IC baddies vs OOC goodies

[zanzibar]

If I didn't weigh in before, let me say: I find it LAME that people would use tells to summon all of their buddies to go for revenge against a baddy on baddy turf on an RP server.

Yeah, there are a lot of very common bad habits.

[Parallo]

Am I the only one that finds the labeling of characters as goodies and baddies to be juvenile and silly?

[Vannaka]

Am I the only one that finds the labeling of characters as goodies and baddies to be juvenile and silly?

it's just a simplification of the type of characters i'm talking about.  yes, i realize very few characters are really 100% good or evil, but i used the terms as a way of discussing it without explicitly listing names, and if i did just list names i'm sure this thread would've been locked immediately (and rightly so).  if you have some better terms to describe the situation that would be most welcome...

[Parallo]

I don't know, its just that it seems to cheapen the game. As far as I can tell the devs are aiming for high fantasy and not lowest-common-denomenator fantasy. No character should be good or bad but should simply react differently to different situations. Any less and it seems like either poor understanding of what morals are or poor character creating ability. You could call each side any number of things from A & B, Allies & Axis to Nicks & Yankees and it should tell you just as much about their character as saying goodies or badies provided they aren't two-dimensional.

 I think I may be being pedantic but its something thats bothered me since long before this thread started and now I'm seeing people I would have expected better of using the same terms. I also understand I'm not contributing much to the topic of sending tells but as far as I'm concerned its a dead issue. We know exactly which side is right and which is wrong and all that remains to be done about it is to police it rather than talk about it.

[zanzibar]

It's hard to avoid.  There are people who are competitive.  Some are more competitive than others.  Some of those people will compete over being good.  An effective way of making yourself appear good is to turn other people into villains.  There's a similar argument to be made over status in the community.  Some people try to make themselves high by making others low.

It's just one of those things.  The best answer is to shine light on the problem so people are informed.

[yanom]

The gugrontid takeover was a good example,

what takeover?

[Vannaka]

No character should be good or bad but should simply react differently to different situations. Any less and it seems like either poor understanding of what morals are or poor character creating ability.

Agreed, but unfortunately some people try to play characters who are either always "good" or always "bad"

I think I may be being pedantic

Quite possibly.  You wouldn't be Parallo if you weren't though. 

[Parallo]

Agreed, but unfortunately some people try to play characters who are always

juvenile and silly

[Izzabella]

*disclaimer I've not had time to read ALL of these posts *

Its just something you kinda learn to deal with, it will always happen no matter what you do or say you just have to learn to not let it effect _your_ RP and roll with the punches, one thing you learn quickly when RPing a bad person or and evil char or whatever you wish to label them as, is that we usually end up RPing twice as hard as the guy your trying to harm or rob, for many reasons as you will find in my older posts about this topic really. Just go with the flow, and if all else fails [explain to them that they are being OOC and you don't wish to continue this RP with them] just be nice and be fair as well, don't just use that cause you picked on someone weak and now someone strong showed up to save them

oh and on a side note, I'm really impressed someone remembered the takeover *coughs* err I mean..take over? what take over? I dunno even know where that stone city is!

[Geoni]

Its no fun when people think evil will never prevail, and they are stuck in a comic book world of "Good guys always win, some way, some how."