Players Wanted For Busy Weyr From: "Laura Walker" <help@arolosweyr.zzn.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:13:41 +0000 Arolos Weyr is a busy PBeM Weyr that has been running for over a year now, and is looking for new players. At present we stand at nearly 90 players, and as you would expect for a game of that size there are many messages per day. This is a game that will never die, although if you CAN'T post very often then don't worry, although ranking characters now carry a posting minimum, there are still many which don't so you can post as much or as little as you like with them (Candidates, WeyrBrats, drudges, blue, green and brown riders, Apprentice Crafters..) Those characters which we DO demand a certain rate of posting from, still have fairly low limits which realistically will not add up to more than a threa or two per month. We operate on a three strikes system, so it would take three MONTHS of you not keeping up with your character before we put it up for NPC status or transferred it. So, WHY has Arolos attracted so many players? Well, partly it's a circular proccess. We have many players, which means that the game stays active which in turn attracts more players... However, players are also attracted by the friendly atmosphere at Aroplos - we have a flourishing OOC list where players can get to know each other out of the game if they so wish. Partly it's the Melodrama and Evil Plots - Arolos BoD devote their LIVES to making sure that playing at Arolos is not just a imple matter of flitting from Hatching to Hatching. We have homicides, we have kidnappings, we have hurricanes, we have anything our poor twisted imaginations can come up wth in order to keep our players happy and busy... Partly also, it is the fact that we also encourage our players to come up with Evil Plots. We have discovered that having two medical people among our BoD allows us more freedom to do this than most other Pern games because if disaster strikes as it so often does we have two people there straight away who can help with symptoms, treatment and the like, rather than have to look it up. And the final plus point for Arolos is that, having been in progress for the length of time it has, with the.. busyness.. it has, it has developed parts which you will find in no other Pern game... For instance Caff and deCaff whers... These were developed after someone suggested that you could breed whers selectively to try and cut down on their agressive tendencies. Soon a breeding kennel was created and as the original whers were McCaffrey whers that got shorted to Caff whers... then deCaff becamme the accepted name for the other type... Anyhow whers are now becoming a more common sight around the Weyr, and we recently had our first Wher run.. (we decided that whers would probably breed the same way as flits and dragons.. except they couldn't fly... so they ran..) We have also started opening the doors to the parts of Pern life that everyone KNOWS exist but Weyrs don't usually get enough time to play.. A Harper CraftHall near the Weyr has started up, and a fair few apprentices are thriving there. Our WeyrBrats have a flourishing list of their own, and drudges too are beginning to get a look in. With all of this action, the post count at Arolos is obviously fairly heavy going, but we have tackled this as best we can. One of our earliest steps to cut down mail was to create sister lists to Arolos - for instance if a post ONLY involves Weyrlings it need only be posted to the Weyrling and Candidate list, which cuts down on the mail to the main list, and if you wish to ONLY own a Holder or someone in the Harper CraftHall (we are hoping to open other CraftHalls soon - the Healer and BeastCrafter Halls are next in line) Mail is still fairly heavy... so we resorted to drastic measures. At present a program is being beta tested which means that if they so wish people get only the mail which is either a new thread or specific to their characters, sorted out automatically through our Technical Advisors computer. It is still only in it's beta stages, but an online form to make it more easily available should be going up SOON (I have been told it may be available today in fact... but we shall see..) So in all we view Arolos as a pretty nice place to be... (after me blabbering on for this long, you've probably guessed that by now..) It's fun, it's active and it's friendly. If you think you would like to join us, then just send an email to ArolosWeyr-subscribe@egroups.com Alternitively, if you have questions email me at Help@ArolosWeyr.zzn.com and I would be happy to answer them. Our website is at http://www.geocities.com/whiteriverdanes/ArolosWeyr/index.htm if you wish to take a look, or if this is all fascinating you but you have no idea what world I'm talking about, take a look at http://www.geocities.com/she_who_guards/arolosbasic.htm Oh, and I forgot to mention, we welcome lurkers too ;-) Hope to see you soon! Laura Arolos BoD One of the Hyper Twins -- "But I'll only shoot him once!" (Unbreakable) Up