Alex here, logged in as Carmen to emphasize that I am responding 100% in a PLAYER capacity — no mod hat whatsoever right now! — with a discussion topic that I've been pondering over for awhile now, that I'm curious to hear what other people think about it!
One of the things I occasionally worry about with Route is that we have a lot of specialized communities to follow, it seems like (the breeders comm, the Rocket comm, etc), but I've wondered before if it wouldn't be feasible for Route as a community to set up a sort of...complement to the Maps Page, I guess, with more individualized and/or personalized stuff about the setting in general?
Like, for example, I know we encourage people to take reasonable liberties and be creative with the setting when making posts, so I've made up things like small businesses in the bigger cities, or the Smoochin' Stantler in the Ruins of Alph, or other random general everyday NPCs, and there are things like the cosplay cafe in Violet and so on and so forth...and so I was thinking, what if we had a community that acted as sort of a travel guide or wiki of locations in the game, where people could drop off comments with things they'd headcanoned as existing a given area, and then if people were in an area and were looking for post hooks, they'd have the travel guide as a resource to check for ideas? Plus that'd give people the heads-up about other setting quirks and things, like the massive rune Carmen carved into the side of Mt. Mortar a couple months back and shit like that.
Part of why I haven't really talked about it much or suggested anything about it is because I haven't worked out all the logistics and details yet — but since this is a discussion post, what do people think of this idea, and does anyone have a thought about how we might be able to make something like this work?
DISCUSS - WORLDBUILDING COOKBOOK?
One of the things I occasionally worry about with Route is that we have a lot of specialized communities to follow, it seems like (the breeders comm, the Rocket comm, etc), but I've wondered before if it wouldn't be feasible for Route as a community to set up a sort of...complement to the Maps Page, I guess, with more individualized and/or personalized stuff about the setting in general?
Like, for example, I know we encourage people to take reasonable liberties and be creative with the setting when making posts, so I've made up things like small businesses in the bigger cities, or the Smoochin' Stantler in the Ruins of Alph, or other random general everyday NPCs, and there are things like the cosplay cafe in Violet and so on and so forth...and so I was thinking, what if we had a community that acted as sort of a travel guide or wiki of locations in the game, where people could drop off comments with things they'd headcanoned as existing a given area, and then if people were in an area and were looking for post hooks, they'd have the travel guide as a resource to check for ideas? Plus that'd give people the heads-up about other setting quirks and things, like the massive rune Carmen carved into the side of Mt. Mortar a couple months back and shit like that.
Part of why I haven't really talked about it much or suggested anything about it is because I haven't worked out all the logistics and details yet — but since this is a discussion post, what do people think of this idea, and does anyone have a thought about how we might be able to make something like this work?