RP Safari - Pacing Styles

[hellfrog]

@KDraygo nah, those aren’t live scenes if they are going async or continuing for days with pause. .

But honestly, I immediately take a dim view of claims that specific choices are correct and protected due to having jobs and lives. Nearly all people have jobs and lives, and they choose what to do with their free time how they want. No one’s time is more sacred than anyone else’s.

[bear_necessities]

@hellfrog said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:

view of claims that specific choices are correct and protected due to having jobs and lives

No one is doing that here. I think everyone in this thread has said that any and all play style is valid.

[MisterBoring]

For me my brain sorts the metric as:

Live - 1-15 minutes between poses
Async - 16 minutes - several hours between poses
Distracted - Days between poses.

If the system had a way to track the date / time for each pose, it could feasibly keep a running tally on the average time between poses and then sort the scenes by what type they are.

[Trashcan]

@Faraday said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:

Would folks like to see scene metrics in AresCentral alongside the player login metrics?

I don’t know. I do worry somewhat that if your game isn’t reaching the exact blend of async/traditional/distracted a given player is hoping for then that might be a turn-off for no good reason, especially given that these stats have a margin of error.

Metrics never tell the whole story, though, so that’s not a reason to say no flat-out. As a gamerunner, I’d be interested in seeing them in a convenient location.

[Faraday]

@MisterBoring said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:

If the system had a way to track the date / time for each pose, it could feasibly keep a running tally on the average time between poses and then sort the scenes by what type they are.

Except as mentioned above, not everybody agrees with these definitions.

[Roz]

@MisterBoring said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:

For me my brain sorts the metric as:

Live - 1-15 minutes between poses
Async - 16 minutes - several hours between poses
Distracted - Days between poses.

If the system had a way to track the date / time for each pose, it could feasibly keep a running tally on the average time between poses and then sort the scenes by what type they are.

i think you have async and distracted reversed. generally people are using “distracted” as “live but maybe a little longer between poses because folks are at work and might get pulled away for bits.” still often completed in one session, vs async potentially going over days.

[MisterBoring]

@Faraday said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:

@MisterBoring said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:

If the system had a way to track the date / time for each pose, it could feasibly keep a running tally on the average time between poses and then sort the scenes by what type they are.

Except as mentioned above, not everybody agrees with these definitions.

Yeah, I’m aware, but even having the ability to look at a list of scenes and just see flat data about the average time between poses might make it easier for people to choose scenes they want to join based on their personal preferences.

@Roz said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:

@MisterBoring said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:

For me my brain sorts the metric as:

Live - 1-15 minutes between poses
Async - 16 minutes - several hours between poses
Distracted - Days between poses.

If the system had a way to track the date / time for each pose, it could feasibly keep a running tally on the average time between poses and then sort the scenes by what type they are.

i think you have async and distracted reversed. generally people are using “distracted” as “live but maybe a little longer between poses because folks are at work and might get pulled away for bits.” still often completed in one session, vs async potentially going over days.

I can concede that.

[Third Eye]

@MisterBoring said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:

Yeah, I’m aware, but even having the ability to look at a list of scenes and just see flat data about the average time between poses might make it easier for people to choose scenes they want to join based on their personal preferences.

A lot of Ares games have these posted but they differ from game to game and, shock of shock, sometimes players don’t read things.

[Pavel]

@Third-Eye said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:

sometimes players don’t read things.

[MisterBoring]

@Third-Eye

[Prototart]

I’ve never been able to get into Async because I’m super flighty and unreliable. A friend of mine who lives in Australia absolutely loves it tho, it lets her do stuff with the 90% of people who aren’t in the Pacific Theater