Hey gang.

This is more of a means for me to determine why our writing activity has declined in recent years and how to improve it. I've been looking over the story posts of our current troops and those of our old ones back in the day, and I think I may have found an answer of sorts to help give activity a boost.

I'll let you observe some of the old posts found in our previous Imperial Omega Campaign. If you notice, the story posts in the Imperial Omega Campaign (IOC) were very short compared to a lot of the posts we see today. In fact, I have looked over some of the old stories we've gone through (Chapter 6), and I found that the vast majority of posts had less than half a page-to-slightly less than a page in length. So, as an experiment, I'm proposing that all of the troopers keep their post sizes within that same range (less than a page in length-to-slightly less than a page in length). If you wish to go beyond that limit, then by all means do so. I realize that the pressure is on to make quality posts, and for some that may be interpreted as "1.5 - 2 pages in length". Quality of the posts must still be retained (grammar), and such quality can come in various sizes (sentences, paragraphs, pages). If my assumptions are correct, I'm hoping to see an increase in post production due to the relief in having to make a 2-page post.

In conclusion, to help relieve the stress and provoke some actual fun with the story writing, I'm going to see if this new experiment works out. In all honesty, I think one of the reasons why post production was so hot a few years ago was because the posts were so short - they were easy and quick to read, and responses were easily made as well. The story flowed more smoothly and faster - people weren't bogged down by having to read huge posts (granted some writers were excellent, and made you want to read more). In my opinion, shorter posts made the stories a lot funner to participate in.

NOTE: I realize we do have a squad or two that has members making less than a page's length in posts, so for those squads I have yet to figure out what to do.
 
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Cleric "Cosmic" Vor'soth
CoT/MG Cosmic/HCA-3/SL/Drill Squad/Tadath/VEA/VE
[OPE][OTH][OPA][EW1][CDS][IH][GS][LM][SoS][CRoM][CoH][PoC][MSM][SCP][SoA][IOC]
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Cleric "Cosmic" Vor'soth
SL/KPR Cosmic/Lion 1-1/Lopen/VEDJ/VE
[VP][WoS2][KC1][SoY][EoP][OAK]
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Of course, this is not to say, that people still can't make longer posts if they wish to. Geez, I wonder who you're talking about K-Dawg... At any rate, it sounds good.
 
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Colonel Rizzit BlackHeart
Wildcard Platoon Commander
Phoenix Company Commander
Army of the Vast Empire
CC/PC/COL
Rizzit/1PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE[OPE][OTH][EW1][RCoD][CRoM][CoH][OPA][SoA][SoS][SCP]
Everything expressed truly from your heart and soul is as pure as gold in the minds of anyone who listens!"--Rizzit

Damn, I used to say this all the time and got completely ignored!
 
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+ Advance Recon Commandos {ARC} +
PL:A/CPT/Raziel/1PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE/{EW1} (WoS1) 2x(VP:1) {IG} {CDS} {BoA} {PoC} {BC} {GRoM} {SoS} {IH}
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989.

"God does not play dice with the universe" - Albert Einstein
"Who are you to tell God what to do with his dice?" - Bohr
"God does not play dice with the universe. He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time." - Terry Pratchett
CM/DJK Raziel/lion 1-5/Krath/VEDJ/VE (WoS1) (VP1) (VP2)