Board Thread:Fiction Universe Discussion/@comment-1370845-20140901204342/@comment-1370845-20140902224024

One of the key issues in the various fictions of the GigaConflicts was the fact that they generally conformed and catered to the individual user groups

That is not because of the concept of a co-ordinator being flawed. It was how the GigaConflicts was working. This new fiction works completely differently, when the co-ordinator does nothing other than give skeletons and directions, as opposed to instructions and rules that the Conflicts gave. A co-ordinator for a multi-user war is different to a co-ordinator for a fiction such as this, where they do not dictate anything beyond concepts and outlines.

as well as the fact that some fictions didn't proceed as quickly as other users would have liked due to the inactivity of their respective coordinator/s

There would be no major reliance on co-ordinators for anything in this fiction aside from the 'eras' of its events that affect the entire thing. A co-ordinator should be needed to create new scenarios, and should discuss them and plan them ahead, but people can still write subplots, their own involvement in the 'overarching' plot for a long time until then.

I propose that in the absence of one or two coordinators, discussions affecting the course of the fiction should be made openly with everyone involved and decisions reached should be made by the approval of the majority.

I do not disagree that almost all discussions should be made openly. The exceptions are why we need co-ordinators. Those exceptions being new scenarios that people wanted to make a surprise. There should be things that the involved users are kept guessing about, to add interest, and if the entire plot is just given from the start, it is less involving.

I believe that it would be relatively simple for the greater group of users to maintain the fiction rather than one or two figureheads, which not everyone may agree with in the first place.

It will that greater group of users that will agree on co-ordinators and decisions the co-ordinators make anyway. The co-ordinators are not "figureheads", they're just the brains behind the overarching plot that give up more of their time for this than the others. Having the greater group decide every single detail demonstrably results in slower decision making regarding plot aspects.

If every single user is at the same level as everyone else in the fiction, the problems that plagued the GigaConflicts will be avoided.

Every single user is at the same level as everyone else in the fiction, except the ones who are deciding which events should take place in the overarching plot. I've talked about that in this discussion, but allow me to illustrate with an example, and I will use the War of Ages. The March of the Apocalypse, stuff goes as normal, people write stuff in their own empire's stories, then Xhodocto absorb the universe into Hell. This does not damage the fiction or the involvement of anyone, but is an unexpected turnaround. And another thing; it was, again, Xhodocto3546 and The Valader who came up with the original overarching plots for both of those events. An overarching plot is not a restriction of freedom.

If we have no co-ordinators, we have no overarching plot or direction, leading to less involvement or interest, which defeats the idea of a plot that everyone can be involved in. The co-ordinators will be the ones bringing most of the ideas to the table and creating most of the skeleton plots, and the overarching plots will be just that, skeletons.