@Faraday said in What Do You Want Out of a MU?:
I’m just pushing back against the notion that it’s somehow trivial for everyone to carve out time for a routine schedule like that.
Looking back, I see where I came across as trivializing. I apologize.
It’s a serious social problem. I seldom think of it much in terms of gaming, but it comes up professionally regularly. I swear some of the employers around here watch the community college schedule and change people’s work schedules the week after drop date, so the students lose their tuition money as well as their time and are solidly discouraged from completing their degrees.
MU-wise, my own experience (not with @Faraday, who’s always been emminently reliable) is that events all over the clock mean I can’t make enough of them. Also that many people who manage to be thoroughly involved but also ‘catch as can’ are usually pretty obviously and in their OOC chat even openly, capable of a schedule, and even keep to one for the most part, just refuse to commit. That’s different from what Faraday’s talking about, though – I’m thinking of people who won’t /schedule/ a thing, but instead expect everybody to just wait for them to log on.
@Pavel said in What Do You Want Out of a MU?:
Well now who’s being unreasonable?
Because I live in the middle time-zone of the set for the Americas and MU during ‘prime time’ I don’t really have too much trouble finding a game where I can get into a scene within a few minutes of logging on most of the time. There’s just not so much variety of 'em as once was.
@Roadspike said in What Do You Want Out of a MU?:
@Gashlycrumb said in What Do You Want Out of a MU?:
Eh, “I want a prominant place in the story, while playing at a time offset from the rest of the group by seventeen hours,”
I don’t think that this is what @Pavel is saying. It’s certainly not what I was saying when I made a similar comment.
I don’t think so either. I thought what he meant was more like my second paraphrase – “I want a game that is played when I can attend." Same thing everybody wants, dead things, extra teeth a game that’s active when they want to play.