I agree that maintaining updates on family trees would be an arduous task since it seems like players change their family names every other week.. but I wonder if it's possible to incorporate into the forums itself?
Notice how people on here have the Minecraft IGN on the left, I wonder if it's possible to add a Family section underneath? Or maybe add the family name as a group tag similar to the house and club tags under the person's name?
Maybe the Roleplay staff could handle the list of family names somewhere around the forums and create a page for every family, that links to another page for the family itself? There would have to be certain requirements in order to be listed.
- Minimum of three people in a family. With one or two head members that submit forms and relevant stuff.
- Pay a monthly gold fee? 100g a month? Could be multiplied by how many members. 7 members = 700g
- Cooldown on changing family names? Monthly?
- A legit name, just letters - no numbers or other characters.
- Has to have a description or lore for the family name when the form is submitted - minimum 50 words?
How the Roleplay staff can handle the lists, pages, and descriptions of the families could be similar to how staff applications are submitted. Under the Applications tab above ^, there could be a Families section. In the form submission, There could be a few questions that the head of the family has to submit.
- Head(s) of family
- Names of family members (IGN, nickname, and forum name). Could help link to forum profile.
- Family Description/Lore
- Maybe simple descriptions of each member? Could show each member's forum avatar. Or there could be an image submission of the entire family in one photo.
The Roleplay staff could update the family page once a week or once a month?
Also, I know that this can be done on a single thread in the Roleplay forum, but honestly I think it would look elegant if there were an actual dedicated page on the forums with the names and photos of each family. Plus, the Potterworld Community seems to have quite a few families on here and I think it would be nice if staff actually did something with that. Staff are definitely missing out on incorporating this whole family/friend thing somewhere into PW - I remember when players wanted to create family towns out of the current towns on the map. It would have been interesting to see happen, but that was declined.