My turn to weigh anchor....

[Maximvs]

Jim,

Where does one begin... WHERE I say....

Well Jim, I have enjoyed being part of many of the discussions (both for and against) as it is refreshing even when one disagrees to continue the discussion than to simply say "I'm right and your wrong" - though for the most part we have seen eye-to-eye on many issues.

Perhaps in a slightly more 'mature' MMO would you been able to engage in larger discussion and feedback, as besides the 'older folk' such as myself and some others here at POF the POTCO world in all reality is geared towards the much younger generation (it is Disney afterall). This I believe limited many from providing the depth of some information, simply because it is out of their mental reach for just a few more years - and - at the same time POF had to limit some responses only because those entries not mature enough to give a good response had to be moderated for the whole enviroment.

As for POTCO itself - it is only in its birth I believe, and will need time still to mature to the point where there is 'direction of adventure' at every turn. Had this been a few years later your sucess may have been different, and you may find success in another which has been out longer - in any case I wish you good luck on your studies and search.

I will miss your well insightful posts and may fair winds find you on your travels, wherever they may lead

Max

[Steely Jim]

I will miss the good discussions most of all. Personally, I never felt restricted here on these forums, or in the game really. I've don't a lot of different Beta tests, and a few Alphas; it has been my experience that either the creators have to enhance RP'ing over grinding, or the Beta testers have to set it in place before the game opens to the wider public. Of course, even then some games are too hardcore for me towards the RP end (Illarion comes to mind as a game that was just too RP-intensive for the limited time that I wanted to spend on it.

I actually think that these forums would have been a pretty good place to make my stand because most of the active posters are adults, but time caught up with me.

I had only played about 8 times in the last 10 weeks, so I was already pulling back; I just realized that I absolutely could not bear the thought of logging in to do any grinding, and I couldn't really see anything else to do. I definitely think the game will grow quite a bit; but, yeah, I suppose it will always be one of the "younger" games out there.

It really does just come down to having nothing to do that really interests me to keep me occupied while waiting for something I do want to do to come together. I just came to realize that, to work things out on a faster timetable, I'm going to need more traffic...to find my needles in the haystack, I'm gong to need an insane amount of traffic. In that sense, it is really a numbers game.

We only have 11,138 members here, with only .55 threads per member & 4.7 posts per member (8.6 posts per thread) all spread across 89 forums & subforums; in comparison, just 1 out of several high-traffic fansite forums from the main game I've played over the last 6.5 years, has 167,108 members, with 1.15 threads per member, 16.4 posts per member & 14.2 posts per thread, spread over only 42 forums & subforums. It really just comes down to needing more, and more consolidated, traffic.