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Burning Wheel game

I recently put a Burning Wheel LFP post up from which I got no response; post can be seen  here . I'm curious why there has been a complete lack of interest; whether it's just because the BW player base is quite limited and/or the game as I have listed it does not appeal to BW players. There's not much can be done from my position if the player base is limited, but it would be beneficial to know if there is something unappealing about my game which I could improve in the future. Any thoughts?
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B Simon Smith
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Many people dislike the idea of using pregenerated characters.
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The Burning Wheel playerbase is small, at 0.42% of Roll20 players, according to The Orr Group Industry Report: Q3 2015 . To add, the time that you've scheduled your games to be is very late night / very early morning in the North American time zones (where the majority of players are). Lastly, I'll mention that LFG listings that leave both the New Players are Welcome and Mature Content(18+) restrictor flags untoggled will naturally recieve more traffic than listings that toggle both, such as your own.
Thanks for the feedback Simon and Silvyre. I can understand the possible aversion to pregens, hopefully it isn't putting too many off. I will try adjusting the time a little; the challenge of living in Australia unfortunately. Good points on the New players and Mature Content, I can toggle them to improve visibility. It's not that I actually plan overly mature content but rather desire mature players; a note in the description should be suffice.
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just to help you out with time scheduling. I live in Japan and I play D&D with friends from Australia, New Zealand and U.S, with only one hour difference between my place and Australia. I have found that setting my time around 8:00 AM (9 AM for you) works best with the above group composition. Same thing works for 8PM my time (9 PM your time). Yes, it is a pain in the ass to wake up in the morning, shower for only a couple of minutes and get ready to host a session that goes for more than 4 hours at times. If you want to GM from australia with non-australian playerbase then you should consider setting the times as I mentioned.
Brother Sharp I think you right in regard to the timing. If I want to get stand any chance of running a BW game I will have to cater for where the majority of the player base is located which appears to be North America. Thanks again to everyone for the input.
I saw the listing and was interested.  Playing with pregen characters is a not an issue for me and an understandably easier route than trying to cater to wildly differing concepts what would not fit into the given scenario.  Unfortunately I already am involved in a game during the proposed time slot (Friday evenings for me).  There are a few BW players out there, but it might take more than 2 days to get their attention.  It never hurts to cast a wider net in looking for players on other gaming forums, G+ community, reddit, etc.