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On average, how many RPs are you in at once?

jennifer lost the war said
Your rule implies causation. It also applies to so many people that it's meaningless.

So now I'm telling you that I'm not implying causation. I'm saying that it's a contributing factor, that it leads to overload and then quitting.

Okay. You know what? To each his own, just like what the other guy said. I still won't believe that you could join like 10 RPs without becoming more likely to quit than you are when you join just a few.

It's not like what happens in this thread is going to solve anything anyway, especially when proposed reasons for the phenomenon is being shot down before they are even being considered. Like in the previous incarnation of the RPguild, mountains upon mountains of dead RPs will stack up like American trash. Already, I think half the RPs in the advance section are dead.

On average, how many RPs are you in at once?

jennifer lost the war said
Your stat being that most RPers who drop are in other RPs? Have you not heard the phrase correlation does not imply causation?

Which is why I prefer to say 'in general', not 100% and not 'without exception'. Have you not heard the phrase 'in general'? There are of course exceptions to every rule, like the super-model roleplayers who are rumoured to exist.

jennifer lost the war said
You're obviously ignoring what kind of RPs these people may be involved in. What if they're in 2 free RPs, 1 casual and 3 1x1s?

Free, Casual and 1x1 roleplays, based on my experience, tend to go faster, therefore categories are negligible Otherwise, scale accordingly with modifiers (like x1.2 or x1.5) :). The fact of the matter is, the more RPs they're involved in, the bigger the chance that they're going to bail on you.

On average, how many RPs are you in at once?

SailorMoon said
I was there, and people quit for their own reasons. Life happens, People lose interest, or maybe they don't want to be apart of it anymore. These are living breathing people behind the computers.

It's exactly because life happens, people lose interest and that there are living, breathing people behind those computers that I'm saying what I'm saying. RPing is a very funny hobby, it being very fun and very serious at the same time. Before joining an RP, it is expected that we make sure that we anticipate life happening or us losing interest. To not do so is just selfish. But of course, as there are living, breathing people, it's too much to ask for, isn't it? The statistics speak for itself.

SailorMoon said Also, it's kind of hard to not make my response sound like a personal attack when you just said anyone who takes up more than 1-2 roleplays kills roleplays and slow them down, which is not the case. Which is why I said, speak for yourself, because this question is in relation to you. People like myself and others who actually do a lot of roleplays are more than capable of responding for themselves. The great thing about group roleplays as the responsibility doesn't just fall on my shoulders, but a lot of others and I am apart of roleplays with people who GM their owns roleplays and on top of that are apart of a buttload more. Sure, it may take a bit to respond, but if I am only apart of 1 roleplay I get bored waiting for everyone else to post. It's better if I have more to do. Someone not posting here? Alright, I'll just go there for awhile. The groups I'm in are all pretty much dedicated. I suppose you've had bad experiences, but I only see people quit when they lose interest or real life happens.

I wasn't doing any fingerpointing. I'm just stating a general rule that I observed in the roleplayerguild universe based on the overwhelming evidence I saw. Therefore it's phrased as such. Now, you can point to me saying that I could have said it better, which there's no doubt I could, but it remains statistically sound that what I said is more or less a general rule.

Of course, being the cautious person that I am, 1-2 roleplays simultaneously is just me being cautious. I'd say 3, but I'm not willing to participate in that amount of roleplays these days because the more roleplays you join in general, the bigger the chance you're going to let go of one or more. Really, without a way to track the success rate of a roleplayer, who would you trust more? A roleplayer who's involved in like 6-7 roleplays at the same time or a more humble one who's in 1-2 roleplays?

I think you're being a little oversensitive, seeing how zealous you are even when I'm not making moves against you. But then again this is the internet, and anonymity has a way of inflating someone's aggression. The topic doesn't even have to be about someone's death or terrorist attacks or politics, but such is the internet, no?

On average, how many RPs are you in at once?

SailorMoon said
Speak for yourself, please.Group roleplays usually slow down on their own anyway, and you don't absolutely have to post multiple times a day for casual or advanced. The same goes for my 1x1s, and all of them are older than a month. Just because you can't handle more than 2 doesn't mean others can't.Also, this is not a personal attack. ijs :D

I'd be inclined to believe you if it weren't for the mountains of dead RP around. You should've seen the old RP guild if you weren't there, buddy. For each category, the number of stable surviving RPs don't really ever reach two digits, compared to the thousands of dead RPs around. And how often do you realise that a person who quits an RP is involved in multiple others?

Then there's the number of completed RPs. You could count them with a single hand even with a few fingers amputated, I'd say.

If your post isn't a personal attack, I don't see any efforts to make it not seem like one.

On average, how many RPs are you in at once?

1-2 is the best number in my opinion. Any more than that, and you'd be quitting or slowing down in one or a few RPs, and ruining said RPs you're in.

A New Age - Ancient Era NRP

Why are you using a phone to write a post? :D

You poor, poor thing :D

Take your time, don't worry about it :D

A New Age - Ancient Era NRP

Well, I did explicitly state that Biara was toying with the Elder, though of course being open-minded and flexible, she wouldn't mind if it got serious. :D

Hehe, I'm glad to be of service, providing a bit of excitement for you.

I guess that makes two of us. I would be a bit oblivious too. It happens in the moment, you know, when you're busy with alot of things and thinking about alot other things.

The White Elves would be attractive to the Daemonrexa. But then again so would everyone else except the most alien of all creatures- which I think this world doesn't have at the moment. It all boils down to individual preference though amongst the Daemonrexa just like how it would with humans.

HazmatMedic said
Demonrexa are likely admired by Naqar/Naqah for their sheer adaptability but also feared for their ability to "un-people" them. I can imagine many find them powerful allies, but they'd try and keep the relationship purely proffesional. I can't see consensual crossbreeding being viable.

Haha, that's understandable, though I think some of them will likely be seduced nonetheless. As for consensual crossbreeding, do note that interracial breeding between one race and a Daemonrexa would yield a low fertility rate, unless the non-Daemonrexa partner has been converted to Daemonrexiac. However, if a non-Daemonrexa mother gets pregnant, she will become Daemonrexiac unless the baby is aborted within 2 weeks, which is impossible. A non-Daemonrexa male in a relationship with a Daemonrexa woman will only result in a faster conversion to Daemonrexiac unless aborted by him leaving her presence at a far enough distance, which I'd say should be more than a room's distance away.

Babies of a Daemonrexa and a Daemonrexiac will produce Daemonrexa. Only babies conceived before a woman becomes Daemonrexiac will be born Daemonrexiac. Babies conceived by a pair of Daemonrexiacs will be Daemonrexiac. Therefore a single Daemonrexa could potentially restart the entire species :D.

A New Age - Ancient Era NRP

Well there goes another nation I wanted to interact with...

A New Age - Ancient Era NRP

Lol what are you thinking? She's only going to discuss some matters with him :D. She's only toying with him haha, and it seems that you've fallen for her tricks as well. But of course she wouldn't mind having a little bonus on the side. The daemonrexa don't discriminate by age. They tend to look deeper than that, since many of them are old to ancient. In fact, the virtual non-existence of old people has made them something special. Then there's the fact that he's Naqah, and no one has been around them before for a long, long, long time.

A New Age - Ancient Era NRP

Cosmic Fury said
Alright, finally made a post. Now I can't say I've not done anything. :P

I have to wonder... How did a fleet of Ralgon ships get that far without running into ships of any other nations? I don't see an explanation... Though with the Daemonrexa, they tend to ignore ships of unknown origins until recently, when they finally decided to get involved with the world a bit more.

EDIT: Any chance that we could set up a google doc for collabs in the future? I sense that we might need to collab soon, Haz. The next post after yours, for example, might go faster that way and more fluidly...