startplaying.games shows 17 Traveller games looking for people...

[Spinward Scout]

I was on this page before, but just logged back in.

They are showing 17 Traveller games waiting to run.

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Pay to play games. Some are a bit on the expensive side. Unless I'm misunderstanding the pricing.

Raise your hand if you are running a game or playing in a game on startplaying.games, please?

 

[atpollard]

That is bizarre given that places like "Unseen Servant" have 5 "Traveller Games for free and you can just post in the LOOKING FOR PLAYERS topic to start a new one (also for free).

 

[gchuck]

I was on this page before, but just logged back in.

They are showing 17 Traveller games waiting to run.

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Pay to play games. Some are a bit on the expensive side. Unless I'm misunderstanding the pricing.

Raise your hand if you are running a game or playing in a game on startplaying.games, please?

I think I'll just stick with my 'Discord' campaign.

 

[Enoki]

$20.00 a session. What are they smoking?

 

[Grav_Moped]

$20.00 a session. What are they smoking?

Per player, or per session? I can see trying to make refereeing into a paying gig, and hoping to recoup the necessary investments in service subscriptions and buying the background materials.

Don't know if it's feasible -- is there a large enough market for the service at that price?

 

[Grav_Moped]

It's competing with "free", but perhaps there's enough of a quality difference to make it worth the marginal cost.

One would hope so, anyhow.

 

[Spinward Scout]

That is bizarre given that places like "Unseen Servant" have 5 "Traveller Games for free and you can just post in the LOOKING FOR PLAYERS topic to start a new one (also for free).

I was thinking the same about RPOL (https://rpol.net) being free.

 

[Badenov]

Most games are free on roll20, but no Traveller games there, which is a shame as they have good support for it.

 

[Enoki]

Per player, or per session? I can see trying to make refereeing into a paying gig, and hoping to recoup the necessary investments in service subscriptions and buying the background materials.

Don't know if it's feasible -- is there a large enough market for the service at that price?

It says per session on the listings. For example

Play Traveller Online | Traveller: Adventures on the Horizon **Beginner Friendly**

Traveller is a crunchy, sci-fi, space opera. Fly starships, fight space pirates, and try to survive out in the black. Fair warning: combat in Traveller is deadly! In this game, you'll play as an experienced character setting out on a new adventure. We'll start with character creation, which is...

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[Grav_Moped]

It says per session on the listings. For example

Play Traveller Online | Traveller: Adventures on the Horizon **Beginner Friendly**

Traveller is a crunchy, sci-fi, space opera. Fly starships, fight space pirates, and try to survive out in the black. Fair warning: combat in Traveller is deadly! In this game, you'll play as an experienced character setting out on a new adventure. We'll start with character creation, which is...

startplaying.games

Looks like it's per player per session, unless I'm mis-reading it.

 

[Enoki]

Looks like it's per player per session, unless I'm mis-reading it.

That's how I read it. $20 per player per session is insane.

 

[Grav_Moped]

That's how I read it. $20 per player per session is insane.

Some people have that kind of spare change, and that much of a need for that form of social interaction.

I'm not one of them.

 

[kilemall]

Good part time gig for the pay, but boy I don’t know that I would want player troubles amped up by paid ref time expectations.

 

[atpollard]

I checked out the "fine print" on one of the games. On THAT game:

Each person payed $20 per week for a PbP format that could include multiple posts but was guaranteed at least one post per week. Players start out with individual quests that they can undertake but will need to band together in groups and cooperate to accomplish larger quests. It was very "sandbox" in its approach.

It sounds like LOTS of little questions and answers followed by one BIG REF post moving the game forward each week.

 

[atpollard]

While THIS is not Traveller, I would expect something like Inferno's format on THIS UNSEEN SERVANT D&D GAME.

 

[casquilho]

I checked out the "fine print" on one of the games. On THAT game:

Each person payed $20 per week for a PbP format that could include multiple posts but was guaranteed at least one post per week. Players start out with individual quests that they can undertake but will need to band together in groups and cooperate to accomplish larger quests. It was very "sandbox" in its approach.

It sounds like LOTS of little questions and answers followed by one BIG REF post moving the game forward each week.

So to be clear, I could be paying $20 for a single post on a forum? Pass, hard pass.

 

[atpollard]

So to be clear, I could be paying $20 for a single post on a forum? Pass, hard pass.

Well, it is a flat $20 per week (irrespective of the number of posts), and if the "group" has to act together , then ...

[Have you ever been in a FREE PbP waiting to hear what the last player does?]
I don't see a way that can NOT be an issue in their PAY PbP.

 

[Enoki]

Well, it is a flat $20 per week (irrespective of the number of posts), and if the "group" has to act together , then ...

[Have you ever been in a FREE PbP waiting to hear what the last player does?]
I don't see a way that can NOT be an issue in their PAY PbP.

In the PbP's I've done, there's always some degree of conflict between what each player has decided to do compared to the rest of the group. Those have to be hashed out before the game can move forward.

Player A wants to do something.
Player B complains that will totally conflict and mess up what they want to do.
Player C thinks A's idea is insanely stupid and wants no part of it...

This invariably happens in PbP games. So, everybody ends up having to work it out between themselves before the ref can move the game forward. Worse, the players decide on doing something--in agreement among themselves--that the ref was totally not expecting or prepared for...

That's bad enough in a free PbP, why the hell would you pay good money to deal with that?

 

[casquilho]

I am going to age myself here, but I ran lots of PbP games on the old CompuServe Newsgroups. Was quite the experience. I would never want to pay to relive that experience over again.

 

[Spinward Flow]

I would never want to pay to relive that experience over again.

If you were on Compu$erve, you were paying for that experience the first time.