From an OOC perspective, I'm really enjoying the current pace! I feel like everyone is experiencing plenty of opportunity to tag around, plenty of opportunity to backtag without that interfering with later comments—I feel like it's all working really well, and as someone who's really missed public RP but hasn't been able to commit time to a fast-paced game, I'm enjoying myself immensely!
I think having whole day mingles will help to keep things moving along at a reasonable clip. It seems like the right balance of keeping things gentle and casual from an OOC perspective but still allowing time to be moving quick enough IC for the characters not to get... burnt out on labyrinths? Like... one every week/fortnight is fine for us, but if the IC perspective of that is a labyrinth every day or two, I'm sure some characters would get worn out or frustrated, hahaha.
Having seen that it's perfectly feasible for a labyrinth to run every week, I think I ultimately agree with the points that blamesfate raised—in both labyrinths so far, I feel that there could have been room to tag further. If spacing them out a bit more also allows for slightly longer play time, I don't think that's a bad thing! I might be speaking quite largely from my own perspective, though, and missing the bigger picture. I appreciate that adding more time for labyrinth completion might take away some of the "challenge", but as someone on a less common timezone who gets to comment sporadically, it would really be beneficial for me and maybe a few others?!
I also think that spacing the labyrinths out more creates the opportunity to build tension ICly by occasionally having them closer together. I hope that makes sense? I feel like having them every couple of weeks (i.e with a few IC days inbetween) would make it more ~shocking~ for the characters if we then occasionally have them occur closer together. Particularly ~menacing~ labyrinths could appear at certain milestones or something, materialising regardless of how ICly tired our characters may be. Stupid pesky inconsiderate labyrinths.
But I'm just talking into the void now, hahaha. The short answer is I'm really loving this game, I'm having so much fun with everyone (please don't mistake my IC for my OOC, you guys are all wonderful!), and I will get back to tagging people tomorrow!
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I think having whole day mingles will help to keep things moving along at a reasonable clip. It seems like the right balance of keeping things gentle and casual from an OOC perspective but still allowing time to be moving quick enough IC for the characters not to get... burnt out on labyrinths? Like... one every week/fortnight is fine for us, but if the IC perspective of that is a labyrinth every day or two, I'm sure some characters would get worn out or frustrated, hahaha.
Having seen that it's perfectly feasible for a labyrinth to run every week, I think I ultimately agree with the points that
I also think that spacing the labyrinths out more creates the opportunity to build tension ICly by occasionally having them closer together. I hope that makes sense? I feel like having them every couple of weeks (i.e with a few IC days inbetween) would make it more ~shocking~ for the characters if we then occasionally have them occur closer together. Particularly ~menacing~ labyrinths could appear at certain milestones or something, materialising regardless of how ICly tired our characters may be. Stupid pesky inconsiderate labyrinths.
But I'm just talking into the void now, hahaha. The short answer is I'm really loving this game, I'm having so much fun with everyone (please don't mistake my IC for my OOC, you guys are all wonderful!), and I will get back to tagging people tomorrow!