Yeah...I've been curious, but time is where I end up hitting the wall.
EDIT: Okay...This is why I'm also hung up on finding a crowd that gets along well and understands time parameters...
So, a group of us from HS started playing XI together in college as a way of keeping in touch. We all new that we all had demanding schedules, and were forgiving with each other about events and what not.
Anyhow, one in our crowd failed out of college and started playing non-stop. He wanted to add randoms into the LS, so that he wouldn't have to wait on us, which was totally understandable. Then, it turned into a ***storm when our original group of casual XIers butted heads with the new people who demanded that we be there for practically everything or be booted out of the LS we created! We were really steamed.
My RL buddy, Sabre, and I were pretty involved on campus, and another girl in our LS used to give us so much ***! That turned into a heaping handful of drama when it came down to the "cunty", collegiate Chi-O's versus girl who couldn't keep her legs closed at age sixteen.
Ah, that sucks. We started playing with a rl group too, a big chunk of rl friends. There's two of us left. We never really got mad at each other over different times for leveling or whatever like that. In fact, the ones who all quit first were the ones who went hardcore at it to start with and left the rest of us in the dust. Then those of us who went slower, logged on when we felt like it and didn't log on when we didn't feel like it, we're the ones who still play because we're the ones who still get enjoyment out of it. But no matter where we were at in our storylines or levels, we could always talk to each other, and that's what mattered to us.
The biggest problem right now is a ls. Every ls we've ever been on has had something horrible happen to it, lol. We're like a pair of black cats walking underneath a ladder and smashing mirrors as we go in terms of luck for linkshells.
The first one we got on, we disagreed with some of the sack decisions and decided to leave. Four people left, me, my husband, and two of my girl friends. Then we find out that after we left there was some sort of weird mass exodus and only a few people remained of the huge ls. Since we never asked anyone else to leave with us and never encouraged leaving, I can only guess that other people were mad at the same decisions we had been mad at and it just didn't occur to them that they could leave until they saw someone else leave first.
The second one we were on, the two leaders got in a raging fight (which was really sad, they had been best buds) and the ls broke. I think the biggest mistake was having their fights in front of everyone instead of sorting it out in private.
The third one we were on, the leader got into some drama she couldn't handle and decided to server hop.
The last one we were on, we were hanging out with some friends we had made in the first one, helping them get emps and such. We were accused of double-dipping and banned from the ls. (It was a group of four pals. It wasn't a ls. We weren't spending points with them. We weren't going after the same things with them that we went after in the ls. It was quite different from the ls definition of 'double-dipping.' When we pointed that out, they changed the rules to make low-manning with anyone but ls members against the rules. xD) Later they unbanned us and we got back on, and a few months later the ls died completely. They just stopped doing events one day, decided to become a social overnight with no warning.
Yep. It's true. We are like black cats walking underneath a ladder smashing mirrors as we go for ls luck. I'd like a new one for Voidwatch, but I'm sort of terrified to get on a new one, because it's like a death sentence for shells for them to accept us. "Hi nice to meet you welcome to LS death row! ^^" ;; We don't even try to be bad.
