Hey

[Séreméla]

So I love every one of you but FOR THE LOVE OF GOD BE MORE ACTIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!

teehee...but seriously it seems like Althana's activity has dropped drastically for some reason and I know alot of you are in school and working, but so am I. I just miss the crazy Althanas where there were so many things going on at once that I got lost in it all. I know alot of the new people are getting active, and maybe it's because they want to make a name for themselves and came from not to good sites so they want to make the best of the time they are here. But where are all of my oldies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All of the PG's have almost disappeared, it's hard to find a judge online aside from cyrus most of the time. This site being so active and so organized is the reason I have stayed for so long. Come back to me old Althanas.


Yeah so that is a rant and yadda yadda yadda, but how many of you feel the same way?

[Letho]

It's been like that for a while, so I wouldn't go as far to say that activity dropped rapidly. It more looks like it kind of went into a lull where people started to focus on other things more. As for the oldies... I don't know. I've been here for a good while now and I am still to see some of the oldies to actually rp. :P

Anyways, I like to compensate the lack of activity with the sheer number of threads I'm in. And with five characters, there's more then enough to keep me busy. I think the activity will pick up. There were times when it was worse then now, when it seemed like Storm, Cyrus and me are the only people who still actually wrote on the site, but that was a while back and we recovered from that.

[AdventWings]

Hey, how could you forget me, Letho?! *pouts*

Well, NaNo and the looming Midterms on the horizon is starting to do me in, but I'm around nonetheless.

Letho covered most of why the activity level seemed to be dropping, but us dedicates are here to stay!

[Reiko]

Hey, how could you forget me, Letho?! *pouts*

me too *cries*

I stay pretty active as much as my life will allow^^

I think Althanas has some pretty healthy activity and judgings seem to be quick and helpful, when I first came here it took over a month to get a thread judged and you had to pray that it would be helpful and not lazily judged. And we seem to be getting more newbies, which I prefer to returning oldbies since I enjoy the new perspective.

[Letho]

Alright, alright, it wasn't just Storm and Cyrus and me, but I had to decrease the number of names for a more dramatic effect.

[Séreméla]

I think more or less what I mean is that yeah there are a few of us active (Yes I consider myself an oldie just because I've been here forever and had billions of characters) but we are active in our own little worlds. It's like we fell into a groove of just working with ourselves or with people we've known forever. I for one think we should do something really cool for the newbies..teehee that's a funny word...lol. Why don't we have a tournament in Scara Brae, or just on althanas in general where only new people can join. Not old people with new characters or anything but just all of the new people have been pouring in here like a flood and I think it'd be cool if they had a tournament of their own.

[AdventWings]

So... something like an exhibition match for the new kids to strut their stuff? Heck, sounds like a plan.

What would the requirement be, then? Uhm... I'll bring this up in the Mod forum in a bit as well. Could prove useful, or it might fall through. I'm rooting for the former.

[Atzar]

What, exactly, is a 'newbie' in this case?

For example, I've been around on Althanas off and on for about three years, but I never really started doing anything until now. Would I be a newbie, or would I be an oldbie that nobody knows about?

[Séreméla]

How about this, the tournament will only be open to people that haven't owned a character that reached level 1. Like example I have owned like 5 characters and only one of the reached level 1 so that means I am unable to be in the tournament even though it isn't this character.

And depending upon how many people join it we could either have it to where there are single battles and team battles so that way they get use to one on one thinking and thinking with another player

[Cyrus the virus]

I fear we'd have too many people who like to drop their characters, if we did that. Makes sense, no?

Wasn't the Magus Cup a low-level tournament? That worked out pretty nicely. I figure we should just wait until it rolls around again.