Where are all the Roleplayers?

[Duraza]

There might not be a lot of gms but I can't say that we can blame the GMs for that. I'm not sure how many GMs there are but if your right and there are only a few then you've got to be patient as they probably have plenty of work to do being the only few around. The only way to fix that problem is applying to be a GM yourself 

I've had a petition open for about a day in a half now, but no response.

They'll get to it. I've probably posted a dozen petitions as many different characters and I've never failed to get a response that I was satisfied with, most of the time my problem being fixed. Talking to them on IRC helps too as they may not be ingame while you are or they may be answering whatever other petitions are on their list.

[Prolix]

Then again they may not appear on the list if they are invisible. At least that is what I suspect.

[desoshade]

Desoshade walks in and steps on everyones feet   and vomits on his sword.  He yells, "hey baby you want some of this manhood?" and starts feeling everyones bottoms   and spits on the magician  .  Desoshade steals shamans gun and shoots him in the foot   and spits on him too.  you touched my sword! he says.  



Just kidding!

Yeah I agree.  The above cut and copy convo is kinda silly.  IBut what can you do?  It's open source.  Free to everyone.  Including the weirdos.  I guess it's fun for them.  Course, you can't be TOO serious.  I mean, you gotta have a little bit of fun once in awhile.  Given even more thought, maybe that's how these people act in real life.  Or maybe thats how they think a sorcerer would act.  you know, walking around and spitting on everyone.  But now if they are playing the role of a goblin or an ogre or something, sure.  Spit on people all you want.  But a sophisticated magician shouldn't be vomitting on people or spitting in your face.  

[Xillix Queen of Fools]

Here is a nice conundrum for you:

There are not enough players to justify many more gms o.O and every time we take a gm unto the team we lose an avid rper O.o . . .

DO MORE COMPLAIN LESS.

[Pizik]

* Pizik throws his hat into the ring

We do have a limited number of GMs, we all have our own lives to lead outside PS. Even when we are in game we can't possibly be everywhere at once. When there are no GMs in game the best option for a rapid response is to come on IRC and visit #planeshit-gmtalk as there is normally a GM on IRC at all times, just say the name of a GM that is not flagged as AFK. If this fails then your remaining option is to petition us in game, but let me make it clear that petitions about bad behaviour are almost universily useless unless you also issue a /report on the player in question. We are not about to start taking one persons word over another and I would hope you would expect that to be the case.

Now, if you wish us to moderate and judge if an RP is valid or not then we are on a very slippery slope. Obviously certain things are blatantly OOC and we can act, but some are more borderline. It is the other members of the player base who have the -duty- to try to educate those who lack the skills and abilities to RP effectively. If you try nicely and they reject your advice, then by all means, stick them on your ignore list and try to forget they exist, as they are probably not worth bothering with at all.

As XilliX says, RPers want more moderation of undesireables, and more background settings to enrich their roleplay. This requires more GMs and more members of the settings team, which leads to less active RPers making Yliakum the vibrant place everyone wants it to be.

[Under the moon]

Seriously, if you want more GMs to be around to aid you: http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=32697.msg377167#msg377167

If you want more RP, make it.

[Timmothy Perriwinkle]

This just happened to me in game, it's the first time I've ever heard anything like it... It makes me really sad truthfully:

Timmothy frowns at Person A, "Sheathe your weapon in the city."
(23:50:35) Person A says: thank you, kind dwarf
(23:50:47) Person B says: thanks to you
(23:50:59) Person B says: timmy!
(23:51:10) Person B says: how's goin?
(23:51:15) Timmothy blinks at Person B, "I know you?"
(23:51:35) Person B says: yes, you apeared in south park, lol
(23:51:41) Person B says: get lost [effing] rper
(23:51:49) Person B says: powaleva rulez
(23:52:01) Person A says: [Male genitalia-face]

I reported to GMs, but really the fact that it happened saddens me to no end. 

[Prolix]

Who are you to go around telling people to sheath their weapons? It is a little rude isn't it? If you said that to me I'd be tempted to sheath it down your throat except the challenge system prevents me from doing that. Seems to me you got caught playing rules lawyer by someone itching to break a law, any law, somehow.

I am sure you have as much right as the next person but if you are going to call people on their actions it won't always be appreciated.

Me I mostly ignore stuff, life is too short. About the most I'll do is make a snide comment like telling the guy power leveling his brown way beside the trainer "what a waste of mana."

[Candy]

While I see where you're coming from, Prolix, what happened to Timmy wasn't a case of a character wanting to break a law, it was some stupid PL'ers rudely telling him to buzz off simply because he's an RP'er, even though roleplay is supposed to be encouraged in this game. It really is saddening that these people have such a big problem with other player's choice of what they want to do in the game, even though RP isn't doing the PL'ers any harm.

[Dajoji]

Timmothy: file a petition with the characters names and we'll have a word with them. This kind of behavior is not allowed in PS.

Remember that in these cases you should always use the /report command. It will log all entries in main and tell from the last 5 minutes of conversation and then on, letting you know when it stops (so you can report again).

[Waylander]

Who are you to go around telling people to sheath their weapons? It is a little rude isn't it? If you said that to me I'd be tempted to sheath it down your throat except the challenge system prevents me from doing that.

Not exactly rude when a guard NPC tells you to do the same

[Prolix]

You saying the NPC's can't be rude, you mud-dobber, you? Besides it is the guard's job to say that. What do you think would happen to the townsman if he told the dark knight to put away his blades? He might just end up dead. Now if he had decided to press the issue by equipping his own weapons and /challenge ... that would have been a little different.

I am not condoning the OOC backtalk, mind you. I had a lol'er wink at me when I took issue with his ways.

Then again I think I misread it as it was the third party that was out of line. So I suppose my comments are not completely apt.
 

[Timmothy Perriwinkle]

What do you think would happen to the townsman if he told the dark knight to put away his blades? He might just end up dead.

But then, that's a totally different situation. Some backstory of the situation was the character I walk up to was just wearing the default lack of clothing that this game has a habit of giving people (Wonder what goes through the devs minds when they envision models ) and Timmy, fully clad in awesome looking armour and such, tells him the law that his weapons must be sheathed. I thought this guy was just new, and was one of them that just didn't know yet, and usually when I say stuff like that to people, they say something along the lines of "lol" sorry, then I explain to them in /tells how RP works, and about acting in character, then send them on their way.

This situation did not happen like that, and I suppose it was just an erratic, but I thought I'd defend my party. Perhaps I could've come off nicer, but Timmy just came from a Tavern where some not happy things had happened, so he wasn't exactly a ball of sunshine. xD

[Parallo]

One shouldn't assume that lack of armour means new and 'lol', et cetra. I have no armour.

[Mythryndel]

Wow... now we are darned if we do and darned if we don't. I've read more than one thread that complained about people always running around in full armor and how that is soooooo unrealistic when running around the tavern or mining, crafting, etc. Now it is being assumed that someone without armor is new and doesn't know any better. I do wish the RPers would get together and make a evil overlords list of biggest RP mistakes to spare the rest of us from offending or confusing them.