What would you roleplay?

[Jonathan Meer]

Oh yeah, another note.

If we were going to do something long term with little branch off things for other projects, then that long-term thing has to have moderator support. People have to start hosting sagas again and shit.

No more "let's talk about what we're going to do" threads that have tons of good ideas that are commended, then completely ignored/unimplemented so that six months later another thread comes up.

/bitter

If there was more activity, people would host sagas.

It's not particularly tempting to host a saga when no one writes.

EDIT: Going to flesh this out for Shun's post.

We're not responsible for maintaining activity. That isn't something we can do. We can encourage it by providing a dynamic atmosphere that people enjoy and find fresh, and that's something that can always be done better (we have room for improvement, sure), but it ultimately comes down to whether or not people write.

And people just aren't doing that.

Chubbsians are a fickle bunch. They maintain this show of always-wanting-to-write, and when you provide them the opportunity (a new saga, a new game mechanic a la The League), they get roaring and excited and ready to go for the first week or two, and then it dwindles. They find some excuse not to keep going with it. Some people stick it out, more people wander off and play LoL or Skyrim or masturbate.

There was a time when writing activity was constant and potent, regardless of Staff output. It isn't like that now.

EDIT2: And I've never, ever understood this 'Update-must-happen-NOW' rationale. It happened with The League too. People got pissy and refused to write and blah blah blah because an update was delayed. Why? Delayed updates don't prevent people from doing other writing. It's, at most, a mild inconvenience; you have to wait a bit to find out how your scenario is resolved, but it's not debilitating.

It does provide a convenient scapegoat, though.