SillyMcGilly wrote:ctrlFrequency wrote:Sid's comment about my slow posting made me chuckle. They used to tell me to slow down. A touch of irony.
Well the thread you kinda made with Rodimus to have a fast RP experience kinda died, so..
(I have been having to make bullet point lists lately... So in a mindset) My free time greatly decreased between my family, online game I play, and my job. Holdiays were particularly busy... Retail.. fun stuff at Christmas... And a very careful and meticulous handling of 600+ people being brought together in said online game (but hey, I got to name an alliance!)
Since Seibs has a leisurely pace... I figured my busy schedule wouldn't be an issue. I assume it hasn't been a horrible problem.
Okay, what's with Earth Wars? I just don't get how that's an actual excuse. If I were missing posting because of Earth Wars, I would've hidden the fact cuz... That's kinda the opposite of a real reason. I mean the rest is valid, but I don't get why you always bring up Earth Wars.
Also you kinda just pop in and make posts to keep characters it seems instead of actually making them interact with the situations at hand and interacting with other players' characters (which is the purpose of the game). Just an observation. Like others I'm sure would have a ton of fun playing Bludgeon for example (in fact, I know some here would absolutely LEAP at the chance to apply for him), yet you only seem to post once in a while some unrelated post for the character just to not lose him. Where's the fun in that?
I am actually a really nice person with a really strong personality, and a really big heart, and believe in second chances.
Those are things not said, but done my friend. I'm sure you're a good person, but showing outgoing friendliness towards others and accepting help when you need it would be a good start. As well as understanding the broader picture in relation to other players when rules sometimes hit you hard. It's something all players have gotta understand.
As for difficult... That's called dry humor. Doesn't work well on the internet... But hard habit to break.
I don't know how causing a friend of mine (Foximus) to be scarred from saying hi to new players for a while is simply dry humor. She helped me get started in the game, and I appreciate it a ton. Even if she sometimes needed to tell me when I was wrong. It's called life.
All of this I'm saying is simply from my own observation. It has nothing to do with any posts above by others or anything. I just simply want to say in a modest yet very real way how to show others you really are willing to have fun with us, participate, and of course make friends. I'm sorry about a previous post where I mentioned you not responding to my PM. I was wrong. I just assumed that since you never invited me to your other game like how you did with a buddy of mine (Trailblazer) that you didn't like me either. But I'm sorry for how I acted.
Okay... First.. Earth Wars...
It's actually something we (the alliance family) spend hours doing... Like freaking all the time it feels like.
Not just actually in the game. But outside of it in Line Chat. I am a leader in maybe the largest Decepticon alliance families (maybe.. I haven't done an alliance count on the Xiled family recently, but they had some internal problems and a bunch of people left), and dealing with all sorts of people with problems and concerns that come up at anytime (global).
We just finished in December combinong two old rivals (MAS and Synergy) into one big giant family of alliances. That actually required late nights and spreadsheets.
Leaderboards are a royal pain as well. I actually spend 2 weeks working on those. Figuring out where to move people... Moving people... This past weekend I say out the top leaderboard ranking run, but since we are a competitive family we have to maintain a certain rank bracket which usually involved logging in constantly (I finished below 10k points this lb, it was like a vacation).
I'd link the spreadsheets to show you how much work it is, but you'd think I was nuts. Seriously... The amount of work we do. The January leaderboard I honestly was up until 2:30 in the morning 3 nights straight only to start back in on it as soon as I got home from dropping the kids off at school in the morning.
(Ask me for a screen shot of my chat when I woke up this morning... It was crazy... Had it more messages though)
So yeah, it's time consuming.
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As for Fox and a fear of talking to new people.... I'm sorry, she never seemed to have a problem with it to me.
There is history between me and Fox, yes. Between me and Fox.
I don't know what she has said about me, and well, honestly, it doesn't matter. It's the past. I'm not going to keep living in the past and just opening old wounds over and over.
Just like the history between me and you (go back a couple years in your PMs). Haven't been bringing that up until today and this is the last you are going to hear about it. I may hold grudges but treat me civilly and I will give you the same in kind. Otherwise I will just be aloof and not deal with you much because my goal is not to make people mad. Believe it or not.
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Yes the thread with Roddy died. Unfortunately we didn't have enough people involved to sustain it. I feel bad. We were hoping others would be involved and it just wasn't meant to r.
Often what seems like a good plan ends up flopping.
Also you kinda just pop in and make posts to keep characters it seems instead of actually making them interact with the situations at hand and interacting with other players' characters (which is the purpose of the game). Just an observation. Like others I'm sure would have a ton of fun playing Bludgeon for example (in fact, I know some here would absolutely LEAP at the chance to apply for him), yet you only seem to post once in a while some unrelated post for the character just to not lose him. Where's the fun in that
That's actually the exact opposite of what's going on.
I spoke with the mods awhile ago because I felt that no one would interact with my characters no matter how hard I tried to leave room for someone else to jump on. Direct questions to other people's characters left answered, actions ignored.
I would like nothing more than to be part of the story. A few month ago I posted here in chatterbox asking if the AIM group was still going to so I could be part of things (I feel like I killed AIM it was just like 2 weeks later AOL announced they were shutting down AIM!)
I never got answered. Cascadia was wondering too. We talk often on Skype. Most of the Rainmakers stuff in the rp is result of phone calls and Skyping. But we never got a firm answer on it except something about Discord. We both got the feeling that we weren't invited so we left it at that. Weren't going to be pushy (and I never got the hang of Discord when we tried to use it last year)
At least, though, Cry has been getting Bludgeon involved in things which I really appreciate (even when I totally blonde out and not get that something was obviously directed at Bludgeon)
I'm trying to be involved with the rest of the characters, but we seem to have a breakdown here, maybe all of us are getting the wrong impression?
I'm starting to feel a little paranoid, though, that someone has their sites set on Bludgeon...
If that's the case, please come out and say it. No, I don't have any intentions on giving him up. And I have tried very hard to open him and the Pretenders up to interaction. If it hasn't seemed so, I am sorry. Those guys can be a touch difficult... Approachable is not really a word to describe them. But it wasn't my intention to come across that way with them, just how it is happening.
As for on a personal level... If I come across as aloof, that is just me. Be it time (lack there of) or my personality or both... I don't talk very much with people I don't know. (I was just telling Psychout that on Facebook like 2 hours ago, he's trying to get me to interact with the HMW people more :p ) I also go from crazy aloof to crazy talkitive sometimes (because of stress).
