@Mega: Yo, I don't want to get on your case, 'cuz I have enjoyed the stuff you've done as far as that goes, but you've had several events happen kind of close together. Am I wrong in thinking that this might be an indirect factor? Such events inevitably grab attention, and that siphons off possible interaction.
If I'm off-base here, let me know, just trying to think of all possible solutions.
make it through this year if it kills you yet | 2001-2019I kinda agree with Mobile and this happens, moreso, with any really big event deal.
"Thing happens, everyone goes to do thing, people who weren't involved with thing sit out, thing ends, and then the end-game for thing, which continues and 'wraps up' things from the event."
Even when you sit out, you can't interact with anymore because everyone's paying attention to big thing.
edited 16th Aug '14 6:44:08 PM by ChrissieMcNapkins
I live in a constant state of fear and misery.@Ramuf: I am very sure Julie and Tallis being boring, poorly written, unlikable, or unapproachable has been rebuked quite often.
Maybe you just need to do different things to fish for interaction? If they're just -There- and not doing much else, it doesn't exactly garner any attention. I've tried the -Going out for a walk- or -Strolling through the forest- thing too, and it's so far been not very effective.
If they've been doing other things, I apologize for not noticing/not being on. What's the more attention grabby sort of things that Julie and Tallis have been doing as of late?
edited 16th Aug '14 6:44:39 PM by Rivux
mario is red, i am green, i try my best, but everyone's meanRecently? When Dot showed up and when Tallis got the Stand.
Dot got a few weird looks, and then was disregarded as just some random person. I got dumped when I was in the middle of setting up something big.
And when Tallis got the Stand and was screaming at the top of her lungs in complete agony? No one heard her.
Other than that, nothing. They're not involved with anyone anymore.
Alright. I can't really say much about the Dot incident for myself, mostly because I don't remember being on, but for Tallis' Stand, didn't it happen really late at night? I can't recall who else was on then and how available they were, but that might have been a thing that got in the way of that.
How much has Tallis tried messing with her Stand since then? I can only recall when she talked to Rennor about it.
mario is red, i am green, i try my best, but everyone's meandel needs to git on telling shizuka about it then
I hadn't seen those sorta posts in the last few days, just that Julie and Tallis have been around. I can't say for why I haven't been noticing those posts, it seriously just must have gone over my head. Either that or I somehow managed to convince myself Rennor taught her how to make it go away.
But if Tallis was doing more of that, going about her everyday while also acting weird, I am sure somebody's gonna notice. I'm sorry it had to take getting everyone's attention to make it more noticeable, though.
mario is red, i am green, i try my best, but everyone's meanPersistence with detailing helps, often. Certainly helped with Griffin if I remember rightly, and Lautrec.
But- if I'm honest, part of the whole. Lack of broad interaction might literally be the case of- yeah. Everyone's busy.
And part of the issue, is that I'm honestly thinking we're starting to pack the FG with events a little often. Maybe this is just me from my very sporadic appearances due to an over-all lack of motivation or spur to play.
But- there's a reason why I don't really go for events. Or that I almost avoid them like the plague. Because I really- just get tired of them a little. Casual conversation is what I prefer, and big events- due to the nature of characters I play- often make my characters veer into the minor character territory. If it was a movie they'd be that extra that seems to be in major scenes sometimes.
Maybe I'm out of practice when it comes to events, maybe I just don't mesh well with the FG as well as I used to. There have been evenings recently where I wasn't busy with something and decided to just browse the internet instead.
Unofficial hiatus maybe. I don't know. These are my three shillings.
1.5 imperial gallons of tea were consumed during the writing of this postAgain, sorry for ignoring you. I'm very positive we're gonna react to it now at least since attention was brought to it.
But if you feel like you're going through a super rough patch, maybe the best thing to do is step away from the game for a few days and try to clear your head. Remember that we are your friends and never intend to hurt you or anyone else here.
Tried advice, but I'm sure is true all the same.
edited 16th Aug '14 7:17:27 PM by Rivux
mario is red, i am green, i try my best, but everyone's meanI second Olive's point. Events aren't, like, bad, but they're an every-now-and-then thing, and too many in succession sidelines people.
Can we put forth an actual group effort to try and implement this policy of being more active in starting interactions and branching out to people we don't usually play with? Can we do this without just saying that we're gonna and then forgetting and slipping back into routine?
I'm gonna be trying to follow the FG from here on out, even if I don't post. I'd like to see a concerted effort towards actually helping Ram out and getting this issue resolved. We can say so many words about how we should fix it and why it's bad, but until we actually try to fix it, the words are empty.
make it through this year if it kills you yet | 2001-2019Ok, took two minutes to get over a sudden case of the shakes following my post.
Can I just- say that I feel a little excluded too?
Like- I know people might say it's because I change characters often- and I do, I agree. I too would find it hard to build connections between my characters and a character that might not even stay around a week.
But the character cycle was a result of this kind of thing happening- I just thought a character wasn't interesting to people, working out, or I had run out of steam with them. So I switch them out for something new or fresh to try things out.
And recently I've been away a bit more, because of said- thing about the events in my previous post. I just kind of think- "What's the point?" when at most I might get one conversation, two if I'm lucky. Maybe because I'm coming on later, or something. Or I don't know.
Am I slipping in regards to writing? I almost do feel like I'm in a creative rut with all my ideas being related to things outside the FG.
1.5 imperial gallons of tea were consumed during the writing of this post

"Boring", "Poorly-written", or "unlikeable", absolutely not. The most I could say is that maybe just having them "sitting around" isn't attraction my attention.
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