I still kinda read this as "Everyone else should have less fun so that I can play"In post 44, mastina wrote:mafiascum is, to my knowledge, the only site which caters to the crowd of individuals with those particular habits: having real-life obligations such as full-time jobs, families to look after, finances to take care of, etc.; not being able to read too much content in a limited timeframe. (I know that, personally, I have an endurance limit of 20 pages/24 hours. If a game produces more than that amount, I simply can't keep up with it and my performance suffers as a result.)
These players are not, inherently, by definition the same as Geriatric players, but there IS a fair amount of overlap in that this is a service only mafiascum has to offer--'younger' players, so to speak, can find shorter games anywhere.
Like everyone I've talked to so far in {2018 newbies, open queue players} doesn't like 2 week deadlines
Constantly being AFK for days at a time is
a) much less skill-intensive for scum as there's less realtime interaction to mess up
b) super annoying to the other players when the walls of "catchup" show up, makes people not want to read the game
So I don't really see how encouraging it improves "standard of play" either?
Why not have separate geriatric newbie games that run simultaneously to regular newbie games, assuming the demographic you're talking about exists? The minority shouldn't get to arbitrarily enforce deadlines that the majority find unfun.