What kind of RPs do you think we're lacking here in the RPT? Maybe, romance? Maybe a roleplay that's directly related comedy. Is there any parcticular reason why you don't join most of the recent RPs? You can share any thought, the thread is not limited to genres. I would like to know everyone's opinion on the current direction the RPs are taking.
I think that having an RP directly centered around comedy or romance would be kind of difficult. RPs are stories, and while having a romance or comedy RP is entirely possible, I think that there would have to be more going on. On top of that, I'm not sure how popular it would be. Personally, I have the comedic brain of a toaster, and as a guy who is happily single, romance is probably the last genre I would join. Maybe for others, but not my cup of tea.
I'll agree with Disclosed on the rather heavy focus on joint posts—not that I'm complaining about them, either, because I
love being able to convey a lot of short term events without taking multiple (much smaller) posts, and leaving clutter and filler around trying to make it look like you put unnecessary work into it. However, if something can be done solo and still show a decent amount of relevant information without the need for immediate multiplayer interaction, I'll take it.
I agree with this to some degree, JPs can be useful, but it requires activity. I think that there can be a lot of good interaction between characters without the use of JPs. On top of that, I feel like using JPs slows down the RP. If you have two very active players putting together a JP, it might take a day or two, but less active players means a single post takes a week easy, maybe more.
I think we're having too many superhero/power RPs lately. Dust, City of Heroes, Vale, I Am (to some extent) are some RPs on top of my mind. Personally, I'd like to see something set more like reality with some story. Military seems like a good area to inspect whether we can create amazing RPs in there.
Nope nope nope. You can never have enough super hero RPs. Also Varys, go post.
In all seriousness though, I guess I wouldn't mind something along the lines of a modern military RP. That area can be kind of dark, but... It would have to be well done, but I'll keep my mind on that.