I think karyuu should be hand fed cookies and worshipped for her awesome work in this community and the website is just another thing under her belt that shows how dedicated she is.

  I love the site karyuu! User friendly, all the information you can get on planeshift, and it looks fantastic. It is a great improvement of what was. You have out done yourself and for this I applaud you.

I think the screenshots around the site are really great, they make the game look so pretty!

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I also look forward to the day I have something better to do with my time...

Like play with monkeys for real? Karyuu doesn't like monkeys <.< So you can't join the fanclub.

Wooo hooo no monkeys in the fanclub!? I am in!

Well now theres a peacer looking all old school heavy medalish. Neat.

Heeeeeeeeeey, chazarus actually looking like a happy drunk in this picture. Or maybe he isn't drunk and is just posing. Hmmm .....

Nice to see you again cherrpow. It looks cold where you took your pic. It's weird because I swear if you stare at your hair in the picture long enough,  I can see the top of your hair begin to turn into icicles.

Holy hell karyuu, your hair got super long since I last saw a picture of you! It is puuuuuuuuurtty.

@Akaye: so nothing has happened to this character before he gets created by you? He've just been stoning all his life not really anything interesting has happened to him? His personality comes from his life, and this life is his background story . I'm sure you know that :O.

Peacer if you are going to respond to my posts then can you please read them and not just skim them. You more often than not misunderstand what I am saying or talk about something that has nothing to do with what I said.

I clearly stated that a character has a background story, yes. What is a background story? It is your life that has already come to pass. So of course interesting things have happened to your character. Or maybe not, maybe your character leads a boring life. The point is you build on that story as you role-play in Yliakum everytime you log into the server. You have role-played long enough that I am sure you know that. :/

BTW his/her personality comes from you and the stories you tell or the actions you role-play out as that character. It doesn't all come from the background story. I have nothing in my "Zorbels life story" thread that tells of her fear of heights (That is my background story, and it was created since the first day I started playing planeshift. I didn't make a background story until I had enough role-play in planeshift to begin one). It just became because I wanted to have a weakness for her and I decided one day to start role-playing it out.

So, are you saying that oyu have a background story, then if it doesnt work after quite a while of trying, you then scrap it and go for another?

You would have to delete your Char of course because you would end up with the old story coming back to haunt you.

I would never suggest scrapping your background story. My god as a newbie how much of a story could you have anyway? You are living the story as you role-play. Otherwise if not you have everything planned which means you are not a true role-player. You are just a puppet master with strings.

I can't see what a back ground story has to do with role-playing with others in the community anyway. I mean your background story is just that, some of your history already taken place for you to chat with people on the server about  to give them an idea of your characters personality. A starting point basically. The role-play begins when you start adding to the story. I have lived many role-play stories in Yliakum as Zorbels, I don't just go with my background story. If you are trying to role-play your back ground story and not getting a response to it then my suggestion would be come up with a (I call them) sub story. A little out line of a very small role-play. (This next suggestion I did once) Maybe your groffel got stolen and you are searching for it. So you start to ask the people in Hydlaa if they have seen it. This opens up a conversation and a possible adventure in searching for this groffel. Maybe one of the players says "Yes I have seen it in ojaveda" well because you are supposably new you can explain you don't know the way. This opens up a position for someone to play the travel guide, etc. Then the role-play begins and before you know it, it was bedtime hours ago and your eyes are bloodshot.

I can understand your disappointment with people not just jumping to help you. But seriously it isn't the end of the world and there are bound to be days were no one is around to help or the people on the server are in huge role-plays and don't want to break them to bring a newbie into it. Don't let one time discourage you.

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this game isn't just for the role-players. It is for everyone.

Unfortunatly, and I mean that most sincerely, I think many would disagree with you.

That is fine they can disagree all they want. This was posted in a thread by a dev (unfortantly I can't remember which one, otherwise I would post it). It is their game and I think the players forget that at times. This is not my out look but the out look of the people who created the game. I am a role-player but I am not going to push it on everyone who logs onto the server. If they clearly don't want to role-play, then they are still welcome to play this game and do what they do whether it is a power leveler or a quester. We try and make this game meet everyones needs. It is not the job of a role-player to be a pain in the ass if this is the players choice and they choose not to role-play.

As for misunderstanding I think I have read your post word for word and I have a clear idea with what you are saying. At the same time when I was a new role-player I didn't wait for a group of role-players to pick me up and role-play with me just because I knew how to use the /me command. I went looking for it. A newbie to role-play has to learn how to involve themselves creatively. This is part of the growing pains of becoming a role-player. It isn't handed to them on a silver platter, and sometimes it is down right frustrating to join a group. If I couldn't find a group to role-play with I would create a story of my own and begin to involve those who were interested in it. There are many ways around this problem that you present, it is just a matter of how much effort the new role-player wants to put in.

  Erm, you have that backwards. WE pay him. He just provides the product. He isn't the evil one, we are as consumers.