I believe this has increased recently because of a couple of changes to the game. One being the limit on preps. When I’ve played mages or warriors I’ve had to spend hours and hours gathering preps and then if I die there is a good chance they won’t be there. Now let’s modify this scenario a little bit, I’ve have my all powerful lion which tanks like a rock now I can take my preps I spent hours getting and go attack this guy of I can get someone to tank or heal and I know I can take him out with ease. Then I can save those hard earned preps for another time when I am in dire need of them. We can also throw in the decrease in the amount of limited armor. I’ve finally got that sweet ass set I’ve been putting together for months. Now should I take that great risk of going into a battle I may win or should I gather a couple of people and make sure I will win? This is what I see as the plague of cf. Prep can’t live with’em can’t live without’em.

Preps are also what leads to a lot of the ooc info sharing. If you would make it just a bit easier to find wands then perhaps it would decrease this problem. As it stands now I could search an area but if someone else already gathered that wand I’d never know I missed it. What about adding a feature for people with detect magic. An example as you open the chest a faint aura glows. When you look in the bookcase you detect a faint aura of magic. I could realistically see a object of that much power leaving some trace that it was there.

If you're searching a mage's laboratory and find a bookcase (or whatever) with nothing in it, is it really that hard to put two and two together?

I could think of some that are really off the wall. Also there are some old ones where wands never appear anymore but give the appearance that they should be there. I wanted to add though that I think we're moving away from the normal point.

I agree with everything you said, and I'd like to add something here that I have seen from my own experiences with past characters. When you roll your character, don't even roll it based on the current good-evil situation, and don't roll a char just so you can get to know a particular person better. In my experience, that just leads to the feeling of a wasted character and wasted time in the end. I think a character should always be rolled after getting a good idea for a role, like 'Hey, I think it would be fun to play a drunk-ass dwarf!' If you are already playing something, write the idea down and promise yourself to play that next.
Also, I think you kind of reinforced what I was saying on Vynmylak's board as well.
Mr Floofi, I have a question as well. What are your thoughts on the difference between deletion and rage deletion? Should a character feel obligated to play out a character to con or age death, even if it gets boring? I mean, on one hand, you have to consider the other players it affects, but you also have to consider the fact that this is a game and should be fun as well.
Yaofhil, Smashed Follower of Chumps

Mr Floofi, I have a question as well. What are your thoughts on the difference between deletion and rage deletion? Should a character feel obligated to play out a character to con or age death, even if it gets boring? I mean, on one hand, you have to consider the other players it affects, but you also have to consider the fact that this is a game and should be fun as well.
Yaofhil, Smashed Follower of Chumps

A fine question. I generally try to play my characters for about a week after the boredom and frustration sets in...since if it doesn't get better in a week, it's time to let the character go. This is just my opinion, and your mileage may vary. Deletion because the character is simply no fun...that's a no brainer. If you're not having fun, it's probably time to make a new character. The catch here is that a lot of times if you play through the initial frustration and/or boredom something may happen that suddenly makes the character fun again. The trick is knowing how long it generally takes you to refind the fun. Since there are just some characters that the fun is gone, and short of divine intervention...the fun isn't coming back.
Rage deletion on the other hand, is the ultimate form of chumptasticness, as far as I'm concerned. Since it's kinda like having one moment of frustration that causes you to toss away (in many cases) several hundred hours. This is why we started tossing rage deletion messages out when someone starts to do it, in hopes of shaming them/making them laugh and relax/or defusing the anger so they'll sit back and realise 'hrm...maybe there is still life to this character'.

so spaketh the Floofi and all was laid to floofination!

There was several times where I started to grow really bored with Ulthur, and I think twice where I was considering deleting him. I'm sure glad I stuck it out now, since the end was some of the most fun I'd had in all his time. While you shouldn't play something that isn't fun, try to stick it out as long as possible. You never know, something interesting may come up!

Ulthur

"Don't worry cutsy buttons. Tonight, dyin's not on the menu!"

- Strong Bad as Dangeresque