So after about a week of internal debate, I have decided to leave CE.
Why? Because it has grown boring. I'll list my reasons as to why.
1. Inactivity. This is probably the biggest thing. It takes people multiple days to weeks to update certain characters (Me and Dallas have literally been waiting for Mandible to post with a certain character for a month), and while there's the whole "oh theres a 24 hour rule now guys", thats cute and all, but it doesn't really help shit in dialogue situations. So basically, even when I want to post, I'm usually waiting on about 8/10 of my characters to be in a position to respond.
2. The lack of point. I get that it's supposed to be an "interaction-based RP", but the fact that there is literally no objectives besides "lel mix-and-match dimension, now go crazy" makes it incredibly tedious. In an RP, you generally always have at least something to work towards, even if it's vague, and the fact that there's none besides player-set ones gets dull as shit really fast.
I heard Elf defend this one with "If I wanted a "goal" I'd just write a story.". While I can definitely see where that is coming from, that's a fine opinion to have as an author. As a GM, it's absolutely terrible. You're supposed to make things have a point and make objectives, not just throw up a Paint map, set some basic limits and go "NOW MAKE CHARACTERS AND HAVE THEM FUCK".
3. The RP in general suffers because there's no limits that can test and make you show off how good you are at RP'ing. Characters go OOC, do things they'd probably never do (the most glaring examples to me being Forest and Archer wanting to fuck ultra-bad not even a few hours after meeting each other, despite the fact that they're both terrible romantics, one has been repressed for centuries and the other is terrible with women. The other example being a Rae!Rin post being, and I quote "She was literally using rin to live out a fantasy about clinging to lancers abs".)
TL:DR: Characters, including some of my own, suffer from consistently poor characterization with the lack of limits.
4. Time. In the span of over 3 months the RP has gone absolutely no where. We've had about 3 inconclusive fights, a few character pairs had sex and another is about to and only a night and half a day has passed, and only because we've had to deliberately push things along and rush stuff. Character plans besides "oh they chance-meet and fuck" or "literally falls through my roof and we fucxk" wound up being worth literally nothing because it'll take multiple months out-of-game time to actually get to ideas that weren't even that interesting to begin with.
5. It's on DSM. That is all.
6. Literally over half of the fun of CE to begin with was how terrible lantz was.
This is pretty much all I have to say to basically say that CE has grown staler than month-old bread to me. The only part of it I can say I really enjoy still (Writing crossover smut) I've had better experiences with just asking the person in question "hey, lets write these two characters doing this" in a Google doc.
With this post, feel free to put all my characters in the deleted characters bin and move on. I'm not gonna ass myself to write exit posts for them all.
