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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Babylon" data-source="post: 2561063">You know what's sad.  For once, I have nothing more to add really.  I've been around the block a few dozen times here.  My brother's been on site since, I don't even remember when.  And he introduced me to a wonderful chat program here.  Something I grew to love, and accept as my home away from reality.Like many others, I have a plethora of characters.  And most of them, I didn't sign up for the boards.  Because they didn't have a reason to be there.  So that's nearly forty or so names that I have solely to RP with, and not touch the boards.  My blacksmith certainly never needed a board SN.  I don't have the time to sit and make all these character have a name on the boards.I . . . logged into the new server only once as Babylon.  And It only lasted about three seconds before I quit.  And, not to toot my own horn, but I have to quote myself on the exit.  "/quit This is just . . . ew!"IRCs can be fine and dandy.  For short stints with small groups, one or two people to a room maybe a thirty minute session.  But an IRC, Java-based or not, for thousands of people just doesn't work.  And I don't just spend my time in ISRP either.  I move between ISRP and Live.  This was nice and easy to do one iChat.  But this new system puts them on separate programs.  I compete in the RPGTO every month, and usually place in the top four, hell, I won December '04 under the SN Ann_Aster.I don't have the time to log out from the ISRP server, and move over to the Live server for an Event.  Especially when I don't move until Dabby announces the five-minute mark.  And like Dontella said, with a ten minute wait for the applet to load, an applet that most OS's are moving away from would require me to move from ISRP long before the first call.  That detracts from me having fun on site.  And that's what this was meant to be, fun.And I have to emphasize the lack of security as well.  My computer houses information on it, which I don't need people getting to asides from myself and my partner.  And when you run a program that . . . to be generous is a piece of crap to chat on.  You really risk that security.  I mean, IRC's are not the hardest things to hack.  Most of them you can hack through the program itself.And descriptions as Dontella mentioned . . . To me, a description is a piece of art, an extension of the writer.  I enjoy reading good ones.  And the artsy ones.  The ones that make me wonder, and think.  And open my mind to new possibilities.  That inspires me to draw that inspire me to improve my own writing to make a better description, which’s something that's important to me.  And when I can't know what I'm dealing with . . . How am I to know just what I'm dealing with?  Asking the player is fine when you don't understand something, but, when you have everyone without an easy to access dessy, it's just time consuming, and not everyone has all the time in the world to spend asking these people.  Some of us are there to RP.  I need to have something to quickly view a race.  Maybe I'm running a Drow with a penchant for the ruthless slaughter of surface elves (Which I have one, J'ath'laur, whom ironically doesn't have a board SN.)  I want to be able to quickly see that, Donny (sorry) is a surface elf.  So I can act appropriately towards her character.Like so many others, I am not moving over to the new server when iChat is taken down.  I'm going to lose an important development tool of mine.  IRL I'm not a very social person.  And my IM contacts can vouch.  I can be pushy, and arrogant.  I'm the kind of person IRL that you like, or dislike immediately.  There isn't an in-between.  For me, Wiz was a chance to improve my own RL abilities.  If I screwed up with one character, I could change to someone else and try again.  That's one of the reason that I'm looking for new sites, and have a few good potentials already.I guess in a sense, this is a eulogy.  My tribute to the death of what used to be one of the best RP sites I've ever seen.  It's had its good times, and it's bad.  And, I've, to quote R.E.O. Speedwagon, Rolled With the Changes.  And at one time I figured I could just keep on rollin'.  And for a while I did.  But this change became a boulder before my cart.  And . . . it stopped.  I couldn't roll any further.  I found myself confined to one server or the other.  And, well, it's time for me to fly.</blockquote>

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