I can't help but whole heartedly agree with you, adam. I put "at least two weeks" there to be diplomatic, but I'd love it if the advancement was actually so slow that you'd -feel- like you were at a school year for a decent while. As it is, I can hardly blink as characters zoom up the years.

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Mary Maywell, Ravenclaw, Resident Ray of Sunshine
Also, some other dudes I barely play.

I'll call your month and raise you another!

Ah that's a shame... You should come on every now and then, even if it's only for an hour or two each day. I'm sure Alex will make things less boring.



Well yes, that's deffinately true and sometimes it does work, but generally, in my experience, people don't really notice or just ignore you, too busy with their gossipping (gosh, sounds like my school!). That's why I was kinda pleased when my character got attacked as it helped to create a sitution in which the ice was broken with a number of people.



I've found that thing in real life actually. But yeah it's annoying, but makes sense since it hapepns in real life, it's likely occur in an RP server such as this.

A limit would be quite good deffinately, but you're right that more DM events need to be focused on lower years as well as higher years, as well as being at a bit more reasonable times for europeans as the recent CoMC class is an example. Stuff like that would keep the interest for people coming in to continue untill they can graduate. Maybe a couple of other low level creature areas as well when you're level 2, there's only a few places you can realistically go to and survive more than 30 seconds, again giving young years more stuff to do.

But at least Alex has been a fourth year for god knows how long, he's certainly not rushing

Hey, you're part of the GM team. Watcha waiting for? Get busy!

[also, I'm leveling up Mary like mad now. Lemme know when you've got time for tryouts! ]

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Mary Maywell, Ravenclaw, Resident Ray of Sunshine
Also, some other dudes I barely play.

[Drags Paul IG.]

Actually JB is a former DM. But he is the admin of this forum. Which I guess makes him just as important.

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Gotcha. I'd like to hear your thoughts on the matter, though, if you'd like to share.

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Mary Maywell, Ravenclaw, Resident Ray of Sunshine
Also, some other dudes I barely play.

Two months, JB? Let's go the whole way, then. A YEAR! I win.

Alex: The event thing is a big issue here, I find. The fact that the DMs seemed to refuse to hold events at GMT-friendly times was a major contributer towards my decision to pack my bags and get the Hell away from this server, and find a game that provided a level of interaction regardless of your time-zone.

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You're all a bunch of floppy wanded Dementor buggerers

Ravenclaw's Unofficial HP Trivia Champion.

Paul Millington - Seventh Year Ravenclaw

Lately, We have been doing our best to have interactions between PC/DMs as much as we can for people in other timezones. I've been slowly getting into things to try and make it enjoyable for those, and I haven't seen you play here for a nice long time now Paul, how long has it been? We have been doing somethings at other times, but gradually at least I have been doing things early(At least my early.) For others.

It doesn't matter how much you explain it to Paul. He'll continue to find a way to [censored], moan, and troll about it.

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While we make a honest effort to think about our three players from Europe, unfortunately the world isn't flat, and most of the players live in a place where the sun goes down at a vastly different time than those three players. Events (including a simple class) take more effort and preparation that most players can possibly know. A two hour class will often take six hours of prep time (in many cases a lot more than that), and we usually try to schedule them at times when the most players can enjoy them.

That said, we do make an effort to include our "other country people" and are actively working on including them more, as they are in fact valued members of the server.

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-Calan

Liss Crest, Slytherin
Kalara Crest, Hufflepuff
Elizabeth Finley, The Moon

No offense, but that last post was quite condescending to us Europeans. While there may be not as many as there are Yanks, I'd be pretty certain that there's more than 3 of us. And often there are plenty of people online between 8 and 10pm gmt even on week days (3-5 EST) and especially on weekends when there's no need for ridiculous times as people are likely to be on early evening anyway. And while it may not be said in the most diplomatic way, Paul does have a point. Last proper DM event I went to was on new years day at some crazy time (but being new years day that was okay)... Though it was quite fun, since I'd drank a lot of Pimm's... Though my views may be slightly skewered due to the fact that I've missed a lot of the server due to my old laptop being unable to run NwN.

Alex is right one again. There is an overlap where US and EU players tend to be online together, and yet it is rarely used.

How foolish of me to think that we "valued" "Other country" types should hoppe that this wouldn't be an issue in the first place and be slightly under-whelmed with joy at the prospect of a gradual resolution from -one- GM.

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You're all a bunch of floppy wanded Dementor buggerers

Ravenclaw's Unofficial HP Trivia Champion.

Paul Millington - Seventh Year Ravenclaw

Calan meant our three favorite European players.

And they all understand that we have been operating a conspiracy for the sole purpose of driving Adam from the server. So it's all good.

And who might they be?