I have absolutely nothing against the current Homestuck cast. I notice a lot of the time there is favoritism shown in who they reply to but that's every player's prerogative--they and everyone else can play however they want to and it's hardly a defining feature of any one canon but rather just the way cast-mates generally work. I just know in the past, if I wanted to join a game but it was primarily one canon, I shirked away from it. If you don't know beforehand that a game is played with balance, the statistics are scary and it's the statistics which are readily available and offered to applying players. I would not join this game if I were looking to right now if I saw just how many Homestuck characters there are vs other canons. It would be daunting if it were any canon, our just happens to be Homestuck. Watching it grow even bigger makes me worry we come across as a Homestuck AU rather than as a Harry Potter AU. That's great for people who want to play from Homestuck but could turn others away.
Anyway, no, hardly jilted feelings. I'm actually surprised by the comment that you think most replies to my posts have been from John's player. Event posts are heavily weighted that way but that's because we've plotted something together. For everything else, I actually get a varied response. I haven't had any problems playing with the overall community in the slightest. I really was honestly just commenting on the fact that we have a huge imbalance and wondering if there were going to be any measures taken to limiting its further growth rather than having it continue to expand. For a game that's trying to grow, huge imbalances don't really help in the long run and are much harder to correct once you have one.
Right now I very much feel... not so connected to other players because the number of us who don't play at least one Homestuck character is very small. There is a sense of not belonging which your reply sort of reinforces. I'm not one of you and so apparently my comment on the game's canon imbalance becomes a statement of being against the HomeStuck cast. I never wrote a single word about 'cliques' or things being 'unfair'. I simply said the cast was extremely large. I never said we should have less HomeStuck players, just that it might be good to not get too many more.
I'm not really sure how you came to infer so much from one sentence. Hopefully I've corrected your assumptions, though. Maybe next time, don't go Anon. I'm not ashamed of my opinions. If I were, I wouldn't share them. I'd appreciate the same level of respect.
-Wrong journal but still Niko
Anyway, no, hardly jilted feelings. I'm actually surprised by the comment that you think most replies to my posts have been from John's player. Event posts are heavily weighted that way but that's because we've plotted something together. For everything else, I actually get a varied response. I haven't had any problems playing with the overall community in the slightest. I really was honestly just commenting on the fact that we have a huge imbalance and wondering if there were going to be any measures taken to limiting its further growth rather than having it continue to expand. For a game that's trying to grow, huge imbalances don't really help in the long run and are much harder to correct once you have one.
Right now I very much feel... not so connected to other players because the number of us who don't play at least one Homestuck character is very small. There is a sense of not belonging which your reply sort of reinforces. I'm not one of you and so apparently my comment on the game's canon imbalance becomes a statement of being against the HomeStuck cast. I never wrote a single word about 'cliques' or things being 'unfair'. I simply said the cast was extremely large. I never said we should have less HomeStuck players, just that it might be good to not get too many more.
I'm not really sure how you came to infer so much from one sentence. Hopefully I've corrected your assumptions, though. Maybe next time, don't go Anon. I'm not ashamed of my opinions. If I were, I wouldn't share them. I'd appreciate the same level of respect.