Do you believe Nigredo, the character who has proven in canon to show instability or take extreme actions in the face of a brother's absence, can be worked so that he's both IC and am able to continue on without taking a massive negative hit?
Perhaps not. But that means you take a negative hit, in my opinion. That's what RP is. What would you do if he dropped completely? It's not necessarily going to be fun, or easy, but you roll with it. Blaming someone else for an inability to do anything with a character just doesn't sit well with me.
I mean, I get where you're coming from, trust me. I played someone in another game that became amazingly codependent on another character and then out of the blue, the player stopped posting, dropped all contact, and I had to wait quite awhile for AC to boot them. This was someone my character was living with, in a game that ran in real time. It sucked. I had to find ways to deal with their inactivity before they got dropped, and the fallout afterwards. But it also served to help me develop my character in a new direction. So I know how it goes. You have that canonmate, you want them to post and be active any play with you. And if the player was posting once every... that would make it more than 12 weeks in the scenario you offered, I think, you would have a case to go to the mods with, easy. But I really doubt that scenario is very common here (please, correct me if I'm wrong. If this is a massive problem, I will shut up about it forever). The vibe I'm getting is that people are just unhappy that they're not getting very fast tags from their canonmates and that it is 'holding them up.' This is a much more moderate issue, and one I don't think should be fixed by changing a games rules.
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Perhaps not. But that means you take a negative hit, in my opinion. That's what RP is. What would you do if he dropped completely? It's not necessarily going to be fun, or easy, but you roll with it. Blaming someone else for an inability to do anything with a character just doesn't sit well with me.
I mean, I get where you're coming from, trust me. I played someone in another game that became amazingly codependent on another character and then out of the blue, the player stopped posting, dropped all contact, and I had to wait quite awhile for AC to boot them. This was someone my character was living with, in a game that ran in real time. It sucked. I had to find ways to deal with their inactivity before they got dropped, and the fallout afterwards. But it also served to help me develop my character in a new direction. So I know how it goes. You have that canonmate, you want them to post and be active any play with you. And if the player was posting once every... that would make it more than 12 weeks in the scenario you offered, I think, you would have a case to go to the mods with, easy. But I really doubt that scenario is very common here (please, correct me if I'm wrong. If this is a massive problem, I will shut up about it forever). The vibe I'm getting is that people are just unhappy that they're not getting very fast tags from their canonmates and that it is 'holding them up.' This is a much more moderate issue, and one I don't think should be fixed by changing a games rules.