I will focus on the "/" and "s." shortcuts.
No matter what rules you set, you can't make them work, ecause they will work only when everybody will agree with them. They won't agree because they will use / and s no matter what. So you are doomed on failure.
So i repeat myself:
We have two options as
everything whats in-game is suposed to be ICa) eliminate the stats values from weapons (no stats so no / and s ever again in any channel. Problem solved)
b) accept knowing them as IC, no matter how amaizingly suprising it is that everybody know the exact numbers.
Yeah, we really can sell and buy things the same as you do in real^^ Someone sells a sword, you look at it, its steel, sharp and balanced, it must be good.
when its quality is high, its sharp, balanced when you check it and what metal it is by looking at it.
Really, there are no silverwave swords of defender. What the freak is that anyway? The only conclussion i get is: magical swords are common thing in ps and everybody have them. As players want to know which of the 10 magical swords they can choose from is the best, they want he slash value to be known to them instantly. So, bang, we have a slash value, and so we have it commonly used by the character, so furher, it must be IC! Yay!
Magical swords are mistake, they are common, but with what cost?
It's really that simple. You can know whats IC and what isn't, but even if you do, you can't have IC world as long as in the world there are people who doesnt know the difference xD
The more ooc the Devs put to the IC world, the more OOC it will be There is no walkaround to it.
Why did i said all this this and not the other way? Because i didn't say anything new at all, you find the same thing by searching this forum. So writing in my style, i'm hoping that maybe at least 2/3 of this will be taken under consideration, so that people stop complaining how they can't RP because they are disrupted. A good time to look at what we have. It isn't coming from nowhere, its not the community or lack of some rules enforced by GMs, its the game which has to change.
What if you're in the middle of RP and you hear an offer and you bid but you don't leave your RP. "She's having a baby! Push!", "what's the /?", "Push!", "I'm at the tavern", "wheee-wheeee whoooo", "ok. 10k's fair...", "One more push!"... Bad RP? Well, maybe... but i think the channel itself is disruptive. Would be better to just have people shout, if that is how it is meant to work.
You are in the middle of RP in the moment you enter PS. It is not occasional. When someone is having a baby in a building near the market place, its normal that you hear what is outside the window. If someone is stupid enough to shout that he want to buy the damn thing, then character of that person is plain stupid. Furher, that person is plain stupid, when he does it and then claim it was outside rp and ooc even though that persons char did it.
I think such behaviour may be just avoided when you understand where the voice can reach and where it can't. But if the voice really reach you and you decide to do some idiotic thing and answer due to suprise of everybody around, you are just being idiot and in IC way.
So i don't now why you tell about all this like it was oocly wrong.
Akaye, you should have quoted the rest of my comment.
I wrote that its just for a matter of fact. The sense of it is that people /telling themselves some offers can't be accepted really right, especially when they do it at the final step, buing the item.
