Rise of the Rockets Front Post Overhaul

Actually, for the intro, I think that showing TL and/or TR could be used to help bring them back into play. If you're going to showcase more than one faction I think you should definitely include TL and TR. If you're looking at only one faction, though, Ford may be the best choice. Either way, I really like that idea.

Misc. Sections: The factions sections will definitely have to be rewritten/updated. The little blurb at the beginning of that makes it seem like TL and TR are still the only factions. It may also be a good idea to list factions that have been broken up like The Searchers or Team Aqua, for prosperity's sake. As for the rest of the misc. stuff, I agree with what Nara said.

Story summary: like I said before, I'd be happy to help with that.

Story in a nutshell: this almost sounds like a summary of the summary. I think it would be good to just update what you have under that section now. When you say relocating the old introduction here, do you mean literally copy-pasting the whole intro, or just summarizing it?

Intro: Oh, I'm still including TL and TR no matter what--they are the central forces in the RPG, after all, and the only reason they aren't very active right now (as far as the organizations as a whole go) is because we're still stuck in Unova. The issue I'm having is what to show them doing.

If the general consensus is to have a predominant Ford presence in the introduction, as it appears to be, then I will focus it mainly on him, though.

Misc Sections: All right.

Story Summary: Right, right. I also have a bunch of saved PMs with random summaries about stuff at various points in the RPG. Perhaps I should make another blog entry for the summary itself, and then everyone can compile their stuff together for us to then compile into an overall summary?

Story in a Nutshell: I can see why.

No. Story in a Nutshell is supposed to be a short section explaining what the RPG is about, whereas the summary is what all has occurred in the game. And what I mean is just a short summary about what is now the intro--what led up to the start of the TL/TR war, essentially.

Finally getting back to this.

Intro: In that case, I'd say go with a meeting among the leaders and executives to discuss how the war has been going and possibly coming up with strategies. Assuming that Operation RALLY is pretty much over (or at least on standby, given everything else that's been happening) they could discuss how the operation went, what Pokemon and famous trainers they've recruited, and maybe how they plan to use them.

I must have skimmed over your suggestion of the Shadow Admins discussing Bounty's Seperatist movement in the initial blog post, but now that I've read over that again, that sounds like a really good idea. It also wouldn't hurt to throw in some executives like Riley in there, just so they get more screen time. Now that I think about it, Riley could bring up the recent disaster in Ecruteak (possibly in comparison to the Darkrai that caused Bounty to blow up his base?) and on the Liberty side, Executive Vert could bring up her little project (or maybe not, since Goldhawk already shot it down. But they could still discuss it as a "what not to do" when discussing strategies).

On second thought, I can definitely see how this intro can easily go all over the place. It's hard to focus on just one or two things instead of rambling off on a massive summary of the entire RPG; that's what the Story Summary section is for.

As for Ford being the majority, now that I've given it more thought I think it would be better to focus on TL, TR, and Ford equally. I guess Ford could have a little more screen time than the other two, but like you said, TL and TR are the main focus of the RPG.

Story Summary: If you could compile all the random summaries you have into a blog entry, we could help fill in the blanks. Although given the space limitations we had with the character list, a blog entry might be too small for a complete summary.

Introduction: Alrighty. So at this point it's looking like the intro will be split into three sections (kind of like now,) with each of the three dealing with one of the following:

-TL leader/Bounty/Maxie meeting

-TR leader meeting

-Hojohsin League/Ford and his agents meeting

... with additional Executives appearing in the first two.

Story Summary: Yeah, that problem occurred to me. What I may do (over Winter Break) is compile all of the random summaries into a Word document, post a blog entry containing whatever fits, and then if a few people could make "reserve" comments in the entry, I could put whatever doesn't fit in the main body into those. From there, we could write the actual summary on the wiki, since pages on there don't have size limits and it would give everyone access to the actual editing part of it.

Might be a bit convoluted, but it should work.

Just looked on the front page of BZPower, and apparently Premier Members can now start multiple-person PMs with up to ten other people. While that's not as open as a blog entry, we might be able to use that for the story summary. Of course, the problem with that is that we could only have ten people helping, so someone might end up getting left out, but it's something to consider.

Could certainly work, and I actually considered that when I saw the announcement. I think we only have around five or six volunteers for this, anyway, so we could always add some more people as they offer.