The flip side to that is if there are games to play constantly (rather than time-limited like the crane game) and the forums are as slow as they are, the games will actually slow them down more. People will spend more time playing games than posting.

Yeah, I used to post here a TON **points to post count**, but, most of the people I used to talk to the most have left for various reasons, I had a lot of life things come up and became less active, and now it's like a whole different site sometimes.

Well, the first game I want to get up will be on the same time limit as the crane game. The second one will be more of a time sink if you let it, but I'm hoping it'll be a conversation piece.

I used to be an avid poster on Zantarni. Nothing against Blazestorm, she's an awesome friend and all but the site doesn't seem "roleplay" style to me anymore. It just seems so.... random and out of place. I just lost my interest.
And GaiaOnline, lol, well, that's nothing but a troll-site anymore. I occasionally jump on it just to see what new stuff they have because they seem to have new things everyday just about but they've become money-hungry anymore.

Awesome! Can't wait to see what you come up with.

I just really need to stop talking to my friends on here via Skype instead of on Trisphee. Or in Lucid's case on League.

This is sort of off-the-cuff and I haven't even done any feasibility research on it, but would on-site chat rooms be something you folks would be interested in?

In my opinion as a user: that might be something worth looking into, Coda. It could certainly encourage a bit more connectivity (and activity) between users because it would be more in real time.

Two questions
Do we still get AU?
And where would it be? Cause a sideline chat bar I would like but if you can't surf Trisphee and chat in the same page it may be annoying.

Aurum... PROBABLY not, but maybe something fractional? As for where it'd be on the page... I really don't know. Maybe something like Google Hangouts or Facebook Chat where it pops up in a window in the corner of the screen and you can collapse it.

So yet again no AU for posting on the site. Then no I don't want it. Going to post going to get aurum for it, because otherwise it is just a pointless time sink that won't be used except by certain people who don't care about AU.

Chatting and posting are really rather different things. Chatting isn't going to maintain a long-term history. It doesn't build up content for reading. It's designed around short-form messages, possibly many in a row, possibly when there's no one there to read them. It won't even be useful during slow hours.

Think of it more as real-time visitor messages rather than an alternative to forum posts. I know you use visitor messages, and I've never seen you worried about aurum there.

If the chat DOES give aurum payouts (I said I was considering it!), it'll have to be rate-limited, otherwise it's likely to end up with someone saying "lol" "lol" "lol" "lol" in the middle of the night to rack up the money.