As I said last week, I was planning on scheduling a second session of
Clearing the Air for this weekend, but I finally decided against it because I have way too much work to get through before launching the second mission for
Warhammer 40,000, not only setting up the mission itself, but above all the multiple unlocks from the first one. It's just a lot of structural work that must be done so that future missions can be launched faster, and I am super-excited to get through it. And since we have ample time to finish this
SC event, I will push our next session of it to the weekend after. Of course people are free to play this weekend too, all I am saying is that if you want to play with the maximum players in order to share event progress and finish it faster, try to make time to join us the weekend after.
Keep also in mind that when
Battlegrounds is fully running, as I expect it to before the end of spring if not sooner, we won't normally have time for planned
SC sessions in the weekends. At that point
SC will be what all programmer games are for us now: minigames that people play whenever they have some free time, often midweek etc. When 10-20-player
Kingslayer sessions are running every weekend, every other game and type of game will have the wind completely taken out of it: it won't be taken seriously as a full-blown game anymore. "But what about when base-building goes in?" There willl be full terraforming and construction in
Kingslayer from day one, and not just 30 buildings to plop down but rearranging every brick in entire cities, and all of it impacting narrative and metaplot, not wiping everything every six months because the programmers want to add a doohickey and can't figure out how to do it without nuking the entire gameworld.
You know I love
SC and I will keep playing it, but it's still just a programmer game and thus can't compete with any half-decent GMRPG ever (see my infamous genre graph), let alone with my games. So get used to organizing your own
SC mini-sessions by for example pinging people not when you log in but hours or even days before so you can coordinate your sessions better. If for example you ping people in the morning and say that you'll be playing in the evening, you have a much higher chance of getting someone than if you always ping last-minute. Of course if you just decided to play, you have to ping last-minute. But try to think ahead, and try to take into account when others are likely to be available, if you don't want to always play alone.
I am sure that from time to time we'll also be taking a break from my games, so the occasional big weekend
SC session will still happen. But they'll be very rare.
