Quest threads

Enjoy those tasty traditional see this what do threads, you deserve them.

youtube.com/watch?v=IoyvvEWHodk

But in all seriousness, we needed a forum game board for the longest time and Veeky Forums was always just a temporary solution.

>red boards and /mlp/ can still have quests
Huh.

No for it becoming a full board. The mod just did it. And to be honest nothing on Veeky Forums is Veeky Forums. During the Olympics I didn't see one Olympic thread on Veeky Forums.

Que the anti-quest fags crowing about their victorious relegation of quests to an isolation board to die.

They won't die if you don't be whiny about it and actually participate in each others quests.

>using /mlp/ as a benchmark for normal
Are you high?

It will die due to lack of new players. /qst/ is a low traffic board.

Then invite your friends over to your quest.

You are deliberately missing the point. Quests are drop in, drop out anonymous, anyone can play. The whole appeal is that its a game run between strangers.

>no traffic board
Ftfy

Yeah switching from here to a unanonymous imageboard is a lot to ask. You're aware /qst/ has forced tripcodes, right? Like /b/ used to.

If the concept can't pick up players on its own then that's unfortunate, but that only proves that it's unsustainable.

>>play-by-post is Veeky Forums
>No it isn't. Neither is any kind of playing online.
If that is the case, explain this

>/qst/ is a low traffic board
Don't really understand why though...
Veeky Forums browsing, see link to /qst/, click, look around, maybe see something or not - there should be more people reading those quests.

It was perfectly sustainable. I ran a quest on Veeky Forums for two years that had at a igh around sixty players and never dipped below twenty. /qst/ boards struggle to get five consistent lurkers, least of all players.

So now its a full own board?
If you compare threads, on Veeky Forums there are more active contributors.
On /qst/ are less anons.
Its ok than you dont have to bump so much, but quests are rather short lived, even if the thread is still on page 10.

It feels its good to have a own board for it. Threads stay long but anons that would play, dont play because they are on Veeky Forums and dont know when a certain /qst/ is started or started again.

I would wish there was a /qst/-thread like this on Veeky Forums to announce if a certain kind of /qst/ is on. As a sticky

It May turn out ok in the end but right now the currently running quests will suffer.
/qst/ is a neat idea but in practice all I've seen there are very crude quests like evo games and traped in a room what do.

Tripcodes that only exist in one thread. Have you even read /qst/'s rules?

Well, quests lost, obviously.
But that doesn't mean we are winning.

So when it could pickup players on it's own in once place, and is then told to move somewhere else away from it's source of players and can't pickup anymore players, it's its fault for being unsustainable

Even if y'all don't like quests, this is straight up bad moderation poorly executed, just bad policy in general.

Yeah, man. Not our fault those stupid indians can't handle moving around. We needed that land anyways. For casinos.

You're missing out on foot traffic, though. It's one thing to have a sign to your shop in a prime location, another thing to have the shop itself in a prime location. Every quest I've ever been involved in I came across just scrolling through the board.

Yeah, a complete 180 on how they've been ruling things.

I already said it was like /b/ used to be, which was tripcodes to a specific thread. It remains that switching to an unanonymous imageboard is a lot to ask.

If anything quests would be the European settlers and the Natives are telling them to fuck off.

If you want to go for the native american analogy you're not going to win.

>First they came for the writefags, and I did not speak out, because I was not a writefag.
they came for the writefags?
>Then they came for the smutfags, and I did not speak out, because I was not a smutfag.
#blueboard
>Then they came for the questfags, and I did not speak out, because I was not a questfag.
you are though, aren't you?

The only good thing about the trips is that HOPEFULLY it will cut down on the samefagging. Don't know for sure haven't really followed any qst threads.

Yes, i helped a Evo-quest by advertising on several draw/draw request threads, even Veeky Forums nomansland and on a evolution thread on /an/.

First its was just OP and me, than they drippled in
now we are at a 4th thread with average 25 anons
boards.Veeky Forums.org/qst/thread/536274/evogame-part-4-life-finds-a-way
I feel if /qst/ dripples, it may result in more advertisment of threads or even that some try to start quests on Veeky Forums

I'm very grateful for this commitment to action.

Thank you mods.

Also seriously much kek @ these hilarious overreactions:

Wow, that is really dependant on new media then. Really a completely modern take on collaborative story telling.

Not very.... traditional at all!

WHOS THE FUCKS YOUNGER THEN 12 ON THIS BOARD? SERIOUSLY!!!

>they came for the writefags?
I've seen stories/writefaggotry get pruned. People used to post original fiction on Veeky Forums from time to time, but its been discouraged the last couple years.

Boy, I can't wait for all the creativity and OC and all the other great things will return to Veeky Forums now!
Quests WERE drowning out those, right? That's what people said, so there must be some great novel threads around already!
>39 general threads
>would you a ____
>why are elves sluts
Finally we have the glorious old Veeky Forums back like it was before quests!

Crusty?

>#blueboard
#textisalwaysSFW

But the Europeans did win?

Point me to the elf slut thread.

Nah mate, he's dead
Here you go

It doesn't get rid of IP samefagging.

>younger then
>all caps
>doesn't know there are still writethreads

well I could wager a guess

By that standard, perhaps you want to make quests in /v/?

It's kind of weird if the argument is that Veeky Forums has an ideal post rate, because that's not really fair and opens up the idea that anyone who wants to post anything, while getting exposure to a lot of people and not falling away too quickly like it does on the faster boards, should do so.

All in all though, I do think that some quests should be permitted to stay on Veeky Forums, like Legoquest.

Thanks, I will do what I can to get them deleted, so this board can be free off quest-fags and smut-fags alike.

there is one writethread. One

The 'write-threads' these days are just 'what are you working on' threads. Folks used to post actual fiction onto Veeky Forums

>there is one writethread. One
good for people who want to participate in it? How many do there need to be?

Most are shit and there'll never be any new traffic.

An active board is necessary for quests to thrive since it kills off the weak ones and only the good ones survive. /qst/ is a dumping ground for trash. Even Anonkun is a better alternative.

fa/tg/uys didn't used to be this subservient.

Mod dick must taste good.

I know.

Just hoping he's not, too.

I'm fine with certain quests. Like best DEUS VAULT Crusader.

But Naruto quests? Those can fuck off forever. Same will all the other anime weeb shit.

So now that a new Nazimod has risen, what should we do? Elf slave threads now?

>they came for the writefags?
The infamous nazimod purge couple years ago, we lost some good drawfags and writefags there. And many mediocre ones, but those are diamond dozen. Also I needed third group to make the paraphrasing work and didn't have any better idea.

Oh look, nazimod is back to purge Veeky Forums of everything creative and interesting so we can have more 40k and elf slave wat do tier threads.

Thank god for that.

And yet this thread still stands:

Yes

Don't forget generals.

/qst/fags didn't use to be this forgetful

Getting yelled at for years must get on the brain

>Elf slave threads now?
How would this improve anything?

>qst
Best for slow writers though. We will have more Melancholy/Sue threads imo: Post an update once or twice a day...

>I'm fine with certain quests.
>But not all quests.
I'm afraid that's not an option. It's all or nothing.

Well if nobody reports it it's allowed on the board right?

>Don't forget generals.

yep, those are definitely a bad thing. Who wants to talk about any given system? About board games? world building?

No, those are a negative thing!

But there have been quests on Veeky Forums since 2008, user. Quests have been a thing on Veeky Forums for about 90% of its existence, by my count.

I reported it hours ago.

> since it kills off the weak ones

Veeky Forums isn't active enough for that. We've had quests with three people participating in them last for weeks, just bumping each thread for days whenever it got close to being deleted. It only takes one post every three hours to keep a thread alive on Veeky Forums during the day, so about five posts a day really isn't that much trouble for someone to do entirely by themselves.

There is nothing wrong with this

There were so many fucking quest threads that it overwhelmed the board, makes sense it should just have its own space.

So you resort to picking apart my spelling. Commenting on how I use all caps to denote that what I wrote should be read as if yelled. And bring up something I didn't even write?

Why would you run a forum game (which is what quests are) on Veeky Forums over a more normal sort of forum anyway?

>advertising [...] threads
Marketing. Well... necessary, I guess

>I'm fine with certain quests. Like best DEUS VAULT Crusader.

But that's absolute shit.
If anything, it's a great example of a quest that needs to be deleted, not moved to /qst/.

>There were so many fucking quest threads that it overwhelmed the board
This lie again.

Read an archived quest and find out.

Because people are lazy.

absolutley. This discussion is lead from the /qst/side as if they were just these few threads - no, there were dozens of threads, wherin each participated three, four people that shat up the catalogue. People complained about it for years, it's not some kind of kneejerk reaction to ban them.

True. Now, those General threads swamp the board, kill them all off too!

>there were so many fucking quest thread that it overwhelmed the board

This has literally never been true and you know it. There were never more than a dozen quests at a time, at peak time, and that's nothing.

Nobody knows you're a shit writer when you're anonymous

>so you resort to pointing at things people under 12 do to imply I'm under 12?

Yeah sorry, I feel ashamed.

Remember when that guy literally asked for donations for NSFW content in his quest thread?

There has not been a single time when anyone who said "quests overwhelmed Veeky Forums" actually provided any proof. Quests have never took up more than 15-20% of the board, as far as I know.
And no, there being other threads is not a reason for there not being other, "good" threads that you believe were drowned out.
Nothing was stopping creative people from making new threads.

>This lie again.
what the literal fuck?

>This has literally never been true and you know it. There were never more than a dozen quests at a time, at peak time, and that's nothing.

jesus christ. Bold faced lies or doublethink?

>People complained about it for years
A small group of assmad retards is not a group worth pandering to, which is all the anti-quest brigade ever was.

Deculture.

>anonymous
Every OP uses a trip though, no? Gets difficult to find OP posts just by the thread ID...

It annoys me, because this means I'll have to wade through/monitor /qst/ just because there's like 1 quest I'm invested in that happened sporadically on Veeky Forums. Maybe I'll have to actually make a twitter account just to fellow some questfag, and that's sad.

I'm not sure getting rid of the last few quests for good will improve the board any, but hey, maybe I'll be proven wrong.

Yes.

Nice leading question. It's actually the truth.

>Bold faced lies or doublethink?
The irony of this statement is bittersweet.

>There has not been a single time when anyone who said "quests overwhelmed Veeky Forums" actually provided any proof.

except at the time where they overwhelmed Veeky Forums and people literally just screencapped the catalogue, highlighting all the quests?

And 20% isn't fucking negligible.

I'm sure you have proof to your claims.
>inb4 W-well, y-y-you'd remember if you browsed teegee!!!!

That group is much larger than you think. Plenty of people were mad.