What OP describes has been a great source of frustration for me in the past. People have hours to spend bantering in the public channel or the foyer room, but are standoffish at the prospect of actually playing the game. I think this is mostly a cultural issue with MUSHes. I haven't experienced it on other RPG mediums.
@Tinuviel said in If you work hard, son, maybe someday you'll RP:
@Florida-Man said in If you work hard, son, maybe someday you'll RP:
@faraday said in If you work hard, son, maybe someday you'll RP:
@Florida-Man said in If you work hard, son, maybe someday you'll RP:
I only log in to play, so I don't consider this expectation unreasonable.
Logging in only to play is certainly not unreasonable. That's your choice. Just as someone can join a baseball team, attend each game/practice faithfully, never speak to another soul on the team outside of game-related conversation, and then go home. There's nothing wrong with that, but expecting everyone else to do it too is unreasonable. Communities socialize. Like it or not, MUSHes are communities. It's not just about the game.
Well, if I come onto a game to play the game, and none of the people on it are interested in playing the game, that's a bad game. Zero stars. I don't want to be on that kind of "game." Especially if I have to go through this multi-hour application process to get a character on it.
There's a difference between "not playing" and "not playing right now."
Whatever you say, hoss. If people aren't playing a game after trying to find something a few times (preferably on different days), the game sucks, and so do the people on it. You can only "not play right now" for so long before it's reasonable to write you off. Next.
@faraday said in If you work hard, son, maybe someday you'll RP:
@Florida-Man said in If you work hard, son, maybe someday you'll RP:
I only log in to play, so I don't consider this expectation unreasonable.
Logging in only to play is certainly not unreasonable. That's your choice. Just as someone can join a baseball team, attend each game/practice faithfully, never speak to another soul on the team outside of game-related conversation, and then go home. There's nothing wrong with that, but expecting everyone else to do it too is unreasonable. Communities socialize. Like it or not, MUSHes are communities. It's not just about the game.
Well, if I come onto a game to play the game, and none of the people on it are interested in playing the game, that's a bad game. Zero stars. I don't want to be on that kind of "game." Especially if I have to go through this multi-hour application process to get a character on it.
@faraday said in If you work hard, son, maybe someday you'll RP:
I don't really think it's unique to MUSHes, except that on a MUSH there seems to be this unreasonable expectation that "oh you're logged in, clearly you should be here to play".
I only log in to play, so I don't consider this expectation unreasonable.
What OP describes has been a great source of frustration for me in the past. People have hours to spend bantering in the public channel or the foyer room, but are standoffish at the prospect of actually playing the game. I think this is mostly a cultural issue with MUSHes. I haven't experienced it on other RPG mediums.