Well, we've passed the summer vacation doldrums. But where are the players? What happened to the action? Even when I carried only 4 games at a time, it was usually the case I had a few turns a day, generally 1 turn per day per game minimum even in larger games. Now it just drags on. I wait for the notifier to turn red. I have the unlimited card to play, but I search games and there is hardly anything out there to join that is close to filling up that isn't either a stacked team game. Games made in the callouts threads don't fill. Even in the tournaments I run, people aren't showing up to play.
This seems off from the site I joined. Has it finally gotten to the point where consistent failure to address the point spread and opponent selection issues is killing games by decent players unless they involve farm subsidies? Is it the case that the dice-luck heavy novel maps (don't get me wrong, I enjoy them, and at least they generally are not too drop biased, and you can really stage and upset well into the game) have pissed off enough "skill" players that they are walking out, turning to a niche, and or just playing with their insular groups? Have the "killer 1's" in the dice file (yeah, I've been averaging lately at least once in every game where I lose five or more guys to kill a single 1 - is this a new dice file, or am I just seeing the true "consistency" of it now that lots of people are not making intervening rolls when I am taking a turn??) resulted in massive burn out. Or is it just that people were really here for the Steak (Classic), and all those players just had to have some fries with their meal (non classic games), and now that we eat less steak, there is just less fries (think of me as a vegetarian)?
Am I the only person here who is noticing this?
