Both Amber and Misan want into it.
Latest posts made by WhoCaresWHo
-
RE: CoA BLOOD BOWL LEAGUE
Yeah we have people from pretty much all timezones involved.
HALFLINGS4LYFE
-
RE: Just my Opinion
I agree with what seter is saying here, I have only really ever seen one consistent DM IG over the past few weeks in my timezone and it wouldnt suprise me if said DM is begining to get burnout. Also from what I am led to believe that there really only is dm activity during the the times that I play (I.E GMT evenings). This will somewhat will lead to a downward spiral as both players and dms kind of need each other to create awesome stories and plots, sure at those times you will get a few people who log on to quest but with nothing to do further then why would people bother staying logged in? sure there is rping with others, but plot pushing becomes very difficult.
The idea of threads like this /topic/11625 seem to work well, it gives everyone an oppertunity to get involved and lets people know when something will be happening when there are so few players/dms about. The downside to this however is that going on some of these events and plots I find it difficult to actually -feel- included on it, sure I am there on the event however I am only there because I feel that its the only oppertunity to get some dm loving and not because it is something that my PC truely cares about, hell I even get lost just entering a plot randomly that has been going on a while and trying to work it all out. So instead I would try and create some plots that could maybe at somepoint get an event on that list above, but players in general do not seem interested these days (Not to fault players but just differences in IG opions/wants/needs allways negate these things) and if I cannot get the interest of the players its hardly worth trying to get a DM to run things for it. It just at times feels I am logging on to quest, attempt to push things but nothing ever really happens.
Most of this everyone allready knows, lack of players/dms leads to a lack of plots and events going on which inturn leads to a stale world where there is only really quests to do. While the above events are needed to help push story I dont believe it does as much to make the setting feel alive for example when there were alot of players the world felt alive because there were interactions practically everywhere you went with PC's so this is what made the setting feel rich and reactive, now in this day and age perhaps smaller events, the possesing of a barkeep when two people are talking near him needs some small task doing might add more flavour and spice things up alittle.
I have noticed a trend on CoA, is that there will be dms around who will get burnout and go on a break. Then just enough dms are then introduced to replace those on hiatus and then the cycle continues so on and so forth. The current DMs who are active must have tons of pressure on them and it makes me wonder if/when those dms will burnout also. There are plenty of players around here who are capable of telling stories and have the correct mindset, I feel if you its left much longer as it is then the server playerbase will only deminish further, especially if what active DMs either do get burnout or for whatever reason find that they cannot play anymore.
We -are- still getting new players, we just need to find a way to make those players stick around which is hard when all there is to do is quest.
Trolling has allways happened on any online community, I think though on CoA it is less harsh and not as frequent as in other online communities and forums. That being said it may only at the moment cause further harm to the server, especially on the forums (I guess it doesnt matter as much on IRC but then again I am probably one of the culprits on there so I will try and cut it out) it doesnt seem to help anything really so it should probably stop… yet I dont think it will.
-
RE: Adventure vs Intrigue
I think its just that there is a low playerbase, all the metafactions are set up to have some conflict stirring in them. Mostly what I see are just dissagreements more than anything. I do think some things are starting to stir perhaps, but its going slowly.
I think the major problem is that people are scared of annoying the major groups that seem to be spearheading the plots. If you annoy those PC's then its the impression that you will get cut out of those juicy DM plots. I say impression because if you start to cause conflict and stir things I would hope that you get antifaction plots going, but this is hard when people arnt willing to just take that step and conflict.
Perhaps I am wrong though! just the impression I get currently.