Re: Another new guy )
Welcome to rpol, WhiskeyLogic! Good to see you. :)
This is my only real online game site, after having been only in live games, and it took a bit of getting used to. Basically, you have people posting once or twice a day, on average, on a regular basis, rather than having blocks of four to six hours for constant posting.
A slight majority of the people seem to be in North America, and most of them in the Eastern and Central Time Zones, but there are substantial numbers of people are from all over the world. Gamers from Europe, Asia and Australia are very common here, as well as other countries. I'm in the CST zone, in Texas, and my games all seem to slow down in the wee hours of the morning (1am to 6am), but there can still be activity 24 hours a day, at least somewhere on rpol.
I'm no expert, but my advice would be to expect a game to have one or two posts a day, and not necessarily every day, especially on weekends.
Still, you can also poll your players to see if they want more or less posting, and it's not uncommon for a group of faster posters to get together for a game.
Still, games tend to die here very often, as online texting is a very fragile connection for gamers who've never met, and Real Life tends to be the 400 pound gorilla that does what it wants with us.
If you have any other questions, however, please feel free to ask. :)