User blog comment:Inferno Pendragon/Monsters is Back!/@comment-30341819-20141014020749/@comment-1705775-20141014022939

the saga has always died in the past due to users leaving or feeling left out - I have now decided on a policy to deal with such things on a permanent basis : any character that is left out of a saga (by users leaving or being left out) can make a story of their own based on the "core" saga, showing how said character deals with things in that time-scale.. thus once a story gets a "core cast" (6 or so for a saga) it goes and does not end unless the "core cast" go AWOL in large numbers (I'm talking 3 or so - or half the cast).

This will aid in 2 ways -

1st : any characters who entered at the beginning of a saga but did not contribute much due to a user being slower to edit than the "core" plot is not forgotten entirely - they can catch up via making a story of their own.

2nd: any characters who have not entered at the beginning but wish to do so later will now be able to do so via their own stories - rather than arriving later in an established saga.. the longer people wait to join the less they do.. antagonists and heroes for sagas will now be established roughly in the first two chapters or less  - after this any potential "extras" can be added via other stories rather than putting a strain on the "core" saga.

so basically from now on sagas will be treated a lot more professionally, like a comic book script or similar - that way the stories can be made and not fester away as has happened WAY too many times in the past.