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Post by Izzy Beausoleil on Feb 21, 2013 14:28:22 GMT -8
Chat rooms can get hectic, we all know this, which is why it is important to be polite to our fellow players and try not to step on each other. While ABC order, turn based play is not a requirement, nor necessarily desired as it can disrupt the natural flow of play, it is important to do our best, each of us, to try and not splice into each other. It can become very confusing, very swiftly, when it happens frequently. No one is perfect and it will happen from time to time, but if we all are vigilant in our attempts to not step on one another, it will make for better play for all.
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Post by Meghan Riley on Feb 21, 2013 14:37:41 GMT -8
I agree with this. This is VERY important. Some people don't mind being spliced, but you have to be considerate of others as well. Especially if someone is logging the play. It makes it very hard to edit when there is so much splicing. Also, when there is a lot of splicing, it keeps others from being able to join in and allow their characters to participate or interact with others. They get frustrated and leave. We don't want to have anyone feeling left out. One last thing; there is no rule that says everyone has to play in the same room. CW members are welcome and encouraged to open other rooms for play. Happy Gaming!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2013 18:50:44 GMT -8
Splicing tends to happen when there is no order, so maybe alphabetical should be used more. It saves everyone from sitting there wondering who should go and worrying about stepping on someone, and if waiting is an issue, then narrow it down to a 3-4 box/line max for rooms with a lot of players and 4-5 for the smaller ones. Typing in Word or wherever to keep the flow makes you miss what's going on in the room and then characters and their actions (when engaging other characters) get lost in the mix (I've done it to people -- just the other night in fact, with Nine, and have had it happen to me), which is more frustrating than having to wait for a person to type. If someone new enters the room, all they need to do is IM the person before them and ask if it's okay if they jump in. ::shrugs:: Just an idea...
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Post by Alex Vipond on Feb 21, 2013 19:02:04 GMT -8
Yes, splicing does tend to happen, but there's a difference between the occasional and the flagrant. I would rather not put a specific order in place as I think it was said above, it tends to disrupt the flow of play. WoDAOLRPI.exe (36 KB) This attachment, is a little scroller program that is unobtrusive to the chat room and allows you to type as others are posting. It only works in AOL. It is not AIM, or Desktop 10 friendly.
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Post by Meghan Riley on Feb 21, 2013 19:19:45 GMT -8
I wonder where you got that lil nifty scroller from. -smirks-
As for ABC order? Its fine, if that's what majority of the room agrees to. But when you have 6+... that takes awhile. Even with just a 3 to 4 limit post.
If you want to enter, asking whoever is before you is a good idea. Or if its not ABC order, IM the bolt holder and they can usually tell you what the order is when the rooms seems to just fall into one.
I think the point is... if and when posting; entering, playing or exiting a scene, try not to splice.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2013 20:03:54 GMT -8
The last two times I've played, it's been pure chaos. Once I just stopped playing, because it's pointless to post when you have no idea who's addressing you or the person you're addressing fails to see your post (when we're all stepping on each other, we have to hunt down the people we're writing off of and we don't always see it), and the other (the night we're talking about, I think) when all splice-hell broke loose, I just went with the flow, so to speak, and did what everyone else was doing. It was like every person for themself, and finally I just started concentrating on one individual (but that shouldn't be the case since we ARE a group -- in a public chatroom, we should be interacting with a few). That's what happens in large rooms simply because no one knows when or who is posting next and then we get slammed with IM's that are asking, "Are you going?" "No." "Then who?" I've been at this since '93 (a WW/WoD vet), back when all we had were open chat rooms, and alphabetical order worked, and since splicing is indeed the issue -- what's the harm?
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Post by Alex Vipond on Feb 21, 2013 20:26:29 GMT -8
'99 to 04 I ran a game called Dark Justice, based off of a television show of the same name. A crime drama. We never used room order, we never had issues with overly stepping on each other and we often had an average of a dozen people in the room. No one was confused about when to post and everyone took care to make the attempt to not walk on anyone else. It was a simple matter of using a bit of manners.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2013 20:30:43 GMT -8
... Until manners are forgotten in a fit of 'fend for yourself.'
I'm not arguing, with anyone. We've all had our past experiences, and both worked, but as of the last few nights, it hasn't and that's the problem we're faced with now, hence the ideas.
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Post by Meghan Riley on Feb 21, 2013 20:36:35 GMT -8
So then the responsibility maybe needs to fall onto the bolt holder to IM each entry with a pre typed message. i.e. "We're in play... there is an order / there is no order, but when posting, please don't splice."
Just another idea...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2013 20:38:45 GMT -8
And that's a pretty good idea.
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Post by Alex Vipond on Feb 21, 2013 20:39:46 GMT -8
I think if we each all do our part, with a little common sense and courtesy to our fellow players, we won't have incidents like the last few nights where everyone goes into me first mode.
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Post by Alex Vipond on Feb 21, 2013 20:50:45 GMT -8
I can see an IM to those coming into the room by the bolt holder being a possible solution, I can also see it being a problem. As one who often holds the bolt, it can get damned overwhelming when you have eight or ten IMs going when you're trying to play. An alternative would be to post such a notice, OOC to the room when new folk come in and that way all can see it.
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Post by Meghan Riley on Feb 21, 2013 21:02:22 GMT -8
I like that solution. The bolt holder can post it in the room after each new entry so it can be seen easily, again and again, making it more notable for all. Sort of like... reenforced or something.
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Post by Desmonia O'Callahan on Mar 6, 2013 22:48:00 GMT -8
Im a splicing fool! I win you all must bow down to my spliceiness. But in reality.. We just need to figure it out and go from there.
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