MU Peeves Thread

bear_necessities

The one thing I learned from being a gamerunner is that you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it RP.

And @Snackness you are great and I you, just wanted to say that out loud. (@Pax we don’t play anywhere together but have in the past and YOU ARE GREAT TOO!)

devu

Finding out Shattered is set in an AU of my (metaphorical) back yard, and sounds exactly like the kind of game I like-- but apps are full.

Guess I’ll just hit refresh forever!

(Not a serious peeve. Knowing your limit and staying within it is a beautiful thing. This is just the ‘awwww maaaan’ type of peeve. <3)

L. B. Heuschkel

@RightMeow Just on the off chance that that was me – come finish our scene.

KarmaBum

I took like two months off playing last fall and, when I came back, it was with this mentality: Being nervous is sort of selfish sometimes.

Everyone is waiting to be asked to play. Everyone is convinced they’re the worst.

All of us.

Ask someone to play today.

See what happens.

farfalla

@L-B-Heuschkel a game being listed on arescentral is irrelevant if it closes chargen two days after opening. I’m not sitting around refreshing arescentral every day.

Testament

@devu I was going to give it a look as well and maybe spend some time playing instead of running. It was suggested to me as a way to not burn myself out plotrunning to actually play somewhere.

KarmaBum

@devu not even close to the same theme and probably about as far different as possible but I also cut my teeth in Pern and am having a v good time on LA 2043.

Responsive staff. Lots of people eager to make hooks AND ACTUALLY PLAY THEM (not just make them up and never RP).

https://la2043.aresmush.com/

Tez

@KarmaBum That game theme looked REALLY cool. I’m glad to hear good things about it.

L. B. Heuschkel

@farfalla Can’t argue with that. It doesn’t seem to be the norm for Ares games, though.

Testament

@KarmaBum I’ll take a look at it. Been a long time since I crossed a good scifi game. Or Cyberpunk as the case might be.

tsar

@Anhedonia is good people too.

Roz

I feel like Shattered was kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place. When Spirit Lake went public, they advertised on MSB, and then when they had to shut down apps, there were some people who were vERY LOUDLY UNHAPPY about it. This time they went public, but just let things get out by word of mouth to (I believe) try and keep the influx a bit more manageable, but it also results in people being sad they missed it. (But I also think that they’re estimating they’ll be able to open apps a lot earlier than Spirit Lake was able to.) So I feel for them in the situation, because it feels like there wasn’t a great solution either way. (And, for reference, I’m not speaking from the perspective of someone who’s on the game! I was gonna make a bit but missed the cutoff too, lol.)

bear_necessities

@Roz Yeah I agree.

I think we just need to figure out where our line is in the sand here because we can’t say “gamerunners should definitely only take on the amount of people they feel comfortable with” while simultaneously bringing out the pitchforks when apps get temporarily locked down.

Snackness

We talk a big game here about mental health and balance. We need to apply that to everyone. Even if it means you gotta wait a bit to do the thing you want to do.

KarmaBum

Mmm, I think the point isn’t that they shut down apps.

It’s that people are bragging on a place that technically isn’t open to everyone.

Which actually no one playing there did.

Someone NOT playing there lamented about it.

But that’s kind of the conversational drift at this point.

I don’t think anyone begrudges the closure of apps. Just that now the new-hotness is cutoff and still being talked about.

btw did I mention LA 2043 is open?

Pavel

@KarmaBum said in MU Peeves Thread:

I don’t think anyone begrudges the closure of apps.

you'd be surprised

KarmaBum

@Pavel Fair point.

I don’t think anyone who doesn’t suck begrudges the closure of apps.

Tez

I definitely wouldn’t say anyone’s brought out pitchforks. I don’t think that people are bragging, either. People have just lamented hearing about it after apps were closed.

Everyone that I’ve talked to about it who would have wanted to play there gets it. They get why a game runner would make the choice to pause apps. Mental health and balance!! People can think it’s the right thing to do while also being sad they missed the window. That’s what a peeves thread is for.

I absolutely feel for the people who would have wanted to play but can’t. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ETA: I feel for the staff here too. I think Roz is right that there is no pleasing everyone, and they made the choice that is right for them.

Pavel

FOMO is a powerful force.

Or, I guess, RTYAMOOSYDKAB: Realising that you already missed out on something you didn’t know abut before.

Tez

@Pavel Gesundheit.