Originally posted by Lolitra, Celorrim Purrty Twins
Our work commitments mean that we cannot always be online together so WE keep notes and sometimes play each other?s characters from time to time... to help keep our story flowing, WE try to ensure continuity with our ROLEPLAYING and have thus far only have had good feedback for the way we try to entertain and in doing so have a great time with this game.
We do use different characters to help with our story and try to entertain those who join in, and apologise if this is thought to be ?wrong or retarded??
Hmm, I have two issues with this:
1) This is not the game. It is merely the forum of the game, thus it isn\'t IC (save the RP board, where you must star#te as who you are playing anyway). Therefore, it is unnecessary (and even bad) to RP in the non-RP sections of the board. It\'s the same reason as for the requirement to clearly designate OOC ingame: to avoid confusion. IC and OOC can too easily be confused in a lot of circumstances, which in turn leads to all sorts of problems (I know what I\'m talking about, had that happen already).
Therefore, the RP reason doesn\'t apply to the forums AFAICS. I can see the time constraints part, and keying in your login name and password is annoying if you have dedicated accounts but not dedicated computers or desktop set-ups.
2) Having alts can easily be seen as abuse,
especially when they interact with each other\'s stories. The reason is simple: by using an alt, you can in effect double your effectiveness, because you can have one compensate for what the other lacks. Example: one is a fighter and the other a mage. By not strictly keeping both out of each other\'s way and stories, you can easily have one aid the other, therefore forming a one player party, which is in effect the same as cheating to give one char everything one might ever need. This applies to both RP and use of game mechanics.
In summary: now that you cleared this up (so I know it\'s not a misguided attempt to RP on the boards), and when you also are IC / OOC where appropriate, and furthermore are very careful ingame about the problem I mentioned, it\'s acceptable.
However, the issue raised about you still being individuals and therefore different personalities and different memories (especially when it comes to knowing what exactly the other played / experienced when IC) remains.
On the boards, this will most likely become a problem in case of arguments, because that\'s where personality differences tend to show most.
Also, we already had the case of someone claiming that someone else used his forum account to post inappropriate things, to put it very mildly.
I think sharing accounts of any sort isn\'t a good idea, much less when it\'s interacting with people (i.e., a shared desktop account isn\'t necessarily problematic). But maybe it\'ll work out in your case.
