Re: summing up my first 6 months here
I would consider those results pretty typical. I was on here for YEARS before I finally happened on a few games that were consistent and are still running. And even looking at recent results, the games I'm still in are games that have been running for two or more years...everything I've RTJ'd in the last year either never took off or ended up folding (for whatever reason).
So, yeah, if you're new, don't feel like any problems with getting into a solid game are JUST because you're new. They aren't. Even people who've been here for years still have RTJs that get ignored, or join games that don't take off, or get into a game that turns into something other than what they expected when the RTJ was sent. It's the nature of the beast...occupational hazard, of sorts, I guess.