Actually Role Playing

[Shagohad]

Rule Nazis are the scourge of any roleplaying game. It bothers me to see people interrupt a flow of non-stop fun to point out that you are in the wrong. To this I reply: WHO THE HELL CARES!? The point of RP is to use it to stray from the rules. If you're an Outcast who desires to be at peace with the Corsairs, go ahead and try. Explain your RP through RP.


The definition of RP is to be a living character in a virtual world. We don't have pre-programmed agendas and patrol paths like an NPC. If someone RPs it, leave it be.

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[tansytansey]

Would the real role players please stand up and quit playing in-game as moderators and actually play as players?

/signed

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[Chico]

Er....whilst I wholeheartedly agree with the original statement, Hribek does raise some interesting points.
I am sure that you (Tink) were completely in RP but there are others here who sometimes do need a little help. Things like BH guns on an Outcast ID'd Sabre.
"I found them" etc. We have all heard it I am sure.

I did write a bit more but it basically says the same thing. That there is a fine line between RP to fit the game and making the game fit your RP.

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[worldstrider]

Hi all. Wasn't really thinking of a lot of responses--nice ones here though.

I have no problem with telling someone via //pm , "If you use Junker guns on your Hogosha fighter, its not a correct loadout", or "You have to ask for cargo before you can kill a freighter". Those are simple things someone might not know.
It's the subjective things. For example, I have run into the "Klingon" players here and while I have my own feelings about it, I role play as if I were a Discovery universe character encountering them for the first time. They have a plausible explanation (enough anyway) so I am willing to accommodate. Even if later they are told to "redirect" I can role play for the now. I don't have to "throw in" with them--but neither do I have to debate or critique them. I don;t have a problem with using the base idea from another area to serve as foundation here either--that sometimes can work well.

I do agree discussing on forum is fine...discussing..not insisting that others must be wrong and sanctioned or stopped if they don't agree with you.The point is to be open, polite and listen a bit and realize that while no other player has more rights than you--you don't have more rights than any other player either.

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[AdamantineFist]

Well, this is exactly what I do. When someone does/says something in-game, I roll with it and RP right along, so long as they're not lolwutting about. I even tend to respond to OoRP with RP.

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[Ash]

Past experience has told me that any interesting thus heated debate over Roleplay usually ends with administrators or moderators interveining. It's surprising we ever get to talk about it. But to stay on topic, if everyone plays the game to have fun and roleplay as pilots in the year 3000, then everything should fall into place. Anything that doesn't should be caught by the rules that are basically the safety net, not a trampoline. It's that simple.

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[Mere_Mortal]

ME: "I am Tinkerbell, Ambassador."
OTHER: "Ahoy Tinkerbell--who made you an ambassador?"
[PM: //You know three official factions must recognize and you must post on forum or you aren't one. Name the three factions that approve you and I will interact.]
ME: ...
(actually I did carry on--but you get the idea)

Other example as a Hogosha long ago:
OTHER: What are you doing at the Leeds-Tau gate Hogosha?
ME: Serving the Emporer by relieving these cursed Bretonian freighters of their war goods gaijin!
OTHER: //You know this isn't your ZOI. Did you request to come here? Who approved it? Why a Hogosha?
ME: ...

I know exactly what you mean, in fact I can epitomise this below (whilst the above are more patronising than offensive and utterly OOC, it is still unwelcome, whereas the below is just complete hypocrisy)...



Rogue spotted in Omega-49, caught up in an entanglement with Bounty Hunters, whilst returning from a business trip dealing with the Red Hessians. I was flying a Transport, Rogues may trade and Hessians are cousins so they are a legal trading partner in the eyes of the rules. After killing a few aggressing Hunters I then proceeded to have a ruckus with some Corsairs before realising I should get the hell out of dodge! Now, if I was pirating or otherwise causing mischief, I would understand the dismay of the locals, but I was simply trading (smuggling) and the commenter either overlooked this or failed to give a hoot. I think it was both actually. As for my response, well I'm hardly going to tell a miner why I am in such foreign lands, I don't think the Hessians would be best pleased with anybody exposing their secrets!

Point is, they exclaimed that I was acting against role-play whilst they did exactly that by doing so.

[Hawkwings]

What that encounter demonstrates is a general attitude of "OMG OORP I have to tell EVERYONE about it and SANKSHUN LOLOLOL!" Not to mention OOC in system chat...

Honestly, if people would just lose that attitude, things would go a lot smoother.

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[Guest]

As a rogue, why the hell can't I go to my allies territory, for example, If I am a fraking Smuggler? Rogue Ided and Iffed pirate trans. What is wrong with that? Maybe I want to smuggle some slaves to the Outcasts, or send a shipment of "Special" sidearms to the Mollys.

Just because it's not in the vanilla (like pirate taged freighters and transports, except the occasional mule from the rogues) it doesn't mean its all oorp.

[Stygian]

I totally agree. It's not that hard to RP it out instead of going all "OMG OORP SNANCSUN". For example, I ran into a Liberty Navy fighter in New Berlin today, I was on my RM. I stopped him to ask what his objective was. He replied, "I go to buy Angelito". I could have harped on about how that was OORP but I played it off like the navy might be trying to ally with the Corsairs. That's absurd but sometimes you just have to roll with it.

(Horrid grammar, I know.)

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