[OOC] Newbie/Oldbie Thread: Questions and Advice

[Andranis]

I will say, I have, I'd estimate, about 50 SRPs that are anywhere from one month to two years old... I'm not wanting to go back and process how many words are in EVERY single one :/ Why not an alternative to 1000 words? Like, 'Either 1000 words, or x# 'posts' with x number of sentances each for SRPs." THAT I could live with. And NOT retconning it to include everything before the rule was implemented - That right there is very unfair, because as I said - I have an estimated 50 SRPs I would have to go back and check to see what has how many. I don't have the time or energy to DO that.  

[Cajanic]

XD This seems to have shifted from a question to a suggestion.

I have a question about the avian lines: The baby stage is going to remain the same for all the different versions, yes? -random, I know-

Also, if you, say, breed an eagle and a hawk, would you get babies that would grow into both stages? And would you know what grows to what beforehand?
 

[~Masamune~]

surprised That's great Fel. xd So in answer to my question, no it wouldn't count unless it had over 1000 words. smile Thanks!  

[Cajanic]

Yeah. xD I asked because I haven't seen any mixed bird breedings.

Fun times! Thanks for answering the rest of it, though. <3  

[Mila Farrell]

Andranis: It's more for the colorists, so they don't have to ask 'how much' is enough. xD There's been a lot of ambiguity on what's accepted for an RP and what needs work, particularly for self-RPs, which are generally shorter than typical RPs in the first place. It has ALWAYS been where the colorist has to make a judgment call on whether or not an RP is 'long enough' for them, and this has led to both some people getting RPs rejected that probably shouldn't have been, and some people posting really short/tiny RPs that probably shouldn't have been accepted in the first place. If the colorists have at least a baseline to go off of, there's less ambiguity for those RPs. Basically, nothing is really changing, colorists are just finally given SOME idea of what is considered long enough and what probably isn't.

Considering that you won't be using those 50 RPs at once, I figure for any breeding you want to do, you can just check the RPs you're going to use them? oo It's easy enough to stick them into word if you're REALLY unsure in order to check the word count, although after the first few I think you'd probably get a good idea of what approximately 1000 words looks like, so I doubt you'd need to check all of them. xD And again, if they're short, we have no problem allowing combined RPs.  

[JetAlmeara]

I have a lioness I breed in a mix and match quite a few months ago and as per the guidelines I gave the cubs away. I did however custom into the litter so I was wondering if I breed her again in a normal breeding would I be able to keep a cub or have to custom in again? I know theres a rule about only keeping one cub and then having to custom in so was just wondering if you got to keep a cub in the second litter if you costumed in on the first?  

[Andranis]

But I don't have Word. I have to go to a website to check each RP. Plus, even if I used Word, which as I said I don't HAVE, since I like to color code my SoAs' posts, it may very well count those words in the coding as part of the word count, plus the title... And then I post it, and suddenly it's X# words shorter than 1000.

Though seriously, it's highly unfair to retcon a new rule to apply to old RPs, and I may as well just delete them all and start new on them all :  

[Hotaru-Neko]

:c It may be an inconvenience, but I think it's pretty generous for Dusty to even be allowing two short RP's to be counted as one for a breeding.

I don't have word either and use a website to count my RP's pretty often, and don't really see the inconvenience really, but if you'd prefer a word processing program to do it in there is freeware:

http://download.openoffice.org/

And if your worried about code tags messing up your count highlight the actual post instead of going into the edit box.  

[Daffupanda]

If you don't have word and don't want to dl stuff, you can use what I use:

http://www.wordcounttool.com/

you just cp the post in there and it word counts it for you *nod nod*

Also I don't think it is a new rule - it's always been a rule that rps that were too short would be pushed back. If you had entered my breeding raffle with those rps, and won, and I'd have gone back to check the word count, I'd have potentially pushed back the breeding due to it being too short. This way, you know exactly, word for word, what is 'too short' and will never have a problem of a colorist thinking your rp is too short, since before, it varied, from colorist to colorist.  

[nessiaing]

Just wondering with the now fully spoken word count guidelines for rps used for breeding, should we be including a word count at the end of our rps?  

[Daffupanda]

nessiaing

Just wondering with the now fully spoken word count guidelines for rps used for breeding, should we be including a word count at the end of our rps?

I guess - if you want to make it easier for the breeders, you can do that, but it's not a must. Breeders will check the rps <3  

[Puhterodactyl]

Ohmy, I do hate to keep the questions rolling about RPs and length, but here's one more. ; w; (And I did check this thread, the suggestion box, and the official breeding one!)

So I'm cool with the 1000 words, it's a great guideline I use.
But I was wondering do SRPs have to be 1000 words (min) AND 10 posts? Because I've got an SRP that is 1249 words, and 9 posts, but the character that has 4 posts makes up 848 of those words. xD
I've also got another one that's just over 1000, and it's only 5 posts between two characters.
I'm not really trying to get people to validate my personal RPs, but I'd like to know for future reference. :0 Like if I should go ahead and add another post to that 9'er or make another 5-post RP to pair with that other one.

Thanks! And sorry to keep dragging this conversation on. xD;;