@Cobaltasaurus said:

Nuku does come around every so often to talk about Ponyfinder. He (?) has been fairly successful with it.

Boy was I surprised to discover that's not some kind of Brony dating site.

@Apos said:

The Reach was the first game I played that I saw people mention how much they hated social RP, and that really surprised me when I started. Then I came to the disappointing conclusion that what they REALLY meant was, 'I hate RP that won't go anywhere', and that social RP was code for that. It was the first time I played where social RP was largely without consequence, and I just wasn't used to sandboxes doing that.

I became one of these people very fast when I came back from my hiatus and everything had moved to NWoD and PrPs and scheduling and a whole different vibe. I was finding that spontaneous grid RP was thoroughly dominated by people who were aggressively interested in relationship RP. So I withdrew and stuck to playing with people I knew, or people who demonstrated OOCly that they were interested in story. It kinda worked out on The Reach, in that I always felt unsatisfied but was able to find people for personal RP. When I moved to Fallcoast it seemed to be entrenched right from the start -- I was running a lot of stuff across two spheres, but finding RP with my characters was such an awful grind that I stopped playing altogether. I miss writing, but I don't care to suffer through a gauntlet of thirsty basement-dwellers in the hope I can find and claw out a diamond or two from the rough.

@Apos said:

@Sessurea Yeah, and that's a depressingly common sentiment I've heard echoed a lot. I don't really think the demographics of MUs have changed at all, but the people looking for meaningful character development on a grid get elbowed out if there's not any kind of strong draw bringing people back there to have grid rp happen in an organic fashion. It's a really important design element that I think is dangerous to ignore, where staff can just shrug and say, 'whelp, up to players to get out there and make RP'.

I don't really get it because, why not go play on Shang? I guess that it could be having an established theme, or you've probably got a lot of people who ARE on Shang but are eager enough to spread it anywhere they can get a login, I dunno. They vastly outweigh the STs and engaged, proactive players. Banning TS is ridiculous and ineffective, so what other way is there for the few people who do want story to find each other, connect, play, without having to be perma-braced for the text-only version of unsolicited dick pics?

Cirno, are you Nuku?

@Cobaltasaurus said:

Nuku does come around every so often to talk about Ponyfinder. He (?) has been fairly successful with it.

Boy was I surprised to discover that's not some kind of Brony dating site.

Cirno, are you Nuku?

@Apos said:

@Sessurea Yeah, and that's a depressingly common sentiment I've heard echoed a lot. I don't really think the demographics of MUs have changed at all, but the people looking for meaningful character development on a grid get elbowed out if there's not any kind of strong draw bringing people back there to have grid rp happen in an organic fashion. It's a really important design element that I think is dangerous to ignore, where staff can just shrug and say, 'whelp, up to players to get out there and make RP'.

I don't really get it because, why not go play on Shang? I guess that it could be having an established theme, or you've probably got a lot of people who ARE on Shang but are eager enough to spread it anywhere they can get a login, I dunno. They vastly outweigh the STs and engaged, proactive players. Banning TS is ridiculous and ineffective, so what other way is there for the few people who do want story to find each other, connect, play, without having to be perma-braced for the text-only version of unsolicited dick pics?

@Apos said:

The Reach was the first game I played that I saw people mention how much they hated social RP, and that really surprised me when I started. Then I came to the disappointing conclusion that what they REALLY meant was, 'I hate RP that won't go anywhere', and that social RP was code for that. It was the first time I played where social RP was largely without consequence, and I just wasn't used to sandboxes doing that.

I became one of these people very fast when I came back from my hiatus and everything had moved to NWoD and PrPs and scheduling and a whole different vibe. I was finding that spontaneous grid RP was thoroughly dominated by people who were aggressively interested in relationship RP. So I withdrew and stuck to playing with people I knew, or people who demonstrated OOCly that they were interested in story. It kinda worked out on The Reach, in that I always felt unsatisfied but was able to find people for personal RP. When I moved to Fallcoast it seemed to be entrenched right from the start -- I was running a lot of stuff across two spheres, but finding RP with my characters was such an awful grind that I stopped playing altogether. I miss writing, but I don't care to suffer through a gauntlet of thirsty basement-dwellers in the hope I can find and claw out a diamond or two from the rough.

Oh. How odd.

Huh, I had no idea I'd been missing all those colors.

I've been clod-hopping about and stirring up the waters more than I intended!

Thanks Theno -- the person who asked has made an account here (Apathetic) so point her in his direction if you snag her.

Posting on behalf of someone else while I'm here. Is Lloth still out there, or does anyone know where they're at? Apathetic Crusader is asking.

Awesome, thanks! Drop me a PM, we should catch up anyways.