Busy busy busy.

[pyrephox]

It is busy, stressy week of doom. It's also not helped by the urge to game in the evenings until Too Late on VR. So, tonight I'm not going to log in at all...which, also, will help me cool down over my simmering dissatisfaction with the headwiz there and his/her Interesting methods of dealing with players. Going instantly on the defensive is never a good thing, particularly when you just asked for player input...but then, I more and more get the feeling that when they say 'player input', that can be translated to 'tell us how much you'll love what we already plan on doing anyway'. And, since I'm bitching, also the sudden emphasis on 'courtly politics' as the 'focus' of the game. I suppose I shouldn't be all that surprised, since staff NPCs or PCs seem to be the people who actually give a damn about the courts, but tell me this:

You have VICTORIAN ENGLAND (at the beginning of the Famine and just before the Indian Revolution, no less).
You have MAD SCIENCE.
You have secret societies, classism, poor-law riots, and hideous alien /things/ of terrible beauty that steal people for their own purposes, and maybe even now have orchestrated your own 'escape' for their own amusement, and could come back at any moment to deliver you back into your own personal hell...

And you're going to focus on the backstabbing/melodrama of what basically amounts to philosophical clubs? Man, WHAT.


...but I really like the players, damn it. And with the PrPs, I can maybe avoid too much of the staffliness.

Comments

[usekh.livejournal.com]

HGW really has zero people skills, which is a problem ;/ he really needs to take a step back and let the staff hired to handle such things deal with it, only they have been fairly absent of late :(

[pyrephox.livejournal.com]

Then he needs to refuse to post anything until someone with some sense has talked to him and filtered for sanity. Seriously. They've already lost two players, and quite possibly three, because he can't resist the urge to berate players on Public channels and BBoards, complete with insults and 'don't let the door hit you on the way out'.

Also, it worries me that he does not see the hypocracy inherent in declaring No More Staff Plots, then continue to run them for staffalts and people he likes, then turn around and say no staff attention except a 'focus' of the game that just happens to largely include...staffalts and people he likes.

[cpip.livejournal.com]

I've played in more than one game where players stayed on for each other far more than they stuck around for the staff.

[pyrephox.livejournal.com]

Yeah. And I probably will remain until it is Not Fun, largely because of the other players. The playerbase is /remarkably/ cool and good. I can't think of a scene I've had that I haven't enjoyed, even with the one player who likes their prose in a nice shade of purple.

[cpip.livejournal.com]

There you have it!