' Wrote:Considering how many people try to sanction Phantoms for killing them, quoting the very rule that includes "unless that player has a Phantom or Terrorist ID", I think you're right. Although your camping in Bering had mixed results too... I don't think the one chap realized he should pay attention to the bit where you were talking about murdering all of humanity. Twas good RP, though, and I enjoyed the meshing of Klaus's idealism and honor, Mon'Star's murderous desires, and the Harvester's unfeeling software. Good job
I try to look at leet speak, smileys and such as the use of an old encryption software or merely static. If lawful forces patrolling NY are so bothered by it you could do the same. Besides using private channels to inform an offender about the server rules, you could start enforcing a law that all use of 1337-encryption in system chat is illegal and on par with carrying counterfeit software.
to be honest, language advances faster than attitudes sometimes, and i am sure that "english" in 1000 years ( as if in 1k years there s still something like english around ) would sound completely different.
think of it how language was in the 15th or 16th century - and thats not as far in the past as freelancer is in the future. "leet" speak is prolly rather something in ancient books ( or the speech of nerds in unpopular clubs ) while the normal people speak something much more abstract.
other than this - leet speech is simply dumb. it sounds dumb, and i allways imagine someone with little brains in his growing pains when i hear leet speech. ( or see it, cause you hardly ever hear it )
when it comes to smileys...... well, its a video communication, and so, the addressee can actually SEE you smile or scowl or whatever. - but you cannot modify the video ( as a matter of fact you cannot even pop up a video ) ... so typing " =) " is not really a problem, imo. - it means that the person you SEE is smiling.
reminds me on star wars - knights of the old republic 2 :
the assassin driods had a nice feature. - they started each reply with an emote like :
<angry answer>: no, sir
<kind answer>: most certainly
<evil scowl>: die!
and they "said" this emote, too. - i think it was quite a nice way for a machine to express emotions.
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