Confessions of a Prostitute (Re: ps has been plagued with beggers. . .

[HighFish.DE]

The thread ps has been plagued with beggers. . . by XeNoDeMoS was closed unfortunately. Because my character is mentioned there directly I opened another thread to defend my behaviour.
As you could guess from the title my character Laurelei is practicing one of the oldest jobs in the world  (colloquialism) and isn\'t begging for something but offering a service in exchange for money. So whats the Problem with that? If youre looking at what PlaneShift is actually intendet to be its exactly the thing you should do in PlaneShift. In fact you can play PlaneShift as an action RPG going to the sewers and hack & slay all day or as an real RPG by using your fancy to create a character with a personality, someone that differs from other players. If you\'re a real Roleplayer you would have recognized that its perfectly fitting if someone plays a character like a prostitute or beggar. Try to overcome the pigeonhole thinking and make your own.
Iam glad that many people on my first days in the world of Planeshift understood my intentions and I had mostly good reactions, especially from GM\'s.
So how can we solve such problems? In my opinion this isn\'t realizeable at the moment because the only thing you could really do is found another city and employ guards that ward people from begging and prostituting.
The other measures (except the ones that prevent players from actually roleplay in a RPG) wouldnt work. I downloaded my first PlaneShift release around 2000 from a cvs and compiled it under Slackware-Linux after I installed a 3D Card there, so the trick with the hide of download/register sites wont work. A long way trough a dark forrest to another city? I was there two times on my first day playing PS.
So what do you think about that?

[Karyuu]

Maybe you aren\'t aware of the fact that Planeshift is meant to be for all ages, and such public behavior of your character is inappropriate for younger members of the PS community?

I would think this to be common sense. And I am rather befuddled at GMs glazing over this...?

[Draklar]

Hehe... yea, it was fun to see the offer given in tavern
I\'m not sure if Kada-El would be happy about it, tho\'

[Darakus]

Soon we\'ll have to make an adult version of Planeshift to make place for roleplaying ))

Of course if you look at it from the role playing point of view, if you have thiefs, assassins, rogues and the like, you have to complete the underlife with prostitutes and barmaids of course that would mean an extension to the city of hydlaa to separate the poor quarters from the rich one with a difffering graphical apects to it.

That said kada\'el \'s tavern isn\'t the place for such role playing as it is an upper class tavern and not a lower class one )

[Talad]

The game has an open audience, with people raging from 10 years old up. On that side we should be very careful, to give an enjoyable experience to everyone, the way they expect it, without bad surprises.

On the other hand, a live and colorful world can surely have some less serious characters, but it\'s important to draw a line on how much they can go in that direction. I say you can do that very lightly, just as a \"stupid girl\", not more. If you really want to impersonate a \"less serious\" character, you must avoid searching clients, because that IS considered harassment and IS pushined with permanent ban. What you can do is to have that kind of \"fun\" attitude with a restricted number of people that you know are above legal age, and are willing to chat with you in that special way. No other actions will be tolerated.

[Kiva]

I believe this deal needs no further explanation. Feel free to PM someone if you feel offended.