I honestly don't think waiting 10-15 minutes twice is too much time to ask. Yes, I hate wasting time as well, but that really ain't that much.

What I wound up doing was using the waiting time as an opportunity to expand on a little-used aspect of Theran religious life: Ritualistic prayer, worship, sacrifice, ect.

Instead of praying and waiting in silence it's a lot more interesting to do (and watch probably) some sort of hymn, song, ritual, prayer or whatever.


>that ignoring this problem is good. Often, many ot them choose
>one immortal over another just because they don't have a hope
>to catch a certain immortal online ( on a regular basis ),
>they adapt their roles towards another immortal and that isn't
>good also.
>When a first thought of player is not "What role I want to
>follow" but "Which of immortals I would be able to approach",
>something is broken.


That, I can sympathise with. I never had trouble comming up with roles, since I love creative writing, but can relate to the "Waiting for Godot" feeling, where 90% of your empowerment seems to be based on stupid, dumb luck, catching your IMM when he/she plays.

I wound up using these forums a great deal, seeing when IMMs posted so I'd have a clue when to pray, reducing the luck factor.

Now what did I do when I had a role that didn't fit an active IMM or fit an IMM that was obviously not concerned with their empowerees?

I made-up a religion and god.

Since any interested IMM could empower me, I knew it was based on the quality of my role, not stupid, dumb luck. Plus, I surmised, new, unique priest concepts are probably more interesting to IMMs as well.

My advice? I wound up with a method:

-Make character concept I'd like to play.
-See if it matches an active IMM.

-If yes:

*Write note, desc, role at level 1
*Pray/play when they post.
*Invent some form of worship appropriate to role.

If one week goes by and no empowerment, try another in-game note and e-mail/forum post.

If two weeks go by with no response/reply, delete. You've got better things to do with your life then wait and 2 weeks is long enough. Either your role sucks, or that IMM isn't worthy of your time by not taking 5 minutes to pen a reply.

-If no:

*Invent religion, Immortal before writing note, desc, role at level 1.
*Play/pray at a consistant time in an appropriate place.

If one week goes by and no empowerment, try another in-game note and e-mail/forum post.

If two weeks go by with no response/reply, delete. Your role probably wasn't unique/good enough and life is way to precious to waste

I admit empowerment ain't perfect, but I understand why it's done so we don't have bad, shallow priests and there are ways to work the system.