Baddest of the Bad?

[Sangwa]

I mean, if I was the head of a large evil guild (like the Dark Empire) I would instantly try to OOC contact the head of the good guild and try to get things started

If you were head of the Dark Empire (and if you possessed a sense of reason) you wouldn\'t instantly try to OOC contact the head of the good guild to try and get things started because you would notice you have a small number of Soldiers.
Without at least 4 or 5 Soldiers there is no way the Dark Empire can start a war, in character. I have and am trying to change this, by asking everyone I deem worthy if they\'re interested. Most of the times people are either bent on freelancing or on joining some neutral or good guild, like Dragon Council and The Chosen Few.

I would love to be able to do more for this cause, but my client has stopped working. Linux updates are always ugly monsters.

[Bebel]

[/QUOTE]I should make myself more clear
I asked for a role-playing reason.
[/QUOTE]

What about this reason , for fun :
 http://www.planeshift3d.com/wbboard/thread.php?threadid=20321&boardid=15&styleid=3&sid=bb3127be50b0a34f0921b92ed44ca775

or other reason : claim a territory (for hunt, mining, training ...) in Ydlaa or in the wild or in ojaveda (everywhere)
GUilds could  fixe some rules (depending of their alignement, or make free, payement, if restricted must accept all challenge in the territory)

My idea to make this world more enjoyable



(sry my bad english again)

[buddha]

It\'s true that I possess only the most anemic sense of reason when it comes to role-playing.

I disagree that you can\'t collect taxes or take over an area without PvP.  Being annoying and harassing can be very effective.  It\'s true you can\'t enforce it, but if you insist on following people or challenging them to duels, you will make your presence felt.  With this, any guild could claim a territory.

As for only having a few soldiers, this is a problem.  But, death is pretty cheap right now.  If you have the funding to get good stuff for your soldiers, you could probably do fine for a while.

[zanzibar]

Originally posted by buddha
Being annoying and harassing can be very effective.  

And very bannable.

[buddha]

Yes, that is something I find very frustrating.  I mean, there are annoying and harassing people in this world.  As long as you are IC, why do people get banned?  I find that, well, annoying and harassing.

EDIT: This seems to come down to the ideal that everyone is a hero or a villain.  Trying to play something else is frowned upon.  For a while, if you went to the tavern, people sat around trying to be the \"coolest\" by not talking or only threatening those about them.  B-O-R-I-N-G.  Where is the local color?

[Karyuu]

Very few people are actually in-character when they insist on being annoying and constantly challenging others to duels. I haven\'t heard of a scenario which had a real IC \"annoying\" persona banned, kicked, warned, etc., by any GM. Of course I could be missing things, but if someone is truly trying to roleplay a less-than-liked character and gets warned about it, they\'ve every right to complain.

[Bebel]

could we play and ignore who is not IC ?  just considere them as a  \"population\" and play as we \'d like to.

[Karyuu]

Unless someone is being severely disruptive of RP in an OOC manner, I don\'t see why ignoring OOCers would be impossible ;)

[zanzibar]

Originally posted by Karyuu
Very few people are actually in-character when they insist on being annoying and constantly challenging others to duels. I haven\'t heard of a scenario which had a real IC \"annoying\" persona banned, kicked, warned, etc., by any GM.

/me raises his hand.

Whether a person is IC or OOC is highly subjective at times.

Originally posted by Bebel
could we play and ignore who is not IC ?  just considere them as a  \"population\" and play as we \'d like to.

It\'s a role-playing game......

[Karyuu]

Originally posted by zanzibar
/me raises his hand.

Whether a person is IC or OOC is highly subjective at times.

Very true, and if there are doubts you could always contact the other party using /tells and ask for clarification.

[r.guppy]

Also if you fell for whotever reson you dont want enything to do with the person, you have a option to ignore them in game by typing /add_ignore then add name, that way they do not ruien your enjoyment of the game.    )

[buddha]

Then it\'s settled, who\'s going to make the first street gang?

[Suno_Regin]

/tell seems completely OOC, how could you talk to someone from Hydlaa all the way to the Ojaveda Hills?

[Bebel]

LOL that\' s true , they have mobile ...

[zanzibar]

Originally posted by r.guppy
Also if you fell for whotever reson you dont want enything to do with the person, you have a option to ignore them in game by typing /add_ignore then add name, that way they do not ruien your enjoyment of the game.    )

Very true, as you now know.  Why put up with the OOC rudeness of others when you don\'t have to.  Right, Janner?




Anyway, if tells weren\'t in the game, I think things would be pretty lonely.  I like chatting with people, IC and OOC, while doing other things.  The alternative would be to be alone when you do anything interesting unless you travel in groups, but that takes a lot of organization, and with people signing on at off at different times it just wouldn\'t be fun.  The one RP advantage I can see is that for meetings, you would actually have to be together in the same room.  And if someone saw it, they\'d know that you\'re all in cahoots with one another.

Of course, there\'s not much in the game to make secret meetings worth while, nor is there anything to make finding a secret meeting worth-while.