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So here are my thoughts on the whole Milliways move thing. Current|former|past|present M'ways players, I really want to hear all your opinions on this!
I played at a game for a while where there was no such thing as retiring characters. When you left you left, and if someone else wanted to play that character, that was perfectly all right. In some ways I loved that, because it's really kind of fantastically humbling to have the point driven home that while nothing we did with our characters was forgotten, none of it really demanded in-game continuity. So my longest-played character had a huge impact on Milliways (or so I like to think). But on the other hand, most of the people he interacted with aren't there any more. What's the harm in letting someone else play him, especially if the game itself is resetting (maybe, possibly)? Or should I retire him just because of all that?
I've been out of the game for a long while now, and I'm pretty sure most of my characters can be let go. I'm wrestling with it a little bit, but that's probably pride more than anything else.
There are characters claimed at Milliways but never (or rarely) played that I would love to try my hand at if they free up, but just because I didn't get to them first doesn't mean I want to steal them away from anyone else. I sure know what it's like to want to play a character but to need to wait for the right moments to play them. I know there's value in characters who are played regularly, and just as much value in characters who are played only from time to time. I guess the bottom line is there's no one required way to RP, and that's something I've always appreciated about Milliways.
Just so you know that even though I haven't been active, that doesn't mean I haven't been following or keeping tabs on what's going on.
I played at a game for a while where there was no such thing as retiring characters. When you left you left, and if someone else wanted to play that character, that was perfectly all right. In some ways I loved that, because it's really kind of fantastically humbling to have the point driven home that while nothing we did with our characters was forgotten, none of it really demanded in-game continuity. So my longest-played character had a huge impact on Milliways (or so I like to think). But on the other hand, most of the people he interacted with aren't there any more. What's the harm in letting someone else play him, especially if the game itself is resetting (maybe, possibly)? Or should I retire him just because of all that?
I've been out of the game for a long while now, and I'm pretty sure most of my characters can be let go. I'm wrestling with it a little bit, but that's probably pride more than anything else.
There are characters claimed at Milliways but never (or rarely) played that I would love to try my hand at if they free up, but just because I didn't get to them first doesn't mean I want to steal them away from anyone else. I sure know what it's like to want to play a character but to need to wait for the right moments to play them. I know there's value in characters who are played regularly, and just as much value in characters who are played only from time to time. I guess the bottom line is there's no one required way to RP, and that's something I've always appreciated about Milliways.
Just so you know that even though I haven't been active, that doesn't mean I haven't been following or keeping tabs on what's going on.
