I thought we were all waiting for the game to launch...
^This; we can't claim this as a failure before it is even officially open. I mean the official forums aren't even open yet so there really is no opportunity for anyone to start building their characters/stories as the prelude isn't intended to be a start for your actual character, but just to get some rp practice (at least that's the way it seemed tome)
Also Bedwyr is spot on that you can't just start something out of nothing. At the very least a "major city" with a detailed background should be present at the start- you can't just give a blank map and say "go forth and rp". If you just leave it to the players you'll just end up with a string of unrelated and probably not even geographically close rp's which completely discourage any further writing.
