That's a fair comparison. It just seems rather concentrated. And, like, magic is ultimately tied into the lore of a world; magic in Final Fantasy VI relies on the Three Goddesses but if you leave that planet, how can you possibly use your magic? Or does it change? Does it become unpredictable? This is something I love to explore but when you have a dozen people exploring it in probably non-consistent ways, it becomes messy. This has always been my problem with RPs xD
There is magic in the world but the peoples of Sedorra never really saw it. This means other people can use magic after arriving in the world should they have an understanding of magic. I essentially wanted to make this a "birth of magic" kind of thing where the world gets to react to new people showing up with new powers, a la The 4400 or Heroes. The people of multiple worlds arriving into one kind of thing was just an idea I got after loads of people all said they wanted to be completely different things.
The lack-of-magic and ability to jettison any kind of character you want into Sedorra presents an important problem: what is viable, and what is not? You have to have a persistent and consistent magical functionality, otherwise there is little to no reason for the entirety of Sedorra not to have all of these capabilities.
But they weren't the first official world meetup! That's something I'll put in the wiki
Yeah. xD But even outside of the wedding, there have been a number of UK meetups that I didn't even go to, let alone the ones I had where people stayed at my place for a week or two.
Or were your wedding
Yeah, I guess so. If you look at the biggest meetups in the US, they were back when everyone lived in California and the site was only one year old.
I also went to California, and that was largely unsuccessful as well. I'm not basing my assumptions purely on who came to see me in WY, that would be moronic xD It's probably a cultural thing, I think.
Well, going to Wyoming isn't like going to California, silly. The reason loads of people come to the meetups over here is because the UK has so many people in such a tiny space. I think the Aus one did really well because it just had the right people who were capable of travel and couldn't exactly just walk across town to see 50 other EoFFers. If anything, you were all so isolated that you all wanted to rectify it, while in the US so few are isolated that they can all just pick their choices out. Still, I find that Americans (for whatever reason) prefer not to travel to meetups while Europeans tend to jump at the opportunity.
Freya was the only person to come out and meet me while I was in Wyoming, despite there being a couple of other people close as well. And the DC meetup -- while very enjoyable -- is pretty much considered a flop because there were like half a dozen people that just didn't show. The East Coast Australia meet up had over double the numbers, and that required almost everybody to fly interstate. My appeal is not as widespread as I once imagined! I imagine people would be happy to see me, but they would not go out of their way. Which is fine, it just makes a smurfing pain because I do not live in a location where it is cost-effective for me to go to or near them. Being so isolated in the world is incredibly depressing sometimes
