I was thinking about leaving this crit when the general hmd rolled around, but I changed my mind after seeing your plurk about proxima.
I'm really concerned that you're overloading yourself with the amount of characters and games you're picking up. It's not a new issue either. I remember another anon left you crit a few months back just as I was going to. That time was also about your activity but it looks like you've been adding more to your load instead of lessening it.
Another issue I wanted to bring up was cliqueyness. In your case, I think it's your game load that keeping you from tagging out, not unwillingness but it's still making potential cr like me hesitate. A lot of times you tend to stick with the same group of players when you're tagging because they're either friends or castmates. It's really discouraging when you get looked over for them when trying to make plans. It seems like you aren't as willing to reach out to players and expect them to come to you. Not sure if this is true in all your games.
You're good at writing your characters and seem really fun on plurk and I want to rp with you. I just don't know if I'm wasting time chasing after you for cr since you didn't listen to the last crit you were given.
Thank you so much for bringing this up, for one. It's been something I've had issues with - as you've pointed out with the other critique I got - but sometimes I just need a kick in the pants to remind me that I'm actually doing something wrong here.
Though, if I remember correctly, my last critique had to do with Jo Harvelle specifically. At the time she had different things happening in different games and I had my own reasons for it there, but that was something else entirely and I'm not going to waste your time with those excuses.
My overloading is an issue- I know that. Just this month I hiatused four of my characters so that I could try to figure out what I planned on doing with them (it's only been a week since the hiatuses took effect, but still). I was going to take this month to really take a look and re-sort out my games. At the same time, though, I hadn't thought there were people I was actively ignoring or passing over. I really do want to apologize if I've ever made you feel like I've been ignoring your for castmates or friends, because that was not my intention at all. I haven't been active in CR memes or searching people down for CR lately as much as I should, either. I would blame school or scheduling or what have you, but just thinking them up now makes me realizing that they're just excuses.
I would definitely say that you are not wasting your time if you want CR with me. Even with my schedule and with my game-list, when I'm approached for CR I do try my best to do something with it. But like you've said, it's become apparent that I'm not going out and looking for it myself. Or, it's possible that I've already done this to you, and I'm just not aware of it. That's another issue entirely, and I'm sorry if this is the case.
I did join Proxima recently despite my game-sorting, and I did that mostly because of the fact there is no AC. It's the same with Sanctum, which is another game that I recently joined. I know that doesn't help with the fact I'm in so many games, but I thought I might as well throw my two cents in for that.
But the fact that this has become a problem enough that you decided to come to me personally, makes it obvious that despite my intentions, I'm not handling these games the way I should be. Again, I'm really sorry if I ever made you feel neglected or ignored, because I did not mean to, and I'm going to be taking some action regarding my game list very soon. Thank you for coming to me with this, though! Hopefully I can figure it out and keep it that way.
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(Anonymous) 2013-11-09 07:10 am (UTC)(link)I'm really concerned that you're overloading yourself with the amount of characters and games you're picking up. It's not a new issue either. I remember another anon left you crit a few months back just as I was going to. That time was also about your activity but it looks like you've been adding more to your load instead of lessening it.
Another issue I wanted to bring up was cliqueyness. In your case, I think it's your game load that keeping you from tagging out, not unwillingness but it's still making potential cr like me hesitate. A lot of times you tend to stick with the same group of players when you're tagging because they're either friends or castmates. It's really discouraging when you get looked over for them when trying to make plans. It seems like you aren't as willing to reach out to players and expect them to come to you. Not sure if this is true in all your games.
You're good at writing your characters and seem really fun on plurk and I want to rp with you. I just don't know if I'm wasting time chasing after you for cr since you didn't listen to the last crit you were given.
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Though, if I remember correctly, my last critique had to do with Jo Harvelle specifically. At the time she had different things happening in different games and I had my own reasons for it there, but that was something else entirely and I'm not going to waste your time with those excuses.
My overloading is an issue- I know that. Just this month I hiatused four of my characters so that I could try to figure out what I planned on doing with them (it's only been a week since the hiatuses took effect, but still). I was going to take this month to really take a look and re-sort out my games. At the same time, though, I hadn't thought there were people I was actively ignoring or passing over. I really do want to apologize if I've ever made you feel like I've been ignoring your for castmates or friends, because that was not my intention at all. I haven't been active in CR memes or searching people down for CR lately as much as I should, either. I would blame school or scheduling or what have you, but just thinking them up now makes me realizing that they're just excuses.
I would definitely say that you are not wasting your time if you want CR with me. Even with my schedule and with my game-list, when I'm approached for CR I do try my best to do something with it. But like you've said, it's become apparent that I'm not going out and looking for it myself. Or, it's possible that I've already done this to you, and I'm just not aware of it. That's another issue entirely, and I'm sorry if this is the case.
I did join Proxima recently despite my game-sorting, and I did that mostly because of the fact there is no AC. It's the same with Sanctum, which is another game that I recently joined. I know that doesn't help with the fact I'm in so many games, but I thought I might as well throw my two cents in for that.
But the fact that this has become a problem enough that you decided to come to me personally, makes it obvious that despite my intentions, I'm not handling these games the way I should be. Again, I'm really sorry if I ever made you feel neglected or ignored, because I did not mean to, and I'm going to be taking some action regarding my game list very soon. Thank you for coming to me with this, though! Hopefully I can figure it out and keep it that way.