A week from now and it won't matter... (WoW)

[thistlechaser]

So Cata releases "tomorrow" (tonight at midnight). I really can't stay up to play at midnight, I have to work the next day. I get up really early, I need to be fast asleep at midnight. (Hear that, brain? Let's not repeat last night, okay?)

Usually I log on before work, but A) there will likely be the usual Tuesday downtime, and B) there will be a queue to log on. My pre-work playtime is very limited, so a queue will eat it.

Usually I log on at lunchtime, but A) there will likely be a longer than usual Tuesday downtime, and B) there will be a queue to log on. My lunchtime playtime is very limited, so a queue will eat it.

That means I'll have to wait until after work to play, when everyone else would have had nearly a whole day (depending on downtime) to play.

I tell myself it doesn't matter. I'm not going for a server First in anything. I have no need to rush to 85 or do anything else that Cata is bringing, yet still, it's the old issue that bothers me. "It's not fair."

I'll always remember that I was one of the first players to set foot in Al Zahbi when ToAU dropped in FFXI. I was on the second boat, the first boat had just a couple people on it, I was the first person off the boat. But with Cata it doesn't matter, it's not the same. In a week, a month, some short time in the future I'll likely be back to standing in Dal staring at the AH all day. So it does not matter if I have to wait hours and hours after everyone else... except it feels like it does.

It bothers me that this bothers me. I should be happy I have a job, not annoyed that it's keeping me from a game that I barely care about to begin with.

Ah well. On the positive side, I RPed yesterday! For the first time in a while! And not only that, with a new person! Lots and lots of fun, though it makes me sad that long scenes (4-5 hours in this case) wear me out and are almost too much. It wasn't so long ago that I used to RP from the moment I crawled out of bed to the seconds before I went to sleep for the night! I'm not sure if it's a change in me or just that I've become used to shorter, quicker scenes.

Ramble, ramble.

Comments

[socksofjello.livejournal.com]

I understand what you mean about RP. MU* is still my favorite medium, but having to sit down for however many hours and type up a decent post every 10-20 minutes in under 3-8 minutes is incredibly tiring for me nowadays. It's frankly depressing.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I know! And I worry a lot more, for some reason. I write long poses, but last night the person I was writing with wrote just as long, so every time I was all EEK WHAT IF IT IS SHORT AND HE THINKS I SUCK!. (RP on WoW is annoying in that you cannot see more than six or so words of your pose at a time. Unless you write it in Notepad and copy it into the game, there's no way to preview it or see how long it is. Redundant wording plagues me when I can't preview!)

[socksofjello.livejournal.com]

I get the same feeling when I'm on a forum, especially since forum RPers are notorious size queens (heheh). Since I couldn't care what I receive so long as there's enough to reply to--well, whenever it's my turn to post, my anxiety shoots through the roof.

Damn, that sounds horrible. Writing long poses under those conditions could put anyone under stress. Can't imagine what it'd be like if your computer wasn't good enough to run WoW windowed so you could easily tab in and out of Notepad.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I really should tab to notepad more, but (and this is really strange) I have a hard time concentrating on writing the pose if I don't have the WoW window in the foreground. A while back a friend and I switched to IM to do WoW RP, and it was so hard to adjust! How am I supposed to think WoW when I'm not in it?!

Other people write fine in Notepad, so maybe I just need to do it more and get more practice at it. (Seems odd it would need to be practiced!)

[doxxxicle.livejournal.com]

There must be a WoW addon that provides a larger window for writing up poses to post into chat...

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

There's a great addon named WIM that makes WoW whispers into a separate IM-like window. You can make it as big or as small as you like... but that doesn't change the input area, just the upper part of the window where the back-and-forth whispers are displayed. Here's a random screenshot I found of it (http://s.wowinterface.com/preview/pvw3863.jpg). RP aside, it's one of the most useful addons I use. Never lose whispers in battle text ever again!

[peppygrowlithe.livejournal.com]

It's like, how do you squeeze all the time in? It takes hours to RP on a MU*, while it can be as long or as short as you want in WoW.

It's rough, but I think it's worth it.