Goonhub
09-27-2022, 07:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-27-2022, 07:45 PM by Hollandaise. Edited 1 time in total.)
Always sorta felt like this was the case even if people OOC were still super happy to see my character. It was actually partially why I retired my character Sarmenti for a while and sorta started to take a break from Goon. At that point I mostly played for RP since I already understood the mechanics pretty well but rarely ever got to actually interact with anyone beyond a simply hello unless someone directly brought me into a conversation. Always just felt excluded. My character was mute, granted, but I always felt like I was excluded from things.
Even more so, there were times I started my own little projects like building bars, little restaurants, gardens, etc. or tried singing or a few other gimmicks yet no one ever really went out of their way to see me beyond one or two random people/really close friends. This ended up being the reason I stopped doing these projects and gimmicks since it was just wasted effort with no real payoff. More so, I always felt like I'd go out of my way to do my job really well or somehow run a large portion of the station alone like being lone doctor, lone engineer, lone QM, etc. and get no praise for what I do. On the other hand, other people would get a lot of praise for doing simple tasks. One time as a janitor I got thanked out of the blue by someone via public PDA message and felt genuinely touched irl. It was the only real time anyone even just went out of their way to praise me.
Really felt like I was just being ignored at that point or actively excluded.
Might just be me whining or just a result of me not being super social but I still feel like this problem is pretty prevalent. It made me feel pretty bad going in to the game and made me want to leave Goon for a bit. Feels like a real problem to me honestly.
Even more so, there were times I started my own little projects like building bars, little restaurants, gardens, etc. or tried singing or a few other gimmicks yet no one ever really went out of their way to see me beyond one or two random people/really close friends. This ended up being the reason I stopped doing these projects and gimmicks since it was just wasted effort with no real payoff. More so, I always felt like I'd go out of my way to do my job really well or somehow run a large portion of the station alone like being lone doctor, lone engineer, lone QM, etc. and get no praise for what I do. On the other hand, other people would get a lot of praise for doing simple tasks. One time as a janitor I got thanked out of the blue by someone via public PDA message and felt genuinely touched irl. It was the only real time anyone even just went out of their way to praise me.
Really felt like I was just being ignored at that point or actively excluded.
Might just be me whining or just a result of me not being super social but I still feel like this problem is pretty prevalent. It made me feel pretty bad going in to the game and made me want to leave Goon for a bit. Feels like a real problem to me honestly.