I am both running and participating in play-by-post games right now. I am wondering what the common experience is with attendance.
-How often do players post? Daily? Weekly?
-How long of an absence before you "bot" the PC?
-How long before you write out the PC?
-How do you go about replacing/compensating for the character?
-Do you consider it rude/in poor taste if no warning is given when a PC drops out, or is this just the way things are?
-How often do players leave pbp games and what are the usual motivations?
Personally, I like posts to be every 1-3 days. I bot after 3 and write them out after 7 at the next most reasonable plot-junction.
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Form what I've seen in the multitude of PBPs I've been in or am in currently, the standard posting should be 1/day, approx, with a botting or removal within 3 days.
I consider it rude for a character to not warn anyone, but these things happen.
I have no idea about any answers to your other question. I've never left a PBP game, and I haven't GMed any, either.
I'm currently waiting on my party's cleric who disappeared and and stopped posting completely across multiple aliases around the time that Irene hit. I don't want to boot him if it was the case that he was affected by it, because that seems wrong. Obviously, though, at some point I will have to move on, likely just with the group that is posting and leave him in a spot where they can pick him up later if he returns.
@GM Aria: I'm actually about to decide that Markellus left town. I can bring him back if necessary, but at an epic time. I'll see how that goes.