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RE: Long or Short? Application Process!posted in Rough and Rowdy
My main concern when it comes to application processes is whether the effort I put in will be returned to me. If I put in a great deal of effort in an application so that it takes days to complete, the least I expect is that staff, in turn, put in some effort to tell decent stories.
If you expect players to put in days of effort for an application, and also expect players to be your primary source of storytelling, that seems to be an unreasonably uneven workload.
That and the usual “if I’m expected to write a novel, I expect that information to actually be used” thing that you mentioned. Which happens so infrequently that we may as well say it never happens.
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Long or Short? Application Process!posted in Rough and Rowdy
Inspired by the discussion in another thread.
Do you prefer lengthy/intensive application process? Or a shorter one where you get into play quicker?
I’ll go first
Back in the day I didn’t mind a longer application because I thought that meant that the STs would use some of the information from the 100 paragraph novella they required to get approved. However, in the 20-30 years I’ve been RPing, STs using stuff from my character’s background (whether in plot or even a SINGLE scene)… I can count on one hand.
So, I like shorter. I just want to get into the action and focus on the plots the game is offering.
How about you?
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RE: Numetal/Retromuxposted in Rough and Rowdy
@Gashlycrumb said in Numetal/Retromux:
@Kestrel said in Numetal/Retromux:
Maybe they end up with fewer interested, but much higher-investment players, and they like it that way.
An aside: Almost certainly not.
That was the stated reason for arduous chargens in the past. But my observation is that the quicker a player gets into RP, the more likely they are to stay. 30 minutes to chargen, fast approval and you get into a fun scene right off? You will connect again. A few fun scenes in as many visits? You’re hooked and likely to play for a pretty long time. Six hours of work to chargen, days waiting for approval? That’s where you get the people who stop logging in before they even know they got approved. It seems counter-intuitive that they’d not be invested after all that time, but ask B.F. Skinner.
Then there’s my dumb ass, logging into the 16 year old account on Shadowrun Denver to see about unlocking Otaku after a decade-old bit of fuckery.
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RE: General Video Game Threadposted in Other Games
It’s quite fun. And some of the expansions have some darn good storylines!
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RE: Numetal/Retromuxposted in Rough and Rowdy
@Gashlycrumb said in Numetal/Retromux:
That’s where you get the people who stop logging in before they even know they got approved.
Slightly tangential, but a long long time ago, I was part of the staff for a whitelisted Minecraft server. For various reasons we had two tiers of whitelisting, one to give people basic access and the ability to claim a chunk and build for themselves, and the second to give people access to several mods we were using that could be dangerous in the hands of trolls. To get to the second tier of access, you simply had to be active for 60 days without being a troll or jerk or whatever. We had this clearly lined out in our server rules. I shit you not, one in four people would apply to be whitelisted, and then vanish, only to get the whitelisting while they were gone and return 60 days later to find out their whitelisting was removed for inactivity.
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RE: General Video Game Threadposted in Other Games
@Testament said in General Video Game Thread:
I now understand the jokes about how this game is single handedly holding up SquareEnix financially.
Yep. FFXIV is really keeping them in business. Prior to that it was the Dragon Quest series.
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RE: General Video Game Threadposted in Other Games
I started playing FF14 for the first time recently. MMOs tend to be a thing I go to when I’m, neither playing DnD or MUing. Played a whole lot of ESO, and on a lark and at the reccomendation of a friend, I started playing FF14.
I thought the game was just fluffed up hype.
I was very wrong. I’m sorry SquareEnix,
I now understand the jokes about how this game is single handedly holding up SquareEnix financially.
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RE: Numetal/Retromuxposted in Rough and Rowdy
@Kestrel said in Numetal/Retromux:
I’ve played on games with lengthy chargen processes, and games with quick/painless chargen process.
The games that really bother me is the ones that have lengthy chargen processes because their coded chargen forces it to be that lengthy because of bugs and various archaic command processes.
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RE: Numetal/Retromuxposted in Rough and Rowdy
I’m fairly sure we’re at least scored Line for ye olde WORA bingo…
