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(07-20-2024, 12:30 PM)Venkman Wrote: So if you have any suggestions on what gameplay/FL lore would be a good addition to this, I'm all ears.
That tends to be the job of the faction creator, who no doubt is passionate about their original and fun faction concept and wants to share it with the world.
You have successfully written an infopage that is either the result of some ChatGPT wrangling or not. Well, no, let's not beat around that bush: it's just a ChatGPT prompt with or without some human editing to put in some key words and maybe change some phrashing here or there to throw people off the scent. Unfortunately, however, the result is that it doesn't actually mean anything. Nobody cares about how Safe and Efficient and Environmentally Friendly (this one will never stop being funny, sorry) your Mining Processes™ are. It's just filler text. Reskinned Lorem Ipsum.
You know that, I know that. There's not actually anything wrong with using ChatGPT as a helpful tool, either. I'm not a native speaker and it's helped me find some synonyms and alternative ways to phrase things more than once. But by still doing most of the writing myself, there's sometimes a small nugget of meaning hidden in my roleplay (posts).
What I would like the infopage to read is information about what sets this faction apart. Zoners have a bonus on Iridium, and you've basically used a couple hundred words to say that you are in fact using the Zoner ID and, believe it or not, mining Iridium. But let's say I wanted to join your faction, what particular traits would I hook onto to create an interesting character to fit in? Your mining safety standards? Do I roleplay a living hard hat?
You used the word "flavor" when describing your edit to the OP, but that's the one thing I can't find in it.
You could've at least moved Site Preparation a little further down, almost every ChatGPT prompt about operational procedures for Iridium mining literally opens with it.
The more I look at this the more I just want to ask the following question: are you actually serious? There is nothing wrong with admitting that this faction is just a fun mining & code manufacturing group for you and your friends, and that the degree to which people care about roleplaying it is up to your members. I'd respect that. Obviously, that would mean that chasing OF status just isn't particularly fitting, which is why we're here reading meaningless robot-speak. But it's almost insulting that you'd encourage people to read your ChatGPT prompt and marketed it as "some added flavor". No. It actually is just flat-out insulting.