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Wish list / Re: Tell Disable
« on: July 24, 2010, 11:29:02 am »
Roleplay doesn't exist. Thats why its funny to come here and see people arguing about it. All you have is a different approach for every person who logs in, no way to moderate it, and no way to enforce any sort of structure to it. A roleplaying game has a mechanical structure that is definite. Roleplaying games were not invented yesterday and were definitely NOT invented starting with PlaneShift.
My statement was that if you remove all chat functionality, roleplay will explode on the system. And at least one posted after me, who wanted to lecture me on their opinions. But my point is that if you are serious about roleplay, remove the excuses for not roleplaying, i.e. all the gratuitous chat functionality; make the characters interact as characters. As long as people can instant message each other from afar you are reducing chances of "roleplay" dramatically across all character interactions on the system.
But the next argument that should have come up was coordinating events and scenarios (not informing me of your favorite movies, like I give a damn) and how hard that would be without the chat functions. The chat that has been added to the game has been added for a reason. Just like the game mechanics. And it was expanded to the current level of chat functions for practical reasons based on what I just mentioned. So I really doubt they are going to remove it.
But my point still stands... if you want RP, remove all chat functionality that represents a magical messaging service between the characters. RP will EXPLODE on the system if this is done. And I mean everything except whisper, say and shout. RP started dying with guild chat, and now that we have a gossip channel, roleplay is dead. Forget that you can't define roleplay; as far as it goes within the PS world, its whatever the players say it is because the devs have not yet added many functions to support it.
My statement was that if you remove all chat functionality, roleplay will explode on the system. And at least one posted after me, who wanted to lecture me on their opinions. But my point is that if you are serious about roleplay, remove the excuses for not roleplaying, i.e. all the gratuitous chat functionality; make the characters interact as characters. As long as people can instant message each other from afar you are reducing chances of "roleplay" dramatically across all character interactions on the system.
But the next argument that should have come up was coordinating events and scenarios (not informing me of your favorite movies, like I give a damn) and how hard that would be without the chat functions. The chat that has been added to the game has been added for a reason. Just like the game mechanics. And it was expanded to the current level of chat functions for practical reasons based on what I just mentioned. So I really doubt they are going to remove it.
But my point still stands... if you want RP, remove all chat functionality that represents a magical messaging service between the characters. RP will EXPLODE on the system if this is done. And I mean everything except whisper, say and shout. RP started dying with guild chat, and now that we have a gossip channel, roleplay is dead. Forget that you can't define roleplay; as far as it goes within the PS world, its whatever the players say it is because the devs have not yet added many functions to support it.