User blog comment:Wyvern 0m3g4/To Renew or Not to Renew?/@comment-4097945-20121212235426

While I am not so into this matter as I could, due to my temporary leaving of the wiki for Sea of Fools, which coincides with the creation and growth of the crew, I understand where you are coming from. I think I speak for a lot of us when I say a problem we have is the creation of various characters in a short amount of time, because you can't hold it in! I still do it. The trick is to think of the story and where that character can hop into to help it, even if it's just minor.

As far as collabs and RP's go, I can't say much, because I've never done one before. However, the plan I do have is to keep any of those projects as little "fillers" in my story. They happen, but they don't have a great impact in the story, just so I don't get off track.

Now: crew size! Yup, struggle with that too. My Red Flame Pirates have a mere four members, two pets and one ship (two if you count the former one). I still have problems with size, because I feel four is too little for the amount of jobs a crew requires, however, I know I will branch out when I make other ones, so I'd rather keep four and do them well than 1000 and 99% of them being either poorly presented or worked on (this does not apply to your crew, of course).

Ok! All that being said, what I think you need to do is:


 * 1) Organize and understand where each character stands, if they influence majorly or not the story and just how much they contribute to the crew's overall package.


 * 1) Work and improve those that you chose that needed it because of step 1.


 * 1) Create backup plans. A very important one! Just like everything in this world, genius ideas were not created in a single day (as shown by your year of work on the crew). This means that, even though sometimes we may be confident about something, something else later may throw that plan away. That's why a Plan B should never cease to exist.

I hope it helps out!