Hey, having a look through the NESs, any suggestions on which to join? Which have got space and are quite simple to play?
As for players not being on every day, player time is always going to be an issue with NESs, no one can get to a computer every day of their lives, something will always come up one day, that's why I always used to end up leaving it for two days to do an update.
It's a double-edged sword - update too often, and lose the interest of those who just visit every other day or so, or update too little and lose the interest of those who visit every day. I think updating every two days is fair enough in a NES myself, being too busy to get on every day personally, and gives enough time for diplomacy, to get orders in and react to changing diplomacy, but this depends on the NES having an active thread - not just one that waits for orders and updates.
Game NESs, my personal faves, have always suffered this problem - they have little going on in the threads, and this leads to them dying quickly. Story NESs are the opposite - too much happens in a thread for me, and I find I just can't keep up (that's why I kept away from RTOR2 for so long, until I could find the guts to read it all the way through). Luckily a lot of new NESs are a mix of these, so if the mods can move fairly for those unable to get orders in every day, we should all be happy.
lol I know I've probably just stirred up a hornet's nest of how often NESs should be updated, but it's just my personal opinion.
I'm also looking into the consideration of creating a NES with enough personalisation to keep those on here every day going, while being simple enough that those on every other day or so can still come and pick it straight up. I've set forth an idea on the development thread, any ideas would be appreciated.
UKNemesis
... there was one last month that had many players, a map, etc ... that didn't actually start ... this proved a great interest in the fantasy genre ...
So it'll work out to it's intentional end.
