Re: LotRO - ping Turos

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Thus spake Michael Cecil <macecil@xxxxxxxxx>, Thu, 03 May 2007 05:45:36
-0500, Anno Domini:

Well, you'll notice that I never asked to join your groups. Asking some
questions here is all I've done. :)

Hey, that's cool. _Personally_, I don't understand the mindset that's happy
to chat to ppl here for years about rpg games, but given an actual
opportunity doesn't want to even consider playing with them, but that's
entirely your call

You have to remember one thing, usenet replies aren't real-time usually
while MMO chatting is.

You may have noticed that sometimes I take several days to reply to some
posts - as I know I want to reply but just can't phrase it right at the
moment, so I just flag the message as unread and move on to get back to
it later, sometimes never.
Can't really do that in a real time environment.

Soloing while at the same time chatting with someone can be difficult,
ditto teaming as someone is busy typing something while you're fighting
and thus isn't attacking the baddie and/or healing you.

;-p Are you just a self-confessed soloer/hermit or don't
really like anyone here and/or think they're worthy of your gamesmanship...?
8^P No, don't answer that - let it be a mystery we will all ponder for
years to come ;). (if it's just ME you don't want to play with, rest
assured, you're unlikely to, what with my TZ and RL schedule *sigh*).

The other thing to remember is that there are multiple MMO
"personalities" - the never team people, the always team people, and the
sometimes team people.

I've never understood the "always team" mentality, especially as they
whine about sitting around waiting to get in a team.

Some of us just want to log on and get going and aren't really
enthusiastic about the amount of sitting around that comes with all but
the best teams. [Wait for mana to regen, wait for Bob who just got
called by his wife, wait as Sam checks on the kids, wait as Jim finishes
typing so that he'll be able to do his job in the next fight ... ]

I'm not anti-team, but I play games to PLAY them, not stand around
waiting for someone else to get their ass in gear.

Xocyll
--
I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr
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