The state of roleplaying in PS (aka, something you won't ever admit)

[Illysia]

Oh, don't worry your little head. Once the new semester starts I'll be good and out of your hair like so many others that posted dramatic leaving threads. By the way verden, did you actually read it or do you just as assume you know what I was already going to say?

[verden]

Promises, promises. You've got the PS obsession. Just try to get away. But I'll miss you. That was sincere, and wasn't sarcastic.

[Wavan Levironk]

I seriously need to say this: Grow up people, the situation is not THAT dramatic. Illysia, if I were you, I wouldn't leave, unless you have better things to do, but PS is still a roleplaying game and we need people like you showing it.

[Roled]

Yesterday, there was a fine rp graduation party for Tessra hosted by the Knowledge Seekers and sponsored and fed by the Stonehead team of cooks and servers. We had 18-22 folks attending, it was fun, no gore, no mayhem. Yeah for the Stonehead team! Yeah for Tess! Yeah for the KS! Yeah for everyone who came! Yeah for Elady's pies! in abundance

IC Plots were forwarded, characters who hadn't interacted much before came strangers and left... well that's for us to find our as they play. At the end there was a terrific discussion of the ethics of Dark Way led by Lord Barike and Sir Esorono, where newer, younger characters had the great fortune of learning from older more experienced characters.   

Thanks to all who attended and who participated.

This was fun! I wore a porg pie hat, compliments of Eso.. 

Roled

[Illysia]

I'll be good and take that comment at face value Verden and as for PS obsession... Nah, I just don't have another forum to lurk during my downtime and when all is said and done, I still have the muscle memory for getting back here. I spent a lot of time here in the past. Getting out of game was easy, though, as I had lost my taste for it a year ago. But now I can let go of the feelings of responsibility that tied me to the game even while it was a miserable lot to log in. PS forums will only be hard to avoid until I have far more important things pressing me from all sides.

That leads me to my next point. I have many better things to be doing, not that I necessarily want to do them, but they're there. I spent 3 years putting PS first in my life, for some reason, and I've gotten no return on that investment but memories... memories would be fine if the game wasn't in the condition it's in now. Memories of more creativity than now wasn't what I ever expected. But it's cool, I've finally come to grips with the loss and, I might add, the ingratitude from certain people running things around here. I just had to go ahead accept that it's better to cut my losses than wasting more time trying to salvage the investment. RL should not suffer because of wanting a game to succeed... no matter how much you love the game.

However, on an on topic note. RP will never die entirely. Only the quality and/or player count will diminish. But if people are having fun, let them have their fun. It's another reason why I left. Since I'm the only one not having fun, it's time to move on.

And to Roled, it's about time there was a plot that didn't involve somebody getting hurt.

[Knightspark9]

I'll be good and take that comment at face value Verden and as for PS obsession... Nah, I just don't have another forum to lurk during my downtime and when all is said and done, I still have the muscle memory for getting back here. I spent a lot of time here in the past. Getting out of game was easy, though, as I had lost my taste for it a year ago. But now I can let go of the feelings of responsibility that tied me to the game even while it was a miserable lot to log in. PS forums will only be hard to avoid until I have far more important things pressing me from all sides.

That leads me to my next point. I have many better things to be doing, not that I necessarily want to do them, but they're there. I spent 3 years putting PS first in my life, for some reason, and I've gotten no return on that investment but memories... memories would be fine if the game wasn't in the condition it's in now. Memories of more creativity than now wasn't what I ever expected. But it's cool, I've finally come to grips with the loss and, I might add, the ingratitude from certain people running things around here. I just had to go ahead accept that it's better to cut my losses than wasting more time trying to salvage the investment. RL should not suffer because of wanting a game to succeed... no matter how much you love the game.

However, on an on topic note. RP will never die entirely. Only the quality and/or player count will diminish. But if people are having fun, let them have their fun. It's another reason why I left. Since I'm the only one not having fun, it's time to move on.

And to Roled, it's about time there was a plot that didn't involve somebody getting hurt.

Illysia? Will you at least post a few replies to see how we're doing? I'm going to miss you.

[verden]

I'll be good and take that comment at face value Verden and as for PS obsession

You don't actually think I dislike you personally? You have a nice personality, Illysia. You are also tenacious and bright. They are good qualities and will bear you out wherever you go. I had to troll you a little, its just my way of saying goodbye.

I honestly think we are moving into a period where the focus will be on mechanics and content. I think that we will find that things that can be done to the system to promote roleplay will happen, its simply that the schedule around here does not favor rapid changes, even as responses to immediate problems.

[Illysia]

@Knightspark9:  Thanks, it was fun those few RPs we had together. But I won't really be dropping back around until some things change around here. I know my problem is that I have difficulty with working in groups that aren't professional enough and apparently that is the problem I faced with PS. By the way that means more than completing parts by a due date. There just isn't enough respect, restraint, organization, and accountability going around.

If one day this project has its act together a little better, then maybe around the time I'm getting my video game related Masters I might come back around. But for now and the foreseeable future, not happening. Shame too as I learned a lot about development from this game. Shame I now know what not to do as well.

@Verden: You got an odd way of saying hello and goodbye. Yeah, I used to be nice and whatnot before the PS burnout, but now I know what happened to many before me. I could live with focusing on mechanics, it's just the mindset that comes with it is disturbing. There is no use RPing in game where it feels like you might get kicked out for RPing at any given moment. I bothered to write that long post as a way of pointing out problems and then actually offering solutions. I personally hate it when people are "just saying...." so I tried to contribute solutions but you see how that goes.

Bashing as it was so affectionately called does not take 6000 words, not even around here. Go figure, a problem and plan of action that has been thought about hard for a long time might be longer than a memo... heaven forbid we make people stretch for a moment to read it. Also, I can see not having rapid changes and I can see disagreeing, but the lack of respect for anyone not kissing up is going to be detrimental to the development process. I refuse to butt kiss to get a chance to get heard as I am a firm believer than those tactics do no good for the project. Also it's not worth it. I have nothing to gain by doing it.

[Knightspark9]

You don't have to come and see how the game is going, just come and say hi. Please!

[novacadian]

Venorel opens her volume of 'Epic Goodbyes' and makes an entry.

[Illysia]

Maybe but I doubt I will be doing that often. I'll probably be too busy with RL, for once, but we'll see. Perhaps I'll stop by other PS related forums for saying hi periodically.

[verden]

Its been 5 days now since the epic "I'm leaving" post from Illysia. And she continues to post messages that seem to imply that she is going to continue to punish the PS community by not showing up anymore.

[Draklar]

[...] she is going to continue to punish the PS community by not showing up anymore.

I'm doing just that for good 6+ years now.

That'll show you guys...

[Illysia]

Its been 5 days now since the epic "I'm leaving" post from Illysia. And she continues to post messages that seem to imply that she is going to continue to punish the PS community by not showing up anymore.

That would require the community to actually be on the forums.

[Draklar]

Its been 5 days now since the epic "I'm leaving" post from Illysia. And she continues to post messages that seem to imply that she is going to continue to punish the PS community by not showing up anymore.

That would require the community to actually be on the forums.

...and as I already insinuated, I'm not around this place here. Her story checks out.