I feel like the Business District should be renamed in such a way to make it accessible for RP stories OR businesses. That way it's localized, no one is confusing it for anything other than an RP, and cities can manage their own district as they see fit. Plus, I think it would provide a decent boost to the BD activity.

Or we can just use the streets for both speeches and stories? I know I have in the past and had absolutely no problems doing so. 

Having a new forum for stories as well as the streets for speeches is just going to create two forums where neither looks particularly used and loved. 

That said, I'd rather that than push stories into the BD's, because, as RedRum has said, fuck all nobody will see them or respond to them, and there's very little enjoyment in putting time into writing things that then are literally being seen by nobody.

So you want an entire new forum, because you don't like how people name their speeches and stories? :/

Honestly, I know very few people who read RPs. As an avid RPer, the joy I get is in writing them not in having them read by others. For this reason I prefer RPing in the BD instead of the Streets.

It's perfectly possible to find out who the RPers are at the moment. It just requires you to actually look.

I like this suggestion. I've had the same thought in the past. I think it would make it better for both sides, both story tellers and straight street speakers. I really don't think the activity of the forums should be looked at regarding a change like this. Just keeping the forums together for this sake, to make it 'look more active', in my opinion is complete fluff. The point is to separate the forums to give story tellers their own environment. Too many story posts get looked over because the Streets forum is more for speeches. If story posts had their own forum, I really believe this will breathe new life into this part of the game and give these posts and the posters their own little world and space to do their thing. As it stands, I believe people don't really care for the posts as much because the forum they are in doesn't really make sense.

I don't see the harm in giving a new section to the forums to split the threads in two. I think this will make it easier to navigate posts, and will actually help improve the activity if anything. People tend to be lazy on here when it come to posting as it is, and as soon as they open a streets story post it gets closed when they realize that it's a story. Split the forums, so people know what they are getting into when they click on a thread.

Change isn't really that bad, if anything a change like this could actually make the forums better in general.

I think stories can remain in the streets. Speeches and stories are both seen in the streets. Whether or not anyone replies you know they have seen it by the views on it.

I have to agree with Crayon on this. I've seen it happen before that a group looked at doing a "Story RP" together and you had other people coming in spouting things about how people put anything in the streets nowadays.

Speeches seem to do better in the streets then stories do. The only way I've really seen Stories survive was if they were done by one single person and in parts... if you try anything other than that, it doesn't always work out. So, there really is no harm done by putting in one more section so that if anyone DOES want to tell a story about anything... they can do so.

Not to mention... The streets can become a bit of a cluster fuck with all the speeches at get put out and things tend to get lost REALLY easily in there.