[Bacon Basic] A Top Tier Vanilla+ Game (Signups)

[DPR]

Don't be jealous, Jan.

 

I'm telling mom and dad.

[Nynaeve]

 

ie generally speaking, if the top poster has 150 posts, I'll prolly have 100. If the top poster has 900 posts, then I'll prolly have 600 :P

 

This isn't just about you, Marcia.

 

 

lol  oh, no worries. I'm well aware.

[Arsis]

 

 

If it's a gigantic wall of text I'll usually think you're mafia trying to drown things out with sheer volume. Being concise is a beautiful thing.

When I do ISOs, theyre proportional the a player's content volume. So it'll be longer the more they posted. But I always keep them to one post. I spoiler it. And I do a sum up paragraph for people who don't want to read the entire thing *shrugs*

I would say take the ten scummiest posts and then just say like "there are other posts along the same lines and just link them" normal wall of text is good I've just seen some excessive ones before

[DPR]

 

If it's a gigantic wall of text I'll usually think you're mafia trying to drown things out with sheer volume. Being concise is a beautiful thing.

 

When I do ISOs, theyre proportional the a player's content volume. So it'll be longer the more they posted. But I always keep them to one post. I spoiler it. And I do a sum up paragraph for people who don't want to read the entire thing *shrugs*

 

 

This, to me, is a play-style. When I mod, I like to open the door to as many legit play-styles as possible. They are techniques (including a certain amount of spam) and they can be very effective (and fun to watch) when used effectively. 

 

I've never had any problem with anyone who does this.

[Arsis]

 

 

 

 

If it's a gigantic wall of text I'll usually think you're mafia trying to drown things out with sheer volume. Being concise is a beautiful thing.

When I do ISOs, theyre proportional the a player's content volume. So it'll be longer the more they posted. But I always keep them to one post. I spoiler it. And I do a sum up paragraph for people who don't want to read the entire thing *shrugs*

This, to me, is a play-style. When I mod, I like to open the door to as many legit play-styles as possible. They are techniques (including a certain amount of spam) and they can be very effective (and fun to watch) when used effectively.

 

I've never had any problem with anyone who does this.

I'm not saying anything other than how they come off sometimes. If you use 10 words when 3 can make the same point I start to wonder why you're using the extra words? Are you trying to fluff your fake arguments?

[DPR]

 

I see. So, the last time I was really active on DM, we had a problem with lack of participation and too many people dropping out of games.

 

Now it sounds like you have the participation back, back maybe a little too much spam. And, that's easily solved by upholding Game Related Post policies. other than that, we could all hope that every game would run 500 pages because that would mean that it is teh awesome.

 

So why aren't we talking about GRP and "no fighting" rules? Seems like those cure all these ills, no?

No fighting rule needs to be accompanied by a no passive aggressive smarmy backhanded insults rule.

 

 

Meh, there's a certain amount of "you need to be this tall to get on this ride" that should exist. I've seen oversensitive people have issues that no one else saw at the time. On the other hand, I've seen mods favor friends and behavior that was way out of line and ruined games for others. 

[Nynaeve]

I'm not saying anything other than how they come off sometimes. If you use 10 words when 3 can make the same point I start to wonder why you're using the extra words? Are you trying to fluff your fake arguments?

 

I disagree, personally. I like to be very analytical and I put in everything so someone else might notice something I missed. I think you should prolly be more open minded about long posts rather than labeling every one as scummy.

 

Basically you have two choices. You either read it to determine if it makes sense or if it is just fluff. Or you ignore it and leave it in the null pile. You can't have it both ways.

[Tommyrod]

ARE YOUR BODIES READY

 

THIS RANDS TOMORROW NIGHT

[Andrej]

I think I'm frozen

[Krakalakachkn]

Don't worry AJ, I'll hold your hand.

[Krakalakachkn]

We can >rand villager and skip off into the sunset together.

[Nynaeve]

I'm gravitating between:

 

 

 

and:

 

 

 

 

 

lol xD

[Thane Vakarian]

[Barmacral]

Who's son are you beating?

[dicetosser1]

I'm confused - who wants a game to be slower? And by slow, what are we talking about? 

 

I understand that catching up on 25 pages after missing 6 hours can be less than pleasurable. But this ain't JN and I'm not aware of that level of activity here. Did something happen while I was away?

 

its more like 40 page catch ups DPR   and they REALLY suck.  then for people like me and cass   if we cant post/read at work we are probably looking at 50+ catchups every night the way things have been going and considering whos in this game

[DPR]

 

I'm confused - who wants a game to be slower? And by slow, what are we talking about? 

 

I understand that catching up on 25 pages after missing 6 hours can be less than pleasurable. But this ain't JN and I'm not aware of that level of activity here. Did something happen while I was away?

 

its more like 40 page catch ups DPR   and they REALLY suck.  then for people like me and cass   if we cant post/read at work we are probably looking at 50+ catchups every night the way things have been going and considering whos in this game

 

 

Well, time zones have always posed a bit of a problem, but it's never been too much to overcome. Again, does a GRP rule help this situation? The sense I get is that people are sick of reading a bunch of stuff that has nothing to do with the game? There are plenty of places to spam on DM, so maybe sticking to appropriate content is the solution - at least for a while so that things can get back on track.

[WWWwombat]

So does nobody have an opinion on the setup for the game you will all be playing

 

My opinion is that I don't want to balance this game for you.  I do enough of that already.

[WWWwombat]

 

You added a SK for LESS variance? If we roll SK, we're killing everybody who is protown and not hot.

 

Actually, scrap the protown thing. Just leave the hottest people alive.

SK needs to balance the numbers.

 

Depends how good of a shot he is.

 

 

i. e. Variance

[WWWwombat]

You added a SK for LESS variance?  If we roll SK, we're killing everybody who is protown and not hot.

 

Actually, scrap the protown thing.  Just leave the hottest people alive.

 

i wouldnt wanna be the one who shots either DPR of Kivam N1    that persons liable to get skinned alive when caught lol

 

 

I was thinking policy vig, but I like where you're going with this.

[WWWwombat]

Another issue is that a lot of people seem to like Wombat's way of catching up... which is basically him quoting a post and commenting on it... and doing this over and over again with every post he comes across in separate posts... instead of quoting all the stuff he wants to answer to in one post with the multiquote function. I've seen Des and AJ adopting that method in one game....and it adds an insane amount of posts to the game too.... beyond the whole spam and tiffs between players. It's one thing if only Wombat does it but when you have 3-4 people doing it then it clutters the thread up. So if that can be kept to a minimum, that would be super.

 

And then there's Salami.... who just vomits one liners into games 24/7.  >.>

 

Meh.  I don't respond to nearly as much stuff as I used to.  My style wasn't a problem when games weren't as frenetic and people didn't rely so much on real-time interaction.

[Nynaeve]

It's funny because I never really had an issue with it until people started to imitate it. 

[Kivam]

Players can enforce no spam rules, to. Personally, ament a good scum target, I'll vote spammers out

[WWWwombat]

I'm just gonna /squelch them if I have to.

[Cass]

ARE YOUR BODIES READY

 

THIS RANDS TOMORROW NIGHT

 

AAAAAAAAAAahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

 

*Jumps up and down in excitement*

 

*Returns to study*

[Sili Quirrels]

Praying to rand scum **