PlaneShift
Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: Merdarion on January 11, 2005, 06:32:41 pm
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Well its pretty annoying!
Just a few seconds after spawning you hear the first
\"OMGZ!! STFU!! HAVE SWORD OF UBER DOOMNES MAKE 350 DAMAGE PER ATTACK 350 ATTACKS PER SECOND!!\"
shout.
But it even gets worse.
Anyone you talk to turns away and the only conversation you will ever get is. \"Do ya want to team up, I needz experienz!!\"
So I ask you where have all the roleplayers gone??
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Obviously they were not there when you logged in, that said it is the first time I hear of people talking inside CB while using these type of words as they are normaly reserved for posers :) and those are not attracted to the kind of environment Planeshift provides since they feel the need to hack and slash away.
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Still trying to get the client working correctly to be able to join in the fun! :)
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I roleplay every time I log in, which is every day. Look out for Moogie, Dameon, Kada, Lystera, Draklar, Rumblebelly.... there\'s many more.
Just initiate a roleplaying conversation with someone, and if they respond with their modern-day ramblings, walk away and try someone else. :)
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I\'ve been absient for a week because of this same problem. That or people that respond to me OOC all the F-ing time and treat me like a new player when I try and be IC *grublmes*.
If you are EST or closer to GMT you stand a good chance of finding someone that is actually RPing.
If you are PST, I\'m out there a couple hours a nite.
Character: Lhoran Enelone
I\'ll RP with ya\'...Lord knows I need it.
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I was afraid as you are at first. Being asked \"lvl?\" under the azure sun before any greeting in this new year time is really annoying.
Since that I forced myself to stay and explore the new wilderness.
I am happy to tell you that I met good people making sense when they talk to you.
The age of Molecular blue are over. We all knew this had to happen. But if you remember those days, we saw these people coming and leaving. And we stayed and finally met some people with good or evil plots. Some friends did not come back since the world revolution. But in the crowd of people that call themselves \'players\' I already encoutered people ready to talk about themselves.
OOC: Role players do have a great advantage in CB. We are able to understand the hack&slashers but they won\'t be able to understand us. When one asks you \"i wanna train STR\", answer him that you were able to share the knowledge of an Ylian near the Ojaveda Gate of Hydlaa. Then see the poor guy run in circle with his longsword+x while you return to the Tavern for a drink.
Since you can\'t levelup by greetings people, non-RPing people won\'t /greet you. /challenge is the only command they use when they see a new char. Just /greet people yourself. A Greeted RPer will always find some time to greet you in return and say hello.
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Well i know that you are Rpgin moogie.
But the problem is that everywhere when you ar online a crowd of 20 people share around you shouting that they need a weapon.
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You know it was easier in MB because Crystal Hunters usually were going into dungeons passing the temple and meeting any gathering they just stayed there ;)
Now people go in various places, none the less, we need such place again... but please make it the tavern this time ;)
That\'s it! Something shall be done! From now on I\'ll be spending most of my time in tavern... I got bored with killing monsters long ago anyway :P
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I\'ve some tentative plans to share a few stories by the fire at the tavern, so perhaps I may join the gathering for a drink and a tale :)
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I have experienced the same thing but, things will start to look up someday and as Moogie said in the above: look for good people! :)
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Where have they gone? Offline.
Every time I roleplayed, I insulted somenobody. :o One event was quite amusing, but it makes little sense to be online at this stage.
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most of the roleplayers have been replaced me \"leet\" gamerz :\\
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Anyone you talk to turns away...
This is probably what I hate the most... Everytime I greet someone (very polite, really) and ask if he/she has some falka because my lamps ran out, they turn away and run 5 loops in the Ojaveda gate and didn\'t say a word to me... How sad :P I tried to recruit some schoolfriends to become roleplaying PS\'ers, but after I found out one of them chose \"drcoolguy cat\" as name, I gave up.
I\'ll try to keep an eye out for any role-players... The problem is that most of them probably live in another time zone (so not anywhere in West-Europe) or simply just enter Yliakum in other times... :(
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Good point that you mentioned names. GMs will take note of players using stupid, non-RP names and give them to Cad to be changed. We have a naming policy, but we really need to get it put in Character Creation or the Player\'s Guide or something. Strictly speaking, we don\'t get have a right to enforce the name policy, but we do anyway.
Will bug devs more for this.
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Originally posted by Merdarion
Well its pretty annoying!
Just a few seconds after spawning you hear the first
\"OMGZ!! STFU!! HAVE SWORD OF UBER DOOMNES MAKE 350 DAMAGE PER ATTACK 350 ATTACKS PER SECOND!!\"
shout.
But it even gets worse.
Anyone you talk to turns away and the only conversation you will ever get is. \"Do ya want to team up, I needz experienz!!\"
So I ask you where have all the roleplayers gone??
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Well I RP when I\'m on, although I can remember an embarising incident when I was trying to ask a question of Moogie and my capslock jamed when I capitalized the \"M\" in her name.
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Sadly, I am banished to these forums, as I cannot spend one hundred plus hours downloading the game. *kicks the phone line*
Mayhap I will ask a friend to do it.
Wouldn\'t it be nice if you could just type /ignore noobs and they would all disappear?
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Well I know atleast one of them cant play ;)
There needs to be some sort of thing on the account creation page where a person is given a scenario and must give an answer in a role-playing fashion and then that answer is emailed to a GM or something and then they decide if they should be allowed to join. Id really hate this community to end up like runescape.
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hahaha and you expected anything less than those people advertising for experience and swords. Moogies right if you want to roleplay you just need to find the right people because theres maybe 1 or 2. I would be in but heh having logging problems so I gave up for awhile on things.
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Originally posted by Syzerian
Well I know atleast one of them cant play ;)
There needs to be some sort of thing on the account creation page where a person is given a scenario and must give an answer in a role-playing fashion and then that answer is emailed to a GM or something and then they decide if they should be allowed to join. Id really hate this community to end up like runescape.
Not every body on RS is like that there are still agreat many RPers there. Vertigo Moj, Blackkingx, Canis Lupis, and myself just to name a few. You just have to look around and find us. (The \"Sword Sheaths\" thread on the suggestions forum is full of RP bumps and senarios; most recently we had Blackkingx\'s mirror)
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The more people RP out in the open, infront of the rest of the players and newcomers, the more you are doing to enforce RP in this community. IMO, people who complain there\'s not enough roleplay and then go hide somewhere to RP with 1 or 2 people alone have no right to complain, since they obviously don\'t care if they influence other people to act the same.
Personally I try to RP mainly in the Plaza, where the /spawn\'ers can hear. I don\'t reply to people who ask me nasty pleveler questions. I do, however, reply to \"where can I kill stuff\" with something like \"if bloodshed is really your thing, perhaps you should try heading down into the sewers. Lots of vermin down there, if you can stomach the smell!\"
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Ahh... the time honored position of High Exulted Vermin Disposer. You can never have to many of those. ;)
In my opinion (IMO for those of you who can\'t understand complete words anymore) I think the whole \'leveling up\' and \'uber sword\' system is at the heart of the problem. It seems to breed \'lvlers\' and \'n00bs\'. Also, the sooner we remove PvP from the cities, the better. I hear that it is complete anarchy in there.
Is there an \'/ignore shout\' command?
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Okay, as a new PlaneShifter, I see myself in a few of these posts, and would like to respond a bit.
I\'m an adult IT prof who read about PS on slashdot and decided to try it out because it sounded fun.
I am not an RPG\'er-- haven\'t been since I last played D&D twenty plus years ago with my other 10 year old friends. We built characters, rolled dice, made maps and had loads of fun.
There was one important difference- There were extensive, well written books that told us exactly how things work. We understood what the constraints of the
game were.
The \'online\' aspect of PS adds an entirely new layer of complication. I cannot praise the developers enough for making this project Open Source and spending countless hours making our gameplay experience firstclass, for no monetary reward. But, you must admit, as yet, the \'instructions\' are a bit vague.
Yes, there is the help channel, but it\'s still not like a good DM. Case in point, I have figured out how to train with an NPC and then go practice some to get better. but I\'m clueless what all the pretty blue, red and yellow graph bars mean. Consequently, Gobbles gobble me 50% of the time. Before you go there, yes, I have read the player guide and noob faq\'s.
None the less, I enjoy the PlaneShift world and am enjoying \'re-learning\' how to RPG, and thanks be to a wonderful and patient Guild Leader, I\'ve made some aquaintences that are showing me the ropes.
So, please, if I do things that irritate you as a hard-core RPG\'er, please have some patience and take a moment to draw me into the game more instead of shaking your head and writing me off as a hopeless hack and slasher.
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The end of winter break signals the end of free time for many. I have exams coming up. I can\'t even check the forums every day, much less go through bug & glitch hell.
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well ladd\'s n lass\'s ye got\'s ta remember too that a great many roleplayer\'s are still tryin ta figure out the game play right now. when the ferver is over and everyone start\'s ta get bored again then the roleplay will be back not to mention the one\'s who can do nothing but yell out \"i need a weapon\" and \"can you give me some money\" they will also get bored and hopefully leave.
i say hopefully because i know it\'s just a pipe dream lol.
i see moogie mentioned me name tis nice ta know when yer loved (tip\'s a mug in cheer\'s to moogie) :D
well i be off...time ta hit the tavern and tip back a few tankard\'s o the sweet stuff 8)
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Hi Prof Memnaur,
do you still have your D&D books, etc. The only difference here is that you have not about 6 players but a horde of players. The role playing is practically the same for D&D and PS, where one focuses on character background, abilities and weaknesses, personalities, etc and not figures.
Maybe this weekend I get a chance to complete a PS compiling to join the party.
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Originally posted by Merdarion
Well its pretty annoying!
Just a few seconds after spawning you hear the first
\"OMGZ!! STFU!! HAVE SWORD OF UBER DOOMNES MAKE 350 DAMAGE PER ATTACK 350 ATTACKS PER SECOND!!\"
shout.
But it even gets worse.
Anyone you talk to turns away and the only conversation you will ever get is. \"Do ya want to team up, I needz experienz!!\"
So I ask you where have all the roleplayers gone??
I\'m right here on the forum! :D i don\'t play CB as i can\'t RP to it (i am a forest dwelling craftsman) but once crafting is implemented you bet yer britches i\'ll be on :)
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Yes, seems to me a fever has been passing through, causing shouting, talking nonsense, and general ignorance of the world. I hope that the healers are soon able to find a cure. *Kwip shakes his head muttering \"poor fools\"*
OOC: You just have to act as one of that world, what would we think of people in rl who go around talking like these people do, we would think them mad or feverish, so RP like it :)
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RPers are all around the world, in MB they were concentrated in the temple, now they are not concentrated, as it was said before try /greeting and waving hello, many people replies normally to that, if they are 1337 they usually run away without even noticing you, so you dont even have to move ;)
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I RP when I get the chance... well you can find me in the tavern as that is where I use my time... all the fighting... *shakes his head*
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Agreed. I am something of a new-b to this world...(yeah, I am not using my PS name on the board. My sorry excuses for eyes missed that part. Sorry. If you wish to know, it is Dikoke Araren.) and have become rather annoyed at all of the folks in Hydlaa square running about screaming about wanting weapons and etc. As far as p & p/D&D rping goes...I\'ve done some, even GM\'d a few Shadowrun and WOT games. I am not that great of a RPer...although I do have a few shining moments. As it stands, I am usually pretty horrible at RPing a certain race\'s stereotype. It usually comes out muddled, then I revert to my original favorite style of RPing.... A KENDER! ;) Yes, I know, not exactly the best idiom for an Enkidukai.... :p
As far as finding people who actually RP...I have tried to strike up conversations with a few other players, and when I ask their name (c\'mon...If you were actually your character, you probably wouldn\'t be seeing green text floating over their heads....) They either think I\'m a dummy for asking, or really can\'t figure out what is going on. (and I usually think they are pretty idiotic for coming into a RP world and not even having the vaguest clue as to what they are supposed to be doing) At that point, I usually just leave \'em be.
Anyhow. For those who do RP, there are others of us out there...or at least those of us out there that are trying. Just need to figure out a little more about myself.
Nyow...
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Dikoke
Its not the end of the world until the last Kender stops \"borrowing\". :D
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Well, I know that there are actually some RPers out there. But the problem is that after greeting and talking to 8 1337s I dont have any lust anymore to keep on finding someone to talk to.
And about RPing on Hydlaa Plaza: Its pretty annoying if you talk to someone and every second someone other shouts something inbetween or uses auction channel for shouting. and all this duels happening there are making you sick.
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I feel a clean solution would be a designated OOC channel that people who want to role-play can filter. All other channels are expected to be IC and people can get banned for abusing those channels. This worked swell in an old mud of mine.
OOC channel is great for GM announcement and mass advice too :). Now GMs at times shout OOC just because that\'s the best way of getting newbies to use help instead of shout/auction.
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Problem is, in loading screen, creation of character never says to RP to talk in RP way, etc. it\'s not in the rules, at least i didn\'t notice any rules entering the game. So lot of people who are noobs obviously just don\'t know about these things.
one solution is sentence filter.
when a filter spots that you are using too many cap locked words, words like leet or uber.. words in moder day like dollar or usa or europe.. there should be just a warning.. and if you get up to 10 warnings in 30 minutes, you get silenced for an hour.
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Originally posted by sashok
one solution is sentence filter.
Let the GMs do this. I really dislike when a computer program censors people based on filters that can not account for content of communication or context. It just at times is wrong, so let an intelligent person make such decisions. Luckily, there are anti-flooding measures there already.
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The problem with the OOC channel is that none of these 1337s would keep with it.
And it would be way to much to ban them all!
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Is it really this bad? Maybe I need to hang on Hydlaa plaza more, but I hardly find all this so disruptive. Even when I ran my guided tour starting at Hydlaa Plaza with a whole bunch of newbies, I didn\'t have a single disruptive experience.
How about removing Shout and Auction. Or rather remove Auction (not very RP anyway) and make Shout decrease with distance? Help and other potential OOC channels are the only way to annoy serious masses (or a bunch of overworked advisors).
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1337s blow... screw banning them.. lets lynch them :P
(seriosuly get a mod to make them PK-able once they start acting 1337-k3wl and let us all have a little \"fun\" with \'em)
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Ahhh! It speaks 1337! UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN! *everyone shuns mr 1337* :D
Since this is a free game they will always be around. Ban one, two more pop up.
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Meep O.o... thats why i said kill them :P kill them and send a message to the other ones :)
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Why just kill them when we could get Xordan to devour their souls?:)
OOC you guys know I\'m just kidding right?;)