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I am going to delete all the dumb, aspergers worthy discussion threads.

this is not the place for talking about butts and farts and shrimp. take that to your plurk or rpanons.

ps you guys should link me new gifs or all you're going to get from now on is jensen ackles

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Half my plurk timeline is bitching about AC.

This wouldn't be so bad if we didn't have tons of people who drop threads after two comments.

not to mention this (http://mayfield-mods.dreamwidth.org/70591.html) has existed the entire time and everyone is just too fucking stupid to read.

Oh, I knew when it was gonna be, personally. I'm just sick of how wonkily scheduled everything is in mayfield in general and that the mods won't hand the rails over to people who can do things consistently.

as much as I agree that they need to work out some scheduling and upkeep issues, it's a pretty asshole thing to say that people who still want to run their game should hand all their work over to someone else.

if theyre having that much trouble, they should start looking for more mods. werent the helper mods supposed to be keeping housing, lists, etc. in check?

it's not assholish at all

There's wanting to run a game, and there's being able to run a game. It doesn't matter how much of the former you have if you can't qualify under the latter, I'm sorry. It's the same with all aspects of RP. Someone can want to play 20 characters at once in the same game. But can they? Fuck no.

Yes, it is. This is some weird entitled LJ/DWRP thing I've never understood, where the players think they have some say in the control of every single aspect of a game. Guess what, you don't, no matter how much you think you do. They run it, they decide what to do with it, for better or worse. Hopefully it will be for better and they get their act together.

No it's not. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. Period.

*Just because you want do something doesn't mean you should

But they don't run the game. I one time asked for an NPC interaction and I never got responded to for months. It eventually was never brought up again. A simple rejection would have been much better than letting me hang for months on end.

They do little to no work and have costed multiple people I know castmates and other people to actually rp with. People send PM's saying x is a squatter, or y's in the wrong house, or z doesn't actually play in the game anymore so they can indeed get in, and they're ignored, left hanging, or responded to when it's too late. Their inability to respond to questions for clarification, actually respond to pms, or be receptive to player's suggestions, concerns, confusions or complaints is costing the game severely. Many people don't look at it because it's totally disorganized, or the community spirited has died along with the people who actually tag out.

People aren't asking for much. They're not requesting to run every little thing in the game. They're just asking for mods that do the required minimum and mod the damn game. If they don't have the time to run a game and constantly face disorganization, schedule slips and make it difficult for people to know what the hell is going on, or even get more people to tag their posts in the game then they should at least hire more people as helper mods so the game actually runs.

It's a shame. If the mods had a little more presence, I think people would have more of a community spirit. But the listlessness now shows in just about everything related to the game.

A lot of what's wrong with Mayfield would be improved if they went to apps and AC every other month. Both of those are a lot of work, even when they happen slowly. The mods don't "do nothing" but having both of those monthly makes it harder for them to do other things. It's a huge game, and the admin side takes a lot of work. It seems like the other stuff is slipping the most and that the helper mods could do more with keeping lists up to date.

Other mods in games that are just as big and have montly app cycles, events, and ac periods do just fine. Stop making excuses for them.

if it were consistently an actual month apart, i wouldnt be so annoyed by it. apparently, putting it on concrete dates (like the 15th or whatever) would interfere with the mod's "schedules".

... and the inconsistent dates right now dont?

Yeah, the way it just slides all over the place is really annoying. I wish they'd just pick a consistent date and be done with it. One where the warned list always gets ejected before apps open so no one is trying to get housing permission from people who think they've idled.

I also question whether the entire AC process really needs to take two weeks. No wonder everyone always says "Didn't we just have an AC?", it takes up half the month.

While I'm asking for things, I'd also like a mountain of candy all to myself.

what

I kinda want the AC system to be changed, needing three threads when a lot of people drop them after a few comments gets people no where. Even if you post you run the risk of no one tagging or only one or two people tagging. (Yes, I've had posts get no replies before and had to scramble for AC since I thought people would tag out)

Maybe a comment count system would work better. Like needing 20-ish comments a month. Which can be done via a post, thread or the logs. It might help? Or at least even with dropped threads you can still meet AC.

Then again god forbid we have any major change in this game. Like a 1/3 of the game dropped with the switch to comms, and another 1/3 bitched about when the AC was changed after the move.

So many people in this game are absolutely terrified of change. It's annoying to look at plurk and see people offering ideas and someone else going BUT I DON'T WANNA HAVE TO COUNT MY COMMENTS and KEEPING UP WITH THREADS IS TOO MUCH WORK. These kind of things are par normal for most games, you just don't want to do it because it's ~change~.

Agreed, bring up anything related to AC on plurk and how it's simple if you just make a word doc with who you tagged, a link plus a date and people freak out. I get that gmail has that fancy add on but I use a different e-mail service that doesn't offer an add on like that and I do just fine with keeping my tags sorted and AC met.

Seriously, if you look at how Mayfield is compared to other major games we're far behind on how not only AC is checked but how apps and lists are handled.Something has to change at this point if you want to make the game more active and friendly.

Mayfield AC is already piss easy. In most games they ask you for 10~15 comments in one thread and you would need 2-3. The system is also extremely lenient. The mods are often late putting the AC up, the warning list can stay for more than a week, before rejection is finalized and applied. Starting to work for AC the day it goes up and completing it before warning list comes is not hard, 4 comments each in 3 threads is really simple. People who can't make it need to stop bitching about others dropping threads on them, but also tag out more themselves and plot better. There are really bad thread droppers in Mayfield, but there are also people who are extremely good at backtagging. If you can't do three tiny threads of 4 comments for this game, then maybe you shouldn't be here with this character at all.

Agreed on changes though, holy shit the playerbase here can be whiny as fuck.

agreeing with all of this. I still remember all the drama that came when the mods wanted to change the AC from one 4-comment thread to three 4-comment threads. this is not hard to do and if it is hard for you then you should reconsider whether you want to play in games or not. there are much tougher ACs out there than this.

I agree with the AC being easy but let me just put it this way.

In the month of May I had 6 threads outside of my two character posts. Out of those 8 proofs of activity only one post and two threads made it to the AC length needed. Why did that happen even though 6 threads would have gotten me enough activity so I wouldn't have to post? Simple everyone I tagged dropped one or two comments shy of the needed AC length, or only two people tagged my post.

Tagging out won't solve the problem, it's extremely hit or miss since most of the game rather stay in their little CR circle away from new people or even people who have been in the game for the same amount of time as them.

Yeah that is a problem, but unfortunately the mods can't do anything about the playerbase's tagging habits. Have you tried sounding around for the more active/backtag friendly players in the game? Because they definitely exist, and CR that actually goes somewhere with finished/substantial threads must be better than minimal AC required length that in the long run, doesn't get you anywhere at all.

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