<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=157589.msg7454916#msg7454916">Quote from: SatanKlaus on 29-12-2012, 20:14:50</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Joss Wheedon certainly had a good reason to include a western and an eastern mystic in his story. But having them is certainly not the <em>only</em> way you can tell a worthwhile story. </blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I agree.  It's not the only way.  But it's a great way.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">And there <em>will</em> be a time when each of us slows down the play and a time where each of us waits for a post. But if you just walk all over everyone with no consideration whatsoever, people will start to quit. And in the end, it will be you playing with yourself amongst your multiple characters. If that is not an issue for you, then maybe you would be better off trying your hand at writing a novel where the empty pages only wait for you and no one else.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>By "if you just walk all over everyone..."  do you mean me?  Because I don't think I walked over anyone.<br/><br/>People quit games all the time.  We had a bunch of people quit - Vergil's Serenity, mayo's Isi, Innocence hasn't logged in in a month, Jecter hasn't posted on Richard in weeks - I am pretty sure I had nothing to do with any of them.  I did RP with Branwen's Elfi but I think I was the only who actually did.<br/><br/>If I know I'm going to be inactive, I'll do everyone a solid and let them know.  It's entirely possible January and February will be rough for me, but I don't know yet.  But if I do know, you'll know, and then you can RP around Sue or NPC him as necessary.  I definitely do not want to hold back the game, or keep anyone hanging.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I have looked through your history as I did with everyone else who applied for this roleplay. You want to engage everyone, literally everyone, in the roleplay at once.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><br/>That's not true.  I want to engage with the<em>female characters</em>with<em>female players</em>, and see which ones I have chemistry with.  I'll do posts with male characters or male players, but they don't really hold my interest for long.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">It may work out for you, but I don't think it will for the rest of us as everyone's 'inbox' will be clogged with, well, <em>you</em>. And there have been long periods when you were busy and not available for roleplay as some people are now over the holidays. What do you think happens to the game when literally everyone is waiting for a post from the same person? </blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Everyone gets annoyed with that same person.<br/><br/>But I haven't had people wait for me because that wouldn't be fair to them.  Again, if I can't RP, I would say I can't RP.  I would say ignore my character or NPC my character.  But I won't leave the game hanging.  I don't let people wait on me.<br/><br/>And if I did disappear without notice for an extended period, it wouldn't be right to hold the game up for me when active players could be moving forward.<br/><br/>I've had that happen - I gave someone a great opening and they disappeared.  GM made me wait a week for a response.  No response came.  So I could have been posting for a week, but the GM made me wait for something that never happened.<br/><br/>I made Wally to get Phil and Levi going.  I made Sandy so Cookie would have someone to respond to after his player didn't know how to get into the action.  I think I'm getting people active, getting people to post.  Not the other way around.<br/><br/>In a group game, I want players to get involved, and if no one is RPing with them, then I will at least try to get them into the action.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">When I accepted you into the play I asked you to 'play nice' and let everyone have some room. I'm afraid I will have to repeat that request. If you feel underwhelmed with the posting speed here, there are many more roleplays on this site that you can join on the side. </blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I think I am playing nice.  I'm fine with the posting speed.  I just think it's erroneous to say that anyone posting faster makes people quit or keeps them out of the limelight.  If they want the limelight, they should post and get into the limelight.  They can even post OOC for some kind of opening, like Koekje did, and someone can help make an opening for them, like I did for him.<br/><br/>People don't post because they're busy with other stuff, not because there are people who post more than they do.<br/><br/>And I didn't notice any special accommodations made to Caela.  It seemed like we just kept on going and when she could RP, she did, which is the way it should be.<br/><br/>And the characters don't have to react to every single thing.  Just the most recent thing.<br/><br/>