RevHempus71 wrote:Well it is obvious that I am #7. I don't have much to say other than I did what i thought was needed to get a win. I really did not have access to a computer as much as I would have liked.
Don't worry about this kind of play ever happening from me again, as this is going to be my last game for a while(if ever again). Sorry to have fucked everything up for you all.
Well I don't really know what to say.
I honestly did not want to create such a bad vibe. However I understand the frustration.
I am sorry.
It's nothing personal, Rev, and I hope you'll find time down the road to play in other games. The problem is really a general one: what can be done when any player signs up and then goes minimal?
In the early days of these games on this forum, there were a couple of people who would play invisibly (You Know Who You Are). It was frustrating, but we collectively tolerated it because they were few. Nowadays, though, we seem to have many more people who are willing to sign up for a game and then bail partway through, fade entirely, or stay but play anti-socially.
It's understandable that people have real lives and that those lives take precedence over mere forum games. But the right thing to do, for the sake of those who
are invested in a particular game, is to sign up
only if one truly intends to play in more than a nominal way. (One might argue that I shouldn't have signed up for the current BSG game, since I was absent for most of it; I hope my participation after my return qualifies me as consistent here.)
What people seem to do instead is sign up for games they
wish they could play, even when they know better. This leads the more engaged players to develop expectations and hopes that are then dashed by minimalism or a no-show. And That's No Fun.
Glad to see you back, Rev, and glad to learn that 10 is dead; I'd hate to go down in the annals with an asterisk, like Remus....
