Why is Casual so much more popular than Free or Advanced?

[CAS1006]

@VilageidiotxIt's funny because I've been in Casual and people have told me when I'm really in the mood, I should be in advanced.
And I'm in advanced. (In the Feral group. Long going rp.)

And there is a Poster or two.... not saying names.
Who do these bigass post, but no real details to them. Like they are just trying to find words to needlessly stretch something to a point where it makes less sense.

And then some details are phrased so vaguely, to where ambiguity does not even share a bed with the writing.
It is like just two people too.

(Not going into the Mary Sue's. Truth is advanced really isn't all that advanced, it is just people basically wearing a moniker to feel like they are above by adding detail that does not function just to fill a void because they have nothing better to do, not even author quality.)

Me reading a lot of "Advanced" post.

[Vilageidiotx]

One of the main reasons I do advanced is that I use RPing to learn writing, so i've slowly pushed myself to write posts that qualify for chapter length or short story length.

So yeh, I am one of the people doing annoyingly long posts =p

[CAS1006]

One of the main reasons I do advanced is that I use RPing to learn writing, so i've slowly pushed myself to write posts that qualify for chapter length or short story length.

So yeh, I am one of the people doing annoyingly long posts =p

@Vilageidiotx

See, writing is fine when it isn't like... Used as a group thing.
Like when I'm writing by myself, I can do super extrenious amounts of details. But in a rp, it is only harder to do because all your detail is dependent on what a GM gives you to work with.

[Vilageidiotx]

That depends entirely on how dictatorial the GM is. I like the more open RP's where the GM guides the story but doesn't actually dictate it. More like a shepherd than a dog-walker.

[The Harbinger of Ferocity]

Casual can go either way and while it is more coherent, dynamic and with greater depth than Free, I believe that's what most roleplayers are looking for on average because Advanced can be and so often is a devourer of time. You can have the really large, sweeping posts, or the bear minimum paragraphs in the same topic and not really be terribly wrong - barring what your Game Master desires in the initial post of course.

I admit I tend to longer posts despite having reassigned myself to the Casual realm owing to my schedule, but that is by my choice; more often than not because I am trying to acknowledge everything that transpired to some extent and my character's reaction or role in it. This tends to draw it out, but I feel that's fair enough to acknowledge someone else doing something else. That, and there's not excessive details - whole inner monologues, self-discussions, character exposition, plans, et cetera played out - which are only sometimes appropriate in any scenario... not always.

Going to the other end of the spectrum, Free roleplays tend to be absolute chaos incarnate from what I have experienced and or seen. If you leave for any length of time you've missed ten, maybe twenty posts, and although they may not be supremely pressing or important, you now need to divert yourself into the conversation or action again. The stories are often of questionable quality, with the plot being at most an ill defined paragraph; there's no semblance of remote "balance" either among characters, let alone any sort of character development. Not to say those who enjoy Free roleplays are wrong, it is just a large amount of the material is substandard.

Casual just falls into the right balance, at least the perceived option of it depending upon the individual topic's requirements, or so I believe.