Originally posted by Draklar
Oh come on... There is a difference between common crime and having your whole family slaughtered on your eyes. And frankly, I don\'t see how being forced to live among those who you hate is supposed to heal the damage.
Right, so let\'s assume that this person, who has been living with those of the same race that killed his family all the time until the event happened, probably being friends to some of them, now actually thinks \"yeah, they must all be like that!\".
So now the question is: how many people share his fate? Is it actually possible for, say, 1000 Ylians to share that fate? How many of those marauding bands would that take, and if they indeed were that strong, wouldn\'t they be known very well, i.e., official?
This means that it cannot be a usual backstory of more than, say, 10 PCs, because otherwise it\'d need to have a resemblance ingame that is way more defined than ten players telling ghost stories.
However, this it the exact kind of makeshift backstory that is designed for the sole reason of explaining whyt the char hates race XYZ. seeing the popularity of that general idea is giving me the creeps, and, frankly, I begin to see why our world is so screwed up.
Anyway, it would mean that there would be thousands of race XYZ slaughtering hundreds of thousands of race ABC, always leaving just one infant to witness it all. This would mean that race ABC would be extinct very quickly, and it would also mean that race XYZ, or at least a major part of it, is particularly violent and only towards race ABC, which is really insane.
Originally posted by Draklar
Originally posted by Seytra
Eh? No, it didn\'t occur to me, because basicly both are completely made up. It might just as well have been put into history that at some instance, all dwarves decided that they need to be able to swim, or that all Nolthrir colored themselves blue.
And you talk about bad rp? 
If something is in Yliakum history, it means it happened.
End of story.
Obviously I have not expressed myself well.
From an IC perspective, the history is of course a fact. However, I was talking OOC, and therefore the history is nothing more than a text on a website, made up by some people. That means that it could contain
anything. Therefore, it is
exactly the same as the races setting, i.e. made up. Neither are \"facts\", and both are equally official and valid to me, because both are OOC. They are parts of the same, just like chapters of a book.
Originally posted by Abelard
And I\'m not a racist in real life 
. But I think that too much regulation will make the game extremely dull, like most other MMORPGs in existence. What do you want - a realistic world or a place to slaughter mobs and get experience?
I want neither a fully realistic world, nor the usual hack\'n slash. Agreed, racism
can be used to draw good RP, but it is one of these things that require extremely experienced RPers, which are rare. The majority will be unexperienced, and most of them will not be able to handle it properly. That\'d be not a problem in SP games, or in small groups, but it is in a MMORPG.
There are other, less dangeroud things that can be added to spice up RP, and I hope that these will be there soon. People are already fighting to death for no reason at all, so what will happen if racism would be an official excuse for PK?
@ Socrates Demise: You
do realise that the lack of race-specific food is due to the highly incomplete nature of PS, no?
As for the mental abilities of Kran: as has been pointed out, the Enkis are, in fact, less intelligent than the Kran. Therefore, the same sentence should be added to the Enki description page as well. Furthermore, seeing that many races are quite close to the 40 INT, it doesn\'t seem to be a big difference anyway, and the more it is cited, the more it feels
way overhyped.
Edited for language.