Kaga
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@_@ Ah, sorry!! Time really got away from me on this one. I will post today; I promise.
Yes.
You can't make me get a Facebook.
You can't make me get a Facebook.
Captain Jordan said
This is my preferred system, but it depends on everyone respecting the others they're interacting with. If one rude person steps out of order, without consulting others or giving them a reasonable time period in which to post, the whole system collapses. That's not really fun.
Every system has flaws. If you get that one problem player, then you just have to talk to them about it. As the GM, they kind of have to listen to you, or else you have every right to toss them out of the RP. In my experience, anyone who cares about staying generally listens to the GM.
racoonman said
Thanks for all the input guys, it's not only helped me decide to not have a strict posting order, but also helped me realise splitting the group into smaller parties would probably be a good idea!
Ah yes, that too. If you don't have a strict posting order, then large groups are confusing - people suddenly aren't sure who they're supposed to be waiting on, and people can think they're waiting on someone who is actually waiting on them, and the whole thing freezes up. Such is the biggest weakness (I think) of not having a strict posting order. Not to mention, this can also lead to players not having any ideas as to where to go next plot-wise, so yeah. Smaller groups are better. Mix and match who's in what group from time to time, sure, but don't let a large party stay large for very long.
And this is one of the many reasons why I don't have a Facebook.
You are not my friend - but there's also nothing wrong with you, and I never thought you were creepy. I just can't call you my friend because we've never talked much and I don't see you posting all too much.
You want to be my friend? Or anyone's for that matter? Try to find something you have in common with someone and PM them; start a conversation. There are a lot of people on the Guild that I consider myself close friends with all because of some random conversation that started out of nowhere.
In all honesty, I think it takes very very little for me to start calling someone my friend, and a surprising amount for me to call someone my enemy. I'm open to PM's if you ever feel like it; assuming you won't act like a huge asshole we'll probably get along fine.
You want to be my friend? Or anyone's for that matter? Try to find something you have in common with someone and PM them; start a conversation. There are a lot of people on the Guild that I consider myself close friends with all because of some random conversation that started out of nowhere.
In all honesty, I think it takes very very little for me to start calling someone my friend, and a surprising amount for me to call someone my enemy. I'm open to PM's if you ever feel like it; assuming you won't act like a huge asshole we'll probably get along fine.
There have been much longer periods of (apparent) inactivity from Mahz in the past. I assure you, he hasn't forgotten about us.
For starters, he promised us WOTM managers that our Contest subforum was on the way not that long ago. So that's something.
For starters, he promised us WOTM managers that our Contest subforum was on the way not that long ago. So that's something.
HeySeuss said
Next bad idea: Who should head this committee?
Nat and Joe will be in charge of it together.
BrobyDDark said
So, all I have to do to make money is paint something extremely bland and then channel my inner hippie to write descriptive shit about it?
That's the way to make anything seem like the best thing ever.
Spam and OT should be combined into one forum.
Members from here should then be recruited as the official welcoming committee for new members.
Members from here should then be recruited as the official welcoming committee for new members.
Here's how I see it.
Instead of a strict posting order, you should just encourage players to wait for everyone else their character is interacting with before posting themselves. If you're in a group with three other characters, then wait for those three before moving on, as opposed to just jumping in again after only just one.
The problem with a thread-wide posting order, though, is that when not all your characters are in the same place, it creates needless stalling. Take the example I brought up above, except there are four more characters in the roleplay, in another area. If you impose a strict posting order, then RPers in group A are waiting for posts from those in group B despite the fact that they shouldn't have to depend on group B's posts at all. In the worst case scenario, let's say that the posting order just so happened to line up so that everyone in group B had to post before group A could continue. That means group A has to completely halt its activity while it waits for everyone in group B, and vice versa, stopping them from running at a good speed by letting them both move at once.
Not to mention, with a strict posting order, everyone is completely held up if one person leaves, causing the entire RP to halt while the GM figures out a solution - as opposed to the alternative of just letting a few people get held up, while the rest of the RP moves. The few who did get stuck can get caught up and meet up with the other players later without too much effort - it's better than letting the whole RP freeze and forcing people to wait for the solution to the drop-out of a character that they had nothing to do with, in my opinion.
In short, strict posting orders are best avoided. In fact, in most RP's, I place a rule telling RPers not to wait for players they're not doing anything with, because it just slows things down and holds people up. It's much better to just encourage players to use common sense and wait for the people they actually need to wait for, and no one else.
Instead of a strict posting order, you should just encourage players to wait for everyone else their character is interacting with before posting themselves. If you're in a group with three other characters, then wait for those three before moving on, as opposed to just jumping in again after only just one.
The problem with a thread-wide posting order, though, is that when not all your characters are in the same place, it creates needless stalling. Take the example I brought up above, except there are four more characters in the roleplay, in another area. If you impose a strict posting order, then RPers in group A are waiting for posts from those in group B despite the fact that they shouldn't have to depend on group B's posts at all. In the worst case scenario, let's say that the posting order just so happened to line up so that everyone in group B had to post before group A could continue. That means group A has to completely halt its activity while it waits for everyone in group B, and vice versa, stopping them from running at a good speed by letting them both move at once.
Not to mention, with a strict posting order, everyone is completely held up if one person leaves, causing the entire RP to halt while the GM figures out a solution - as opposed to the alternative of just letting a few people get held up, while the rest of the RP moves. The few who did get stuck can get caught up and meet up with the other players later without too much effort - it's better than letting the whole RP freeze and forcing people to wait for the solution to the drop-out of a character that they had nothing to do with, in my opinion.
In short, strict posting orders are best avoided. In fact, in most RP's, I place a rule telling RPers not to wait for players they're not doing anything with, because it just slows things down and holds people up. It's much better to just encourage players to use common sense and wait for the people they actually need to wait for, and no one else.
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