@RightMeow said in When is the last time you played?:

I was on a previous game that’s practically dead if not dead, so no I won’t name and shame. However, the staff there would hold RP lectures on what my char should do. They didn’t hurt anyone. The people involved were having a good time. Every decision I made felt like if it didn’t benefit the person in charge or completely follow their vision, I got IC lectures. It’s not fun. Or I’d be told OOC how I wasn’t great. Also not fun. I happen to think I’m amazing and awesome and all those things (cough cough). Sometimes the world and the game created gets so consumed on the main trunk of the story, they don’t allow branches to form. That’s some of the best RP.

I played on an x-men revolution game that did this a lot with the performance critiques. It almost made me leave the hobby entirely.

@MisterBoring said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:

One of those games should change their name.

I think we should just lean into it.

@Aria I can see there being that immediacy/need/“obligation” happening with games as they first open especially, but agree, after things get going and chill out~~ we’re all just trying to fucking exist. I say, returning to rp after a flakey stint being burnt out by rl.

@bear_necessities 12 months for the whole damn game. I could see doing it in 7-8, but I think like… what if someone didn’t app the correct character right away and has to make a switch? What if they don’t find the game until it’s been going a month? What if rl happens and you have to drop off for 2 weeks? That offers some padding.

My tabletop group does a new campaign every year with the GM rotating out after their storyline is done, back in once the others have cycled through. It’s done a lot for our longevity.

ETA: I guess it could be 12 for the “season,” too.

@bear_necessities All of our attention spans have changed. There’s a lot of appeal for anthology games, though I’d lean more toward the 12 month mark to accomplish meaningful story, personally.

There plenty of reasons to leave a game.

To @bear_necessities’s take, finishing a personal storyline is also more important to me than a game’s overall storyline. (Even though in an ideal world, those are connected.)

The last few games I left, it was because… a) they got way too big, too fast for me to keep up with game happenings at the level I prefer, b) even though I liked the game, players entered my sphere who I was already trying to avoid and I protect my peace, c) “season 2” storyline just didn’t do it for me the way the original storyline did.

@Trashcan mind blown

@Wizz Yeah, I would say a week is the new norm

@Yam

I stopped hating on async when I started refusing to stay up way too late for any of you hoes courtesans.

One time @Roz’s character unironically played Wonderwall to my character on an acoustic guitar.

Be flexible. Don’t look for reasons to say no to player ideas. Look for ways to make their ideas work within the mechanics of your game world.

@Gashlycrumb said in MU Peeves Thread:

Pretend you don’t know that people can see you on +where RPing

Not to discount everything you just said because it sounds quite specific, but game admin are allowed to rp, they aren’t obligated to defend that time, and anyone who thinks otherwise can go fuck themselves.

Imo if request backlog becomes too big for the expectation a game has set for its players, that’s when you temporarily shut the door on new apps and/or get more GMs. These games are too damn big for one main staffer and a bunch of other admin who are spread thin on every other game.

James Van Der Beek

@bear_necessities might have to rewatch everything she’s ever done this weekend

Catherine O’Hara

@Yam A maximum word count limit for written backgrounds is the way to go. It’s great that you wrote that novel. Please send the link and I will consider purchasing. Summarize who your character is in a reasonable way.

Unrelated to the above opinion, I don’t think Arx should be our metric for OC apps. This is not intended as a critique. There are some things that game runners will be interested in policing, and some things that they aren’t.

@Meg said in Discussion: On Dragon Wings:

i grabbed t’mas off the roster. he looked fun. anyone who wants to play adjacent to me, hmu. (as a child?? or a wingrider?)

One of his kids IS on the roster.