Casual-Friendly
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Looking to see if there’s a mush out there that is “casual-friendly”. As in: does not have activity requirements. Does not have the vast majority of its RP happening in pre-scheduled scenes you have to sign up for.
Basically, something where a grownup who has RL job and RL commitment can log in a few hours a week if they have time, and engage, and have fun, without being obligated to jump through 99 hoops and make it a second job just to get involved.
Anyone?
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Keys, probably? I think they’re very async-friendly so it should be easy to set up scenes on a difficult schedule. I think it’s urban fantasy, and on Ares.
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@Starr-Saphyre Atharia is very casual. Basically the only ‘requirement’ I have is try to respond to stuff if you take a position of power when you can. And keep me appraised if you are going to be idle for longer than the 3+ months I have before freezing a character.
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@Pyrephox Correct on both accounts.
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The Network also can suit very well for this. I definitely fit into the “can log in for a few hours a week if they have time, and engage, and have fun” descriptor and I feel like I can keep busy and engaged. Sure, I have some FOMO about things going on when I can’t attend, but that’s more me than the game.
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@Roadspike Everything I’ve ever heard about the Network has made it sound the opposite. Things are big scheduled scenes, limited-time plots, etc.
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There are rotating Seasons where your Actor takes on an entirely new persona and then there’s the downtime between seasons called a Hiatus where the Actors all hang out in the Dome as themselves.
it’s not for everyone but I’ve been playing it since it opened and it’s really just what you make of it. There have been Seasons I didn’t participate at all because of Life and seasons I went all in on and the Hiatus RP is always a good breather from one Season to the Next.
If your schedule is such that you have bursts of free time for live play and enjoy the horror genre you might like Silent Heaven (silentheaven.org). It’s set up to be slower paced on the metaplot level and is very character driven imo.
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I’ve been working on one but RL has kind been terrible. :x
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We’re pretty casual over on Excelsior! , though much of our plot (the one run by staff) is done through scheduled events (both live and async). We have some activity requirements but we’re pretty lax on them and understanding if people need to take time, are busy, whatever.
Perhaps the bigger barrier for interest is that we’re roster-only, but we are expanding the roster slowly over time (and in bursts, occasionally).
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@Coin Yeah, the scheduled scenes are what killed the last game I was on for me. 90% of the RP there was these scheduled scenes; no one seemed to understand the concept of just “go RP”.
With my schedule, I usually don’t know till a couple days before I have time, THAT I will have time. At best. There’s no way I can do these “Oh, in 10 days on Sunday at 5 PM, 10 people will log in and do a thing for 6 hours.”
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@Starr-Saphyre said in Casual-Friendly:
@Coin Yeah, the scheduled scenes are what killed the last game I was on for me. 90% of the RP there was these scheduled scenes; no one seemed to understand the concept of just “go RP”.
With my schedule, I usually don’t know till a couple days before I have time, THAT I will have time. At best. There’s no way I can do these “Oh, in 10 days on Sunday at 5 PM, 10 people will log in and do a thing for 6 hours.”
I understand; though I think for the majority of people with jobs and stuff it’s likely the opposite.
That said, there’s been a lot more pick-up RP at Excelsior lately, it’s just unlikely that the plot scenes run by staff will stop being scheduled. But like I said, a lot of the scheduled stuff is also async, so.
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And now I have more than thirty seconds.
As Pyrephox said above, Keys is pretty casual-friendly. Most scenes run async or are pausable as the players agree on. There is ‘live’ roleplay, pick-up roleplay happening in the spur of the moment, but a lot of things are geared towards people with busy real lives, people with chronic illnesses, and people not in US timezones – or all three of the above.
We’re urban fantasy though not your ‘classic’ vampires, werewolves, and fae running around downtown. Everyone’s human now – but not everyone started out that way. We have been called the ultimate fanfic game by some and that’s honestly not quite wrong when you’re travelling in and out of infinite realities where everything is possible somewhere.
Anyhoot, feel free to come give us a peek if that sounds like something that might be worth your time.