I'm a little hesitant to mingle in this discussion, but here are my two cents anyway.
First of all, let me stress that I do not mind slow posting by itself. I don't mind it if you post once a day or once every few days, that's fine with me and I'm guilty of it myself. What is incredibly frustrating, however...well, let's throw in an example. Take the NS with the drug trials for instance (just an easy example here, I don't mean anyone or anything in particular with this). Say you want your character to participate, but half-way your threadmate disappears without warning, and by the end of NS your character is still in Main Hall 1-West, missing out on the opportunity to play with the effects aforementioned drug trials. I think everyone can imagine that this is really frustrating for the person who's stuck here. During DS it's just a few days, but during NS you'll end up sitting on your hands for weeks and you won't be able to play out your plans. Once again, I'm not pointing fingers at anyone or anything, but try to imagine this can be incredibly frustrating for the people who want to get things done.
Of course, there could be various circumstances related to this person disappearing. I'll admit that I'm no saint myself when it comes to posting; recently I crapped out for a week myself. What makes things less annoying though, is taking two minutes to let your threadmate know that you're not able to post for whatever reason. There's nothing embarrassing to admitting you're a little busy or that you don't have the energy to come up with anything coherent as long as you take the time to communicate; it only takes two minutes to write up a post in the lounge. It's a polite thing to do, really.
As people have said earlier, communication needs to be improved but I don't think the game itself could be changed to accommodate that.
Though I agree that one post every two weeks is extremely lenient, how many people in this game actually post only once every two weeks under normal circumstances (without hiatus or thread dropping or just being stuck for an NS/not having any plans for the NS)? I think everyone already knows that posting only once every two weeks is way too slow for this game. And to be honest? I'm wondering if changing the activity requirement will be all that helpful. If it's to lenient, nothing will change. But, if you tighten it too much so that things will change, people will feel too pressured which will lead to a large amount of drops. Keep in mind that a lot of people in this game have busy RLs such as college/uni/work and mainly do this for fun, RP shouldn't become a chore. If there is too much pressure to post, it might have the wrong effect on the slow posters who are otherwise consistent. We may have a lot of slow posters, but they are consistent.
What may work is having the AC more frequent to cut off the squatters, but I don't think that in itself will make people post faster. There are usually RL circumstances related to the slow posting, and adjusting requirements or having more ACs won't change these circumstances at all.
I do like the idea of adding a line in the plot post about posting speed. That way, people can take it into account as they plan things. However, this requires people to be realistic about what they can or can't handle. If you make plans for an NS, it's reasonable to expect that - under normal circumstances - you'd want to go through with them.
Eh, hope this made sense as I wrote this down rather quickly. :| Anyway, just my two cents.
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First of all, let me stress that I do not mind slow posting by itself. I don't mind it if you post once a day or once every few days, that's fine with me and I'm guilty of it myself. What is incredibly frustrating, however...well, let's throw in an example. Take the NS with the drug trials for instance (just an easy example here, I don't mean anyone or anything in particular with this). Say you want your character to participate, but half-way your threadmate disappears without warning, and by the end of NS your character is still in Main Hall 1-West, missing out on the opportunity to play with the effects aforementioned drug trials. I think everyone can imagine that this is really frustrating for the person who's stuck here. During DS it's just a few days, but during NS you'll end up sitting on your hands for weeks and you won't be able to play out your plans. Once again, I'm not pointing fingers at anyone or anything, but try to imagine this can be incredibly frustrating for the people who want to get things done.
Of course, there could be various circumstances related to this person disappearing. I'll admit that I'm no saint myself when it comes to posting; recently I crapped out for a week myself. What makes things less annoying though, is taking two minutes to let your threadmate know that you're not able to post for whatever reason. There's nothing embarrassing to admitting you're a little busy or that you don't have the energy to come up with anything coherent as long as you take the time to communicate; it only takes two minutes to write up a post in the lounge. It's a polite thing to do, really.
As people have said earlier, communication needs to be improved but I don't think the game itself could be changed to accommodate that.
Though I agree that one post every two weeks is extremely lenient, how many people in this game actually post only once every two weeks under normal circumstances (without hiatus or thread dropping or just being stuck for an NS/not having any plans for the NS)? I think everyone already knows that posting only once every two weeks is way too slow for this game. And to be honest? I'm wondering if changing the activity requirement will be all that helpful. If it's to lenient, nothing will change. But, if you tighten it too much so that things will change, people will feel too pressured which will lead to a large amount of drops. Keep in mind that a lot of people in this game have busy RLs such as college/uni/work and mainly do this for fun, RP shouldn't become a chore. If there is too much pressure to post, it might have the wrong effect on the slow posters who are otherwise consistent. We may have a lot of slow posters, but they are consistent.
What may work is having the AC more frequent to cut off the squatters, but I don't think that in itself will make people post faster. There are usually RL circumstances related to the slow posting, and adjusting requirements or having more ACs won't change these circumstances at all.
I do like the idea of adding a line in the plot post about posting speed. That way, people can take it into account as they plan things. However, this requires people to be realistic about what they can or can't handle. If you make plans for an NS, it's reasonable to expect that - under normal circumstances - you'd want to go through with them.
Eh, hope this made sense as I wrote this down rather quickly. :| Anyway, just my two cents.