Seinvocc

If you post a topic and no one's replying to it, it's not a problem for you to post to yourself. Don't post to yourself too much because we then have several pages of one person doing a bunch of stuff without giving others a chance to join. If you make a thread and no one replies to your first or second post, look for a way to open the topic up for others. If you just post that you crash land in some area, you can't expect others to join because you're not actually doing anything; time isn't really passing. You crash land . . . and then . . .? If you pick a direction and start walking in it, great! Now, someone can be in your way and meet you. If you stand there and talk to yourself or sit there and think to yourself, sure, someone may happen along and start something. Maybe, if you're in a town, someone will walk by and say hi. Maybe, if you're out in the wild, a monster will come along for a fight, or someone else who wants a spar. Even then, it depends on exactly where you are. Still, the chances of someone just happening to come along while you're just sitting there isn't too impressive, and we can't do anything if the moment is frozen on your entrance or the like. Basically, just make sure that your topics are open for more people to join, and people will indeed join. If they aren't, it's probably because you haven't opened the topic up. If you're confused about whether your topic is open enough for people to join, or if you want some tips on how to keep your threads open, feel free to ask something in the chatbox or here.

When someone launches an attack at you that is swiftly chained from another attack, just too fast for you, or especially one that you walked into, try just taking the hit without quibbling about that one-in-a-million chance that you had to get out of the way in time. Frankly, if it's hard to dodge, it probably has drawbacks to it that make it no big deal to get hit by it, anyway. Especially with standard, physical attacks, the more accurate attacks don't generally hit as hard. Just think of a simple rule to some basic punches: Jabs are quick and hard to block, but not as strong as straights. Straights are more well-rounded. Uppercuts are more predictable and a bit slower, but hurt badly. Of course, the drawbacks could be costs, charge times, wait times, or whatever, but the point is that you shouldn't feel bad about taking a hit from time to time. Unless you took your DEF or RES down to total crap, you can probably take it easily enough, and, if the attack has a wait time upon connection, you have a chance for a much better counterattack. The phrase, "to pick one's battles" isn't entirely accurate, but keep the general concept in mind. If you're just happening to get lucky on just about every attack that comes your way, you're performing a godhack. A small one, perhaps, but a godhack. No one wants that, right? Shut up, Bill. Haha, seriously, though, it's just a matter of playing fairly. If you have massive speed, sure, you're not going to get hit all that often, but, if you set your SPD to average and only get hit once per 15 normal attacks, you're pretty much completely ignoring your limits. It's a lot like reducing your MAG stat to crap (thereby allowing your other stats to be higher), then saying that you can use an infinite energy source to deal magical damage that has nothing to do with your MAG stat and is fairly powerful. Sure, some things are acceptable, but they must have a lot of limits; everything has to be limited in order to be fair. No one's asking you to just randomly take hits when you shouldn't; just, you know, don't be afraid to take a hit when you rightfully should. This isn't one of those sites where everyone god-modes by never getting hit because they want to be "realistic" and have everyone die in one stab, so it's okay for there to be very accurate attacks and even autohits, and you can really stand to take them.