Hazard wrote: ↑Sun Apr 25, 2021 1:18 am
Without any OOC communications (Discord/Whatever) I still manage to find parties, but it does get harder and harder as OOC info becomes more and more acceptable in small ways.
It seems to be a lot easier to do things fully IC in the UD, while on the surface I get a lot more tells like "hey wanna grind?"
But I think this is a by-product of the hub being so central, so everyone will meet there eventually and getting a party is naturally easier, meanwhile the surface has many settlements and meeting points, so there's no "one spot" to wait for adventurers.
A thing I've found to help for natural surface partying is instead of waiting in town for the party, go and attempt the writ by yourself and just hang around if it's too hard. Eventually people show up and you're just this cool cat that was already there and they pickup along the way.
One challenge with natural partying is potentially heavily clashing playstyles.
While neither playstyle is worse or better than the other...
The people who prefer slow-paced RP, including frequent reactions to dungeon elements, planning before breaching a room and fleshing out traps/searching etc...
...will ruin the enjoyment for a party whose playstyle relies on round/cl spell and dashing through the dungeon before they wear out with minimal interaction, or if there's interaction - it is fast paced. The single slow-paced RPer who joined up will end up alt-tabbing frequently due to finding it unengaging/boring as they keep clicking enemies to hit.
Likewise the same if there's a party of slow-paced RPers picking up someone new, and that new person keeps hasting up and running off - neither the new person or the party will have fun. The new person will either start alt-tabbing out of boredom, or end up dying to running ahead.
I've tried to resolve this conflict through IC means by trying to discuss tactics beforehand, but more often than not it came off as awfully clumsy - and at times managed to insult the prospective party member due to wordings like "reckless" and "suicidal."
Alternative is to potentially waste an hour or so doing something you don't enjoy, or OOC communication - and OOC communication for such feels wrong to me.