Exclusive "RPs" in highly public areas.

[LigH]

@ Croconil:

Exactly - IMHO, often a "loose route" is more useful than a "strict route". It makes the difference between "playing for people" and "playing with people".

[Kalika]

uhm, hm

theres a difference between being absolutely ridiculous and actualy having a story...i can see why you would have a deep storyling to your rp, but when it inadvertently (sp?) involves others...then its becomes ridiculous...

for example-someone would shout that they were burning alive or something...not tell, not say...but SHOUT..then they would see me and DEMAND that i go and sit there with them and pity them because they were burning...im sorry but i would rather have mined or hunted than to have sat there ad get yelled at becuase my rp wasnt up to their par

what i guess i mean is...if its gonna be outrageous (i think this was during the whole vampire phase) then keep it to yourselves somewhere far away then to involve others in it, unless they wanted to be involved..it could easily been said that i didnt HAVE to sit there and listen to this person whine, along with their family and friends...but then i wouldve been OOC becasue my character is specifically teh type of person that would sit there and try to give the burning person something good to remember...

i ahve quite a few other examples where i wouldve been OOC not to ahve done anything, but i somehow got involved in a mess that i really didnt want to get involved in...

also, rp shouldnt be completely scripted...taht more for a story type of thing than actual online game experience---in my opinion at least

i do think that there could be a certain line to follow up on, but since we are interacting with others who ahve their own rp experience/personality/etc... than it should be more of letting the story evolve by itself


jsut my two cents...

[LigH]

I guess you are returning to the statement: Don't force people to join your play, and don't force people to let you join.

People with similar "levels of roleplaying" may find each other; best without force.

Just the places where different people meet, may need a few more restrictions. Players who don't want to be "disturbed", may better avoid such places. Or they will accept the alternatives: Tolerate, or ignore.

Or did I miss a better compromise? ...

[zanzibar]

I guess you are returning to the statement: Don't force people to join your play, and don't force people to let you join.

People with similar "levels of roleplaying" may find each other; best without force.

Just the places where different people meet, may need a few more restrictions. Players who don't want to be "disturbed", may better avoid such places. Or they will accept the alternatives: Tolerate, or ignore.

Or did I miss a better compromise? ...

I don't think compromise is ideal.  Compromise in this instance means "letting people do wrong".  If people just want to use PS as a platform to do whatever they want, then they are outside of the community.  They don't even enter into the equation except as trouble.

[Thoughtcrime]

The only compromise I would agree with would be a role play/role play guild open to everyone. The Purrties had the right idea, but even they weren't totally open to everyone. And for anyone who doesn't want their RP to be public—and I don't condone it...or discourage it, either—take it to a private location or a private channel. Simple as that, that'll keep you from being bothered.

Really, people shouldn't be makng such a hullabaloo (I can't believe I just used that word in a serious situation) over a MMORPG.

[Croconil]

hullabaloo (I can't believe I just used that word in a serious situation) over a MMORPG.

Haha. All the gangsters use that word