there's almost no sense of progression.

Y'know, it actually is pretty complicated to try and shift the RP's time from one day to the next. You'd have to wait until everybody else has finished their stuff, etc. On all RP's, I'm wondering one thing mainly; how do we shift time?

I'd love to come up with a system, but again, everybody has lives and needs things to do.

My character limit is six right now, mostly because not many users are on the forum. I was thinking that later on when/if the RP does become popular, that I can reduce the character limit and such.

Admittedly, it would be a lot easier to write the passage of a day into a post if the RP weren't segmented into so many different sections. I'd suggest everyone put the time of day into their post somewhere and try to keep in mind how long their actions would take, but I'm not sure how well that would work out.

As for the character thing... 6 seems kind of... excessive. We've already got twenty character profiles between four active players. Too many more and it's going to be impossible to keep track of them all. Surely some of these characters could be NPCs?

The problem is, when a player ends something, another starts something else right away, and this doesn't allow the characters to settle down long enough for a time skip. This has its consequences; Aile is now severely wounded in the RP because she had practically no time to recover between her battles. Our characters are still human (or very humanlike); even the Reploids can't be active 24/7. The time skip would cover the recovery that every character needs.

That said, I think a simple solution would be to post an announcement topic alerting the players of an imminent time skip and when it will occur. This would allow players to finish their current business or make preparations to continue them after the skip.

Hmm... I guess that's reasonable. However, I also have a possible solution. On my Realm of Adventure forum, I implemented a time system where after a certain number of post actions by a designated "time character," the time of day would change.

However, there are problems with this system for this particular setting. We don't know where major locations are on the map, or what Earth even looks like at this point. Trying to come up with a time of day change where it's night on one side of the world and day on the other would be difficult unless we made up the world... Also, it still doesn't solve the problem with characters needing rest and players starting events right after the previous encounter.

So I guess Oakie's solution makes the most sense for this setting.

As for the character limit, I realize that I am a contributing factor to this issue. So far, I have Vince, Kile, Bestla, Mattina, Skoll (soon), and one more official character that isn't an arc-specific villain or NPC that will be introduced in the future. So I don't know what I'm supposed to do. I guess if a character limit that's less than 6 is imposed, I'll have to set someone as an NPC, have someone disappear for a while, or kill-off someone... I'll let you guys handle this issue. I just roll with what you all decide.

The announcement thing is a good idea, I think. Someone'll have to monitor the RP as a whole and see what events are progressing and how quickly, but I imagine that won't be too much of an issue.