[Discuss] Encouraging addiction (yet another rant from me)

[Mark Moss]

On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 16:37 -0600, Gloria Santos wrote:
> I a starting to hate this "we are losing because you're not active
> enough" discourse that's becoming to frequent in BM.  I believe it's a
> sign of addiction to become so worried about winning or losing that
> it's urgently important to know when the rest of your realm mates are
> going to log in.  It pisses me off, because people with characters in
> positions of power are now encouraging (if not forcing) others to
> become as "committed to the team" as they are.  This is supposed to be
> a lightweight game.  And if you are going to be addicted, you should
> be addicted to playing, not to winning.  

If its minor, best to handle the issue IC (You can't possibly expect me
to immediately read every shread of paper sent my way, can you?  How
would I ever find time to breed my prize-wining orchids?) or OOC with
the other character or player.

If another character is blaming, threatening, insulting, etc. players
(or their characters) who don't log in frequently, then the Titans
probably need to be made aware of the situation.

Mark Moss