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@Ashkuri said in Does Anyone Even Care?:
At this point I just plan that the ending of the next game will be me and like 7 people and that’s alright.
I’ve found that planning for a game of me and 4 turned out to be me and a hell of a lot more people – but if we someday end back at me and a handful of others, that’s fine, too. Bigger isn’t better. 
@Faraday said in Grid vs Web Scenes:
Philosophically I just don’t think it’s good to force people to play in ways that they don’t want to for some imagined “good of the game”.
One day I am going to make my ShakespeareMU where every pose has to be written in iambic pentameter. Then you’ll see!
The most difficult lesson I learned (hopefully learned lol) on my last staffing venture was what I said earlier and what everyone in the thread is saying: people just leave. You won’t always know why. They don’t even always know why. As hard as it is to swallow it, you can’t make a game so good and effort so perfect and a story so great that they stay. There is no amount of correct staff behavior that makes people stay, though there’s quite a lot of incorrect staff behavior that can make them leave.
At this point I just plan that the ending of the next game will be me and like 7 people and that’s alright.
I’m split on it.
Sometimes I will stick around until a game dies (and in a few cases, still log on well after the staff has left, but the server is still up until the end of the month or whatever). Other times I’ll just bounce.
It has absolutely nothing to do with how bored or entertained I am either. I have sat on games until they died that absolutely bored me to tears, and I don’t honestly have an explanation for it. I’ve also bounced on games that entertained me immensely, but that’s usually at the first sign of stuff I just don’t want to deal with. (A recent example was the introduction on a game of a person who showed up with a character that had the disclaimer: “My character’s IC racism is not a reflection of my OOC beliefs.”, which usually isn’t true.)
I either stick forever or flake and wander off. I’m not sure the conditions around these things are definable even to me.
Resolved now. Posting somewhere about it always solves a problem before anyone has a chance to find out what’s really wrong.
The ADHD me wants to flit from one new thing to another. The autistic in me stays until the ship sinks.
I counter-act this largely by trying to build not only a game, but also a community around that game. That way, I find it easier to stay focused and interested because I’m not only playing the game, I’m also spending time with my friends and my tribe.
We don’t have a thread here (great! no scandals!) but right now I need one so…
We’re currently experiencing technical difficulties, most likely related to some internet downage somewhere. I’m investigating. Hang tight and check back in a few hours.
@Trashcan said in Grid vs Web Scenes:
@KarmaBum said in Grid vs Web Scenes:
The only flaw I’ve found is that, if you then change the location using the portal, it keeps the original room desc in the scene info.
I thought this for a long time before discovering that instead of going to ‘Edit Scene’ and changing the value for Location, there is an honest-to-god ‘Change Location’ BUTTON under the ‘Play’ menu.
EXCUSE ME WHAT
@Faraday said in Grid vs Web Scenes:
Are we getting more players from other mediums though?
yes. we were always surprised on arx just how many people kept coming in that had no MU* experience at all.
