A friend of mine knows someone who happens to know about another person and blah, lah... anyway.. he plays another MMORPG in which the following rules apply:

1. If you steal something, the owner and/or his mates are granted with the right to kill you for a while.
2. Properties that can be stolen: -Unfinished loots; i.e. If you kill a mob, the 'package' remains out of it, visible and available to anyone but marked as yours. Also, containers (which the game has for storage functions), etc..
3. You cannot steal from an individual. (no such as pickpocketing, etc..)
4. Containers have an expiration date. Same as loots, etc..


just some thoughts..

Gee.. never thought of that one!

Is there a plan to change the name?

Hmm.. the never ending RP/PL discussion..

  Sure, many don't like to read about the same thing or that "..there is nothing new.." so, I brought a small sample:

  Back in the days of the bugs (I mean when we were really plagued by bugs that affected the most commonly used mechanics), there used to be a problem with the furnaces. The slots were buggy and there were constant disconnections and crashes. If you happened to have something in the oven, get ready! your beloved ores and ingots may get lost.

  It happened several times to me and saw it happening very often. But that's not interesting at all.. It was outrageous! tho, funny sometimes .

{ No matter how angry you got while playing the ends of levels in Contra, or the thousand times you repeated actions having Mario jump over the turtle to earn 100 lives, you still did it! (there are newer games around but I love classics). That's the nature of gaming. It's pure gaming 101: Players have to suffer to get something, to feel a challenge.}

  Well, ores being lost, the first thing one would attempt once back online was to find a culprit and guess what you had to use to get them back?.. The infamous ever-hurting lame RolePlay! (ok, that was a bit out of line). AND THERE YOU HAVE IT

  Roleplay should never be considered separate from 'actions by mechanics' in PlaneShift. Tho, they may act separately, one can and should rely on the other for backup in the joy of gaming. So, if you agree, try to stop thinking of them appart.

  If you are a dev or part of the PS staff, try to think of it.. I'm not saying players shouldn't be grinded to the bones. On the contrary: THEY MUST BE GRINDED TO THE BONES LIKE IN ANY OTHER GAME. but there are ways to do it that actually encourage them to keep on. And if you believe RolePlay can be forced via settings, try to see which way you're turning the knob.. Perhaps it should be the other way. RP and PL/mechanics will either walk together or... (well, I dunno).

All 4 now..

PS. Hey! No cherrypicking! ok?

  

A friend of mine came with a fantasy idea:

Friend: - What if they're simulating a major problem to hide a wipe-out?.. I mean they can, can't they?

Me: - Yes, they can.

Friend: - Why don't you post that idea?

Me: - They'll ban me probbly.

Friend: - It would be fun.

Me: - Yeah, maybe but I'd be punished. And surely someone will say that our trias are safe, that the info is mirrored from Singapore to Katmandu or sumthn..

Friend: - What if they don't?

Me: - Bah! Shut up!

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Just kiddn' .. please don't get mad at my friend

I don't think we will have an answer to that but we could ask for it.
Maybe it's a good idea to have some hints about the future instead of biased speculation.
If we had some storylines perhaps the forums would be more constructive and maybe a good percentage of the posts could be dismissed.
Sometimes we feel like Sangwa expressed, which I don't think is arrogant, but it's a question of lack of information about where the compass points.

Let's face it, we want to get the gold bucket at the end of the rainbow.. I'd say, let's ride the rainbow. Just remove some twists and turns. It's a bumpy ride already.

What would it look like?.. I dunno! but I could tell how I wish it to look like (or better, perform like) but we don't want to get through it all again, do we?..

Enjoy your vacation away from the crystal

  I understand Kaityra's complaint but I can't say I share 100% her opinion..

  On one side, maybe the attacker could have set itself to the same stance as any GM does when givin' a speech, for example. Just simply non-attackable or what ever name the thingy has..

  On another perspective, I agree totally with the godmoding for cases like this one, on which the GM's intention is to perform it's duty based on a storyline which takes more than a couple of seconds to achieve. Hadn't it been godmoded, the storyline would be different and the char is suposed to die quickly.

  But this thread revealed some interesting hints about the future and that's another thing I want to take advantage of to spray some graphos on this wall..

If I'm not mistaken, characters (the ones handled by players) will be able to engage in quite interesting actions against other characters, objects, elements and alike.. Call them skills if you want.. I prefer: 'actions'.

Being this the case, then this promised future lights up a very interesting path.. one in which chars will finally face their reality: there is something wild about it all..

One wonders why these things have not being allocated. Some drop accusations, others become devil advocates, etc.. I just say.. I don't know and I don't want to. If you cannot pick a lock or physically rob something, dissappear, climb on statues, etc.. there must be a reason greater than will for it. Fact is: At this moment, player's chars can't do.

But.. There is a developing environment in which all these possibilities are on hold and as characters, they have become attached with those rules. Odd thing is, I find that the orientation is actually opposing to the possible existence of such actions. Such change in rules will also bring debate and perhaps fiercer than slaps on faces.

Because it will be a much different set of rules.. too far from what we see now, Guilds are crossing a mudflood at present IMO because the actual rules don't pose a challenge for chars. One can come and go as will.. unprotected, alone.. uncautious. But... remember the things out there?.. do you actually think about them?.. Who do you think you are to qualify a rogue's capabilities? or an Ulbernaut's? What about a Guard's? How deadly are your weapons? How are your enemies'? well, there will be a time in which being alone would be suicidal and then by facing the wild, chars will unite and guilds will pass the mud. ( I like to call that time 'The Rebirth Of The Guilds').

I've learned not to point fingers in here and post reflections instead of biased comments. I just wanted to remind us that this world is not to remain the way we see it now.. Still, I'm worried about how much of surprise it will be for many when all these actions become active, because somehow I suspect many settings and changes we've seen recently could be misunderstood and we're living in oblivion.

I hope those actions get active soon.. and BTW, my char is getting ready for it!. I want to see chars exposed to dangers, death, etc.. I want to see our characters united in groups to survive, to fight the wild, to be aware of the nature of everything around and finally, play roles accordingly. It is very hard right now to RP (again, IMO) simply because there's a lack of actions to backup them adequately. Mainwhile, it would be wise to check if the path is pointing the right direction and not the 'right way'.

Ciao, pescao!

This guy came to my beach.. I was just hungry!