I don't know that we need to be worrying so much about "peer pressure" in this game, so to speak. I personally don't mind if whoever is writing the scene leaves some of my material on the cutting room floor. I hope everyone here feels the same way. I threw out the dialog because if the captain didn't solicit the doctor's opinion, she wouldn't have anything to do in this scene. But if anything I write disrupts the flow of the final scene, by all means leave it out.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Second, it makes the posts of the people who follow up longer</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Though it is the same amount of time overall--your post might be longer, but in return you have to make less posts and it speeds things up substantially. Less posts leads to less waiting.<br/><br/>Regarding your third point, I think its reasonable to just rely on good judgment and have everyone agree not get too ambitious and make things too complicated.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Fourth, it's just not necessary. All you need to do is check once a day - or even every other day, at the rate we were going - and you'll have more than enough opportunity to jump in and respond to pretty much anything you like. Or, even better, if there's something you really want to say/respond to, just say so in the OOC thread, and the floor could be ceded to your char at the next best opportunity.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I don't really feel what you describe is all that different from the standard play-by-post format. If we can't leave OOC notes and be free to pitch ideas (regardless of if they are used) in the shooting thread, then the shooting thread/starring format might as well not be used. It's supposed to get a little messy--the mess is what allows (in theory) us to accelerate the process and not take half a year per episode.<br/>