[WAR] Role Play: Terminus (Sign-Ups)

[VeloJello]

Neo, the only reason Aqua is at the point it is is because every single one of you has been posting at rates that are utterly ridiculous. We've barely had time to set up, thanks to your team. Your entire post implies that we haven't been trying and frankly is incredibly insulting. Your team got insane amounts of firepower at unfair speed, and I'm not trying to make excuses here. I know for a fact that everyone on Team Awesome has, contrary to your apparent opinion, been doing the best they can and making plans to create an interesting narrative overall, not just build firepower and destroy our opponents' efforts.

I recognize that I am probably being rude, but the rapid fire posting has made this RP so unfair and stressful that I feel that I need to speak out. I have been annoyed with it since day one, and I am very much annoyed that not only is it damaging my team, you are also seeing fit to insult Team Awesome by implying that we aren't trying when the opposite is true. We've also "worked our tails off", but you can hardly expect anything good to come out when the entire thread is choked with Aqua posts coming in too fast to handle.

[Lord Celebi]

@Velocity, may I ask what an acceptable posting rate is? The RP has run for 21 days so far. The three most active Aquas have the following posting rates:

Neo: 24 Posts Overall = 1.14 posts per day*
Tazz: 19 Posts Overall = .9 posts per day
rust: 13 Posts Overall = .61 posts per day

*Neo frontloaded most of his posts in previous week, however, so his current posting rate is actually probably lower than mine and Tazz's.

Overall, we average 2.66 posts per day compared to our three RPers. Is what you're saying is that a proper posting rate is less than a post per day? I can tell you that Neo and I both work full-time jobs and have very little free time in general. One post per day with our schedules is all we can muster and to me seems like a very reasonable number.

[Neo Emolga]

Neo, the only reason Aqua is at the point it is is because every single one of you has been posting at rates that are utterly ridiculous. We've barely had time to set up, thanks to your team. Your entire post implies that we haven't been trying and frankly is incredibly insulting. Your team got insane amounts of firepower at unfair speed, and I'm not trying to make excuses here. I know for a fact that everyone on Team Awesome has, contrary to your apparent opinion, been doing the best they can and making plans to create an interesting narrative overall, not just build firepower and destroy our opponents' efforts.

I recognize that I am probably being rude, but the rapid fire posting has made this RP so unfair and stressful that I feel that I need to speak out. I have been annoyed with it since day one, and I am very much annoyed that not only is it damaging my team, you are also seeing fit to insult Team Awesome by implying that we aren't trying when the opposite is true. We've also "worked our tails off", but you can hardly expect anything good to come out when the entire thread is choked with Aqua posts coming in too fast to handle.

We have a passion to RP, and respectfully speaking, there is no maximum posting limit set, so we haven't been breaking any rules with that regard. In retrospect, some teams may feel Team Awesome is taking one of the other sections to a ridiculous extent. Us guys on Team Aqua are determined to do as well as we can in the RP and have made it our core focus, and yes, maybe that means giving up attention to some of the other sections, but it's not illegal to do this.

In all honesty, it's not that hard to come out with at least one post at least every other day. Also, prior to the Atlas Shrugged Too Much attack, there's been next to no pressure set upon Team Awesome on behalf of Team Aqua. You guys did have a two solid weeks to prepare with no suppression coming from us. In that same regard, I don't think expecting us to only be able to post once or twice a week is fair. The WAR will be over long before any real action and creamy center is reached. Also, we have been extremely strategic and tactful about this, using communication, teamwork, dedication, planning, and coordination to make our effort strong. Team Awesome should be doing this to if you guys want to be competitive.

Given, you can still have interesting narrative and still be building firepower. We've been trying to do that. In fact, I was penalized in Week One because I DIDN'T do that and I learned that yes, every project and plan needs story, substance, and creativity, or poof, you're not getting points out of it. Trust me, I learned pretty quickly and changed my tactics around.

It's still not too late for you to turn things around and I have suggested means in which you can do so, but I think "dampening" the RP activity is not a good solution.