I have been making orbit around Infrno.net for games, but that's been a little like Gatecrashing without addresses. I'm still open to anyone out there doing play-by-posts and will give a looksee and come up with anything anyone is doing and report back, if I remember. Play-by-post may or may not be a very good means of roleplaying for this game, but certain aspects might reach better detail. It just has my experience at being a slower medium. Infrno.net offered several other options than PBP.

Tyrnis wrote:

Cynical Felidae wrote:

I'm really surprised that there aren't more people clamoring for pbp games of EP. Just from this one thread, it seems like there are a lot of games ready to start or have started up. Reading the giantitp thread you linked, it seems like things worked out great for you.

I think the biggest factor keeping there from being more PbP games is that Eclipse Phase has a fairly small playerbase, and PbP games are notorious for extremely high attrition rates. You typically have a reasonable number of people express interest, then a good percentage don't even stick around through character creation. Assuming you manage to get a reasonable number of players, you're probably going to lose at least a couple of them early on, and it can be very difficult to sustain even a game where the players are initially very highly motivated.

All this is true, though this is hardly the thread to carry a commentary on PBP in general. (Not a criticism, just saying I don't want to derail here by further discussion on the topic, but your comment is worth response and expansion.) I don't want to sound like their salseman, but I investigated Infrno.net for that very reason. This day and age of nearly-ubiquitous and accessible video chat and other functions could blend very well for those that don't have the access or availability to meet in person with a local group like in the "grand old days" of tabletop, while others cannot take the (exaggeration implied) achingly slow play-by-post route. Remember play-by-email? Remember written letters and snail-mail? How did people do anything, right? Anyway, this is one of those situations where the game setting oddly reflects or projects the real universe the actual game is played within. We'll reach the day and age, maybe, where we can use our mesh inserts to play real-time, real-fi virtual/simulspace games of Eclipse Phase about playing a character that plays in simulspace... (I've always been tweaked by the idea of having a Sims character that plays an MMO/sim where he plays a simulation of the guy playing a Sim game with...you get the infinite loop, holographic principle here.) Anyway, I hope our technology can expand our gaming options to find that middle ground, which Infrno.net offered -- virtual gameboards, video conferencing, and so on, all in one engine and site. I loves me some MMO but gaming may take the next level where the MMO is created on the fly, in a lot stronger version of Neverwinter and whatnot. Long story longer: trying anything to play the game, darn it! :)

I'm still on the market, by the way.