RP fighting

[Eila]

Duels Are inherently OOC they depend mainly on a players grasp of the controls, which isn't supposed to be existent. Also, an RP fight has no limits except for your imagination, which is how these RPGs got started (major tabletop DND player here) the freedom to do what you want in a combat scenario allows more challenge, more options, and ultimatley, more fun.

Here is the counterpart. An enslaver contacts one of my Fenki friends, states that he'll enslave her or she'll get raped [ i'm not joking - we have the logs to prove it ]. We chased the enslaver, caught him, challenged him (auto-declined) he logged off. Logs on the next day and states he escaped. Is that RP as far as you are concerned? Tell me - what mechanism does the game provide to prevent that? What grasp is required by such a player to play that way? Is that "more fun" in your book?

Eila

[Gharan]

Here is the counterpart. An enslaver contacts one of my Fenki friends, states that he'll enslave her or she'll get raped [ i'm not joking - we have the logs to prove it ]. We chased the enslaver, caught him, challenged him (auto-declined) he logged off. Logs on the next day and states he escaped. Is that RP as far as you are concerned? Tell me - what mechanism does the game provide to prevent that? What grasp is required by such a player to play that way? Is that "more fun" in your book?

Logs don't prove anything as they can be editted. If anyone tries any sick RP like that again throw a /report straight in.

[Rayken]

Gharan is right, in a case like this /report is your best option.  I realize you and your friends did not necessarily mean to "RP" with this guy, but this is why I try not to get involved in any serious RP with people I don't know to a certain extent.  I would have just disregarded this whole scenario.  A drink at the tavern and light conversation is about as much as you can trust a stranger to be able to RP.  If you get a good impression there, you can go further.  But when someone is godmodding or mixing OOC and IC events, or is RP'ing in a way that to you seems less than good, it's generally best just to disregard it before it goes to far.

[zanzibar]

Duels Are inherently OOC they depend mainly on a players grasp of the controls, which isn't supposed to be existent. Also, an RP fight has no limits except for your imagination, which is how these RPGs got started (major tabletop DND player here) the freedom to do what you want in a combat scenario allows more challenge, more options, and ultimatley, more fun.

Here is the counterpart. An enslaver contacts one of my Fenki friends, states that he'll enslave her or she'll get raped [ i'm not joking - we have the logs to prove it ]. We chased the enslaver, caught him, challenged him (auto-declined) he logged off. Logs on the next day and states he escaped. Is that RP as far as you are concerned? Tell me - what mechanism does the game provide to prevent that? What grasp is required by such a player to play that way? Is that "more fun" in your book?

Eila

Type "/report [player name]" and the server will log all the text that player has recieved or sent in a certain period of time and for a certain period of time.


@Rayken:  I don't get this "trust" thing you and Seytra are so worried about.  Why do you have to trust people OOCly in order to play the game with them?  If someone does something stupid, then sure ignore them, but what's the harm in RPing with new people?

[Idoru]

I agree Zanzibar, you could lose all the opportunities to meet many interesting characters if you dont interact because you lack trust in them. And the best way to find out if they are sick (as described in the example above) is to interact, as the saying goes, Tester 1st, Player 2nd. Just in this case it applies to the players, not only the game.

[Rayken]

Don't get me wrong, I'm all about including new people and encouraging them to RP, and/or RP'ing with them if they just do it naturally.  I would certainly share a drink and conversation with an unknown character.  I've been in a couple of instances though, where things get bad fast, and you have trouble pulling away.  When you finally do, you kind of have to disregard however much time you went along with it, and that just sucks.

Again, I'm definitely not saying exclude new people...just be cautious when engaging in anything other than light RP.  I hate having to say "OK, that last hour doesn't count, these things never happened..."

[bilbous]

Aww you never have to do that, just realize your character daydreams a lot or suffers from delirium occasionally, could be a result of the tiny bugs you cannot see or an adverse reaction to a hidden glyph.

[Volund]

Not sure if Im helping, which is ussualy the problem. I will wait until the system is figured out. Log on, like it or not, wait some more. I always wanted to be known as "That guy has been here for 3 years, dont mess with him." ^^